Nakao wasn't entirely sure how Ashiya talked her into coming to Nakatsu's game. The boy was acting strange in class all week so his dismal performance on the field wasn't surprising. Several girls from Nagoya High were checking her out since she was in uniform, which was irritating, and when they lost the ball because Nakatsu wasn't running Nakao had enough.

"Nakatsu, get your act together!"

"Do your best!" Ashiya yelled loud enough to make the boy try to pick her out in the stands.

"He caught the ball in his hands! How stupid can you get!" Nakao suddenly lost what little interest she had in the match and nodded at the gates to suggest they leave already.

"Don't be so hard on him, Nakao. We all make mistakes."

"Not as stupid as grabbing the ball like that" Nakao noticed the look on Ashiya's face. "I know that face. What did you do now?"

Ashiya paused at the vending machines "I did something really stupid a couple days ago while I was watching Sano practicing his high jump." She selected peach juice for her and royal tea for Nakao. "I blurted out that he looked so cool when he jumped and then to make it worse a grasshopper landed on me and I knocked Sano down yelling at him to get it off."

"That doesn't sound quite as stupid as Nakatsu losing the game for us."

"Nakao, I was laying on top of him between his legs right I the middle of the track for everyone to see. It was so embarrassing."

"But he started calling you by your first name in class so it isn't as stupid as using an old pick-up line on Minami and then inviting him to Kareoke."

"You didn't!"

"Why do you think he wasn't in the dining hall yesterday?"

"How long is he going to avoid you?"

"I'll happen to be walking down the hallway when he leaves his room tomorrow morning."

"Hey guys, how was the game?" Kadoma met up with them by the infirmary.

"Stupid waste of time." Nakao folded her arms in front of her chest.

"Nakatsu was having an off day." Ashiya shrugged.

"What are you doing now?"

"Talking about embarrassingly stupid things we've done lately."

"Do you mean the kind of things that make you want to crawl in a hold and die?"

"It sounds like you've done something more stupid than using a pick-up line on Minami."

"Seriously?" Kadoma stared at Nakao like she was crazy.

"So tell us why you're out here instead of training with the karate team?"

"After practice the other day we were all sitting formally with our hands on our knees while Kujo lectured us on our spirit because some of the guys were playing around." Kadoma's face turned pink "His sparring session with Captain Tennoji loosened his gi and it was open almost to his navel. I guess I was a little…preoccupied…and didn't pay attention to what he said until the guys in front of me stood up blocking my view."

"You were ogling the Vice Captain?" Nakao heard a rumor that he once dislocated a guy's shoulder like it was nothing.

Kadoma looked pained "The rest of the team was heading to the showers when he grabbed my chin, lifted it up and said 'my eyes are up here' with that half smirk he does."

"The one that makes you think he's secretly laughing at you?" Ashiya put a hand on the girl's shoulder to comfort her. "He smirked at me like that before the chicken race during the Cultural Festival."

Nakao thought that getting caught ogling Kujo was the stupidest thing that anyone could possibly do and she was still thinking about it as she headed up the stairs to her dorm room.

Minami Nanba came down the stairs in a rush and said "Hey, Nakao" as he passed by.

She wished him a good night wondering if anything they did was really stupid after all.