Bring it

The Meeting

When I first met Kagami it wasn't on friendly terms, if you call getting hit in the head with a basketball friendly that is. I had just happened to be walking down the street when I saw the redhead playing streetball at the park. I remember watching behind the fence as he moved with such grace.

It was wonderful.

Not the boy, who at the time I didn't know his name, but his movements. such grace. Such power. So overwhelmed was I that I sat down on the sidewalk in my little pink sundress watching him for a while.

Until he threw the ball at an awkward angle and it hit me start in the forehead. I ended up falling on my back.

" Oi! You alright?!"
I blinked a few times before I noticed that the redhead was standing over me, giving me a concerned look. He had his hand behind his head as he scratched it.

"You... You hit me. With the ball." I pointed out as I pointed to said object.

"Yea, I'm sorry about that." He apologized. He seemed genuinely sorry.

He sat crissed-crossed in front of me as I held my head to make the pain go away. After a few minutes it did. Finally I looked back at him and the thing he was holding in his hands.

"What's that?"

He looked down,confused, then grinned widely at me.

" Its a basketball! I'm practicing."
"Oh..."

I thought about it for a few moments before I asked something silly-ish, as my child like mind had though it was silly back then. My cheeks had turned
red and the color went straight to my dark brown hair as I hid my face behind my hands.

"Can you...can you teach me?"

He looked at me with a look that crossed somewhere between stunned and blank before his face lit up. He jumped to his feet and held his hand out toward me.

"Sure! I'm Kagami Tagia, who're you?"

He asked me with this impish grin that for some strange reason my five year old mind couldn't quite grasp made my heart pump faster and face turn redder.
I put my hand in his as he pulled me up.

" I'm Hannah. Hannah Farlee"