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-CHAPTER ONE-
Y/N’S POV
Monday, September 20th, 7:49 am
I slide out of my bed, letting out a long sigh. Finally, it was my third year and final year. I finally would be done with high school and would be moving on with my life and making it big in… well whatever I choose to go to college for.
I make my way over to my closet walking slow on purpose, thank God this is the last year I’ll see this stupid uniform. I love going to Aoba Johsai. Don't get me wrong but the school colors are so… out there. The pale colors with the mint looking blue, and then do not even get me started on the sports uniforms. Then on top of that I have to wear this short skirt that makes me feel as if I am exposing myself every time I bend down. I yank the uniform off the hanger I put it on near the back of my closet. I change out of my pajamas and into the uniform, I stand in front of the mirror as I tie the red tie that is supposed to tie the uniform together. I stare at myself in the mirror, adjusting the uniform wherever I don’t like, mostly the skirt. I let out a small scoff, reaching over and grabbing my socks that go with the uniform.
“Y/N!” My mom calls out from outside my room even though we are separated by a door it still feels as if she is in the room with me.
“Yes mom?” I reply as I sit on the end of my bed to slide on my light brown leather shoes that are unfortunately school issued.
“Are you almost ready? You know I want to get your first day of school picture before I leave for work,”
“Yeah mom, I’m almost done I just have not done my makeup and all of that. So the picture is probably going to look rough if you take it now,” I tie my shoes making sure that they are tight enough so that they will not untie during the day.
I hear her let out a mix between a laugh and a scoff knowing that she is shaking her head from behind the door. “I do not think that my Facebook friends and your grandmothers will care if you are wearing makeup, it’s for memories.”
“Yeah, yeah whatever you say,” I stand up from my bed, heading to the door and opening it seeing my mother holding her phone in her hand ready to take my picture as if she’s some sort of paparazzi.
What feels like forever and after about a million pictures, she heads out for the day giving me this long sappy pep talk about how it’s my last year and yap, yap, yap, yap. I go back to my room doing light makeup; just mascara, concealer to cover up my light acne that sprinkles on my cheeks, and a little bit of highlighter. I chose to just keep my hair down today not wanting to do anything too special, like how some girls do when it’s the first day of school. But I have seen these people for years so what's the point? I pick up my bag from my floor, the charms I have on the bag dangling and getting tangled together. My mom calls them silly but I love them, especially the one from my childhood friend, Ren. It’s this small cat that he got for me on my birthday when we were five or six, he used his own money to get it and for my whole party he would not stop talking about how he bought it all by himself.
I snap out of my nostalgia hit, glancing at my alarm clock that sits by my bed. Shit. I should have left five minutes ago if I wanted to meet up with Hana before school starts. I frantically rush out of the house, making my way towards the spot we usually always meet up at. I feel my phone buzzing in my bag, my ringtone going off of some random pop song. I pause in the middle of the sidewalk taking out my phone seeing that Hana is calling, I let out a sigh knowing that she is going to be pissed that I’m already late. I click the accept button and before I can breathe I am getting screamed at.
“F/N L/N, how are you late?!” She shouts through the phone, “I told you I wanted to meet up before classes start to take cute picturess,” Hana whines in this high pitch that almost sounds like a toddler
“I was getting ready, and you’re not the only one who wanted pictures. I had to basically do this whole photoshoot with my mother too,” I walk while I sling my bag back over my shoulder. “I’m close to your house anyway, I literally see it in the distance and I see you looking all mad too.”
“I see you too, why didn’t you do anything fun with your hairr, I mean it always looks great but come on girl it’s our last year,” She rambles, “But I’m gonna hang up since you’re getting closer but hurry up so we’re not late,”
I roll my eyes as I hang up on her. Hana has always been so energetic, don't get me wrong I love it. I love when she matches my energy but sometimes the girl can be way too much for me especially when it’s early in the morning. I walk up to her and she is basically bouncing with excitement, I let out a small laugh.
“Ok ok ask me why I am so excited,” She squeals out as we start walking towards the school.
“Why are you so excited?” I ask, knowing why she is so excited. It has been big news since the end of last year that we were getting some young new teacher, who used to go here and is now the new gym teacher or something.
“Cause! The new teacherrrr like oh my gosh I am so excited I looked through the old year books this summer from when he went here, and literally he is so finee,” She grabs my arm and shakes me a few times. “Like I am hoping I have gym just so I can stare at him the whole time.”
I roll my arms at her little rant, she has done this since our first year. She will find a teacher she thinks is hot then will get all obsessive over the idea, then she finds out she has no classes with said teacher then she gets all depressed and sad until she finds someone else she thinks is hot at the school. We walk onto campus continuing to chat, mostly her talking about this new teacher. But then it happens I always have had this tendency to not pick up my feet while walking, exactly why I tend to make sure that I tie my shoes tight.
I trip on my shoelaces.
As soon as I fall onto the pavement I let out a groan, thankfully I caught myself with my hands but I can already feel my body aching, both with pain and intense embarrassment. I push myself up more but when I look up I see this tall man, he has this brown hair that looks like it has been perfectly styled but has no product in it, brown eyes that match his brown hair. He looks as if he could be in his late 20's, definitely not a man I have seen around here. He reaches out his large hand, as if he’s reaching out to help me up.
“Woah that was one rough fall,” He says with a small smile on his face, his brown eyes look soft as he looks down at me, I reach up grabbing onto his hand as I stand up. “Are you all good though?”
I let out a nervous laugh as I nod looking up at him. “Yeah yeah I’m fine these stupid shoes just suck because they never stay tied.” I look down, brushing myself off noticing the scrapes that have appeared on my knees.
“Alright, but just so that I am making sure I am being a good person. Are you sure you’re okay? Because if you are injured I can walk you to the nurses office,” He gives me this charming smile, now I’m finally understanding Hana’s obsession with boys cause this man is handsome.
I shake my head a few times letting out a nervous laugh. “No no no I’m all good, thank you for the offer though. I appreciate it though,” I give him a polite smile, in which he returns before walking away.
I turn and see Hana looking happy behind me, wide eyed and with an even wider smile. Smiling as if she knew what was going on inside of my head right now.
“Girll who was that? He was such a cutie, you know he lowkey kind of looked like the new teacher, Oikawa with the brown hair and all that,” She hums out happily still with the biggest grin on her face. “You know if you have gym this year you would be so lucky cause then you would get to see him basically everyday,”
“Yeah and even if I did have gym there would be no way that he would pay any attention to me with all of the girls probably already obsessing over him like you are right now.” I state as we continue to walk deeper into campus.
“Ughhh but I am so jealous I don’t think I even have a gym class cause I do not want to have it like the start of the day and then be all sweary and gross,” She fake gags which causes a small laugh to leave me.
“Well isn't he also supposed to be the boys volleyball coach, I mean if you are that desperate to get close with him you could always be the manager.” I tease knowing that she will definitely not want to be the one to deal with a bunch of sweaty boys when she can’t even deal with being sweaty herself.
“Ew! No way! I do not want to deal with a bunch of gross boys after school, plus after school I have way more important things to do anyway like…” She hums pausing thinking about what she’s going to say next.
“Like watching half naked men on tiktok do stupid trends?” I interrupt her with a small smirk on my face.
“Yeah! Like that.. But like homework obvi! I’m not always on my phone, I do other things" She rolls her eyes before her own smirk appears on her face, which causes me to raise my eyebrow but then I feel a pair of arms wrap around my middle.
“Oh Y/NNN, the light of my lifee” A voice calls out as the arms wrap around me more, “I missed you so so much, how was your summer”
I let out a laugh as I try my best to pry his arms off of me, knowing who it was as soon as Ren wrapped his arms around me. “Uh huh I am definitely the light of your life, gosh you are so corny all the time.” I finally get his arms off of me, turning around to give him a playful glare.
“Ouch you are so mean to me… and all I try to be is a good friend,” Ren fake whines, giving me these stupid yet cute puppy dog eyes before his usual smirk appears on his face. “Trust at the end of this year you will finally appreciate me,”
“Sure, sure whatever you need to tell yourself to make you sleep at night,” I turn noticing that Hana has already started walking into the school with a group of girls she also hangs out with. I turn back to him, “I’ll see you at lunch or study hall with Hana.” I go to walk into the school hearing him call after me.
“Hope you have a good morning then, Y/N babyy” I can hear him laughing as I walk, making me shake my head.
8:25 am
I make it to my locker putting my bag away in the top shelf that there is, along with changing into my school shoes trying my best not to bend down too much to reveal my whole ass to anyone walking by. I feel something brush against me, I glance up seeing the man from this morning with a pile of papers in my hands. Now I am really starting to think if he is the new gym teacher. I shake the thought off, cause soon enough I will find out anyway. And well if it is I will be in for a long year of being attracted to my gym teacher. Which feels a little odd.. I let out a soft sigh as I grab my notebook heading off to my first class which is unfortunately chemistry. Knowing how boring this class will be especially with the teacher who sounds like he just mumbles whenever he talks. But hopefully it will be over quickly and I can have a semi good first day.
9:10 am
I leave the classroom letting out a long yawn, of course the class was even more boring than I thought. I could not focus, and then on top of that he just mumbled the whole time which threw me off. But, I am actually a little excited for the gym, due to how I get to finally meet the great Tooru Oikawa and see if it is the guy from this morning. I have heard almost every girl in chemistry talk about how hot he is as well, saying how they were going to purposely do things wrong just so he could teach them. Honestly it sounds like they have been reading too many romance books or Wattpad but who am I to judge cause I do the exact same thing. I hike towards the other side of the school just to grab my bag again to get my gym clothes which are way better than our regular uniform due to how I can wear shorts and not the skirt for like 40 minutes. I jog to the gym not wanting to be late, cause it is so embarrassing walking in and having everyone look at you.
I walk into the girls locker room, already seeing a few girls changing into their gym clothes. I change into my own gym clothes trying to be quick, once I’m done I head into the main gym. Which is when I finally see him. The great Tooru Oikawa, the man who everyone has been talking about, known by many names from what I’ve been told. But the thing that matters most to me which is that he is the guy from this morning, the man who I found incredibly attractive. And I definitely do now understand all the hype that has been going around about him.
“Well hey everyone, I honestly did not prepare a speech to introduce myself to my classes today. Cause just between you and me I only took this job to be the boys volleyball coach but here I am.” He says with this charming smile that makes all the girls in the class let out this giggle. “I will be your new teacher so don’t go too hard on me, and please don’t be so formal with me you can just call me Oikawa,”
I watch as his eyes scan the group of people before they land on me for a few seconds, looking at the class as a whole soon after. “Lets have a great year, yeah? Today we will just have a free gym so feel free to do whatever you’d like” He says with a smile.
I watch a group of girls walk to the bleachers making a kind of circle while a group of boys go to play volleyball, my guess is to impress him in hopes of making it on the volleyball team but that is definitely none of my business. I stand for a bit trying to figure out what I plan on doing before I hear a male voice address me.
“Your knee is looking a little red, thought you said that you were all good?” He says as he stands in front of me, his hands in the pockets of his pants.
“Yeah but I mean I’m not in pain. It's just red, you know? There is no need to make a big deal out of it.” I cross my arms as my eyes meet his own brown ones.
“Ok, ok I see that Miss Y/N has a slight attitude. No need for the claws, just want to make sure that you’re not in any pain.” He smirks a little, which just makes him unfortunately more attractive to me.
“Well from rumors I have heard from basically everyone from the school that when you were in school here you had quite the attitude yourself even worse than mine” I respond with a slight laugh in my voice as I keep my arms crossed over my chest. “But I promise you that I am not in any pain, and if I were I’d honestly would have just skipped this class.”
“Fair point,” He says with a thoughtful expression. “You know, the boys volleyball team needs a new manager. You would be a pretty good manager, I mean you have the attitude. Which could definitely make the boys listen,”
I let out another laugh in surprise, before I realize that he is being completely serious with me. “I mean. I would have to think about it. My friend Ren is a setter on the team and I don’t know. I hear him complain all the time about having to travel all the time.” I pause, taking a deep breath. “And jeez I don’t know if I would be willing to miss all that school and classes”
“Wow. I’m surprised you are not jumping at the chance to miss class. What are you a robot? Most jump at the chance to miss class for a few days,” His voice is filled with some fake sarcasm in his voice along with some genuine shock as well.
Another laugh leaves me, fuck why is he funny? It just adds to this guy's charming looks, it makes me mad. I mean not really.. But still. “Joking, joking. I will think about it though. I mean if possible I would like to sit in and watch a practice just to kind of see how things run if that would be okay?”
He nods his head a bunch and quickly with a big smile on his face, clearly happy that I am even thinking about his offer. “Yeah yeah of course you can, we have practice after school at about 4:00 just feel free to stop by whenever. I can introduce you to the team and all that fun stuff.” He rambles on his excitement clear in his voice, kind of like he’s a puppy dog getting excited over something.
“Yeah I don’t think that I have much going on after school today so I can definitely stop by for a little bit and-” But before I can finish what I was going to say the group of girls that are in the circle call out for Oikawa saying that they “need his help with something”.
“Well shoot looks like I have to actually do teacher stuff. I’ll see you after school, and I really do appreciate you taking me up on this offer!” He flashes me another charming looking smile before making his way to the group of girls leaving me alone.
I shake my head slightly as I watch him interact with the girls who are clearly trying to flirt with him, but as I watch I don’t even notice the dopey grin on my face as I look at him.
9:55 am
Near the end of class I make my way to the locker room rushing slightly just to make sure that I get changed on time so I’m not late to my next class for the day. When I push the door open I see the same group of girls laughing right at the door about something that I do not care to even take my time to think about. I squeeze my way past them to where I put my uniform.
I get changed quickly, and then quickly make my way out of the locker room to the gym where I see Oikawa standing talking with a group of boys. From what I hear when I am passing by he is trying to recruit them to join the volleyball team by giving him this whole speech about what it was like when he was on the team. It is honestly kind of enduring to hear him talk so passionately about something that he is clearly in love with. I catch his eyes for a brief second giving him a small smile and a wave as well while I walk out of the gym.
12:00 pm
After all of my morning classes it is finally time for lunch, which I am so thankful for due to feeling like I am on the verge of starving. Last class my stomach would not stop grumbling and it was loud as hell which was so embarrassing. I’m not even sure what is for lunch today. I usually try to pack my lunch for school the night before but it completely slipped my mind last night. So, I just make my way into the cafeteria spotting Ren and Hana sitting at the same spot we have always sat at since we started here. I smile as I see Ren waving obnoxiously and Hana scolding him for it, this interaction making it seem like she is his mom or something. I walk over towards the table sitting next to Hana.
“You two are oh so very mature, you know that?” I say sarcastically as I look at what Hana brought for her lunch today, quickly stealing one of the strawberries in the bowl she has.
“Says you. acting like you did not just steal some of my food like a damn five year old,” She rolls her eyes at me, swatting my hand away before I can take any more food from her. “Anyway, how was gym class with Oikawa? Is he everything I imagine.” She says with an almost dreamy like sigh which earns a scoff from Ren.
“I really do not understand the obsession over him, and everyone saying how hot he is.” He says with his mouth practically full of food from the cafeteria. “I have heard every girl here call him hot, except for like Y/N” I roll my eyes shaking my head slightly, my own scoff leaving me at his clear jealousy that he hasn't been getting attention lately.
“Aw poor Ren is jealous that he isn’t the center of attention, plus I thought you looked up to him due to how great of a setter he was?” I say with a laugh, Hana nods in agreement.
“Yeah and it’s not like any of us are going to get with him. He’s like what in his late 20’s, and all the girls who are calling him hot are like second years,” She shrugs taking a bite of her sandwich.
“Well you and Y/N aren’t second years, and Y/N is legal too. And my Y/N’s attention is the only thing I care about anyway.” He leans close to me, batting his long eyelashes at me.
I shake my head a bunch, rolling my eyes. “Gosh you are so needy. That is one of the stupidest things you have ever said too, and like Oikawa would never pay attention to me anyway.” I quickly snatch another strawberry from Hana, popping it into my mouth.
Hana gives me another glare nodding once again in agreement. “Yeah, and Oikawa isn’t even Y/N’s type she likes.. Honestly I don’t even know what her type is, more of a personality girl.” She teases as she picks up her phone to reply to a text from someone.
I shrug at her words, I mean honestly I am more into a guy's personality. But I don’t know Oikawa is honestly good looking, and from our short little conversation I did enjoy chatting with him even if it was for a little bit. But I know that if I were to tell Hana that she would absolutely freak out over it, and make it a big deal for like forever. So, I’ll just keep it to myself for now…
“Yeah I mean I guess what Hana said, I’m more into personality. Like if they are able to take a joke, and all that.” I pick up my own phone seeing a notification from my mom saying that she will be late to coming home today, I text back a quick response saying that I might do an after school activity,
“That is all fine by me, as long as my Y/N doesn’t have a thing for Oikawa I will be just fine with my life.” Ren looks at me giving me a smirk, I push his head away from me gently.
“I am most definitely not yours, but once again I do not have a thing for Oikawa. And for someone who was complaining about hearing about him all the time you sure do like to talk about him. I'm thinking that maybe you find him hot, Ren.” I reach out gently, poking at his cheek.
Hana bursts out laughing, not looking up from her phone, her thumbs working away at texting. Ren shoves my hand away, his face turning red with what looks like embarrassment. “Shut up, Hana is the one that brought up Oikawa in the first place. I was just adding to the conversion.” He turns his attention to one of his volleyball friends calling out his name. “Shoot, I gotta go. I’ll see you two later.” He stands up leaving the table.
I turn my attention to Hana, poking at her phone case. “You have study hall next, right?” I ask looking at who she’s texting which is some guy she’s been messing with during the summer. “You’re still talking to him, I thought he ghosted you to be with that one girl from Shiratorizawa.”
She looks up from her phone, setting it down on the table. “Yeah yeah I mean he did but like I don’t know we’re just being friendly, not flirting or anything,” She pauses giving me a thoughtful expression. “Yeah but I don’t know. I'm thinking about leaving early, I need to get my highlights retouched.” She messes with her hair twirling it between her fingers.
“Yeah yeah makes sense, your roots are growing in. Ok so now that Ren is gone…” I pause, taking a deep breath. “I was thinking about being the boys volleyball manager, I mean.. I’m going to just sit in on practice today, see if it’s something I would like to do. And I mean like I would be able to get out of class and all that fun stuff.” I ramble out, avoiding eye contact with her.
While I’m talking she goes back on her phone, going back to texting. “Yeah, I mean it’s your last year. Might as well, especially if you’re able to get out of class and you get to go to all these different schools too. Scope out all the boys.” She says in a sing-song voice, glancing up at me. “And then there is Oikawaa”
I feel my cheeks flush up slightly, shaking my head slightly. “Mhm, I’ll make sure to put in a good word for you..” I hear the bell ring signaling that the lunch period is over, I stand up looking at her. “I’ll see you later then, and I will definitely text you if anything exciting happens.” I give her a wave before going on with the rest of my classes for the day.
3:30 pm
Finally after all my classes are done for the day, it’s finally time for the long awaited volleyball practice..