Bring it

Get even

"Alex, why does Kagami hate me?"

I was sitting on her kitchen stool as she was moving around her kitchen.

"Huh? Why do you think Kagami hates you?"she wondered.

A few sniffles escaped me before I got the chance to tell her.

"He calls me by a boy name."

"Oh," she started making something on the stove, " and what boy name does he call you?"

I hesitated before telling her.

"... Hana.."

She stopped scrubbing the pot she was working on for a moment and just stood still. I was beginning to wonder if I had done something wrong?

Then, out of nowhere, she began to laugh uncontrollably. So hard was she laughing that many of the things around her actually fell down.

"Wait wait wait... Hahaha.. He calls you that? And you think it's a? Oh that's hilarious!"

I gave her the best "what the legit fuck face" that a young child of my age could make at the time. What else was I to do?

"Sooo, Alex? What do I do?"

She stopped her laughing for a good moment long enough to give me advice that would stick with me all through my life.

" Do the only thing you can do. Pay him back even."

"Hey"

Red hair and red eyes swung around to look at me as I approached him and Himuro on the court.

" Hannah," his eyes looked sad, " are you still mad at me?"

"Nah, we're fine."
I walked past him with a smile on my face as I grabbed the ball easily out of his hands. He let loose a breath that I'm not even sure he knew he was holding.

"Thank god."

"Yea, it's all good...Kami"

I ran out of the court yard with the ball as fast as my little legs could carry me as I heard Hirumo burst into a fit of laughter and Tagia yell out one thing before sprinting after me.

"HANA!!!"