one wild cat [Kuroo Tetsurou x OC]

XI. This Feeling, Part I

Hello, my name is Shibayama Yuuki. I'm a first grader in Nekoma High, in the college prep-class, class 4. I also really like playing volleyball, although I have yet to prove my worth to be a regular. My days are peaceful and quiet, most of them filled with classes and club activities. Back then, I never thought I would be thinking about anything else other than school and volleyball.

But this is the story of how a certain black haired girl got stuck in my head.

My first encounter with Nishikawa was quite memorable, but it wasn't that I found her attractive from the get-go or anything.

You see, Nishikawa sits beside me in class. Although she is the kind of person who would sit all the way at the back, she doesn't have much luck when it comes to lottery. Nishikawa never won a seat at the back. Rather, she always wins the seat at the very front row, beside the window.

On the first day of my first year in Nekoma...I found a black haired girl sleeping on my assigned desk.

I guess her friend might have noticed my confused face, and the fact that that she was sitting on the wrong desk. Shimura Momo, she introduced herself. A pretty blonde girl who looked like she has a strong character, was later easily picked to be our class representative. She seemed like she knew the black haired girl well, as she woke her up and pulled her to the seat beside mine. The girl she called "Kimi" looked up to me and apologised, although she didn't look sorry. What caught my attention was the fact that her face looked like she was heavily sleep-deprived. I quickly checked her name on the seating arrangement stuck to the board.

Nishikawa Kimi.

I threw my gaze back at her who was very slowly walking to her seat beside the window...and slept some more. Bold.

It wasn't all that, Nishikawa turned out to be a lot more bold than I expected, she wasn't awake at all in class on our first day...and the days following the first day. We were all surprised how the teacher gave up on her fairly quickly. Nekoma is in the top 5 favourite high school in Tokyo. Our standards for academics are quite high, and on top of that we're in college prep class...so there was a certain expectation of students' level of discipline.

Well, the bold part is probably when I found out Nishikawa doesn't even bring textbooks to school, nor does she take notes. Naturally, I always had to share mine with her. Unlucky as it sounds, sharing a textbook with her was never a problem because she was never awake, except for lunchtime.

At that point, I wasn't even sure if Nishikawa knew my name.

Nishikawa doesn't talk much. Well, partly because she's sleeping all the time, so there's really not much opportunity to talk to her. I have only seen her talk to 2 people in the whole school. Shimura Momo, and another boy with spiky hair who also joined the volleyball club.

As expected, Nishikawa wasn't in any clubs either. She always goes straight home after school.

She doesn't look very athletic too. Nishikawa always looks lethargic. She wears baggy clothes, so it's difficult to see her real figure. However, sometimes I wonder how she's got some extremely toned legs.

The rest of the class though, was wondering how Nishikawa got into the college prep class at all. She was always sleeping, and she was average at most. Her grades aren't great, she's not physically gifted either. Until one day, Nishikawa scored a perfect score on a test that everyone in the class failed. Even Shimura Momo.

She looked more surprised about it than anyone else in class. It was the first human expression I've seen coming from her stoic face.

A face that looked like she just screwed up. She looked like she was pissed at herself from getting a perfect score.