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“How about we play Go Fish next?” Matsukawa suggested. Iwazumi scoffed at the idea. They were sixteen not twelve. But they had already worn out playing poker seeing as Hanamaki had won every single hand.
He even asked if everyone wanted their bettings back from the huge pile of snacks in front of him. But from a little embarrassment mixed with shame, everyone had refused.
Iwazumi looked at the clock and unfortunately, because they were over the long period, they still had an hour left of study hall.
“I guess” Iwaizumi said somberly. Hanamaki and Watari agreed with equal enthusiasm.
“How about the loser has to buy food for everyone else” Matsukawa said, making another suggestion. Hanamaki made a face and looked down at the pile of snacks in front of him.
“Really, it’s fine” Matsukawa said before letting him try to offer the food back again.
“Alright” Iwaizumi started passing out the cards.
The game had started pretty well for Iwazumi until the very end, when it was just him against Watari. And they both only had a few cards left. For a children's card game, it was feeling pretty intense. And well, to make a short story even shorter, Iwaizumi found himself in front of a vending machine looking for Matsukawa’s oreos. Except, they weren’t in the machine down the hall so he had to go all the way across the school to buy them.
Iwaizumi cursed under his breath, but in reality, wandering the school for snacks was a lot more interesting than sitting around and playing boring card games.
He could see the parking lot from where he was walking, as an expensive looking car pulled up. And no other than Oikawa Tooru came out of the passenger seat. Iwaizumi made an audible ‘ugh’ as Oikawa flashed his perfect smile at the driver who was just out of view from where he was.
Iwaizumi thought back to middle school, when they still played volleyball together. The two of them had been best friends and had known each other since kindergarten.
But that was then and this was now.
Iwaizumi was still playing and Oikawa was his ridiculously popular self. And according to rumors, was dating a new person every week.
He tried to walk out of the way from Oikawa’s path and like god was punishing him, Iwaizumi heard one of the school's doors open with footsteps following behind him. Iwaizumi really didn’t need any interactions with his former best friend. Hopefully he’ll just go in a different direction before I make it to the vending machine.
That didn’t happen.
From the corner of his eye
“Hey” Oikawa waved with his fake smile on his face.
“Hey” Iwaizumi gave his best fake smile too. “Trying to buy stuff?”
I just need to make it through this conversation and then I can go back to pretending I don’t know him at all.
“Hmm yeah, I haven’t eaten all day" he explained. "But I don’t know what I want” Oikawa made this face of confusion but like he was trying to be cute about it and it made Iwaizumi want to punch it off. But he needed to focus. All Iwaizumi had to do was get the oreos at C3 and walk away.
“I heard you date a different person every week” Iwaizumi blurted out. What the hell am I doing!?
Oikawa laughed.
"So those rumors even reach you huh" he smirked. "But it's not even really like that, okay"
"Oh". Now Iwaizumi was just standing there again. "Are you with someone now?"
Oikawa's eyes widened and his smile grew a little bigger.
"Nope, I'm single. Why do you ask?"
Why couldn't Iwaizumi just buy the shitty oreos and get back to boring study hall instead of engaging in awkward conversations with a person he use to know.
"'Cause I was going to ask you to go out with me." Iwaizumi tried to joke but it came out sounding more serious than he meant. And now Iwaizumi was starting to feel really embarrassed.
He pulled out his wallet, trying to move things along before he made a bigger ass of himself.
"Oh shit!"
"What?"
"Money must have fallen out of my wallet when I walked all the way down here."
"Here". Oikawa walked in front of the machine putting money into it.
"You didn't need to do that" Iwaizumi complained.
Oikawa gave him a sort of annoyed look. "It's like a dollar. Don't worry about it".
Iwaizumi sighed and finally got Matsukawa's snacks.
"And you can just keep the change" Oikawa insisted.
Iwaizumi fought back the urge to argue with him and just mumbled "thanks"
"Well, I'm heading back to class" Iwaizumi said
"Hmm kay. See you around I guess". Oikawa said, giving one last smile.
"See you"
What a day. Iwaizumi put his head down on the desk. That whole exchange with Oikawa took a lot out of him.
He could see Watari, seeming a little concerned as he munched on crackers.
“Something wrong?”
“Sort of?” Iwaizumi wasn’t sure if he wanted to talk about Oikawa shit, seeing as they were all former teammates of Oikawa's too.
“Not really”
“You sure?” Watari didn’t looked convinced.
“Yeah”
Watari still looked a little worried but stopped pressing for answers.
Iwaizumi felt a buzz in his pocket and looked at the text. It was from...Oikawa?
[Hey, do you want to walk home together?]
Iwaizumi involuntarily made a face at his phone.
Even though they hadn’t exchanged texts in almost two years, Iwaizumi kept Oikawa’s number and it was a little jarring that he had done the same.
[Sure] he typed back.
It was a lot less effort than saying no. Plus, they lived only a couple houses away from each other, so it really wasn’t a big deal. But there was still the question of why send the text in the first place. Was he trying to rekindle the friendship that they had? Or maybe?
No it couldn’t be.
Iwaizumi pushed back the thought that Oikawa had taken his confession seriously.