What I love ✔️

Chapter 5

"Be careful Shōyō! It's raining, I don't want to see you or your bike busted ever again, got that?" his dad scolded him from where he was standing with his arms crossed. Shōyō nodded and laughed awkwardly. Natsu had already left and his dad was trying to convince him to go earlier and walk there instead of taking a bike.

"I will dad! No need to worry! Look, I'm even wearing a poncho!" Shōyō exclaimed, raising his arms a little to show off his dark blue poncho. His dad laughed at his antics.

"Alright then, off you go." his dad patted Shōyō on the back pushing him towards the door.

"I knew it! You don't want me home! How could you do this!" Shōyō joked, putting his hand on his chest making his dad burst out laughing.

"Come on now! You'll be late." and with that Shōyō was on his way to school while the rain was pouring down hard everywhere around him.

No people were seen walking in the roads except for those who were either riding vehicles or running to their jobs. Sooner or later, Shōyō had arrived at the club room pouring wet. Thank god he wore regular clothes under his poncho and not practise clothes or his school uniform. He opened the door to the club room and hurried inside.

"Good morning...!" he greeted and was greeted back. He heard Tanaka laugh at his state as he took off his poncho and set his, thankfully waterproof, bag on the bench.

"Hey, it's not funny! If I had walked here like dad told me to, I would've been worse!" Shōyō stated as he began taking of his wet clothes that were stuck to him like glue. He glanced up when the door opened and saw that Tsukishima and Yamaguchi had walked in. Shōyō stared at Yamaguchi whose hair and clothes were wet. The latter noticed him and greeted him with a smile, Shōyō greeted back nervously. A light blush forming at both of their faces.

"Hey, Hinata...? Ukai mentioned that you gave him a permission slip for tomorrow. Why?" Sugawara asked, all heads were now turned towards Shōyō, watching and waiting for answers. Or that's what it felt like for him, in reality most of them were only glancing over their shoulder while a few really looked at him directly.

"Oh...! I didn't tell you, huh?" Shōyō almost stuttered, he looked at Sugawara who shook his head. He felt slightly less anxious looking at him, but the anxiousness was still there. He figured there was on getting out of this "My sister has a thing on Friday, and she has to prepare from tomorrow..." he knew that it wasn't enough. He knew that they were going to pry more, and he knew that it might be time to tell them. Natsu knows everything, she basically lectured him yesterday about telling his team and here he is.

"Oh? What is she going to do?" Daichi asked this time.

"Yeah, what's so important that you have to help her?" Tanaka asked, he wasn't trying to act rude, he was probably just curious.

"She has a gymnastics competition on Friday and has to be there tomorrow to practise and "get used to the place" or something like that... I never really understood the concept of that." Shōyō shrugged, tucking his clothes away and grabbing his practise clothes. The others were still not satisfied with the answer. They knew he was hiding even more underneath and Shōyō was afraid they would continue to dig.

"Really?! Can we come! I've never seen a gymnastics competition! Man, I really wanna see one!" Noyas eyes sparkled at the idea of going to see a competition and/or tournament that wasn't volleyball. Shōyō felt his blood run cold but he couldn't say no, how could he? He didn't have any reason to and if he did, they would question why he refused. It's like he didn't have any other chance but to say yes.

"Sure...! I'm sure she wouldn't mind. I can tell you the details?" Shōyō answered, he looked around and everyone seemed to agree happily. Thank god that Natsu had calmed him down yesterday on the way home or else he would be panicking over this right now.