Admiration, Respect, Tennis...And Love?

Chapter 12

When I spot Masayo-san walking towards me, her face is in a carefully blank expression, her eyes that usually focus on everything and anything around her somewhat glazed over, for her body language I can determine that she is probably frustrated or annoyed at whatever that happened between Fuji and her, with a probability of 78%.

what did Fuji to upset and unbalance her so?

Once she reach her previous position she smile softly toward me, a barely there smile, let a deep and somewhat frustrated sigh pass from her lips and shake her head.

Chances that Fuji upset or unsettled Masayo-san upped to 100%

My lips twitch downwards in displeasure, push my glasses up and open my mouth to inquire about what happened.

"is nothing"

I blink, and focus on her face again, her lips twitch upwards in what is probably amusement, "you were going to ask if something was wrong, I just decided to let you know that nothing is wrong with me, but I don't think I'm gonna spend more than the minimal amount of time close to Fuji from now on, he is...I don't hate him or anything but I don't like him either"

I blink and tilt my head, did Fuji flirt with Masayo-san?

I feel my displeasure towards Fuji growing by the second, shake my head and push my glasses up, "you shouldn't take his words too seriously, Fuji has the habit to tease and flirt with whoever that he has any interest on, he even does that with his younger sibling, chances that he is actually interested on you is not that high to begin with"

but it is not unexistent either, in fact he might be romantically interested on her...

I clench my teeth and sigh, is then when I hear the soft giggles from her making me blink, "uh?"

She continue to giggle, shake her head and smik almost teasingly towards me, "actually he was prodding on the supposed romantic interest you had shown on me, and if I might return those feelings, or maybe he intended to make me flustered"

I feel my cheeks heating up at the way she talked about that topic so freely, but before I can try to stop her from telling me how utterly improbable it is that she can return my feelings or prod an answer to my chances with her she continue with a playful smirk, "so I turned the tables and accused him to be interested on me, and then I turned him down before he could answer to my words, his face was priceless! he was so embarrassed! and now you tell me he flirt or tease people he is interested on, and he might, maybe, be actually interested on me? is hilarious!"

she...?

I snort, then snicker softly, shake my head and push my glasses up, my lips twitching upwards in amusement, "did you? is a shame I would not be witness of you outsmarting Fuji in his own game, I would have loved to see that myself to record that data"

Masayo-san shake her head, and then wink playfully my way, "I'll be sure to do it when you are around next time then"

I nod, push my glasses up and smirk playfully, "if you manage to outsmart him a second time, this time in my presence, I might be tempted to kiss you, is not every day someone can outsmart Fuji"

Wait, what?

I notice how her cheeks turn a soft pink, shake her head and smirk playfully in return, "I don't know, it wasn't that difficult the first time, I don't think it can be that different a second one"

I hid a sigh of relief, and chuckle to myself, "I am actually tempted to bet you can pull that off, even if chances to outsmart Fuji on things like those are usually around 2% to 3%"

She snort and turn around, cover her mouth in apparent amusement, and pick her bag, "I-I should get going now, I'll see you around"

I blink at the, almost shyness, undertone on her answer, push my glasses up and nod to myself, "of course, good luck on your endeavors"

She nods and walk away with a friendly wave.

what was that I wonder?

I shake my head and pick my notebook to scribble what I have gathered kn the last few minutes, I have so much data to record, from the team, from Eiji and Fuji but especially from Masayo-san.