The next morning you wake up to a piercing alarm noise.

"Shit," Tsukishima says as he shoots out of bed.

"What's wrong?"

You watch as grabs his glasses and searches the room for something. Eventually, he finds his phone and picks it up.

"Fuck."

"What is it?" you ask again.

Tsukishima sits down next to you. You watch him as you wait for an answer.

"I usually walk to school with Yamaguchi and I forgot to tell him not to come over this morning. He's already on his way over."

You watch at Tsukishima takes in a deep breath.

"You better get ready for school."

As he says those words, you finally recognize what's going on. You immediately get up and gather your clothes. As you're rushing around, Tsukishima laughs at you.

"What's so funny?" you snap, "You know Tadashi's going to recognize right away what happened, yeah?"

"So," he shrugs "he was going to find out eventually."

Your face heats up and you turn around as you begin to get dressed.

"Calm down, Y/N," he laughs "It's not a big deal."

"Fine," you sigh "where's your bathroom."

"Two doors over on the right."

You run out of the room, half-dressed, with the rest of your clothes in your arms. As you run, you bump into another tall figure.

"Hey watch out you don't want to fall," you hear the man tease playfully.

You look up into the man's brown eyes and back up a bit until you bump into someone behind you.

"Morning, Kei," the man smiles, "who's your friend?"

"This is, Y/N," you hear Kei say from behind you.

The man in front of you gives you a huge smile.

"Nice to meet you, Y/N. I'm Akiteru, Kei's big brother."

Kei? Akiteru? He's got a big brother?! I thought nobody was around last night.

"N-Nice to meet you," you reply nervously.

"Kei I didn't know you had a girlfriend?" Akiteru continues to tease.

"Um well, I'm just going to use the bathroom," you squeak as you walk past Akiteru.

Once you get inside you quickly lock the door and lean against it. You sink down until you're sitting on the floor. You wrap your hands around your legs.

Holy shit what the hell did his brother even hear last night...

You're putting on your shoes as Tsukishima walks out the front door. You hear Tadashi call out to him.

"Hey look Yamaguchi I need to tell you-" you hear Tsukki begin to tell his friend.

However, you walk out in an untimely manner and Tadashi's jaw almost drops to the group, causing Tsukishima to stop his sentence.

"Tsukki!" he says as he looks back over at him "you didn't tell me-"

"Shut up," Tsukishima whispers back.

"Hi Tadashi!" you say as you pull him into a hug.

"G-Good morning Y-Y/N," he stutters in response.

You giggle at his nervousness and follow them to school, you and Tsukishima standing on either side of Tadashi.

"So how come Y/N stayed over at your house?" you hear Tadashi whisper to his friend.

"She fell asleep during homework," you hear Tsukishima lie.

Suddenly you break out in laugher, immediately covering your mouth once you notice what you've done.

"What's so funny?" Tadashi asks as he looks over at you.

"Nothing," you say as you shake your head.

Tadashi looks back over at Tsukishima. You can tell he's giving him a death glare since Tsukishima groans before giving his friend a different explanation.

"I wanted to let Y/N stay over, okay?" he says a bit frustrated.

After a minute of silence, you look over and see Tadashi whispering something to Tsukishima yet again, but you can't hear what he's saying.

"Yeah," Tsukishima groans in response.

Tadashi looks over at you and you see his face as red as a tomato.

"You okay?" you ask worriedly.

Tadashi violently nods his head and looks away from you again.

You groan to yourself, knowing he's embarrassed because he knows what happened.

Once you get to school, you sit down in your usual seat. As class starts you can't help but yell internally at yourself for not confessing to Tsukishima. You look over at him watching Kaji-sensei's instructions.

Fuck. I should have talked to him about it. I know Kiyoko is going to ask me once practice starts about how it went.

You look away from Tsukishima and back to your teacher. You listen to the lesson, bored out of your mind even though you're only half-listening.

I've got to talk to him before practice starts.

During lunch, the boys come over to your desk to sit with you.

"Hi," you say cheerfully as they sit down.

You watch as Tadashi gives you a small smile. When he notices that you're looking at him a bit confused, his face turns bright red again.

"You okay Tadashi?" you ask "you're being unusually quiet and your face is beat red. Do you want me to take you to the infirmary?"

Tadashi shakes his head no and opens up his bento box. You look over at Tsukishima for help, but see he has been eating his food and ignoring the situation. You roll your eyes and grab your bento box. As you eat, you feel a bit awkward. You can practically feel his eyes staring a hole through your body.

Once Tsukishima finishes eating he gets up to throw out his trash and you take this moment to talk to Tadashi.

"Okay what's your problem?" you ask him the second Tsukishima's back faces you.

"Nothing," he mumbles while keeping his head down.

"Why do you keep looking at me with your face bright red all of the time?"

"T-Tsukishima told me that..."

He trails off as he sees Tsukishima coming back to the table.

"Do you want me to tutor you, Shoyo, and Tobio later?" you whisper before Tsukishima gets back.

Tadashi nods as Tsukishima sits back down, his face once again turning red.

After school, you run up to Tadashi and Tsukishima as they're approaching the gym.

I've got to do it now.

"Tsukki!" you yell as you approach the boys, "I've got to talk to you for a sec!"

You pull Tsukishima around the corner of the gym.

"Don't pull me like that, stupid," Tsukishima yells once he's away from Tadashi.

Once he's done lecturing, you look him in the eyes and get nervous.

"N-Nevermind," you say as you walk towards the gym.

"I'm not done with you," Tsukishima growls as he grabs your arm and pulls you back to him, "You were so desperate to say something to me so just spit it out, Y/N."

You feel your face flush red as you try to come up with a way to bring up the subject.

"R-Really Tsukki it's nothing," you stutter.

Tsukishima pushes you up against the wall of the gym.

"What'd I say about calling me that?" he snaps.

"S-Sorry," you mumble.

"Whatever," he groans as he takes his hands off of you.

You take a deep breath in and try to restore all of your courage.

"Tsukki!" you yell out to him before mumbling, "I-I like you."

You keep your eyes fixated on his unchanging facial expression.

"I know," he sighs.

"W-What?" you say surprised at his answer.

"I've always known you like me, Y/N, I'm not stupid."

"U-Uh," you stutter, embarrassed at his reaction.

You start to walk to the gym before you turn back around.

"Hey Tsukki," you call back to him, "you're such a bad liar."

When you turn around, you see a light pink dust across his face.

Is he blushing?

His state has caused you to be at a loss of words. Tsukishima begins to walk towards you.

"I feel the same way," he says as he walks past.