New Beginnings

Chp. 6

"Ugh, I hate math."

For the past few minutes I've been stuck on the same problem with no solution in sight. So, I did the only thing I could do. Beg Kiyoko for help. Looking around the gym I spot her coming out of the storage closet. I made my way over to her while making sure there aren't any stray volleyballs heading towards me.

"Ki~ please, please, please, help me~."

With a sigh she held out her hand for my text book, looked at it and started rambling off how to solve it. With desperation I wrote down what she was saying, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thanks. I love you so much."

I made sure to give her a tight hug while she just rolled her eyes.

"So, how are things with you and Suga?"

"Damn it, Ki not so loud. He'll hear you."

Ever since Kiyoko found out about my crush on Suga a few weeks ago, she has been teasing me nonstop.

"What? It's not like he doesn't like you back."

"That is speculation at best."

"You guys eat lunch together everyday."

"He's my friend. Friends eat lunch together."

"Just the two of you?"

"Um...we're  good  friends?"

She just stared at me then. I get what she's saying, and it's not like I don't see the signs, but I just don't trust my own judgment anymore.

RING RING

"Oh, would you look at that I better answer this."

"Mhmm, this isn't over."

Without responding I quickly walk away to answer the phone.

"Hello?"

"Hi, may I speak to Ms. Shirai?"

"Speaking."

"Ms.Shirai I'm calling about the box that was left behind in Tokyo."

When we first moved in, I noticed that I was missing one of my boxes. The delivery guys immediately started apologizing, and said that they would find it for me.

"Yes, did you happen to locate it?"

"Yes, we did and we were wondering if we could drop it off around maybe 3:00 this afternoon?"

Looking at the clock on the wall the time was 2:30 pm already. If I leave now I could beat them there.

"Yeah, I think that's possible. I'll meet you there."

"Ok great. See you soon."

Hanging up I ran to Kiyoko to tell her the news.

"Hey I gotta go."

"Everything ok?"

"Yeah, just a box that went missing during the move. I have to meet the moving guys to get it back."

"Ok, be safe."

"I will, bye."

I run to the locker room to grab my stuff and double check to make sure I got everything.

"Shit, I left my textbook."

Quickly running back to the gym, I  didn't see Suga coming out and nearly knocked him down.

"Whoa, you ok?"

"Yeah, sorry about that. I'm sort of in a hurry."

"Everything ok?"

"Yeah, just need to head home to meet the delivery guy at 3:00."

"Well you better hurry it 2:50 right now."

"What?"

I glanced at the clock it read 2:40. Seeing where I was looking Suga spoke up.

"That clock is ten minutes fast."

"Crap."

Not wasting another second I took off running.

'Why does this always happen to me?!'

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"Again we are so sorry about this. We usually don't make mistakes like this."

"Don't worry about it. At least you brought it me, so no harm done."

"Okay, well have a nice day."

"You too."

I shut my front door and carried the box up to my room. I began unpacking the box which didn't take long since it was filled with coats and jackets made for winter time. When I finally finished I stretched out my sore muscles. Ever since becoming a manager for the boys, I've been using muscles that aren't used often. Kiyoko said I would get used to it, but it's been a week and my arms feel like limp noodles.

"Who knew being a manager could be so much work. Maybe a long soak will do the trick."

I grabbed a towel and walked in the bathroom. I turn the water on and waited for it to heat up, all of a sudden I get a notification on my phone. I unlock it and read a text from Kiyoko

'Hey you left your text book at practice.'

"Shit. Even after I remembered I left it. I still forgot it." I said with frustration.

I was about ask her to bring it tomorrow when my phone went off again.

'I'm headed your way.'

'Ok.'

I put my phone down to strip out of my clothes and hop in the tub. I heard my phone go off again, but decided to check it later. I couldn't believe I was so careless as to leave my textbook at the gym, but when I thought about it some more I realized that I was distracted by a certain gray haired boy and the fact that I was running late. After our little heart to heart the other day we became really close. We ate lunch together and talked on the phone for hours about nothing and everything at the same time, and I would even go so far as to call him my best friend at this point.

I sighed heavily as I relaxed in the hot water. When I was finally clean, I dried off and wrapped my hair in a towel. I went back to my room and put on a sports bra and panties, then headed downstairs to get a bottle of water. On the way to the kitchen I turned on some music and blast it through the living room speaker. I walked into kitchen and grabbed a bottle water from the fridge and started singing into it like its a mic and swayed my hips to the rhythm. I'm so into the music that I didn't hear the front door open.