I would like the thanks Different Child and makoko. You two have been given me great comments for the last three chapters that made me just wanna update more! Your good comments put me in a writing spirit! So thank you. Remember for the next few chapters Ryoma was be a bit OOC and show emotions…and blush!
"So you see? That's why I hate tennis." I finished as I crossed my arms over my chest.
"You need to be more confident with yourself." he advised as I sighed.
"Easier said than done. We're talking about me. The girl who people tend to pick out the tiniest flaws…most of them are from Aniki's fan girls." I said as I stretched out my right leg to see the scab had healed a bit.
I was about to bring my hand to it so I could scratch it but Ryoma put his left hand over the scab which made me blush a little. I think he did too.
"Don't scratch it. It'll leave a scar and take longer to heal." he told me as I put my hand in Ryoma's jacket pocket that I still wore.
"Oh. Do you want your jacket back? You must be cold and your face is pink." I stated as Ryoma shook his head and lowered his cap.
His face turned a little darker.
"You can give it back to me tomorrow." he said as I nodded my head.
"Arigato Ryoma-Kun." I thanked once more as he waved his hand.
"Ryoma. Just call me Ryoma. Not Ryoma-Kun." he said as I nodded my head.
"Ok…" I trailed as I looked up at the cloudy early morning sky. "Do you think we should go back to practice?" I asked as Ryoma shook his head.
"We canceled practice when you left. We knew something was wrong with you so we just canceled it." Ryoma stated as I nodded my head.
"Ok…Gomen Ryoma…" I apologized as he looked at me.
"For what?"
"Everything. I bet you wouldn't have to come over here and listen to me talk about my problems if I wasn't such a big baby. I seem to be troublesome to people." I stated sadly with a sigh.
"Don't say that." Ryoma said.
I glanced up at him. He was looking me dead in the eye and he looked very serious. His left hand was still on my knee with the scab. I blinked.
"Your not troublesome. Wanna know troublesome? Then you should meet that girl with the two pigtails that always screams and follows me around." Ryoma said irritably just thinking of her.
"That sounds like Tomo…" I mumbled to myself as I glanced at Ryoma.
"Anyway…just be more confident…and…I'm sure…just don't listen to what other people think and only what the people closest to you think. Ok?" Ryoma counseled as I nodded my head.
"That was sorta deep." I said as Ryoma looked at the ground and removed his hand from my knee.
"Just don't tell anyone. Got it?" Ryoma asked as I nodded my head and got up.
"We should probably go." I suggested as Ryoma got up and walked back to the courts with me with his hands in his pockets.
When we got back to the courts everyone was there and relived to see that I was ok. Aniki engulfed me in a quick hug and then handed me my bag. I noticed that everyone else already had their bag in hand. We all [everyone but me and Ryoma] decided to go to the burger shop to get something to eat and to hang out. After we ordered our food we sat down near each other and ate. I sat down next to Ryoma and ate some French fries while he had a burger and soda. We ate in silence till Ryoma asked me a question.
"Why don't you eat your French fries with ketchup?" he asked as I bit a plain French fry and shrugged.
"In France you don't dip French fries in ketchup. That's rude to the chief. It's saying their food isn't good enough so you need something else to make it taste better…so I guess the habit just stuck." I admitted as I bit another French fry.
"It's weird if you ask me…" Ryoma stated as he sipped his soda.
"Especially when your chased off by the chief because you asked for ketchup." I stated as I cautiously looked around before dipping the French fry in some ketchup that the lady who gave me my fries placed on the try.
"French people are weird [a/n: sorry if your French! I don't mean to offend you!]." Ryoma complimented as I glanced at him.
"We're all weird." I stated while munching on a few fries.
"You've got something…" Ryoma trailed as he gestured to his mouth.
I took a napkin and wiped where he was gesturing but it was apparently still there or I wiped off the wrong spot. A few fatal tries later Ryoma just gave up and took the napkin from my hand and wiped off what I was guessing was a small amount of ketchup near my lip. I thanked him as he muttered a 'douitashimashita [your welcome]'. I saw a few of the Regulars [on both sides] give each other weird happy/sly looks and Fuji had this…scary smile…it scared me. When we all finished eating we headed home to spend the rest of the day however we wanted. I spent mine sleeping…after all…I do deserve it. Being woken up at six in the morning and dragged out of my house half a sleep.
"Owie…" I mumbled into my pillow as the tennis ball that just hit my head bounced on the ground.
I glared out the window to see two small childish figures with tennis racquets running into a house.
"GOMEN!" They both shouted as I fell back into my bed.
Tennis isn't my thing.