Y/n's pov
"Curse me and my love of food," I say as I sit in the passenger seat.
My brother got a car for his birthday, now he's a baddie. Also, he looks like he was just released from prison in his driver's license, but he looks cool so it's fine.
"I basically signed myself up for death," I take another bite of my food.
"This is not death," he says. "Its volleyball, its fun,"
"Why must the girl's team come though, I get that you want to practice with your girlfriend and whatever but why?" I ask.
"They are good opponents," he says.
"Yeah, I know that," I sigh. "But do you even know whos on the girl's team?" I ask.
"Yes, I've met them before," he says.
"They are the same girls I played with in middle school," I say.
"I am aware," he nods his head.
"We are marching to my death," I sigh.
"We are not marching, I am driving us to the school, not your death," he says. "And if it's the girls you are worried about it they are very nice, Hoshi's friends are very nice"
"Yeah I know her friends are nice, they're all third years, and none of them are spikers," I say.
"I do not see what their positions have anything to do with it," he says.
"Do you remember my first year of middle school?" I ask.
"Yes, I do," he nods his head.
"What happened when I joined the team?" I ask.
"You replaced their ace," he says. "And you gained the majority of the team's points,"
"Exactly," I nod my head. "I replaced a second year, she was supposed to be the ace,"
"Well, you were the better player," Wakatoshi says.
"What if Goshiki just swept in and took your spot as the Ace and you were benched the whole season, let's say that you were still one of the top three aces but Goshiki became number 1. Who would you feel being benched?" I ask.
"I would not enjoy being benched," he says.
"Exactly," I say. "It would not feel too fun being a really good player and then get benched, how would anyone be able to see you play?"
"In warm-ups," he says.
"Well, that's not a lot of playtime," I say. "So it probably isn't a good feeling to be replaced like that by someone who is younger than you. And I bet it isn't fun being the one who everyone wants to beat, not just beat replace like they think you think you're better than everyone else,"
"But it was not your fault that you were the better player," he says. "You excelled in defense and offense, it would be foolish to bench you,"
"Yeah well when people are jealous they can be mean," I say. "None of them like me,"
"That's not true," he says.
"You don't deserve to be the ace, you came from a rich family and you feel like your entitled to everything," I say to him. "Is that something you would say to someone you like? What if one of your teammates said that to you?"
"Well that isn't true, so why would I be affected?" he asks.
"Not everyone is like you, I could call you a fat cow and you'd be perfectly fine," I say. "And y'know that I don't want to see the girls so why do I have to go?" I ask.
"I brought you because Suzuki, the teams ace requested that you'd be able to attend the practices," he says. "And exercise is good so it will be fine,"
"Hana wanted me to come?" I ask.
Suzuki Hana, I replaced her during her second year of middle school. She's a very good player, but when it comes to receives she wasn't that good, and with me receiving most of the sets she was expected to cover me if they were blocked, so in the end, she ended up being benched. She most definitely didn't like me, and neither did her younger sister Akari. And Akari was not better than her sister when Hana graduated Akari took it upon herself to be an ass. Yeah, the rest of the team kinda ignored me but I'd rather be ignored then picked on.
"Why though?" I ask.
"Maybe she just wants to play volleyball," he says. "Maybe you guys will be put on a team together,"
"No, I'll refuse to play if I'm on a team with any of the girls, the third years are fine but I won't play with the others," I say.
"Okay," he says. "I will make sure you are not on a team with them," he says.
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Thankfully I was put on a tea with Kawanishi and another third year from the girl's team. I'll admit that it was fun to be playing again but at the same time I wanted to suffocate myself with the volleyball nets. I didn't talk to any of my old teammates, because I'm a pussy. And there's no way in hell I'm trying to run into the Suzuki sisters.
"What are you doing?" Wakatoshi asks.
"Don't worry about it," I say. "Don't mind me, continue with your talking,"
What am I doing? you may ask. Well, I'm hiding behind my brother and his girlfriend while they chit chat about random stuff.
"Why don't you go and get yourself some snacks," Saito smiles. "There's plenty in the club room, I'm sure our conversation is boring you,"
She's like a mom, a really nice mom. And she's right, who the hell wants to talk about gardening? Why are they talking about gardening when they could be talking about Roblox, or Minecraft, or even better, dinosaurs.
"No, I am very much enjoying this conversation, fertilizer is very cool," I nod my head.
"They have kool-aid in there," Wakatoshi says.
"Okay I will be very quick," I say before running off.
You got this Y/n its kool-aid, in and out. I ran into the room and started looking for the juice of the gods. They had goldfish too, so of course, I just grabbed a small pack, but still no kool-aid.
"Y/n," I hear a familiar voice say.
"I was just leaving," I scramble to my feet.
I want to jump out the window, the same two people who I wanted to avoid the most were standing in front of me.
"Here," Hana holds out a red kool-aid pouch.
"I'm fine," I say. "I do not need a beverage, and I'm not the biggest fan of kool-aid,"
"Everyone knows that you love that stuff," Akira says. "So just take it,"
"Thanks," I quickly take it. "And if that's all I'll be on my merry way, I have a very important show to watch,"
"Were sorry," Hana says.
"Yeah really sorry," Akira says.
"What?" I ask.
"I was jealous of you," Hana admits. "And I shouldn't have taken my jealousy out on you,"
"Same here," Akira says. "I had no reason to be an asshole, you were the better player,"
"Uh... I appreciate your apology," I say. "Um, thanks,"
"Aren't you mad?" Hana questions.
"I mean... yeah you guys were complete asshole," I say. "But really there no sense me getting and now. It was terrible really, just playing my best but then being put down. I mean yeah I hated it but what could I really do?" I shrug.
"You don't need to forgive us," Akira looks away.
"What you guys did was child's play, yeah you guys are tall and scary but now that I know that Hana didn't want me here to kill me I'm perfectly fine," I say. "If i'm being honest when Wakaroshi told me that the girls were joining the practice I nearly had a breakdown, I was playing hot potato with my phone,"
"How can you be so casual about this?" Hana asks.
"If you want I can get Wakatoshi to get mad at you," I say. "I barely told him anything so he's not really mad, there's no point me getting mad at you, I don't know what I should feel. Right now I just want to crawl under my bed, so if we're done here I'd like to run away,"
"Please come back to Shiratorizawa," Hana bows. "I can't be the ace, I'm not someone the team can depend on like you were. Please next year come back,"
"I need a shot... or a line," I shake my head.
"Will you think about it?" Akira asks.
"No... I need a therapist," I say. "I'll see ya'll around, I'm gonna leave now,"
I walk past them out the door. What the hell is wrong with me.
Ya'll like my new user name? Anyways since i took so long to update I made this chapter a bit longer.
-Crouton