Unhealthy obsession (Haikyuu AU)

Chapter 24

Oikawa woke up with the sun high in the sky. He rubbed his eyes, streched his arms and rolled over in bed until he felt something cold brush his back: the cell phone. He had fallen asleep with it in his hands, reading the news that was beginning to emerge on the Internet about Kuroo's fight.

Kuro-chan, he thought with his heart light in his chest.

He grabbed his phone and looked at the time. When he entered the chat, he saw that there was a recent connection, so, with a smile and eager to hear his voice again, he dialed the phone instead of sending a simple message. But the phone wasn't picked up by the person he expected.

"Hey, Kuro-chan, how are you—?"

"Why are you calling?" a somewhat rude voice interrupted him.

"Where is Kuro-chan?" Oikawa asked worriedly, straightening up on the bed. "Why did you pick up the phone?"

"Because I'm his boyfriend," Bokuto replied.

"No you're not, I heard you yelling at him that you were done," Oikawa said suspiciously. "Where is Kuro-chan?

"What are you and Tetsuro? Since he doesn't tell me, you tell me," Bokuto demanded ignoring Oikawa's question. "Are you dating?"

"What are you doing with Kuro-chan's phone?" Oikawa asked again.

He wasn't comfortable knowing that Bokuto had Kuroo's phone, his ex-boyfriend, after the tumult caused at the party the night before due to alcohol. Oikawa called to ask Kuroo about his hangover, but he was met with the unpleasant surprise of finding someone else on the other side of the phone, someone who made Kuroo cry so much that Oikawa felt helpless for not being able to cheer him up. And yet, that person dared to pick up the phone casually, demanding explanations and saying he was his boyfriend.

"Mind your business," Bokuto replied harshly, "and answer my question."

"We're friends," Oikawa replied sincerely. "That's it. I know I've gotten in the middle of your relationship, but I didn't mean to."

"I don't care if it wasn't your intention, you did it anyway." A strange giggle sounded on the speaker and Oikawa felt a chill. Bokuto was laughing? "But don't worry," Bokuto continued, "I took it upon myself last night to fulfill Tetsuro's last night drunken wishes."

"What do you mean?" Oikawa asked in a shrill voice.

"I left evidence on his body that he's still mine," Bokuto replied. "He asked for it himself."

"He was DRUNK," Oikawa yelled with a sick face. "Did you touch him without him being aware of what he was doing?"

"He went to great lengths to convince me that he was maintaining a bit of reasoning in his drunken state," Bokuto replied with a shrug.

Oikawa took a deep breath and tried to put his thoughts in order. He tightened the sheet that covered his legs and remembered Kuroo's pained face when Oikawa came to his dressing room after Bokuto broke up with him. That wasn't the face of someone who would ask their ex-boyfriend for sex while sober, and Oikawa knew it.

"You're wrong about Kuro-chan," he whispered, with his heart in a fist. "And Kuro-chan is wrong about you. You're breaking each other, can't you see that?"

"So you do want him for yourself," Bokuto said. Oikawa could hear him clenching his teeth.

"No," replied the brunet. "I want him for himself. I'm just a friend, I've already told you. I've never been in a relationship but I know perfectly well that what you and Kuro-chan do to each other is not how a relationship works. Relationships need support."