Sorry I updated so late! This is the lamest chapter I have ever wrote! But we're reaching the best part! Hold your breath!
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Sakuno poured milk into the cup Kevin bought for her. Nothing better than a warm milk to start the day. Sakuno smiled as she drank the cup allowing the milk to warm her stomach.
Today's plan: digest yesterday's lecture, do more research on her essay, read some of the books she borrowed from the school library. She drank another gulp of millk as she walked happily into her room.
There's a person in her room, playing with her phone. Who would come to her room in a Saturday morning?
She lowered her cup to recognise the visitor.
He had green hair and was wearing a white fila cap. He saw her coming in, and stared at her with his cat-like eye. "Hi."
"Ptff!" Sakuno choked on her milk, spitting some onto her books, spilling her milk on the floor.
Ryoma rushed over to help her, holding the cup as it looked like Sakuno was going to drop it. Sakuno coughed very badly, and Ryoma was hitting on her back softly.
"You okay?" He asked, when Sakuno calmed down.
"How'd you get in here?" Sakuno took the cup away from Ryoma and put it down safely on the table.
"Not a real problem." Ryoma watched as Sakuno took out a tissue and wiped the books. "It seems that the security guard is not as fierce as he looks. When it comes down to it he's a pretty easy-going guy. And your neighbours are real helpful in assisting me in finding your room." He said simply.
Sakuno groaned and went to her window. Sure enough, there were a huge crowd of people gathering outside her room, pointing and shouting at her window.
"Why are you here? What do you want?"
Ryoma shrugged. "I came to see you."
Sakuno stared at Ryoma in disbelief. He came to see her? After so many years of waiting, of trying to capture his attention in vain, he never came to her. And now when Sakuno did not want to see Ryoma anymore, he just appeared in front of her.
Sakuno went to her storeroom and got a mop out. "I need to study. If you don't mind, please leave."
"Well, I mind. I'll just stay here and watch you study."
Sakuno cleaned up the mess on her floor. "Whatever."
She put the mop back to the storeroom. If Ryoma was not planning on leaving, she was going to bore him so much that he leave by himself.
What was her first plan for today? Oh yeah, digest yesterday's lecture.
She sat herself on her chair, and started reading her notes. She could sense Ryoma's eyes boring into her, and she could feel her blood rushing to her face. The words in her notes did not seem to get into her as her head was concentrating too much on trying not to catch Ryoma's eye contact.
It had been ten minutes, and she had not even understood a paragraph of it. She need to increase her speed or else she would not finish this at all today.
She looked up at Ryoma. Ryoma was sitting on her bed, reading one of her library books titled 'the fourth dimension'. She chuckled silently. She doubted Ryoma could even understand half of it. He seemed really intense into reading it. It must be hard for him. Soon he'll be tired of the book and would leave her alone.
Ryoma lifted his face and their eyes met. Sakuno was hypnotised in his eyes. His eyes were so big, and it had a really weird shape, like a cat. And it looked tired, exhausted, and really...
Wait, why am I staring at Ryoma-kun's eyes? Sakuno thought as she averted her eyes, blushing.
Ryoma was pulling his cap down too. "Hey, erm, do you want to come watch my match this following Wednesday?"
"I don't know if I have the time..."
"Oh. It's at 9am. If you can't make it, it's alright." Ryoma shrugged and continued reading. "It's just, I missed your support and silent cheering." He added softly.
Sakuno's heart skipped a beat. He missed her? If he missed her why didn't he call these three years?
"You don't need my support. You can always bring your girlfriend with you." Sakuno said bitterly.
"I don't have a girlfriend. Not allowed." Ryoma answered simply.
Sakuno's anger flared up. "Liar!"
Ryoma looked at her, shocked. "What...?"
"Who's that girl that you kissed in the locker room right after your match? Huh? How about all those pretty fangirls always by your side, helping you to wipe your sweat? Tell me that you don't have any relationship with them, look me in the eye and tell me!" Sakuno shouted, and she could feel her tears welling up.
There was a moment of silence, while Ryoma sat, mouth agaped, stunned at the new-personality Sakuno. She flushed a bit, and stared at the floor, panting a bit from her increased speed of her heartbeats. Goodness, she couldn't believe what she had done... She had shouted at Ryoma... But she had finally let off her feelings inside her, she kind of feel relived now...
Then Ryoma stood up and grabbed Sakuno's shoulders, staring straight into her eyes. "I do not have any relationship with anybody at all. I told you, I wasn't allowed. And the girl I kissed, she's my manager and she is suffering from an unexplainable psychotic disorder that make her in need of such sexual feelings. She dated with every one of the regulars in our team. I do not like her. Do I even look like the type who likes older women?"
He pulled Sakuno closer. "There is only one girl that I loved, and that is you. So all I want is for the girl I loved to be present in the semi-finals, is that too hard?"
Sakuno shook Ryoma away. "The girl you loved? Who are you talking about? Me? Oh no, it can't be me, because you didn't even bothered to call me in these three years." You ignored me, you didn't appreciate my love for you, and you didn't care. At least Kevin cared, he understood Sakuno and tried to know more. Sakuno doubt Ryoma knew anything about her.
"I wasn't allowed to, Sakuno. I wasn't allowed to have any communication with anyone other than my family and some other random authorised person."
"Yeah, but we are communicating now."
"Well, I'm breaking the rules. I'm supposed to be practising."
Sakuno stared at Ryoma, who somehow found Sakuno's shoe fascinating. There was silence again until Ryoma broke it.
"So, will you come watch my match? I'll get you VIP seat."
Sakuno hesitated. She wanted to refuse, wanted to ignore Ryoma like how he ignored her. She wanted to make Ryoma feel devastated, feel brokenhearted, like how she had felt before. However, she could not hide the fact that she was still in love with him. She somehow knew it a long time ago, that she still loved Ryoma, but she had always tried her best to ignore the feeling and tried to love Kevin. But yesterday's event somehow confirmed it. A month with Kevin had been a distraction, but in truth, she had always loved Ryoma, and she always wanted to cheer for him like how she did three years ago.
She did miss those times, when Ryoma was always out playing some matches, and she had always squeezed in some time to watch it, to support Ryoma, no matter how busy she was. Ever since Ryoma was gone, she had always found her days empty and boring, as most of her time outside school were spent in the tennis court.
"Well, I'll go, only if you answered my questions." Sakuno said finally. After all, there was no important classes on Wednesday, she could skip it no problem.
"What questions?"
"Questions about me."
"If I answered it would you also agree to going out with me for a date the following weekend of my match?" Ryoma smiled greedily.
Sakuno frowned. Why was he so confident in answering? It's true that Ryoma had always been confident in everything he did, but Sakuno was going to prove for once that Ryoma could not win everything he did.
"Okay, sure." She said. "What's my favourite colour?"
Ryoma frowned. "Pink?"
What? Nobody knew that she liked pink, since she hardly showed it at school or anything. "How do you know?"
"I guessed it...since...it was pretty obvious..."
It was obvious? But she never showed it! Or did I...? Anyway, he was lucky this time...just lucky.
"Okay, then what's my favourite ice-cream flavour?" He won't get this right, until now, she had only told Kevin about this...
"Strawberry."
Sakuno blinked. What? He got it again? "How do you know?"
"Since you liked pink, so..." Ryoma shrugged.
He guessed it again! That's impossible. Wait, he can't possiby guessed this next...
"What's my favourite band?"
"Erm..." Ryoma blinked. Ha, he could never get this right...
"Linkin park."
"What? How do you know?" He must have read my mind! Sakuno thought.
"Oh wow, you like them too? I love them! And nope I did not read your mind."
Sakuno froze.
Ryoma laughed. "You're giving me that is-he-reading-my-mind look again."
Sakuno bit her lips, trying to stop herself from blushing. This time, she'll make Ryoma speechless!
"Why did I decide to major in math?" Ryoma could never answer this correctly. Sakuno smiled confidently. Most people would say that she must be following her grandmother's footsteps, but the truth was...
"Erm, because maths is something that could accurately state how clever you are. If you are stupid and cannot get it, you can never get it. So you wanted to show people how clever you are."
Sakuno stared at Ryoma, her smile disappearing. How did he know? She remembered vivdly when she was young, she had always been bullied at school, and called 'stupid' by those irritating boys. She remembered a boy in her neighbourhood had saw her when she had cried after being teased again, and had comforted her. He had told Sakuno that all she had to do was to score well in maths to prove those boys wrong. He had said maths was something that only could be good at when a person was clever, and it's actually something that could test someone's IQ. After that, she had always wanted to study maths as a childish thought to prove those people that bullied her that she was not stupid.
"I got it right, didn't I?" Ryoma smiled. "Honestly, majoring in math? It's such a pathetic subject, I cannot think of any other reason than this." Before Sakuno could rebut with an extremely red face, he added happily. "So it's deal, then, you're watching my match, and you're going out with me."
He took his stuff. "Okay, I see there's a tennis court outside your dormitory. I'll go practice in there. They won't mind giving up their spaces, right?"
He turned to leave. "By the way, nice book you have there." He added as he slammed the door out.
"You don't have to slam the door you know..." Sakuno grumbled silently. Ryoma had always been over-confident, and arrogant at times, but it seemed that he could always back up his confidence with actual skill and knowledge. Sakuno sat back on her chair and started reading her notes again. Guess Ryoma really did knew something about her. A person couldn't possibly have guessed so much about her.
But, going out with Ryoma... Sakuno frowned. She was supposed to be Kevin's girlfriend, it's not right to go out with Ryoma. She shouldn't have agreed, and she should have set more questions.
She slumped on her chair. She was just too shocked at Ryoma being able to guess that last question, and could not react after that. She hoped Kevin would not mind, it's just one day. Kevin was a really easygoing guy.
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Kevin slumped on his bed and cursed.
He should have known. He should have known that Ryoma would be in the court practising. That practising maniac, what makes him think that the court would be totally empty during friday night?
Now because of his carelessness, Ryoma finally knew about his secret date with Sakuno. He massaged his mouth. Ryoma's punch was hard. The torturous training of the regulars were extremely useful.
What should he do? He loved Sakuno so much. Now, Ryoma was definitely going to get Sakuno back. He had competition.
It's alright, Kevin doubted that Sakuno would still like Ryoma. After that one month with her, and the unlucky scene of Jennifer kissing Ryoma, Kevin was sure that Ryoma could not win Sakuno over that easily. Kevin still had a chance. He was going to be that one that win Sakuno's heart. He had to.
Okay, he had to do something in order to win Ryoma. Ryoma always won him over everything, now it's his turn to win. Ryoma did not deserve to win. He made Sakuno cry, and made her broke her heart. He had to win.
He took out his phone excitedly.
"Hi, Sakuno."
"Oh hi Kevin!"
"What are you doing now?"
"Oh, I'm doing a bit of research on my essay."
"Essay? What do you write about on math?"
"I'm researching into the fourth dimension and more."
"Oh wow. Fourth dimension huh."
"Yup, it's really interesting. Erm, anyway, why do you call?"
"Nah, it's just, I'm feeling a bit bored. Do you want to go somewhere fun next weekend? Anywhere will be fine."
"Oh...well, I have something next weekend."
"Oh, really, well, erm, okay. What do you have?"
"Oh, well, Ryoma invited me to go out."
"What?" Kevin practically shouted at the phone. Ryoma asked her to go out? Before him? Since when Ryoma had such efficiency? "Go out? Where?"
"I'm not sure..."
"Why did you want to go out with him anyway?" Kevin asked. The last time he saw her, he was sure Sakuno hated Ryoma.
"He...well, he invited me to watch his match on Wednesday, and I didn't want to. So I...sort of challenged him to something. Erm...a bet... Apparently he's very good at it that it won him a weekend with him too."
"What did you challenge him to?" The only thing Kevin knew Ryoma would win totally was a tennis match.
"Erm, questions about me..."
"He answered them all?" Kevin asked dubiously. Ryoma did not know anything about Sakuno other than the fact that he loved her and found her beautiful. He did not admit it, but Kevin knew that Ryoma did not understand Sakuno well; he hardly said any details about Sakuno.
"He's very good at guessing I guess..."
Silence.
"Sorry. We can go out some other time."
"Nah, it's okay. I'll go whenever you have time. I'm always available."
"Alright, then. Well, I guess that's all?"
"Guess so."
"Well, bye, then."
"Yeah."
"..."
"Wait..."
"Yes, Kevin?"
"Oh, well, nothing really. Bye."
"Bye."
Kevin stared at his phone. He had to win, and now he was losing. He threw his phone to his bed. Damn you Ryoma.
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End of chapter.
How was it? :D
I wrote it in a rush, so pls review to help me improve it!
Btw the stuff about Sakuno isn't true though. I'm not sure Sakuno liked pink, I doubt Sakuno liked strawberry and Linkin Park. They are just random. If you have any strong objections you can always request to change it. But, I don't think it will have any problems.
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