𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒊 𝒎𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 - 𝘵𝘦𝘵𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘰 𝘬𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘰

4: you win some, you loose some

Tetsurō was very pleased at his small victory.

Yamazaki had agreed to help him with his literature project, and he would be able to spend a little extra time with her without seeming like a creep.

She'd been hesitant to agree though, and he couldn't blame her. The whole matter of him accidentally objecting her looks had clearly not impressed her very much.

He was so stupid! She was the most beautiful girl he'd ever met and yet he'd told her she was nothing special. He didn't know how to apologize for something like this, and so he just turned it over and over in his mind.

Usually he knew all the right buttons to push when it came to girls, but Yamazaki always seemed to react in the exact wrong way, and that threw him off.

Maybe that was a good thing, a tiny voice in the back of his head suggested. No, he wasn't ready to have that conversation with himself yet.

Tetsurō wandered into the computer lab after school. Yamazaki was still there after the meeting of the journalism club, tidying up.

"You again?" She muttered without looking at him as she continued to stack chairs.

"Need some help?" Tetsurō leaned one hip against the nearest desk, his hands in his pockets.

"Thanks anyway," Yamazaki attempted to lift a large stack to add it to the stack in the corner, but couldn't seem to hoist them high enough.

Tetsurō pressed his lips together, trying not to smile. "Are you sure?"

She didn't reply, simply tried again and failed.

"If only there were someone taller in the room who could help you with those,"

Yamazaki turned to face him. "Oh look, a big, dumb skyscraper. I'd ask him, but he's too busy gloating like an idiot." She retorted. Her cheeks became red and she huffed as she turned her back to him again.

"Oooh, you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Tetsurō stepped towards her and muttered close to her ear. He thought he saw her shiver.

"Keep teasing, that'll make me like you so much more." She turned just enough to see his smug expression in the corner of her eye.

"Like me more? So you already like me a little, then, right?"

"You know very well what I mean,"

"How can I? I'm just a big, dumb skyscraper." He smirked.

Yamazaki inhaled irritatedly. She picked up three of the chairs and hoisted them onto the corner stack, and by taking a few at a time, she finished the job without any help from Tetsurō.

"Incase you want to keep stalking me, I'm going home to change and then I'm going to the cafe."

"I'm not stalking you, we just keep ending up in the same places."

"What about yesterday after school?"

Tetsurō pursed his lips in momentary thought. "...Okay, maybe that was stalking. But I swear all the other times happened by accident."

"You accidentally came to the computer lab where the journalism club meets on Tuesdays?"

"I came to make a copy of the practice schedule." Kuroo held up the schedule after unfolding it from his pocket.

"Fine." Rini turned swiftly and picked up her school bag.

"What cafe did you say you were going to?"

"I'll see you tomorrow," And with that, she closed the lab door behind her.

"That went well," Tetsurō said, now alone. "Yeah no shit, Tetsurō," he responded to himself.