Summary: Fresh from a heart break, Aya decided to transfer to Hyoutei and totally forget her ex-boyfriend, Niou. There, she met Oshitari Yuushi. Is he the one who will put back the broken pieces of her heart? Or will he be just another heart break?

Disclaimer: I do not own POT

A/N Please read and review! And thanks to those who read the previous chapters especially to those who added my story to their lists.

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Hear my Heart

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"Congratulations Aya! Finally you are a part of our team!" Cassie told her while giving her a bear hug. The try-outs just ended.

"Thanks onee-chan. I'm so happy to be a part of the team!" She said after her sister let her go. She saw that her sister was so happy that they are now in one team. Miyabe and Hikari also congratulated her.

Aya passed the try-out. She returned the ball smoothly and precisely. The one who served the ball for her was one of the regular players of Hyoutei that she and her doubles partner defeated when she was still in Rikkaidai. The girl was Hibari Misao, a third year regular. She saw the girl's sharp eyes looked at her like a predator waiting for a prey. She just ignored it and concentrated. Hibari's serve is really sharp, it was a twist serve, but she returned it smoothly.

After a short briefing for the new members, they were dismissed. Aya was waiting for her sister who was still in the locker room when Oshitari greeted her.

"Hi!"Oshitari said with a smile.

"Hello." She smiled at him too.

"Congratulations I heard that you are now officially a member of the girls' tennis team."

"Thanks senpai!"She smiled at him.

"So, how was the try-out?"

She smiled widely. "It's great! Hibari-senpai's serve is really good but I did my best to return it she used her special serve to me and luckily I already had a match with her last year, at least I knew how to handle her serve she used her amazing twist serve I was glad to see her serve again she's really good." She talked non-stop without break.

He chuckled. "Kirihara-chan, breathe. Don't you how to use period and comma in a sentence?"

She flushed. "Gomen-nasai senpai!" She bowed lightly and faced him again, he was still smiling. "I'm just too enthusiastic to tell it and I'm sorry for being so talkative."

"It's alright, you don't have to apologize for being so talkative and spirited. You just wanted to share your feelings and I like that. It's as if you are not the girl I met at the rooftop who's so gloomy and so sad. You seemed to treat me like a friend."

She was speechless for a moment. He liked me? No, he liked your talkativeness!

"And I'm glad that we will see each other more often now. I wanted to know you better." He gave her a warm smile. Wait, he wanted to know her better? Was he flirting with her?

"Aya." Cassie called her. She was looking at them with a knotted forehead. She seemed not so please to see her with Oshitari-senpai. "You know each other?" her sister asked her, still with knotted forehead.

"We just met yesterday, Cassie-chan." Oshitari answered. Cassie gave Oshitari an inquisitive look.

"Are you flirting with my sister, Oshitari?" she asked him straight. She was shocked that her sister will ask him that question.

He chuckled. "Cassie-chan, I'm not flirting with her, I'm just being friendly with your sister since she just transferred in our school. I just wanted to befriend her, that's all."

Cassie stared at him. "Just be sure about your intention Oshitari, I know you very well." She turned to her. "Let's go Aya."

Before leaving she bowed at him and waved goodbye.

They were inside the limousine when her sister talked to her.

"Tell me Aya, is he flirting with you?"

"He already told you that he was not."

"Still, I don't believe him."

How I wish he was flirting with me. Wait, where did that came from?

She sighed. "He's just being friendly, onee-chan and besides, we just met." She rolled her eyes. How can her sister intrude in her life. She's not someone who can dictate who she should befriend and who she should not.

Cassie held her hand. "Aya, don't ever think that I am intruding your social life or whatsoever. I just wanted to shield you from guys like your ex-boyfriend. He and Oshitari are just the same, they are both playboys."

"Oshitari-senpai, is just a friend." She pouted at her.

"For now, but one day he will pursue you and flirt with you once he gets your trust as a friend. I know him too well, Aya." She embraced her. "I just wanted to protect you from further heartache, do you understand?"

Now, she understands her sister was there by her side when she was still crying for her Niou. She just wanted to protect her.

"I'm not telling you to avoid him, I'm just warning you not to be carried away by his charms. He can be a good friend, I know because we are also friends, but keep a tight hold of your heart. One day, you may loosen your grip and the next thing you knew you're in love with him."

She looked at her sister's worried face. Maybe her sister is right; she must have a tight grip of her heart.

"I understand, onee-chan. I won't fall in love with him or with any playboy, okay? Don't worry." She assured her sister that made her face brighten.

Aya was inside the library with Christine and Ootori doing an assignment for their subject literature. The two left her to find more books for their assignment. She was so engrossed with the book she was reading, it was about the works of Shakespeare. She was reading a certain sonnet by Shakespeare. Her eyes were focused on the book that she ignored the presence of a certain someone who sat beside her. She thought it was Christine but she was surprised when she heard the voice of the person sitting next to her, reading out loud Shakespeare's sonnet with a soothing voice.

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?'" she turned to him. He was not looking at the book, he was looking at her, he memorized the lines. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer's lease hath all too short a date." She looked at him with wide eyes, his face was too close. Her heart beats faster. "It's my favorite sonnet of Shakespeare, Sonnet 18."

Hearing him saying the lines from the sonnet made her feel that he was saying those words to her. Shut up Aya, he's not dedicating the lines to you!

"Hey, Kirihara-chan, are you going to stare at me the whole day?" He chuckled.

She was staring at him for so long!

"I...uhm," she was speechless! She was the kind of person who can't last in a minute without talking, unless she was sleeping. She cleared her throat. What's wrong with her, he just read her a sonnet, what's the big deal!

"Senpai, I'm just surprised to see you here." At last she managed to speak up.

"You're surprise? Kirihara-chan, this is our school library, what was so surprising to see me here?"

Stupid me. What kind of excuse was that!

"Oh." She feigned a laugh to cover her nervousness. He was seating next to her that's why her heart is beating like crazy. She has a crush on him. Now, she was admitting it. It's just a stupid crush. Ever since the day she first met him, she developed a crush on him. He was there to comfort her while she was crying for the jerk Niou.

"Actually, when I saw you here, I intended to talk to you and ask you about something." He said.

"What is it?"

"Why are you avoiding me?" He looked at her intently.

Yes, she was avoiding him for the past three days. Whenever she saw him walking towards her, whether in the corridor, the canteen or the tennis court, she walked away. Cassie said that she was not advising her to avoid him but it was her decision to do that. The best way to protect her heart was to avoid this man that seemed too easy to fall in love with.

"Senpai, I'm not avoiding you, okay? You're just imagining things. It just so happen that we did not see each other for the past days. We're not in the same class and we're of different year levels." She looked away and pretended reading the book she was still holding.

"You are avoiding me. I saw you several times these past days and I knew that you saw me too." He stated, she can feel that he still looking at her. "Why are you doing that? Did Cassie tell you to do that?"

She turned her head at him. "Onee-chan did not tell me to avoid you, it was my decision." She can't let him think that it was her sister order to avoid him. "Do you want me to be honest with you?"

"Of course."

"I am avoiding you because I don't want to fall in love with you…" She said, almost like a whisper.

"Is falling in love me a bad thing that you wanted to avoid me like a plague?" He asked, amusement is evident in his eyes.

"Yes, it is bad…for me. You know that I just had a heart break recently and falling in love again this time is not really good for my heart. Senpai you are a charming guy…" He smiled with that statement of hers. "I know that you knew it. Although you made it clear that you are not flirting with me, still, it is not an assurance that I won't fall for you. You understand me, do you?"

"Yes, I understand, Kirihara-chan. You just wanted to shield your heart from another heartache." He said. "And I am flattered to know that you admitted that I am irresistible." He smiled sexily at her.

She looked away from him.

"Kirihara-chan, I respect your decision, but please don't avoid me like I have a contagious disease. I can't handle it. At least smile at me whenever you saw me or at least say 'hi' or 'hello.' We can still be friends at least, if you can call that friendship. I'll do my best not to make you fall in love with me, I'll treat you like a sister…you know I always want to have a little sister. Please?" He offered her a hand.

She looked at his hand. She was being unfair to him. He just wanted friendship but she shoved it away. She accepted his hand and shook it lightly.

"Alright senpai, I accept your friendship. I'll do my best not to fall in love with you." She said and saw him smile.