“Kobayashi is getting cuter.” Oda whispers, Hirate isn't sure if Oda is talking to her, but she raises her head at the mentioned of that name. She follows where exactly Oda is looking at and she found, across the other side of the volleyball court, the reason of why she's not getting enough of sleep.
There, Kobayashi Yui talking to one of her professor, probably giving her all the tasks.
She turned away, looking down to her feet, pretending to fix her knee pad. “Really? She looks normal, like everyday normal.”
Oda snorts then stand beside her. Hirate is sure Oda is still looking at Kobayashi. “No, something really changed. It's like she's glowing up.”
She tried to ignore her and no matter how many times she told herself not to take a glance at Kobayashi, she ended up doing so and this time, she thought Oda is really right.
Something is new and strange. Usually, her brown silk hair is normally beautiful for her. But all of a sudden, it's getting her attention. She wanted to play the strand of Kobayashi hair through her fingers and feel the softness of it. Her dark eyes, her pointed nose, her pale skin and damn, her pinkish plump lips.
It's stealing all the remaining focus she has and it's crippling through her skin the idea of how she couldn't stop thinking of it since that night. It keeps messing her system.
Oddly but when did it happen for the girl that only wearing an oversized peach sweater shirt, jeans and her hair tied into a messy bun to be this looks so perfect and breathtaking.
Oda nudge her out of her deep thoughts. “You sure you didn't notice it?"
Hirate keeps staring and it's too late to look away when Kobayashi turn her head to her, their eyes meet. Hirate felt her knees weakened when Kobayashi squint her eyes at her, raise her fist and mouthed 'you're dead to me' when the professor looks away. Hirate gulped. “I'm sure, I really don't see it.”
Since when did she look at her best friend for 10 years this way?
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“Where is that idiot?” Hirate hissed as she put the phone down after she sent six messages to Kobayashi in a row. The gang is complete on their favorite pizza parlor, they went straight here after their volleyball practice. It didn't take long before rolled papers hit the top of Hirate head, the short haired girl howled in pain and follows by their friends laughter.
Before Kobayashi attack Hirate again, Ozeki, nearly dying because of laughing, stop Kobayashi and push her to sit down next to her.
“I'm really going to kill you!” Kobayashi gritted her teeth and glaring at Hirate whose head down on the table, clutching the part of her head where she felt like thousand of babies kicked her. Akane asked why they are bickering again. “I am late to my favorite subject because she left me alone!”
The gang laugh again, Fuyuka even wipe her tears ; seeing these two always fighting and about to grab each other throat aren't new to them.
Little did they know, the reason why she left Kobayashi and went straight to school first is because she felt something weird. The moment Kobayashi walked out from her house and see her whole, glowing and looking jaw dropped; she became anxious. Hirate can feel her heart drumming against her ribs, it's really weird and it's scared her that she didn't realize she put her feet on the gas and rolled her car without Kobayashi.
After a few minutes, Kobayashi calmed down, but still shooting Hirate a death glare. Oda reading a book and Suzumoto besides her, as usual clinging to her. Akane is minding her own business with her phone, Fuyuka and Ozeki digging the foods while Hirate couldn't help, but stealing glances again to Kobayashi who's too focuses to the book she's reading.
