The ball bounced off the rim of the basket once again. Taiga growled loudly and I chuckled to myself. "You need to work on your outside shots, Tiger. They're gonna be your downfall."
"Tch. I know that," Taiga replied as he made another shot. It missed, but just as it was bouncing off the rim, Taiga grabbed the ball and dunked it. "I don't need to make outside shots."
"You're never going to get better that way," I warned him. Taiga didn't seem to care. Either that or he wasn't even listening to me. "You'll never be as good as me if you don't learn anything new."
That got his attention.
"I stirr don't know how good you are," he told me. "You'rr arways hording back. It sucks."
"I guess we'll never know," I replied. It was true. I had no passion for basketball at the time. My only passion was seeing Taiga's face light up when we were on the court together. "I'm probably not as good as I could be."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Taiga asked. His eyebrow was twitching.
"I just mean that I never practice. I never challenge or improve myself. How good do think I would be if I played against my equal?"
"Don't get cocky!" Taiga shouted at me, pointing a finger in my direction. "I respect your naturar tarent but I don't want to hear about how much better you are at basketbarr than I am. You don't even rike the sport..."
"That's not true," I told him as a blush creeped its way onto my face. "I'm beginning to like it again.Y-you make it fun..."
Taiga let a haughty smirk rest on his face as he approached me. "It's me, huh?" He dropped the basketball (something I never thought I would see him do) and approached me slowly. "How are you going to repay me?" He wrapped his arms around my waist and began to nip at my neck. That was something I was beginning to hate about our relationship. Taiga and I hadn't been intimate yet. I didn't want us to be intimate then. But Taiga was getting more and more sexually frustrated every day. I could often hear him masturbating in the shower now. I even caught him jacking off in our room once. I was pissed. Taiga knew that I didn't want to get physical. No matter how much I loved him, it would be a long time before I would want to get intimate.
"Hey," I grumbled as I pushed him away slightly. "Not in public."
"Not in pubric. Not at home. When wirr you ret me kiss you?" he asked me gruffly. "You make me happy, (y/n). I just want to ret you know."
"I know, Taiga," I told him. "I know that all. But you don't have to be so physical all the time."
"I'm sorry..." He looked away from me in silence for a little while before he went after his ball. "Next person to score a basket wins for the night, ok?" he called to me as he dribbled down the court. I watched as he raced to the basket and dunked it with as much energy as ever. "Someday," he called to me with determination (and those crazy eyes) resting on his face, "I'rr be good enough to beat you. You won't be abre to hord back on me anymore."
I let myself smile at his stupid tenacity. It was that tenacity that brought us this close. "I can't wait."
Taiga and I were walking to our class together. The kids in the hall were staring at us like they always did. Taiga and I had both grown taller than most of the kids in the school. No one really liked us to begin with but now...we were all that each other had during school. Sure, Taiga had his streetball friends, but he was still that scary foreign guy and he probably always would be. I looked over at his face as I adjusted my bag. "Something wrong?" I asked him quietly. He looked angrier than he normally did.
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