Now I Can See You // Nishinoya X Reader

#8 - I'm helpless

The next morning, I almost had a heart attack when I realised what time it was. I'd just woken up and I still was in bed while I should have arrived at school two hours before.

While I was thinking about Noya in disappointment for not getting to see him, my mother entered my room.

"Ohayo" she spoke "I haven't awaken you because I thought you needed some rest today".

Gosh, this woman always happens to guess what I'm going to ask her. Is she human?

"Mmh... well, thank you" I answered.

"I didn't go to work because I'm taking you to the doctor's later," she said, again answering to my questions without me speaking.

"Okay... thank you" I repeated.

"And... I want you to know I'm sorry for what I've said"

"Don't mind, mom... I'm sorry, too"

I'm not always that cold with my mother but we happened to argue as soon as I got home the previous evening, after coming back from the ramen bar with Noya...

*Flashback*

"Tadaima"

"Is there a good reason why are you this late?" she coldly spoke when she saw me enter the kitchen slowly because of my ankle.

Jeez, woman... you could at least greet me when I get back home! Not to mention asking about how I feel about my day.

"Yeah, you know it was a bit hard to come back at the speed of light today" I sarcastically spoke.

"Don't tell me that again! The ankle..!"

"Yeah" I simply let this out as a sigh.

"You're an idiot" she scoffed.

God. Has Tsukishima followed me home, perhaps?

"Thank you, mom. Now my self-esteem will surely increase thanks to this"

"If you ever get your ankle healed, I'll break you both so that you don't get standing on that field again"

These words pierced my heart as a poisoned knife. When you expect someone to support you – and by 'support' I don't mean I wanted her to pity me – that is the moment when they let you down. I felt tears coming to my eyes and I felt the urge to flee to my room, but I couldn't. I didn't want to see me cry for her words, but I couldn't help.

"IS THIS THE WAY YOU EXPECT ME TO LOVE YOU, MOM?! YOU STILL HAVEN'T UNDERSTOOD HOW MUCH I LOVE VOLLEYBALL AND HOW MUCH I MISS PLAYING!" I yelled.

She wasn't moved at all.

"Anyway, there's some dinner left for you on the table"

"I've already had dinner"

"Oh, I see. And what about telling us? You can do everything with your smartphone and you couldn't just call or send an SMS. How rude. Who were you with?"

"This is none of your business. And now I'm going to my room. I wouldn't eat even if I my stomach was empty like your heart, anyways"

'Now' was too much simpler to say than to do, actually. My room is upstairs and it took me ages to reach it. When I finally managed to have a shower and get in my bed it was late night and I was tired like hell.

*End of flashback*

Even though we had sort of made peace, we were silent and too embarrassed to speak a word while making our way to the doctor's by car.

"What does this mean?" my mother asked.

"I exactly can't tell you what the problem with her ankle is," the doctor said "It's swollen and what I can tell you for sure is that it's not broken but she'd better not play volleyball for at least one month".

One... month? One month without standing on the court is infinity to me.

I was very depressed when I got back home. I wasn't even hungry when I sat at the table in the kitchen with mom and had lunch, but I decided to eat the same or else she'd think she's not good at cooking and start acting flamboyant.

Nothing could ever improve my bad mood, I thought as I was laying in my bed without the chance of doing nothing. Again.

I was slowly falling asleep when the sound of my favourite anime opening made me realise my phone was ringing.

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Hello! 😉

I know this chapter's a bit sad... but reality is like that and I jnow it very well... So... PLEASE DON'T HATE ME! *pouts*

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