If Only Dreams Came True

Chapter 2: Another Day With The Sun

All I could think about that night and the next day was volleyball practice, I suddenly had something big to look forward to and it felt great. I walked into school with a smile on my face and a determination in my step, I walked into English class and surprisingly saw Kageyama in the class, I must've never noticed him before but I guess he'd always been there, and I wasn't complaining.

But there was thing I'd complain about, this class has never been my favorite for many reasons, one of the biggest being that I had some bullies in this class, two to be exact, they always made their trouble together, and most of that trouble was with me.

Somehow I felt more comfortable with Kageyama there though, I felt safer and like I had someone I knew even though we have yet to have a real conversation together. This safety was short lived though, as the teacher left the room for the bathroom I heard the creaking of two chairs behind me, I see them rise from their seats, well I didn't see them behind me but I've heard that sound so many times it'd become easy to create a mental image of them rising from their seats and walking towards me with their eyes glued on me. I shriveled up in a ball as the scolded me about my sexuality and shit, it never was pleasant dealing with homophobes and this happening as often as it did never helped.

I couldn't do anything about it though, I was helpless, they were much taller than me with lots more muscle and scrappiness to them, all I could do was sit there and maybe shed a tear or two as they gave me shit, but then I hear a third creak that I've never heard before, it was Kageyama, he stood up from his seat and stared at those bullies, it was enough for them to draw their attention away from me, but instead to him.

The two guys walking over to Kageyama, but it was different this time, the two guys still stood over him the same way they did me and they gave him that look they gave me, soon the same words, but this time he stood above them.

I saw he'd started speaking, I had no idea what he'd been saying but all I knew is that I found him to be the bravest man I'd ever seen, and I couldn't look away, but soon came in the teacher and neither could he.

"Is there a problem here boys?" The teacher asked them.

"YES!!" Kageyama started to raise his voice not only at the bullies but at the teacher too, "These assholes decided it'd be fun to pick on my friend-"
It caught me off guard, I was completely shocked when he'd called me his "friend" I mean shit we met yesterday but somehow me being his manager seemed to create some sort of friendship between us, but also, I don't think that's the only thing that created this friendship between us.

"Oh so you're friends with the f*g now?"
Those words hurt coming out of one of the bullies' mouths,, they'd called me that several times but it just hit in a different place this time.

"Now boys there's no need to use such language."
The teacher tried his best to calm the situation but there was nothing he could've done to stop a fight breaking out after those words were said.

Soon after I found myself in the principles office next to Kageyama, I suppose I had been mentioned as the "friend" in this situation so I must've been seen as a primary part of the fight to the principal, but I didn't mind, I got to miss a bit of class and got to sit next to Kageyama, even though we were getting lectured by the principal. He eventually let us out with a heavy warning saying "If anything like this happens again I may have to suspend someone, and that's not what we want now is it?"

Me and Kageyama left the principal's office and we walked down the hall together to our next periods.

"Th-thank you Kageyama."
It took everything out of me to even speak to him, but he heard, he looked up at me in a bit of confusion but also in sincerity, he did seem a bit caught off guard though, he'd been quite zoned out at that point, almost forgetting our involvement in the situation, I'd like to have forgotten it ever happened too.

"Um, yeah sure, anytime."
That answer was slightly underwhelming but I understood the lack of expression in his voice.

Nothing much happened in the two weeks after that, just more practices and more moments of me admiring the team play volleyball, especially Kageyama. I grew a bit closer to all of the teammates, also finally gaining a grip on my new job of sorts, and as all that happened my feelings for Kageyama just grew stronger by the day.

He always showed me a side of kindness you wouldn't think he'd have just looking at him, he was quite intimidating to most people but I never found him that way.

Soon was our first game with me as the teams primary manager, well, it wasn't exactly a real game, it was just a practice game with another school some ways away, but it still felt real enough for me to be dreading it the week of. I didn't even have to play and I might've been more nervous then anyone on the team.