An Angel With A Tennis Racket

New Friends? [Part 3]

'Holy mother of gods,' I thought to myself as I frown at the guy sitting right across from him. 'Out of everyone in the classroom, why does it have to be him?'

Yukimura-senpai just kept on smiling at me, as if I wasn't staring daggers at him. He was finding me amusing, much to my dismay.

We just decided to come to the library to start working on our project together since the class was too noisy. The teacher pretty much give us a free period.

With a sigh, I turned away and leaned back in my seat. It was very comfortable. If senpai wasn't here, I might have slept. Actually, who cares if he was here? The library was quite empty, except for a few librarians. Perfect for napping.

"Well, since we've already planned out on which part we're going to do, I'm going to take a nap." Without waiting for his reaction, I just put my head onto the table and closed my eyes.

There was a bit of silence before he spoke. "You might hurt your neck if you do it like that." Saying so, I heard him got up and came over to my side. Curious, I opened my eyes slowly to see him, also with his head down on the table, sliding his folded jacket over to me. "Use this. Don't argue."

For some reason, I listened to him and lifted my head slightly, allowing him to quickly slide his jacket under my head. "There," he said, smiling gently. "I'll wake you up when it's time for our next class. For now...sleep well."

"......" I didn't know what to say. We both just kind of stare at each other for a bit before I started dozing off. "You're....strange...senpai," I uttered softly, sleep overcoming me. Before I fully fell asleep, I heard him whispered something back but I couldn't make out what the words were.

He was smiling. That was all I remembered. That gentle smile of his.

'What was it? What did he say?'

You know when you're asleep, you just want to either wake up with food in front of you or to wake up on your own without an alarm clock? That feeling is great, isn't it? Well, unfortunately for me, I woke up...to see a flipped over table and chairs...and three dudes wrestling on the floor.

One had the other's legs tangled so he couldn't stand up. One had the other's arms locked so he couldn't get away. One had the other two's mouth closed so they couldn't shout.

I then realized that my ears were being covered by someone's hands as the jacket that I 'thought' I was using as a pillow slipped down onto my lap. I've also just noticed that I've been sleeping on someone else's lap and using his shoulder as a pillow. Yukimura-senpai had apparently got up and quickly picked me up, covering my ears as his tennis club members rushed into the library, trying to catch the members of the Photoshop club who had taken their pictures while they were in the changing room, while tripping over chairs and tables in order to get to them.

I've come to that conclusion as I watched Yanagi Renji and Yagyu Hiroshi held cameras, with Kuwahara Jackal ripping the pictures to shred. Nio-senpai was the one on the floor, still keeping the Photoshop members down. Sanada-senpai just stood there and glared down at the three boys on the floor, still going at it. The rest of the tennis team were also in the library, quietly cleaning up the mess. All of them have wet hair, while some have mix-matched clothing, so I would assumed they quickly threw on whatever they could find to catch these guys.

"...Wow."

As soon as I spoke, they all turned towards me and Yukimura-senpai lowered his hands from my ears. "Oh, you're awake..." he said.

For some reason, that sentence made everyone in the library froze.

"You were all too loud," he scolded them, both his tennis club members and the Photoshop club's. "20 laps around the court!"

"Wait!" I exclaimed before getting off senpai's lap - which I had totally forgotten about. "I didn't hear a single thing. I just probably...well, woke up."

"Oh...okay" he nodded his head and got up after me. Turning to face the others, he said, "Alright. Let's clean up, and make sure the Photoshop club get the message this time. Sanada, I'll leave that to you."

Sanada-senpai just nodded his head in response, but I could have sworn he smirked a little just now.

'Boy, do I not want to mess with this tennis team.'