String Me Along: Ch 2
What you missed: Kingdom Hearts/Black Rock Shooter cross over Riku and Mato get in a fight at school and decide to become friends. Mato introduces Riku to Yomi and they all become good friends. Yay! Now for the angst. Loosely follows the OVA plot
If you haven't seen the ova, do. I like it x3 Thanks to tiffany who I think checks this everyday to see if it updates. Thanks Tiffany. You make my day 3
The wheels of the train clanked along the tracks as it sped commuters to their destination. Mato talked animatedly about her basketball club, and her super manager friend Yuu. Yomi really couldn't care less about basketball at the moment, especially that Yuu girl. Yomi and Mato had been best friends since opening ceremony, with Riku joining them shortly after. It'd been an entire year of the three of them as best friends, until their second year of middle school and Yomi and Riku ended up in a different class than Mato. Yomi had tried not to be too upset about it. They could still talk during break and club activities and hang out after school and during breaks. It wasn't like they wouldn't see each other….That's what Yomi kept telling herself anyway.
'Mato's my best friend. She won't leave me. She won't….' She's tried telling herself as she watched Yuu and Mato become fast friends. 'We're best friends…That won't change…' She tried reminded herself as she trailed behind Yuu and Mato, watching them chat about basketball. She knew she couldn't relate to Mato when it came to basketball, and they were in completely different classes, but she hadn't expected the wedge called Yuu to come between them. Slowly they were drifting apart. They no longer had anything to talk about and soon Mato would want nothing to do with her anymore…
"Is something wrong?" Mato asked, snapping Yomi out of her thoughts.
"No. I'm fine. I was just spacing out a little." She replied quickly, shaking her head.
"I'm sorry. I just can't stop talking about basketball." Mato apologized before jumping into another story about the basketball captain and her crazy ideas about dunking. Yomi tried to listen, but found herself sinking deeper into her pit of self doubt. Riku could see her slipping. He saw her pretending to listen to Mato, her face half hidden in shadow. Not only was he losing Mato, but he was in danger of losing Yomi too.
He liked Mato. Sure, she was good at basketball and gave him a run for his money at a game of one on one, but she was too cheerful and peppy all the time. He liked Yomi because she was quiet, and graceful, lady-like and her hair…He'd been almost a little happy to see Yomi and Mato split up into different because that meant that he got Yomi all to himself. He'd tried his hardest to get Yomi to pay attention to him. He'd sunk a couple of baskets right in front of her but she'd been too busy reading or doing homework. He'd tried offering to help her with homework but she never needed any help and often she was better than him at it. It was frustrating trying to get her to pay attention to him when she was so preoccupied with Mato. There was definitely something wrong with her…