“Iwa-chan…”
Oikawa looked lost again and Iwaizumi sighed in defeat, “Shittykawa, you’re the one who wanted me to be here.”
They were at a bus station, and he, because of Oikawa’s annoying and incessant requests, was there to send him off. Typically it should have been his family… or maybe the rest of Aoba Johsai, but Oikawa wanted him specifically, much to his annoyance.
He would have said No, except Iwaizumi realized that their team losing the last chance they have at nationals doesn’t compare to whatever frustration he felt when he realized that ‘that’ was the last toss Oikawa would give him in an official match.
The two of them will be parting ways in college—with Oikawa going to a local college and him going to Tokyo U, he wasn’t even sure if they would be able to maintain their friendship, let alone any form of communication.
Maybe, he wasn’t the only one having those thoughts. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be sitting here at the bus stop, freezing to his bones on an unusually cold spring morning just to see Oikawa off to Osaka, when he almost didn’t have any sleep last night from packing his things.
“What is it, Oikawa?” He didn’t mean to sound irritated, but he was still at a loss for how to interpret the unusual sadness he was feeling so he might have turned it to aggression, a thing, he realized he had a habit of doing.
It took a few moments for Oikawa to respond, "Don't miss me too much, 'kay?"
“As if I would,” He said, except he also knew he most definitely would.
"Promise, we'll call each other every day, yeah?” Oikawa asked and Iwaizumi was inclined to say ‘No, we don’t have to do that’ because this was probably the first and only time that he was free from dealing with the boy’s antics.
He wanted so much to get away from the boy’s annoying presence, or so he claimed… because when Oikawa asked him that, his heart started a funny rhythm and the feeling he had that time when he walked home from school after a heated argument about Kageyama, came back.
So he said ‘Yes’ because right at that moment, it felt like that was the only correct answer to give.
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