Watching You Go - Mad Dog X Reader

Sweet Tears

Last day. The third years attended their graduation ceremony, waved around their diplomas as they did their farewells to each other. Left and right you see students sharing their buttons, hugging their friends, crying, and celebrating. Hajime Iwaizumi? No, he felt... alone, to say the least. He never got the guts to tell the girl he loved, (Y/N) (L/N), just how much he cared about her. He avoided her like the plague all the way up until this day. It was what he wanted for the sake of his little teenage heart. But it hurt so much.

He had caught glimpses of how close she got with Kyotani, how intimate they were with each other. He almost caught them kissing, but saved his heart the trouble and scurried away. He was already missing her smile, he didn't need to see her pretty lips on another man.

Oikawa jogged up to Iwaizumi, and threw his arm over the heartbroken friend's shoulders. He mocked tears as he teased, "Iwa, I'm going to miss you so much. Promise me you will always text me, even when you lose your phone."

Iwaizumi fought the smile poking at his cheeks and pushed Oikawa off of himself. Oikawa smiled back and waved his diploma in Iwaizumi's face. "We made it, we've just begun," Oikawa announced as he wiped a fake tear.

Oikawa noticed Iwaizumi's attention drift elsewhere, looking amongst the crowd of graduates, as if searching for someone. A bitter smile appeared on Oikawa's face as he came to the conclusion to who that person was.

"She's... probably not here," Oikawa answered Iwaizumi's thoughts. Iwaizumi looked at Oikawa with a raised brow filled with confusion.

"(Y/N), right? I know what you were doing, then and now. She's going through a tough time right now," Oikawa answered Iwaizumi's questioning brow. He seemed to have difficulty finding the right words, like he was unsure how Iwaizumi would react. Afterall, it had to do with (Y/N). Iwaizumi might reject it now, but Oikawa knew why he avoided her. He even helped out a bit, but just enough so as not to raise suspicion.

"What happened?" Iwaizumi asked as he forgot searching the crowd and all his attention returned to Oikawa. His eyes began to fill with worry as he couldn't piece together why she wasn't here celebrating her graduation with her friends, especially Oikawa. Maybe she couldn't celebrate with Iwaizumi because the distance built between the two, but Oikawa was her closest friend. Why wouldn't she be here?

"They broke up."

Iwaizumi's heart jumped to life, as if hearing the best news in a long while. It surged with a newfound purpose upon hearing Oikawa's voice say what he had been secretly yearning to hear. But Iwaizumi knew how much Kyotani meant to her. Why would they break up? They seemed fine together, maybe even perfect. What happened?

"Why?" Iwaizumi asked as he fought the urge to jump up with joy.

"She talked to me about it over the phone last night. She seemed pretty beat up about it, something like being at two different points in their lives. It was a mutual breakup, apparently," Oikawa said as he showed the text messages sent before midnight.

Iwaizumi read it through quickly, searching for the source of her sadness. And there it all was. The breakup began with the talks about graduation, how she was going to college and living a different life than Kyotani who was still a high school student—a kid. They were taking a break and might talk about getting back together when Kyotani graduates, but it was still a grey area.

"Do you know where she is?" Iwaizumi asked Oikawa as he returned the phone and pulled out his own.

Oikawa shrugged as he answered, "I haven't seen her since the ceremony. Even then she was a bit down, though."

Iwaizumi shoved his diploma into Oikawa's hands and rang (Y/N)'s number. "Call me if you see her," Iwaizumi demanded with high urgency as he ran off towards the gym.