I Loved You

Chapter 1: New Beginnings

Buzz buzz. Buzz buzz.

Faintly aware of the buzzing beside her ear, Y/N groans tiredly as she looks at her phone in distain. It's too early, she wants to sleep more. But unfortunately as an adult, she has a job that she must commit to.

Turning the alarm off, Y/N tiredly continues to lie in bed, just as her eyes start closing, her phone buzzes again as it wakes her up for a second time. Accepting defeat, Y/N sighs as she checks her social media accounts, may as well wake up by catching up with whatever happened while she was sleeping.

After a while, her third alarm goes off as she sighs, turning it off and finally rolling out of bed to get ready for the day.

Moving from Tokyo to Shizuoka four years ago wasn't as big of a change as she initially expected. Maybe because Tokyo is so bustling with life, she thought Shizuoka would be much more mellow in comparison, and although it is, maybe it's the franticness of her life that makes up for it. Still though, she would have much preferred to be on the outskirts near the abundance of tea fields, rather than right in the centre of Shizuoka city.

'It's not much of a change.' Y/N tells herself, although she can hardly remember who she was back in Tokyo.

She probably wouldn't be able to recognise herself now.

"Good morning." Y/N calls as she walks into the office, heading over to her desk as some of her co-workers greet her.

"Good morning, L/N-san, did you sleep well?" One of the sports marketing employees asks as Y/N smiles.

"I did sleep well, or at least the sleeping part was good." Y/N chuckles as she sets her things down, quickly taking out her belongings and ordering them as she leaves her bag on her chair. "Anyway, I need to get to the gym for their practise."

"Have fun. The team has a practise match with another team at the end of the week right?"

"Yeah, so this week's even more hectic for me even though we just finished with V.League." Y/N sighs, glancing at the clock again. "Anyway, I'll catch you later."

"That's if you return to your desk today."

Y/N laughs at this. "Gotta love the unpredictability of having a job in PR."

Heading over to the courts, Y/N briefly flicks through the notes she's carrying, taking out a pen from her pocket and using her iPad to support the paper as she jots a few things down as she walks in, taking notice of the current members stretching on the courts. Having noticed her arrival, Komori smiles as he waves at her.

"L/N! Good morning!"

"Good morning, Komori-senshu, you seem as energetic as always." Y/N smiles as Komori laughs.

"Isn't that a good thing for you? I might lose us all our sponsors if I suddenly became gloomy like Sakusa." Komori jokes as Y/N rolls her eyes.

"I'm not in the sponsorship department so that doesn't bother me at all~" Y/N chuckles. "But I will have a few issues if you suddenly change personalities and lose all your fans. I'll probably have to push Suna-senshu to get more media coverage in your place."

"Why not just make me the face of EJP now? I can handle the media~" Suna chimes from behind her as he smirks.

"That is exactly why." Y/N deadpans as Suna smiles innocently.

"What do you mean? I think I'd be great as the face of EJP."

"Suna-senshu, please don't say it like that. How many times must I beg?" Y/N groans in exasperation as Komori laughs.