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It's adorably sickening how endearing he is.
It makes your heart ache when you try to hide your smile. Not of anything bad, really, but rather the opposite. Because there lies your truth beneath your smile in reasons of him. The truth he's yet to know.
The truth he's undeniably cute in oblivious of.
He is such a loser.
A damn loser who has your heart skipping its beat when you walk through the school gates. A damn loser that makes you soar inside as you see him for the first time in the day. A damn loser who you loudly cheer for in the bleachers to each game, win or lose, your heart screams for him.
If your noise for him isn't enough to be heard, you could only hope your silence could be.
Nevertheless, you don't take it upon him.
One of the smartest people you know and still could be the dumbest. Always adorably so. Irritating, however—he's cute.
"What?" He asks, his eyebrows raising, along with that damn smirk of his.
Breaking you out of your daze. The two of you sitting across from each other. You've lost yourself while he was talking about his volleyball activities that you yourself asked of.
You only look at him, not saying anything for a moment but just stare, your smile evident. "What?" He laughs. It's a knowing look of yours, that he can tell, but he doesn't know.
You clicked your tongue, "Nothing." You shrugged, your little, calm smile stays nonetheless.
"Seriously." He pressed, playfully so despite that he really wants to know.
Your lips turns up more as you look down on your lap. Whether he's still as clueless or he's beginning to know the littlest of it—you couldn't care less at the moment.
Softly huffing out a little laugh to yourself as you look at him then again, "Nothing," you utter again, tutting your head lightly. Your bright smile turns calm and little again, but one could not miss how fonder it became.
He doesn't.
It's a wonder how you could held his gaze with him not breaking it, all while his grinning eyes remains. "I just....." You trail off, your voice turning mellow. "Adore you."
Tetsu breathes a little laugh. He nods as he looks down for a second, his ever teasing grin melting to a smile he rarely has. He looks up but to the side, his smile stays and it gets wider.
Before he looks back at you again. And there you figure, that finally—"I know."