Till Death Do Us Part

18

The sun's afternoon light filtered the gym as Iwaizumi unlocked and opened the door for practice.
"Iwa-chan, wait up!", he suddenly felt a new weight pushing against his back as his friend, now boyfriend he meant, joining beside him. The new thought turned his ears pink.

"You need to teach yourself to change out faster.",Iwaizumi sighed.
"You didn't wanna watch?"
He didn't answer, only hurrying into the gym quickly.
"Just go get the balls, and don't you dare ask which ones."

~
"NICE BLOCK KINDAICHI!"
"Swweeeet!", Makki grinned, highfiving the turnip head.

"Kunimi-san, you know you actually have to put effort right?", Iwaizumi looked over at the brown hair parted boy. His face remained sweaty and tired but dull.
"Yessir."

"Alright take a break, we gotta pick up the slack ever since our pinch server had to move out."
There were a couple squeals from the top part of the gym.
"Good work Oikawa!!!!", one of them called out.
The fluffier haired brunette offered a smile which brought a larger clamor, before jogging over to where Iwaizumi was.

"It doesn't look like she's here. At least she isn't following you into practice." , He sighed leaning against the wall.
"She almost did since I saw her applying to become a manager."
Oikawa huffed as he chugged half his water.
"Do you want to visit my mom with me? We could go somewhere to eat afterwards."

Oikawa immediately grinned at their proposal,"Yeah! I actually have place in mind~."
Everything seemed unusually calm despite the 'new arrival', but Oikawa shook away those thoughts hoping as to not jinx himself. Practice ended succesfully, Oikawa assimilating successfully into a setter position especially since one of their teammates, Yahaba, moved out of town.

"Man I'm starving, let's all go get burgers!", Hanamakki said, raising an empty waterbottle.
"Hey lovebirds, you two coming?"
Oikawa coughed in response as Iwaizumi pat his back with concern and answered,
"Nah, we got plans."

"Oh~! Ok, you two get it on!", Makki said with a sly grin. Watari whooped and the rest of the team joined in.
Oikawa gave them a playful glare yet grinned all the while.
"Fuck off, virgins except the two of you."
The doors closed and all the eyes immidiately fell on Mattsun and Makki. There was a quiet for a while before Mattsun wrapped his arm over Makki's waist,"Jealous?"

~

Changed and tired, they made their way to the gate practically leaning on each other.
"Oikawa-san, Iwaizumi!"
Oikawa stumbled to a stop faster then the other could.
"Ah... Kichiko-san.", Oikawa greeted back halfheartedly.
"Where are you two off to?"

'None of your business.'
"We were walking home.", Oikawa lied. She put her mouth in a 'o' shape,"Could I join? I'm in the same direction as Iwaizumi."
The spiky haired captain stiffened before laughing awkwardly,"I guess, yeah sure, but I moved so we might have to go separate ways earlier."

She eyed him but kept her smile.
"Ok, I understand~"

~

There was an awkward silence as they strode down the dimly lit road.
"I'll be turning here, later, I'll see you tomorrow Oikawa",Iwaizumi offered a small smile as he turned way earlier then he would have to his house. The brunette had encouraged him quietly to go alone so now he had gone en route-
"To the hospital he goes.", Kichiko sighed as she waved him off and abruptly turned around.
"Emiko-chan, are you leaving already?"
She laughed, brushing her hair behind her ear.
"Yes! I should hurry, this isn't even the way to my house!"
'What?'

"Emiko-chan.", Oikawa said quickly with a darker tone.
"What was that supposed to mean?", he said, eyes clouding a storm as he slung his bag over his shoulder, leaning back on his right leg.
"I couldn't let you to be alone, God knows what you would've pulled on him, I'm only protecting him."

"You? Protecting him? From what exactly or is this a joke?", he laughed coldly, returning her sharp gaze.

It felt as if the cords that had been holding the brunette's composure together were beginning to snap.
"It's regretful he's still scared of how much I love him to the means of going this far to protect him, and I do admit I was a bit extreme in the past, but I've bettered myself now. You can stop this farce of a relationship which was out of pity I bet."

Oikawa's head spun with repulsion and fury. Taking a couple steps toward her, he bent down a little to her level,"Are you really in any damn place to be reprimanding his choices?"
She stepped back but he pursued.
"Yeah, thank you very much for taking care of him and fucking him up like that too, but he doesn't need your kind of love, or is it possesiveness? Well whatever, you can't tell the difference."

She scoffed and pushed him back.
"I was the one that looked after him when you left him in pieces, did you even try meeting back up with him? No! He was the one who always insisted on seeing someone who didn't even try to reach out to him, I was helping him from staying away from someone like you! It would've hurt him even more!"

Oikawa stared in awe.
"Wow...", he stepped back putting his hand over his face,"I didn't think.... that anyone could actually think that was ok.",he raised his hand till it ran back through his hair.

"Don't fuck with me. At least I'm making an attempt by making up for all the time I've lost from him, minding you took away a year of it. What are you gonna do? Acting like a new person but doing shit like this. If you want what's better for him, fuck off.", he snapped.

She looked at him mouth agape before closing it back up.
"You'll regret that."
He knew he'd won here. What else could she do.
"I've regretted enough, but have you?"

~

Oikawa threw himself on his bed feeling mentally exhausted.
'Why is she suddenly showing her true colors? Damn why do I get a bad feeling from this.'

He shivered and curled up, not even bothering to change out.
After he rested for a few minutes he sighed.
"I have homework... man I wanted to hang out with Iwa-chan."

He sat and dragged himself and his bag to his desk. After everything he needed was on his desk, he heard his phone vibrate. He flinched at the sudden interruption from the quiet state of his environment. Then he saw Iwaizumi's contact appear on the screen, he could have sworn he never tapped so damn fast.

He opened the text message.

Iwa-chan💖

She's doing better
sent 4:27pm

Oikawa smiled with relief then tapped the call button almost immediately. It rang once before it was answered.
"Are you doing ok?", the brunette asked immidiately.
There was soft laugh on the other end.
"I should be asking you that..."
There was a pause.
"Did she say anything?"
Oikawa took a deep breathe thinking on how to filter it.
I'd rather lessen his worries.
"No, she's just being way too nice, I don't trust it. If she gets too close to you I have no idea what I'll do.", he closed his eyes and messed his own hair up.

"Oikawa."
"Hm?", he perked up at the tone of his voice.
"I love you."
"Wh-", he let his head fall onto his books as his ears heated up.
"Right now?"
"Yeah."
"Oh my god, where are you right now?"
"Leaving the hospital.", his voice sounding warm from the other end.
"Don't end the call until you get home."

'This way, everything will be ok. Or at least feel that way. '
"By the way I-", his cheeks flushed and he bowed his head.
"Love you too."

_____

Me:loses 6 pages of notes due that day I was gonna publish the chapter: well this can't get any worse.
Also me:Wi-Fi shuts down for 4 days:H A H A.
Me again:I can now finish- *screen cracks* Ok.

But it's finally here what the fuck wow the fuck.

-Lemons