OMB! I am so sorry to everyone for not updating in 3 months! I've just been so busy with schools (especially finals). It's been really stressful for me lately, but now I'm on winter break! I'm glad to have a break! I mean, finals were so stressful for me! I cried about 3 times during the days where I had finals because I was so stressed and angry at the same time. It was really terrible.

Expect a quick update by the way guys! I'm already about half way through chapter twenty! But here is chapter nineteen!

Chapter 19

School Days

It was the first day for the tennis regulars at school again after they had come back from the training camp on the beach. It was early morning, but two of the boy regulars were already arguing.

"Will you just shut up and listen to me?" Momo yelled at the well-known viper.

"Fssshhh, don't you fucking tell me what to do!" Kaido yelled back at Momoshiro.

"You expect me to listen to you? You're just a dumb piece of crap!"

"Who are you calling a piece of crap you dumbass good-for-nothing!"

The two grabbed each other's shirts and got in each other's faces as they both growled (hissed in Kaido's case). It looked as if they were about to throw a punch at each other when Kumiko pushed them apart and walked right in between them to get to the other side of the court where most of of the girls were training.

Kaido and Momo looked at Kumiko's retreating figure with a confused expression. And right on cue Kumiko turned around to look at them in the face and she said with a smirk, "Now now boys, no need to flirt with each other. I think you two should stop now." She turned back around and started walking again as the two boys had weirded out expressions on their faces. They turned their heads slowly to look at each other for a moment before quickly walking away from the other with new looks of disgust.

The girls heard what Kumiko had said and were laughing as Kumiko reached them.

"What's so funny?" Kumiko asked.

"What you said to them!" Koizumi guffawed.

"Well, it wasn't that funny, but okay."

"Whatever, you know it was funny as hell," Saori said.

"You shouldn't be so mean to the guys," Aine said from next to Saori.

"Aine, guys need to be put down sometimes," Ayumi explained. "Guys have such BIG egos! And well, the thing is, sometimes, you just need to put it down so that they don't get too ahead of themselves. That's how you keep them in line."

"I don't think that's exactly true, Ayumi," Miki coughed as she looked at Ayumi through her glasses. "I mean, not all guys have big egos. They're not all like Atobe. I mean, just look at the guys on our team, they're nothing like Atobe at all."

"Well, even with regular guys you need to do that. You know how much ego they still have! I mean, they do whatever it takes to make themselves feel good and superior to other guys. I definitely don't want to stroke their ego, and well, speaking of stroking . . . have you done that for Fuji-san yet Faye?" Ayumi asked that with a sly look in her eyes as she inched towards Faye.

"What? Of course not! We're not even dating or anything! We haven't done anything!" Faye replied, completely shocked. "I mean, I should be asking you that Ayumi! You're dating Inui-sempai!"

"Well, we're not really dating for real."

"Then don't say that to me!"

"You two have kissed, me and Inui-san haven't done anything at all."

"You think we would skip from kissing to that? What the heck Ayumi? No way! And he forced me to kiss him!"

"You could have grown a sudden interest in him, who knows?"

"Ew! Like that would ever happen!"

"Seriously," Koiuzmi butted in, "you know that none of us even like them as friends. It's impossible to even like them at all."

"Um hello?" the guys called from the other side of the court. "We can hear you! And you guys talk really loud too!"

"Oh god," Faye groaned and punched Ayumi in the arm.

"Ow! What was that for?" Ayumi demanded.

"Fuji-sempai probably heard what you said about . . ."

"Whatever! He's not gonna take it seriously!"

"But he'll be torturing me!"

"Be strong Faye!"

"Easy for you to say!"

As Faye said that, Fuji came up behind her and hugged her. He leaned down and whispered in her ear, "I think that might be fun to try, don't you think so too Faye?" He was teasing her of course.

"Har har, no!"

Luckily, Tsubaki and Tezuka had decided to come back from speaking to Ryuzaki-sensei at that moment and as the girls and guys saw the two captains, they quickly split up and started practicing as if nothing had happened.

Tsubaki and Tezuka gave curious/suspicious looks at the two teams before splitting up and going to their respected genders.

"Hey there, Tsubaki-buchou!" the girls said automatically as she came near them.

"Hello everyone," Tsubaki replied. "How is practice so far.

"Um . . . ," Koizumi tried to cover, "it was good! See how much we're sweating!"

"I do see, but that doesn't exactly account for anything," Tsubaki retorted.

"Um . . ." The girls didn't know what to say back to Tsubaki. It was as if she knew they were goofing off and not practicing.

"You all shouldn't just stand there and try to think of an excuse. You should all actually start practicing right now," Tsubaki said as she started to walk to get her tennis gear.

"Oh yeah! Right!" the girls replied and ran to practice.

After morning practice, Tezuka and Tsubaki were walking to class together because they both had the same homeroom.

"How do you think they're getting along?" Tsubaki asked as she turned to look at Tezuka.

"I would say they're better, but they still don't like each other very much," Tezuka replied, stoic as ever.

"Even though the girls say they hate the boys, I don't think they do anymore. They might dislike them, but I think they actually get along. It's a weird sort of getting along with a lot of arguing and fighting, but they're a lot more friendly towards each other now."

"I'll agree with you there, Tsubaki. They are getting along a lot better now."

The two captains continued to talk, totally oblivious to two girls that were watching them. The girls had been watching them ever since they stepped foot off the court, and they weren't only watching Tsubaki and Tezuka, but some of the other regulars too.

"She's standing so close to him!" a girl whined.

"You can't help it, they like each other, Yoko," a different girl said.

"Aiko! You know I like him!" Yoko whined again.

"You're not going to do anything about it though. Not one girl is going to do anything to Oguri-san. We all respect her too much, but don't worry, it doesn't look like she's too interested in your crush." Aiko was filing her nails as she talked.

"Well, you don't have to worry Aiko! I mean, you like Momoshiro-san!"

"I do have to worry." Aiko looked up at Yoko. "He likes Aine-san, but I don't have to worry that much since she doesn't like him at all. Not only that, but even if she did, her whole team would force her away from him. They don't like each other remember?"

"They seem so much closer ever since the training camp though!"

"Don't worry Yoko! Geez!"

The girls left to get to class too before they became late or they would get detention.

All of the girl regulars for the tennis team scurried off to their classes too as they stuffed their tennis gear into the tennis locker room. Unbeknownst to them, they were all being watched by fan girls, and not by nice fan girls like Yoko and Aiko, but by vicious fan girls that would rip their heads off for even touching their crushes.