I Love You As Much As Volleyball - A Hinata Shoyo Fanfiction

Chapter 5

Normal POV

I sighed in my bed - Hinata has been so busy the past few days. We still saw each other for dinner now and then, but he's been more focused on training now. I wasn't complaining, and I didn't want to rush anything. My surfing has been going well too, and my grades were stable. Just another six more months, and I'll be graduating.

"Lexy, Miguel! Could you both come out for a while?" I heard my mom call from the living room. I shared a room with my brother, and we looked at each other, wondering what she needed us for.

It was around five in the evening on a Tuesday. I didn't have plans with Hinata today as I told him I would be studying. Well, I was trying to, at least.

We walked out together, and we saw a bunch of papers in front of her. Mom's expression was focused, and she took off her spectacles as the both of us sat down opposite her.

"There's no easy way to put this... But I've been thinking of going back to Japan," she dropped a bomb on us. I didn't know what to feel when I heard it. It doesn't strike me as good nor bad news. Miguel was still young, being in his final elementary school year, so I figured he wouldn't know what this meant. But I can't ignore the fact that we're leaving everyone we knew here.

"What about dad's shop? Uncle Roger? Carlos and Auntie Melda?" I asked, my heart feeling uneasy. Those were the people I grew up with, the neighbourhood I was brought up in.

Mom pressed her lips to a thin line and finally sighed out a reply, "the shop... it wasn't mine to keep anyways. It'll be passed to Uncle Roger and your cousins when they come back from their universities. Everything else... we'll just keep in contact with them when we're in Japan."

Was this how moving to another country works? The feeling of leaving everything I loved behind to start new somewhere else? On the one hand it's exciting, but it felt like it's more terrifying to me. "I'll go where mama goes!" Miguel's reply surprised me. He may be young, but he's taking this situation so well. In contrast, I was having these conflicting thoughts.

"Lexy, I know how hard this can be. I felt the same way when I decided to come here with your dad. But it may be better for all of us. Miguel can have a safer and more stable environment growing up, go to a good school and university. You, too, learn business or medical sciences. You're doing so well in school, and it'll be a waste for you not to continue. Moving to Japan will provide you with a better platform to do all of that," she clasped my hand in hers.

I know, mom. I know. It's just that everything's so sudden. I wanted to take over dad's shop, run things like he did and continue surfing like there was no tomorrow. Feel the sun on my shoulders and seawater around me.

But I knew staying here was hard on mom; everywhere she looks reminded her of dad. The sole reason she was here was for him. Now that he wasn't here anymore, it wasn't illogical that she needed to feel close to home again. Everything she said about our education wasn't wrong as well.

I gave her a wry smile, completely understanding her reason to move back. "I'll support you, mom. I may not be able to surf so freely anymore, but we can always come back here, right?"

My heart ached against my will. Surfing was something that tied dad and me together; realizing that I wasn't able to do that on a daily basis seemed to hurt me even more. She stood up from her chair and came over to hug us, her eyes filled with tears.

"I see him in you two so much, your strong blue eyes and personality. I love you both so much," she kissed Miguel's head and mine. I bit my lip and held back my tears while Miguel wasn't even holding back and was crying already.