Imperfect Romance

Going Deeper

Being friends with benefits with Miyuki was actually more easy than Ai thought. It's been almost three weeks since she started sleeping with Miyuki and it already felt like it was part of her routine. She would be lying if she didn't admit that at one point she was worried that she would start developing feelings for the handsome catcher. Because let's face it, who wouldn't? Miyuki was attractive, intelligent, and a has a good sense of humor. Granted his sense of humor could be a bit much sometimes and irritate the hell out of you, but it's not as if it was terrible. His cheekiness could be charming in it's own way. Miyuki was also (in his own way) caring. During final exams week he sent in more than one occasion text messages reminding her to not forget to eat, or to go to sleep, and reassuring her that it's going to be fine since she is so smart. Sometimes Ai had a tendency of taking herself too seriously with her studies and being with Miyuki allows her to relax, have fun, and just act silly for the sake of it sometimes.

Besides catching feelings (pun totally intended) would be a hard thing when it came to Miyuki. In a lot of ways, he was a lot like her. They were both emotionally distant and didn't talk about their feelings openly to other people, not even to each other. While it was true that Miyuki was the closest person to Ai and vice-versa it's not as if they knew each other darkest deepest secrets. Ai knew a lot of stuff about Miyuki but all of them were superficial since they never had any meaningful conversations. Even after they are done having sex, they just lie there close to each other and talk about silly stuff or just tease each other, or in the best case scenarios they decide to start round 2 which can lead to round 3 if Miyuki has more time to stay over. It seems that all that practice made him have crazy stamina.

Now that summer break was in effect there were no more reminder texts, school, or assignments to complete (she already completed her summer assignments). While she liked summer because of the sunny weather, sometimes it was too hot for her taste and she was always bored out of her mind since she didn't have anything to do. Sometimes she would go to museums but there are only so many times that you can go without getting bored. She didn't have any friends to hang out with and Miyuki was busy with practice and the summer tournament, leaving him little time to 'hang out' with her. Now more than ever she was grateful to Miyuki for introducing her to baseball. Thanks to that she had something to do whenever he had games since she has been attending his baseball matches during this tournament.

Miyuki told her than in two days they were going to play against Inashiro Industrial High School. It was going to be the final match of the summer tournament and it would determine which school would represent West Tokyo at nationals. Miyuki and his team have worked really hard and there is nothing more in the world that she would want than to see Seido win. Sometimes she remembers how devastated and disappointing they looked when they lost the game against Ichidai Third High School back in the spring and it was just horrible to look at them in that state. They really deserved to win and she really hoped that they would, not just for Miyuki's sake but for their sake as well.

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Those two days have already passed and unfortunately Seido High School lost the final match and couldn't go on to Koshien. Everything was so eerily familiar since they already went through a similar situation back in the spring. Now in a familiar situation, Ai was lying on her bed trying to figure out what she should tell Miyuki. At first, she thought that it was going to be easier this time around since she knew Miyuki more than she knew him back then, but she was wrong. In a lot of ways this time around was actually harder because she really knew him now, so there is more pressure since she doesn't really have an excuse to mess up.

Suddenly she felt a buzzing sound on her bed and quickly noticed that it was her phone. It was most likely Miyuki since the only other person who would message her was her father and he was busy working.