Splash of Color

17: Rainy Days

Important note: I have updated the previous chapter (Jun) and gave it major edits.

Moving on, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter for this week! Learning from my past mistake, I took Saturday to properly revise and edit the chapter to give you guys the most polished version. Thank you for your patience, comments and votes!

Also, LOOK AT THIS GUYS it's fanart from a wonderful artist referencing the chapter Progression: http://kagurachama.deviantart.com/art/Progression-Part-1-620391817

**so sorry everyone!! I thought I clicked publish on Sunday but I realized today that it was still a draft...

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You would call today a sort of lazy day for yourself. It was raining hard outside, the water droplets knocking on your window as you snuggled up into your sheets with a hot mug of hot chocolate and one of your favorite movies playing on your laptop.

Today the movie served as extra background noise as your focus was not on the laptop but rather the phone you held with your other hand. It seems that Oikawa had also stayed home today, taking care of his nephew Takeru. You weren't sure how he was able to respond back so quickly to your texts if he was preoccupied with babysitting duty.

Ever since you asked for that photo a couple months back and he got your number, he had been taking full advantage of it. Luckily Oikawa was actually pretty useful in terms of taking really nice shots during his early morning runs or when he stops you to take a picture of the sunset before you guys head off to the train. However, there were still times when he would just spam you mercilessly, from just randomly stating what he had planned for the day to complaining about the genius setter 'Tobio-chan' and super ace 'Ushiwaka-chan'. He never actually corrected you when you misnamed that captain from Shiratorizawa as Ujikama, Oikawa saying that it was a better fitting name for such a guy. You didn't press it any further since you noticed Oikawa was quite pleased you misnamed him for some reason.

Recently, Oikawa had started a new habit of texting you early morning before he headed out for practice (to your dismay) and then sometime at night when he was headed off to bed. It would be something like:

Oikawa: Wake up Rudolph~ ♥ The sky seems pretty clear so I'll be able to get a nice photo for you sometime today! Aren't you lucky~ ✌

And...

Oikawa: Night-night~☆ Sweet dreams, possibly of me ♥

You weren't used to getting such texts every morning and late night but you had gradually grown fond of it, responding to his ridiculously early morning texts and late night texts without fail. Somewhere along the line, just like how Oikawa would naturally just sling his arm on your shoulder, you found yourself anticipating those little actions from him.

There were times when his texts would lack the usual energy it would hold (plus the lack of emojis and symbols was a definite red flag) where you would take the reins and send him ridiculous photos or cute animals just to get his mind off of whatever had upset him that day. If that didn't do the trick, you would give him a call and just chat about lighthearted topics—it usually perked him up right away.

But there were also those rare moments, usually around late at night when both of you guys had trouble sleeping, and would just share little tidbits of yourselves that the other didn't know about. Asking each other random questions like 'what's your favorite food?' or 'cat or dog person?'.