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He makes you lose your breath.
You’re just another teenager girl watching his game, just one of the many with Shiratorizawa’s uniform and screaming your school’s cheer behind the “Be Courageous Warriors” flag. You’re not even one of the beautiful cheerleaders, standing in their lovely purple and blue skirts, holding the yellow pompoms.
You’re just a side character. Although, watching that boy slam the volleyball on the other side of the court using his left hand in the blink of an eye makes you stop breathing. Of course, no one’s notices how you halt the chanting halfway, how your hands fall to the side of your body. They are too concentrated doing their best to raise Shiratorizawa’s morale.
“What’s his name?” You ask your friend, the one who persuaded you to watch the volleyball game, saying you should go out a bit instead of spending the whole day studying for your college entrance exams. “The one who smashed the ball like it was nothing?”
“That’s our team’s Super Ace,” she smiles brightfully, as if she was the one who scored. “Ushijima Wakatoshi. You really don’t know him? Everybody in school does! He was even featured as the number one ace in a Miyagi volleyball magazine!”
“Magazine?” Your eyes can’t leave the court, or more specifically, the tall boy whose physical appearance and proportions lure your whole attention. “He must be amazing.”
“He is so amazing that even someone like you, that always runs from PE classes, recognizes him immediately.” She laughs at your reaction and finishes the conversation, going back to cheering.
Your heart beats loudly against your ribcage every time you realize he’ll hit the ball.
You don’t know why, but it’s the first time you’re lured to a sport.
You don’t know most of the rules and feels too shy to bother anyone, so you just watch.
You cheer, you get tense.
You watch him from afar.
You pray for him to win.
(you cry when Shiratorizawa loses)