On Saturday Sasha went down to the neighborhood basketball court dressed in a pastel yellow tank top and black shorts. When she got there only Kid and one of his weapon partners were present. She began to blush again, but she squared her shoulders and walked over. 'Just don't be an idiot,' she told herself. "Hey Kid." She said. Kid raised an eyebrow at her. 'Oh great,' she thought, 'what did I do?'
"Well, at least your outfit's symmetrical," he said casually.
"What?" Sasha was confused. Thankfully the girl behind him spoke up.
"Don't worry about Kid. He's just obsessed with symmetry. You're Sasha, right? My name's Patty." She said with a big smile.
"Nice to meet you, Patty," Sasha said with a smile. "No offense, but I thought Kid had two partners."
"Oh, that's my sister Liz. She doesn't like basketball so she never shows up." Sasha and Patty continued talking. She actually liked talking to Patty a lot; they had some similar interests and their personalities were alike in some ways too. But as they were talking Sasha kept looking at Kid out of the corner of her eye. His expression was blank the whole time; Maka was right when she said Kid was hard to read.
Eventually the other players showed up. Sasha recognized Maka and her partner, Soul. There was a guy with spiky blue hair and another girl with black hair who Sasha had seen at the academy, but she didn't know who they were. "Hey Maka," Sasha said.
"Hey Sasha, I'm glad you made it. Let me introduce you to Black Star and Tsubaki." Maka gestured to the other two people. Sasha exchanged handshakes with both of them.
"Don't even think about trying to be a star today," Black Star said, "cuz I'm the only star around here!" Sasha didn't know what to think of that statement, so she just nodded and waited for the teams to be picked. She ended up on a team with Soul and Tsubaki, while Kid, Patty, and Black Star were on the other team; Maka decided to keep score so the teams would be even. The game started and Sasha realized she was way out of her league. Everybody was running circles around her, even Patty. Thankfully Soul was a really good basketball player, so he managed to carry their team to a close win. Everybody was standing around trying to catch their breath when Soul spoke up.
"Okay, we win, so that means your team captain gets punishment." All eyes turned to Kid. Before he could react, Soul and Black Star grabbed his arms so he couldn't run anywhere. Sasha watched in interest until Black Star called out.
"Hey Tsubaki, why don't we let the new girl do it?"
"Do what?" Sasha asked. Tsubaki walked over to her and whispered into her ear.
"Go up to Kid and mess up his hair."
"Are you serious?" Sasha asked. Tsubaki nodded. "Alright." She walked up to Kid, who was still being restrained by Soul and Black Star. She looked at him for a moment, her head tilting quizzically to one side. How was messing up his hair a punishment? It looked like she was about to find out. Sasha reached her right hand up and vigorously ran her fingers through his black locks. The moment she stopped Black Star and Soul let go of Kid, who promptly fell to the ground like he been stabbed or something.
"Why!? Why would you do something like that!? My hair was already a disgusting abomination to begin with, and now the strands are all asymmetrical! I don't deserve to live!" He continued saying stuff like this while staying on the ground. Suddenly Sasha began to giggle uncontrollably. Kid stopped his ranting when he heard the noise and looked up at her. "What are you laughing at!?"
"You! It's just so funny that you're so obsessed with symmetry." She kept laughing and Kid stared at her in awe. Most people found his OCD tendencies annoying or odd. But Sasha found it… funny? "You know," she said, "it's been a while since I've laughed this much. You're really funny, Kid." Sasha walked closer to Kid and, kneeling beside him, gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "I got to go. Bye guys." And with that she left the basketball court.
Kid sat up, placing a hand to his cheek, just as confused as everybody else on the court as to what just happened. Well, everybody except Patty. "Kid… I think she likes you!"