Every Universe

‣ sports team AU

pairings ‣ Quinton Aoki x Harrison Chang, Hannah Zhao x Noah Wisetkaew

prompt ‣ on the same sports team AU

notes ‣ a more appropriate prompt for this is "I see you with the same person all the time and I assume you two are in a relationship so I'll just pine for you from a distance" AU, but that's too long for a title. have fun.

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"—scrimmage."

"Ow!" Quinton exclaimed, rubbing his left ear where his earbud had previously been. "What did you do that for?" Sitting on his left, Hannah had suddenly pulled out his earbud all of a sudden, and when she gestured over to Harrison, Quinton then realized Harrison had been talking to him about something this entire time. Clearing his throat nervously, Quinton asked Harrison, "Did you say something?"

Harrison frowned, slightly annoyed, decided to ignore Quinton, and turned to his left to Delilah to explain the rules of American football to her again. Every time the five of them went to a game together, Harrison would spend the entire time explaining the various rules and aspects of football to Delilah, and Hannah and Noah would make out or do some other weird couple-y thing most of the time, and Quinton would be left to scroll through Reddit or Twitter or watch pirated movies on his phone. That was how every home football game worked.

After all, the only reason Harrison and Delilah sat with them was because Noah and Harrison had been friends since middle school. Though Harrison never spoke to them anyway, since Harrison didn't even talk much in the first place. When he did, it was to Delilah, his girlfriend, or Noah, his best friend since middle school, or occasionally to Hannah, who was so social for Harrison to ignore, but never to Quinton.

The only time he did, Quinton hadn't even been listening. He was a terrible person.

"He said Coach Young wanted you to play in the scrimmage tomorrow," Hannah explained when she noticed he was silently berating himself. "It's in his duty as co-captain to tell you."

"Oh." His voice caught on that one word, and he cleared his throat. "I suck at soccer though. Why would I play in the scrimmage?"

She shrugged, gesturing to Noah on her right for the large soda they had ordered. Quinton knew it was mostly Coca-Cola, half Sprite, and part lemonade, but he never understand how they found that good. A few weeks ago, Quinton had been thirsty and drank some, but he wasn't able to stomach it. "For practice, probably. I don't really know. I hate sports." Although she said that, she still went to a plethora of sport games. "Oh, yeah, Q, why did you tell Delilah that Noah's last name was Xue?"

"I don't know." Quinton felt his ears burn. "She asked me, and I was, well, nervous, so I just said that. It was stupid. I don't even know anyone with that last name."

Noah gestured for the soda before raising an eyebrow at Quinton. "Xuē? As in Xuē Bǎochāi?" Noah sounded offended, but Quinton could never tell with Noah. "I would not marry my cousin."

Quinton didn't want to know. "I'm sorry, but I was just nervous, as she is Harrison's girlfriend after all."

Hannah scoffed loudly, before realizing Harrison was sitting near them. She lowered her volume. "Why are you nervous? You guys are on the same soccer team. You talk every week. I've gotten one too many texts about you two eating tacos together. You guys carpool."