After three years in France as a professional swimmer, Hina decides to return to Japan and represent her native country at the world tournament.
Her childhood friend, Bokuto Kotaro, also joined a great volleyball team : the MSBY black Jackals.
And...
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"So ? What are you doing here ?" I hissed, stirring my drink with my straw.
The waitress, who had just brought us our drinks, looked at us strangely as she heard the language we spoke.
The cafe where Atsumu had taken me after we met was rather empty. Perfect for chatting.
"I thought Bokuto warned you."
"Warned of what ? I remind you that your first name is rather taboo since you let me collapse on the floor when you left without saying anything." I cursed at him.
"That's not how it happened and you know it very well !" He took a deep breath and resumed. "I'm hired for the season here. The internship I did in May gave me that."
"I'm happy for you." I say falsely happy for him.
What did I do with it.
"So why did you bring me here ?" I continued annoyingly.
"We haven't spoken since."
"Haven't we talked since when ? Since you left me ? Oh no, we haven't talked since you came to my house to fuck me." I cut him off in a bloody voice.
"You did not refuse, however, that I fuck you as you say so well." It was his turn to be a little drier in his words. "And it was you who wrote that you didn't want me, right ? So what the fuck that I broke ?"
I jumped up ready to go but Atsumu held me back by grabbing my arm.
"I'm sorry. Please stay."
"You know very well that I didn't want you to go." I say sitting down.
I wasn't too hard to convince to stay close to him.
"Why did you write that to me then ?"
"Because it hurt too much to know that you and I were impossible." I replied simply.
"Why would that be impossible ? Why Hina ? Why ? Look now we're both here for a whole season ! We can be together !"
"I am with Suna now."
"So why did you sleep with me this summer ?"
"Because I still fucking love you !"
I opened my eyes wide and Atsumu did the same. Shit. That's not what I meant.
"I still loved you." I tried to catch up.
"And I still love you." Atsumu whispered, lowering his head. "I loved you when I left, I loved you when I saw you again during the Olympics and I still loved you when I saw you earlier at the airport."
He reached for something in his bag and slid it over to me. The letter and the contract. The damn contract we made that night.
"I have kept everything.This promise written like what you wrote to me. You wrote this to me the same night we promised to meet again.You realize how much it makes me feel destroyed Hina ? "
"Because it didn't destroy me ? I spent three weeks in the hospital, I missed my tournament, I was miserable and I still am !" I shouted, pushing back the pieces of paper. "I haven't stopped thinking about you for a second since you left me! Wondering if you're okay, if you've found someone better than me, if you haven't forgotten me ! Every day ! Every day telling myself that I should never have written that ! "
"So why the fuck did you do that ?"
"Because I was scared okay! I was scared that your career was more important than me and that you would abandon me."
A leaden silence fell around us and Atsumu sighed.
"I would never have left you. You know my career is important, yours is too. But I would have done anything to make sure we were together anyway."
A new silence settled in for a few seconds. Too many thoughts came to my mind preventing me from thinking properly.
"Anyway I'm with Suna now."
"You love him ?" Atsumu asked bluntly.
"I don't know. I'm attached to him."
"Fuck Hina ! Do you love him ?"
"No." I answered after several seconds.
Atsumu stood up and stood in front of me.
"What about me ? Do you love me ?"
"Yes." I say without thinking.
"So be with me. Become my wife. Become the future mother of my children. Become the only one I love until I die. Become the woman I have loved from the early days."
Tears flowed through me and when Atsumu hugged me, his warmth, his scent, his arms, it all reminded me why I loved him. I only loved him, I only loved him for months. I loved it. He loved me. He loved me even after everything I had done.
"What about Suna then ?" I asked between two sobs still in his arms.
"You know Suna is a good guy. He'll figure it out quickly I'm sure." The boy replied, stroking my hair.
"Atsumu ?" I called him, pulling away from him.
He looked at me and asked me what was going on.
"I want to become yours. I want to become everything you told me to."
A huge smile formed on his face and he kissed me like it was the first time.
