Vortex

Chapter 3

"D-Daichi kun?!"

You felt yourself ask as the words came out subconsciously out of your mouth. You closed your mouth with one hand while blood shot up to your cheeks in a millisecond, embarrassed that you said that with a 90% chance that everything you said was slurred from the lack of vowels you felt come out of your mouth. You suddenly saw him laugh, his face contorting into a smile that was blinding, and you blushed on the thought of it. You took the offer of his hand and stood up, your posture imbalanced from the hit you got from the ball to your forehead. You held yourself up with the walls though, as it helped you walk. As quickly as you can, you went over to your bag and looked for the hearing aids hurriedly put them on, you then heard some sounds and had to adjust them a little, and finally started hearing what they said.

"Is he okay?"

"The hit seems pretty direct on his face"

"Well obviously he's not okay. I mean look at him." one of them pointed at your forehead, that clearly had a mark left on it because of the direct hit from the volleyball. 

"So, should we tell him about that thing-"

"That this stranger now has a big mark on his forehead from that deathly volleyball and it wont heal now? Yeah i think you should, although that person probably knows already" The other 5 looked at you as you raised an eyebrow to them with guilt tainting their faces. You then started to actually see who was in the gym. You recognized some people, like Sugawara, Asahi, & Daichi. But there were the other 2 that you have never seen roaming about in school. But before you could say anything, you saw the 5 of them come forward to you and bowed down,

"WE ARE TRULY SORRY FOR THIS ACCIDENT!"

You visibly shocked at this, not expecting all 5 of them to go say sorry in front of you. You giggled at this, and slowly it turned into a full blown laugh. Of course, they looked at you with confused faces, expecting a knock on the head or at least a screech, but they never expected a laugh. You kept laughing and laughing until the others started smiling guiltily as well. Then it suddenly started to be a laugh fest which was weird since this was supposed to be a tense moment. You then started to calm down and spoke,

"Its fine its fine. Really though, i never expected all 5 of you to be saying sorry to me. So what are you guys doing here?"

One of the 2 people you didn't know, he responded,"Oh, we were doing trials for volleyball club! You wanna join? Oh and the names Tashiro if you were wondering! Third year"

"Ahh.." you haven't started thinking, let alone trying to look through clubs that you enjoy so you were left there with an option open. He looked at you with these puppy eyes that pretty much summed up that he was desperate for anyone to join the club. You yourself never really played volleyball, so really your chances of failing miserably in the first match of any game is likely.

"uhhhh, i'll think about it" you smiled at him, knowing that he'll get the answer later. You then glanced at the three people you do know, and laughed. "You guys look really weird in that jumpsuit. Red doesn't suit any of you to be honest," you then took your phone out, and took a picture of the three of them. Their faces clearly dumbfounded by the comment. Pft, they look so stupid 

"Oiii! delete that this instant!" 

"That isn't gonna happen Sugawara-kun~"you grinned widely and in a flash he lunged at you, resulting in both of you fighting on the floor for your phone. The others had to separate you and Sugawara for a while. Both of you still bantering on whether or not you should delete that picture or he'll get a beat-down from him which would likely happen but nonetheless. All of you were stuck in the moment that you didn't notice another figure coming in.