Pink: The Color of Love

"a thing"

Miya's POV 

I went to school and things felt a little odd but that was normal for a first day. I found my way to my first period and sat down quietly. Everyone was catching up with each other. I then heard two people laughing outside the classroom. It was a male voice and a very familiar female voice...and then I remembered who it was. Y/n came into the classroom with her boyfriend, Nishimura Sōma. He's been on the basketball team since our first year and they started talking at the end of our second year and they starting dating at the end of June. 

"Morning Chinen" Nishimura smiled at me. 

Y/n gave me a little wave. 

"Hey" I gave him a curt response. "Do you wanna come sit with us, there's some space back here" he offered. "Nah, I'm fine" I denied his offer. "You sure?" he asked. "Yeah, I'm sure" I replied. 

Nishimura looked a little confused but Y/n tugged him by the arm and they sat down. He was a nice guy, but I didn't wanna cross his path. Me and him were two very different people. For starters, he was a lot more extroverted than me and he was a lot more muscular and he had blue eyes and brown hair. He was more in Y/n's league than me. 

"Is this seat taken?" I heard a girl asked me.

I looked up and saw Sayaka from middle school.

"...no it's not" I replied to her. 

Her hair was different, but she had the same face. Sayaka's natural hair was brown, but now it was dark orange and curled. She still had those hazel eyes and that youthful yet mature look. 

"So how have things been with you?" she asked me. "Pretty good...I like what you've done with your hair" I complimented her. "Really? Take said I looked like an off-brand Weasley sibling" she joked. "I think it's nice" I reassured her. "I miss the green streaks" she ran her fingers through my hair and ruffled it. "Don't remind me of that" I said to her. "Why? I liked it" Sayaka said to me. "It was horrible" I hid my face in the desk. 

In my first year, I dyed a few strands of my hair green and then ended up dyeing them back to black in the middle of the year because it looked that bad. Sayaka then let out a gasp and I quickly raised my head. 

"I didn't know Y/n was in this class...and who's that boy she's with?" she asked. 

I pretended like I didn't know anything about that.

"Come on, fill me in. I know you know something, she's your best friend" Sayaka said to me. "Fine" I took a deep breath. "I'm all ears" she replied to me. "They started talking at the end of our second year and started dating in late June" I gave her a brief rundown. "That's pretty shocking...no offense but I thought you two would be a thing" she said casually. "None taken" I replied to her.

Was it really that obvious that I like her?  I asked myself. 

"Okay everyone, good morning" the teacher walked in. "Good morning" we all replied. "I'm Mizushima sensei and I'll be your reading teacher this year. This should be an easy year for all of you; I'm not going to be babying you guys it'll mostly be you guys and less of me. I'm just gonna be teaching you how to write college essays and some grammar stuff" she introduced herself. 

After that, she didn't make us do ice breakers, instead she played a powerpoint about college essays and things we should avoid. We took some notes and she elaborated on some points. Once she was done with her powerpoint, she gave us a worksheet to do and let us do whatever we wanted. Sayaka wandered around the classroom and I stayed seated. I opened my phone and saw a text from Reki. 

 🛹Reki ⚙️

enjoy your first dayyyy!!!!!!!

thank you :)

how's it going?

pretty good the teacher is pretty chill

nice

what subject?

         reading

that's great!                             [✌️]

enjoy the rest of your day :)     

Reki was twenty two now and he was going to school for engineering. From what I heard, he barely got into college. I wasn't surprised when I heard that, it was typical Reki. He still came to skate with us sometimes. Langa was at culinary school and he worked at a bakery part time. He also skated with us when he wasn't sleeping or eating...or doing a combination of the both. How? I don't know. It was crazy to think that those idiots were both twenty two. It was crazier to think that they actually graduated from high school. 

Once lunch rolled around, I decided to have lunch in the stair well. 

"We're going to have lunch on the roof, wanna come?" Y/n asked me. "Nah, it's too hot" I made up an excuse almost instantly. 

I didn't wanna third wheel her because things would be really awkward. 

"Oh...okay" she said to me. 

I sat alone and caught up on Saiki K. I then got a notification on my phone. 

🌸Y/n🌸

u good? 

yea why?

u cool w me and sōma??

yea i just dont wanna 3rd wheel

ok

im taking him to meet everyone tomorrow

wanna tag along?

sure

Nishimura really was a nice guy but I feel like things would be awkward considering I'm with Y/n when he's not. 

Y/n's POV 

I laid in Sōma's lap and he played with my hair. Usually I wouldn't like anyone touching my hair but he was an exception. He was different from everyone else. 

"Are you gonna come watch me practice today?" he asked. "I'd love to" I replied without hesitation. "I can't believe that we've been together for two months and I haven't met your parents yet" he said. "You're meeting everyone tomorrow" I replied to him. "Really" he eyes lit up. "Yeah I thought it's be the perfect day since you don't have practice" I explained. "Oh I'd love to meet your mom, and get on your dad's good side-" "About that..." I cut him off. "Oh...I'm sorry" he apologized. "Don't be, you'll get to meet the two men who were better than a father to me" I was talking about Kojiro and Uncle Kaoru. "I can't wait" Sōma said.