Mayuhina sat at the couch and faced Kei's mother with a smile.

"Kei grew up attractive. Tadashii tells me that girls flock over him. Don't you think my son looks handsome?" Tsukishima Shizuka asked with a motherly smile. Mayuhina glanced at Kei with a smile that looked like a mother's fake smile whenever they boast about their child to other mothers. Kei stared at his seatmate as if he was telling her to not say anything wrong.

"Yes, Akiteru-san really became handsome. I think, he's handsome before but today, he looks even more pleasing to the eye." Mayuhina downright denied Kei's existence by complimenting Akiteru instead of him.

"Um... yes, Akiteru is good-looking but Kei –"

"Shizuka-san, Kei isn't my type." Mayuhina rejected instantly, shocking the people at the living room. Kei glanced at his mother and saw her giving him an apologetic look like she failed to be a good henchwoman, when in truth, Kei never asked her to be one.

"Please don't take this the wrong way but I would pick Akiteru-san between your two sons. I just see your older son as someone that's husband material." The brunette informed with a kind smile, very different from her words. Akiteru can't help but gulp at the situation presented in front of him. He side-glances at Kei and sees his younger brother scoff at the female brunette.

Grinning sheepishly, Akiteru fakes a cough. "Mikoto, mom isn't trying to force Kei onto you. She just wants to boast about Kei." He explained awkwardly.

Mayuhina nodded and hummed in response. "I see... sorry. I thought that Mrs. Shizuka is selling my seatmate to me. My mom does the same whenever she meets her co-worker's son. She boasts about me to try and get me to date them." The brunette informed while looking apologetic. Kei observed his seatmate and felt that she was lying but he pushes his thoughts away and sighs loudly before turning around and heading to his room silently.

The three people at the living room stared at Kei as he went to his room. Mayuhina thought about her words and bit her tongue when she realized that she was being too rough to her seatmate for the day. Teasing him even more frequently rather than only teasing him inside the classroom and embarrassing him in front of his family, the female brunette felt guilty so she stands up and smiled at Shizuka and Akiteru.

"Can I... go to Tsukishima's room?" she asked politely. Akiteru sent her a calm smile and motioned for her to go so Mayuhina bows before heading to her seatmate's room.

Thinking about apologizing, Mayuhina calmed herself down. She pinches her cheek when she stood in front of her seatmate's door. Realizing that she'll enter an uncharted territory, the female brunette inhaled deeply and assured herself that nothing would happen if she enters a male's bedroom by herself.

Knocking first, Mayuhina opens the door and peeks inside first. When she sees Kei fixing his study table, Mayuhina gives an apologetic smile.

"Hey, Tsukishima." she greeted while entering the room and cautiously closing the door behind her. "You must be wondering why I accepted your brother's invitation to eat dinner here so I'll explain why right now. Don't sneer at me or try to mock me because I'm being serious right now." Mayuhina informs while leaning on the closed door behind her.

"I came here because I wanted to have the time to ask you why you were avoiding me for almost a week now. It's getting awkward and uncomfortable not being able to argue with my seatmate so I was worried that maybe... I actually made you angry at me. If that's the case, I want to apologize. I'm sorry... so don't avoid me. You're doing the same thing you've done to me before, you know? You're really being unfair. Come to think of it, do I always have to be the one chasing after you? It's really mean, you're being incredibly cruel."

Kei eyed the female in front of him. He clicked his tongue and sat on his study table before speaking.

"I don't remember you or meeting you before so I wouldn't understand what you're talking about." He starts off. "If you want me to stop avoiding you, then tell me what you were to me before." He demanded with an indifferent expression.

Mayuhina gulped and looked away. She can't say it, it's a really small thing that she somehow remembered clearly. She gets the idea that Kei would forget about it and that's good. If she told him, then she might get teased again. Besides, she'd cringe if she tells it.

"I'm sorry. It's really embarrassing for me to tell." Mayuhina spoke timidly, amusing Kei and making him smirk. He crosses his arms and sighs at the brunette's reply. "Then go home. I don't want to accept an apology when I don't remember the person doing anything I don't like." He said, hoping that the female brunette would understand his words.

Mayuhina gulps and was only able to grasp the first ten words that came out of Kei's mouth. With a forced smile, the female looks at Kei and mutters a small sorry before leaving. She went out of her seatmate's room and closed the door behind her. She then went down the stairs and apologized to Akiteru and his mother before telling them that she was suddenly called by her mother and was demanded to leave. Bidding goodbye to the two older people, Mayuhina went out of the Tsukishima household and closed the gate behind her.

"He said that he doesn't want to accept my apology because..." Mayuhina stops muttering when she grasps what the male said. With a huge grin breaking out of her face, Mayuhina turns around and looks at the window of her seatmate only to see Kei staring outside of his window while a satisfied smirk tugged on his lips.

Mayuhina laughed at the late realization she had. She waved at her seatmate happily and gave him two thumbs up.

"You're the best! I accept my lost today!" the female brunette yelled with a cheerful tone as she waved at Kei happily before skipping and heading to her house.

Kei kept his eyes fixated on the female brunette. His smirk dropped and a rare smile played on his lips but when he catches what he was doing, he clicks his tongue and bites his lips before closing his window.

A/N:

All I wanna do is write!

I can't stop myself and it's driving me crazy!

Anyway, this chapter is as usual, short, isn't it? I'm sorry, this was how I imagined the story would happen. I thought that this would be a simple story with a simple plot so I never really placed effort into making it long and just wrote the chapter that seemed to fit the story. Don't get me wrong, It's not like I don't put effort into this, I just want it to be short!

Enough explaining, this is chapter 8 and I hope you enjoyed it~~~