Love and Lies ~ TsukkiYama

Chapter 9

It's been a long long week since that little snowball of misfortune kept on rolling around in the snow of misery, growing large in size, making it become a mountain of misfortune and misery that loomed above him, and if Tsukishima tried to move it away, it would fall and easily crush him.

Tsukishima has been feeling emotionally numb to everything after he broke the promise that he had made.

On one hand, bad things failed to make him sad, but good things didn't make him feel happy either. It was a double-edged sword I guess.

Yamaguchi made a couple more attempts to talk to his best friend but gave up after the third day. He kept to himself for the other 2 days. That was the longest Tsukishima has ever been alone. He has always had Yamaguchi to keep him company, no matter what and no matter where. And being suddenly plunged into solitude is no fun at all...

It was a nice, calm Friday evening. The sun was just starting to set, making the sky a nice yellow and red colour that was slowly blending together. The air was warm and it was the perfect temperature for a long afternoon walk. Practise was still ongoing in the gym, though it wasn't going very well...

Tsukishima just couldn't focus, so he kept on messing up his blocks and letting the ball fall onto the court that lay behind him. One time he forgot to jump all together and just stood there with a rather irritated look on his face. That was what made everyone stare at him. It was fine at first, but this was too much.

"Hey, Kageyama. What's up with Jerkyshima?"

"Beats me. Maybe he needs to drink more milk."

"Drinking milk won't help stupid!"

Those two launched into a quite loud whispering argument, shoving each other every time they spoke. Daichi was making his way over to the angry boy before Suga stuck his arm out to prevent him from going any further.

"Suga?"

"Don't say anything yet, just wait, Daichi, please."

Suga had a desperate look on his face that Daichi rarely ever saw. He stood back, allowing Suga to have his way this time. The reason Suga didnt want Daichi to talk to him, was because it would do Tsukishima no good, it would frustrate him more.

Yamaguchi was now the one to walk over to check on the angry blond. His heart fluttered when he got close.

He missed him. It was torture to have to stay away from his best friend, especially when he saw Tsukishima eating lunch alone on the roof, even though he looked fine with being alone, he wondered whether Tsukishima ever felt lonely eating lunch alone.

He ate alone too at first before Kageyama and Hinata invited him to eat with them. But they spent more time arguing than eating, and the arguments were silly things like 'how to pronounce the word bagel' and Yamaguchi got roped into being the judge on whether its 'B-ay-gel or Bah-gel'. But since he didn't want to upset either of them, he ended up resigning as the judge.

Or then Hinata would force Kageyama to toss for him, by threatening him that he would spread rumours about him, though he wouldn't actually do that since he loves his boyfriend too much, he was just acting like he would, and if Kageyama still didnt want to, Hinata would try to convince Yamaguchi to try tossing to him.

So either way, Yamaguchi ended up hungry and tired after lunch.

So after a day of that, Suga invited him to eat lunch with their group, consisting of Suga, Daichi, Asahi, Tanaka, Noya and Ennoshita, a lot of them were in different years, but they all got along well, so they just ate lunch together anyway despite the looks they got from their other classmates.