Goodbye and Good Riddance

Chapter 3

While she was crying, she didn't hear the bathroom door open or close. She didn't even hear the footsteps that were approaching the stall that she was in.

*Knock knock*

"Excuse me? Are you alright?"

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Sapphire picked her head up at the sound of the person's voice and quickly wiped away her tears, then answered the person in a small, shaky voice.

"I-im alr-right." She knew that she was a terrible liar.

"I know that your lying. I overheard what those girls said about you. I just wanted to check on you."

Sapphire just stood there in shock and disbelief. She soon got out of her shocked state and slowly opened up the stall door, peeking her head out. Infront of her was a pretty tall girl with long, light purple hair and dark purple eyes. She was wearing a Karasuno uniform.

"R-really? Even a-after you heard what they were s-saying about m-me? W-why would you do that?"

She gave Sapphire a sweet, soft, and reassuring smile. "Because I don't believe that what those girls said were true."

That sentence alone was enough to make Sapphire's tears pool out of her eyes. She dropped to the ground on her knees, bawling her eyes out and sobbing.

The purple haired girl got on her knees as well and hugged the poor crying soul infront of her, rubbing circles on her back in a soothing way. She didn't care her shoulder was getting soaked, she just cared about comforting the poor girl.

They stayed that way for a few moments and Sapphire's tears slowly started to ceased to a stop, at this point she was just left sniffling.

All of a sudden, the purple haired girls phone dinged, meaning she got a message.

She slowly let go of Sapphire and made sure that she was okay first. Then she checked her phone.

From Suga💖:
Hey, are you alright? The match is about to start

Yeah, I'm fine. Just give me a minute. I'll be right there!

She put her phone back in her pocket and turned back to the crying girl.

"Are you feeling better?"

Sapphire nodded her head, wiping away her stray tears. "Th-thank you for comforting me. S-sorry if I wasted your t-time."

"Oh no, it was no problem, you didn't waste my time at all." She said, waving it off. "I'm Shirazora Yamiko." She says with a smile, she stood up and held out her hand to her.

Sapphire took her hand and stood up as well. "I-im Miyazaki...Miyazaki Sapphire" She offers Yamiko a small smile in return.

"It's nice to meet you Miyazaki." She bows in greeting and to show her respect.

"It's nice to meet you too, Shirazora." She bows back. Once she stands up straight again, she checks the time on her phone and let's out a gasp. "Oh no, I forgot! The practice match is about to start!"

"Hold on, let me go with you. I have to be there as well and...hehe, I don't really know my way around." Yamiko blushes and rubs her arm in slight embarrassment.

"Oh that's right, your here with Karasuno, right?" She asks as they make their way down the hallway.

"Yeah actually! I'm their assistant manager." She says with a small chuckle.

"Oh wow, that's pretty cool!" Sapphire says as they make their way inside of the gym. "Here we are. I have to go now, but it was nice meeting you Shirazora! And, thank you for your help." She smiles genuinely at her.

"It was nice meeting you too, Miyazaki! And it really was no problem. Glad I could help!" She waves and smiles back at her, making her way to the sidelines of the court and sitting on the bench next to a tall guy with grey hair, brown eyes and a number 2 Jersey on.

'Now that I look at it, Karasuno's team is pretty tall, well.....except for their number 10 and Libero.' Sapphire thought to herself as she makes her way to the raisers and watches the match play out.

As Sapphire watches the match play out, she couldn't help but to keep her eyes on one of Karasuno's players.

He was tall, had black hair, beautiful dark blue eyes, and had the number 9 on his jersey.

In her opinion, he was pretty good looking. And his sets were amazing. Especially when he would set to their number 10 and do that special quick attack of theirs. She's never seen anybody be able to pull something like that off.

As you could probably tell, Sapphire was awestruck from his performance on the court.