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After greeting the rest of the team and decidedly keeping myself away from Oikawa, I call for everyone's attention. "Alright, I've planned some simple team-building activities for today's clinic, just to get to know each other better and have some fun. So everybody circle up!"

I sit between Yuda and Shido. Mad Dog isn't here. I should have tried harder to get him to come. It's my fault for getting caught up in modeling and for being too preoccupied with whatever my body thinks it's feeling for Oikawa. Just another reason why it needs to stop.

"Thanks for coming, everyone! To start off this team-building clinic, we're going to play a game of my own making." I reach into my bag and pull out a container full of pencils and slips of paper that I prepared earlier. I hand a pencil and three pieces of paper to each person, then continue my explanation. "Has everyone played Two Truths and a Lie?"

All the boys nod.

"This game is like that. Except you're going to write down your two truths and one lie, and then we're going to mix them all up and read them, and we have to guess who wrote what. Does that make sense?"

Watari raises his hand. "Won't we know who wrote one when we read it? From their handwriting?"

"Good point, Watari-kun. I'll be the reader then, since I don't know anyone's handwriting well enough to be able to tell." I do homework with the guys often, but the only time I really pay attention to their handwriting is when I'm helping them with English, in which case, their handwriting tends to be sloppy across the board. Except for Oikawa. His handwriting is just as pretty as the rest of him, even in English.

My cheeks go hot at my unfiltered thought, so I quickly instruct the boys to write their two truths and a lie, hiding my face as I bend down to do the same. I tap my pencil against my cheek. What should I write? I need it to be simple enough so I can write it in Japanese, but not so simple that everyone will know that it's me. Though I am the reader, so I guess I can say whatever I want when I read my own paper, even if it's not what I wrote. I'm much better at speaking than I am writing. Knowing how to say a word is much easier for me than remembering the complicated strokes to write Kanji. But I'll do my best to write anyway.

Placing my pencil on my paper, I carefully write, 'I have two younger sisters.'

I don't recall having told any of the guys about the twin terrors of my family— Andi and Quinn. And I'm sure some of the guys also have younger sisters, so it will make it tough for them to guess that this one is mine.

Now, what else does the team not know about me yet? After racking my brain for another minute, I still can't come up with anything. Not only am I the only girl in the group, but I'm also the only one who grew up outside Japan. My experiences have been completely different from theirs, which makes it difficult for me to think of anything that wouldn't immediately give me away. Oh well. I'm the reader anyway, so they won't know if I put in a couple blank slips of paper.

"Is everyone finished?" I gather everyone's papers, straighten them into a manageable pile, and read the first one. "This one says, 'Lizards are my favorite animal.' Who do you think it is?"

"It's Shido-kun," Oikawa answers immediately.

My eyebrows arch at his confidence and I look to my left, where Shido is sitting next to me. "Shido-san? Is it you?"

"Yeah," he pouts.

"Wow. Well, good job, Oikawa-san. How did you know that?"

Oikawa's only answer is an insufferable smirk.

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