Love Me, Love Me Not || Hanamaki Takahiro

The Flower Myth

Hanamaki arrived at the park where he was supposed to meet up with Nakamura. He checked the time and saw that he arrived way too early. He sighed as he sat on the nearby bench. As he sat on the bench, his thoughts unconsciously flew towards Nakamura.

They were close, so it was normal for them to hang out together outside of school. However, that doesn't mean he sees her as a friend. He sees her as beyond friends. He likes her, which explains why his heart flutters whenever they hang out just by themselves and why he got excited and ended up arriving way too early. 

As his mind continued to wander off to her, his mind was filled with reasons why he likes her:

1. He loves how she is like an open book. The expressions she makes are adorable.

2. He loves how kind-hearted she is. She is always ready to lend a hand to someone in need.

3. He especially loves her smile. Her smile manages to makes his heart skip a beat every time he sees it.

4. He loves how supportive she is. She comes to watch their practice whenever she was available. She even tried to learn how volleyball works.

As he continued to list down the traits of hers that made him fall for her, he spotted a five-petal flower.

• • •

"Makki! Have you heard on the flower myth?" Oikawa asked while they were enjoying their lunch together.

"Flower myth?" Hanamaki asked in confusion.

"Apparently you can know whether or not a specific person likes you with a flower!" He said with a teasing grin.

"How?" He asked, becoming interested as he thought of Nakamura.

"You just remove the petals one at a time. You start with she loves me then she loves me not," Oikawa explained.

"Looks like you definitely have to try it out, don't you think?" Matsukawa snickered beside him along with Iwaizumi.

He ignored Matsukawa's side comment before replying to Oikawa with a slight laugh. "You just have to find an odd petal flower. That myth does not even make sense."

"Who knows? It might work with Nakamura~" Matsukawa teased, making the other two bursts out laughing.

Hanamaki's face instantly turned pink as his hair as he slapped his hand over Matsukawa's mouth. "Don't say that out loud!"

• • •

Hanamaki remembers how he disregarded the myth he was told. However, now that he sees an odd petal flower in front of him, he wanted to pretend the myth was real and it actually works. He contemplated for a moment before picking the flower in front of him.

"This is stupid," he mumbled as he began to remove the first petal.