Y/n's POV
I wake up this morning with the excitement of seeing everyone, except for Hanami, of course. I get off from my bed, standing up and getting some time to get used to the reality I'm back in. I change into my uniform, go to the bathroom and head to the kitchen afterwards, where my uncle greets me with a delicious breakfast.
"Good morning" he greets me.
"'morning" I greet, yawning.
"Good morning, sister" my brother greets me, too.
"Good morning, brot-" I take a few seconds to realize and turn my head towards him. "Wait, what are you doing here? Aren't you already supposed to be at school?"
"I have a day off!"
"Calm down, it's not like you're a grown ass man who's working a shitty job that's tiring you, but anyway, why do you have this chance, little brother?"
"Someone set the fire to the school"
"What?!" I asked, surprised and when I see my little brother's grin, I just know he's joking.
"Julio doesn't have any day off, he actually has an appointment to the doctor. We still go see them in case something bad happens to him because of his injury."
"I was going to say 'gimme your day off' but I guess I would rather go to school than to the doctor."
"So anyway, me staying here this morning means I can tease you all I want, big sister. In fact, thinking about that, you'll soon be my little sister. I'm growing fast you know, I'll be taller than you soon."
"Calm down, mister one meter smaller than me. Don't think you'll gain this meter before your first year of High School."
"By the way, how's it going with Oikawa?"
"Julio, I'm not talking to you anymore."
"I mean-"
"I'm off to school, now, thank you for breakfast uncle, see you at practice after school."
"Try to talk and kiss again, soon, 'kay? I miss him, you selfish miss I think I'm one meter taller than my brother. Try to think about your brother, will ya?"
"UGH! I HATE YOU!"
"I love you, too, sis. Have a good day at school."
After putting on my shoes, I ran out the house, just to not hear Julio's voice telling me to 'talk and kiss' with Tooru again. I didn't want my younger brother to get involved in my love story, because he obviously would make it awkward if he could. I mean, between Tooru and me. I'm just glad we get to eat lunch together today since the last few days I had to go meet every teacher so they could tell me what I missed in the first days of school.
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"Where are Hajime and Sao?" I asked Tooru, walking up to the table where he was sat. He lifted up his head from his phone and looked at me with a smile. I felt my legs almost give up and let me fall.
"I don't know. Iwa-chan said he had something to do and Sao, I don't know a thing."
"What were they thinking about? The first lunch I get to spend with you, they all can't!"
"Yeah... At least I'm here..." he whispered, loud enough for me to hear.
I smile and sit in front of him.
"It's been a while since we actually talked" he says.
"Yeah. I missed that"
"Same here."
A few seconds of an awkward silence places itself between us as we don't know what to say.
"Listen, Y/n, I'm sorry I was such a dick"
I smiled. I guess I never blamed him for what happened. Yugata was always the one I blamed.
"It's okay. I never even thought about hating you the second your broke up. I was just sad and angry at Yugata."
"Yeah, but I was so dumb to believe him. I mean, I should have realized you would never have done that."
I didn't say anything back. I just shrugged my shoulders.
"That Christmas party was an actual joke anyway." Tooru just spits out the words and laughs.
"It really was!" I confirm what he said and start laughing as well.
"I mean, people getting drunk everywhere, refilling their cup as soon as they took a sip."
"People singing in the living room so damn loud that we would have a headache."
"And when they danced!"
"They would just do whatever they wanted because they couldn't control their moves."
"How they fell on the ground, laughing their heart out. This was the thing that got me every time I saw someone fall."
"How people with claustrophobia would have an actual reason for starting a panic attack."
We continued laughing until we stopped and then we looked at each other, smiling, remembering the past.
"I'm glad you came back. I thought you would stay in the United States when I realized you weren't there the first day of school"
"Yeah, I knew you would panic. But I couldn't say a thing, because I wanted to surprise you."
"And you did. Except, Hanami didn't really take it nicely."
"Yeah" I laughed, remembering the day I came back.
"Also, she's not gonna continue hanging out with us. I've been honest with her... just because she tried..."
He stopped there and didn't say anything else. He seemed to search for his words.
"She told me she had a crush on me, but her personality was something more annoying than pleasant, so I couldn't help myself but be honest and... mean"
"Tooru Oikawa? Mean? Sorry? Did I hear correctly? Whoever fan that was either weird or pick me, you didn't act differently with them. I mean, I guess you were just very irritated."
"And you don't know how"
"I'm just glad she's out of our lives"
"Yeah, me too."
He sighed.
"Maybe, if we broke up, it was because we didn't know each other well"
I lifted up my head from playing with my hands to release stress, looking surprised.
"Yeah. Now that we think about it, we didn't really know each other. I mean, personally and all."
"We should talk then."
"About what?"
"Ask each other questions to get to know each other better."
"Good idea. You start."
"Okay, then, let's go with a basic question. What's your favorite color, Y/n-chan?"
I started laughing, hiding my face in my hands.
"Why are you laughing?" he asked, acting innocent.
"It's a childish question"
"No! A person's favorite color can tell a lot about them, you know. So what's yours?"
"Mmh... I'd say light green. And you?"
"Probably purple. Why green?"
"Because it represents well the summer. Well, my favorite part of it. When the trees are full of light green leaves. I just love nature and how it always give a calm place to hide or a respectful house for animals and insects or even a dreamy forest like we see in movies or we read in books. It gives such a good vibe. Why purple?"
"Because, one day, a classmate of mine, when I was in elementary school, asked me if I had to choose in the 'girls' colors', which one would I choose. I said purple without hesitation and I guess since that day it's my favorite color. I mean, there's something mysterious about that color and how it is related to pink and how people seem to mistake purple and violet together."
When he finished talking, I just burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at, Y/n-chan? Did I say something wrong?"
"No, it's just so funny how we're talking about our favorite color when, last year, it would have been impossible to talk about those things."
"Then, I guess it's a great time to talk about those things."
But I didn't care about those things. I just needed to stay with him for as long as I could, because it warmed my heart to listen to him talk and to hear him say things I would never have thought of just to look at him. But right now, I was just glad I was meeting the Tooru Oikawa I fell for and loved all over again. I wanted more of these moments.