Distraction ~ semishira

IV- Shirabu

The first couple weeks of college went by quick. At this point, I had my first test in every class. Even two in my business law class and three in my pre-med course.

It was five in the afternoon, I had no other classes and I was alone in my dorm for another hour, so I decided to FaceTime my mom to check up on her.

"Kenjirō? Is that you?" She asked on the other side even though she was looking right at me.

"Yeah, it is. Hi mom!" I said. Call me a 'momma's boy' all you want, but my mom's always been there for me. She's my best friend aside from Taichi.

I told her about Ennoshita, Kenma, and Yahaba, this made her particularly happy. I'm an introvert, so I don't make new friends very often. I rolled my eyes as I told her about how Semi was in my business law class.

"But I thought you had a crush on Semi? What's changed?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Well— it's complicated. It's like I hate him so much that I can't get him out of my head and I'm slowly falling for him."

"Oh, my baby." She laughed a little. "You know, that's how I felt when I met both your father and your step mother!" Yeah, you heard that right. My mom was a bi-icon.

My parents had a pretty messy divorce, but my dad still talks to me and my siblings— an older sister, and two younger brothers, twins.

"Really? You hated Yuri? You told me about dad, but I didn't know you felt that way about Yuri."

"Mhm! We technically met in college, we were rivals you know- academic ones. We both wanted to be valedictorian, and I took it from her. She was salutatorian though. After that, I met your father. You know that story— I hated his arrogant attitude and I fell in love with him, we got married and had four beautiful children. Shortly after the divorce, Yuri reached out to me, told me she's always thought about me."

"Now I'm not saying this same thing will happen to you baby, but maybe he feels the same way."

"Pfft, I doubt it. He makes fun of me all the time." I scoff and toss my bangs out of my face.

"Is he making fun of you? Or is he teasing you?"

My mom asked and I sat there for a moment.

Is he just teasing me? Has he actually been flirting with me?

Am I really that dense?

"I- I don't know." I respond and look at the ground.

"It's okay baby. Okay, Yuri and I have a date and I need to get ready. Bye baby! I love you!" She kissed the phone and I responded with an "I love you too, have fun" and smiled before she hang up.

I love talking to my mom, I should've asked her how the twins are doing. They started high school this year, they both got into Shiratorizawa. Carrying on the Shirabu name in volleyball. Katsurou is a libero and Riku's a wing spiker. My sister, Natsumi, also played. She's tall like the rest of us are— my dad stands at six foot five and my mom's five foot ten, she's just about six foot. Maybe six foot one. She was a middle blocker.

Natsumi is the one who made me realize I was probably gay, not from anything weird. She just had boyband posters and I realized that they were HOT...