"Did you put this in my bag?" asked Tsukishima, gesturing to the card that he held.

Yachi's jaw dropped. She thought nobody had seen her. In the gym, she had tried to stealthily walk to Tsukishima's bag and had peered around to make sure nobody saw what she was doing. But now she knew that she had obviously failed.

"Yes," she said hastily, panicking. She didn't know what to do. She mentally blamed her classmate, Yumi, for asking her do this. She didn't know how he'd react to knowing that she was sneaking around his gym bag.

Yumi had a huge crush on Tsukishima. According to her friends, she had a thing for tall guys with glasses, so of course, he fit the bill. But Yumi didn't have the guts to speak to him, so she asked Yachi to give him the card. Yachi didn't want to give the card to him, so she thought it was a good idea to put it in his bag.

"Are you free after volleyball practice today?" asked Tsukishima.

Yachi blinked a couple of times before she replied confused, "Yes...?"

"Okay. Wait for me after practice," he said.

That was strange. She thought he'd be mad for going into his bag. "Oh, okay. But why?"

Tsukishima shrugged. "I don't know. We can grab some food. Maybe watch a movie. I don't know what I'm really supposed to do," he said without much excitement in his voice.

Yachi nodded. "Sure...," she said, although she didn't feel very sure at all.

The bell rang, signalling that their lunch break was over.

"You know," Tsukishima added as he got up, "you should make sure to write your name on the card. I only knew that it was from you because Yamaguchi told me."

"Oh, okay," Yachi said in a daze. "I'll do that next time."

But it wasn't until after Tsukishima left that she realized what had just happened

*******

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Yachi's friends weren't fazed at all by her antics. Screaming at random times was something that was the norm for Yachi. Her brain often dreamed up fairly outrageous scenarios and they simply thought that this was likely another one of those.

"Mei-chan," Yachi cried to her best friend. "What do I do~~~?"

Mei smirked at her. "What happened this time?"

"I think I accidentally confessed to someone!" Yachi said with tears streaming from her eyes.

Mei had to blink a few times before what she said actually registered in her brain. Then she laughed out loud. "You never told me you liked someone. So whom did you confess to?"

Yachi shook her head. "No- no. It's not like that. Umm... you see... uhh...," she shifted her eyes nervously, "someone thought I confessed to him because I gave him a card which contained... someone else's confession."

Mei initially tried to hold in her laughter, but that failed. She slapped Yachi on the back a couple of times. "How do you get yourself into these situations?"

"What do you mean? This has never happened before!"

"So who's the lucky guy?" Mei asked while stifling her giggle.

"Uhh... someone on the volleyball team..."

Mei gave her a smile. "Seems like things have gotten interesting for you once you became a manager for their volleyball team."

Yachi sighed. It definitely has been. She reminisced on her experience as a manager. At the beginning, she didn't understand a lot of the volleyball terms and height of all the players scared her. But now, with some of Tsukishima's help, she knew how to record notes for their matches and learned how to tape up the players' hands.

The two of them had gotten closer recently. Yachi could actually have a conversation with Tsukishima now. But she really didn't want to explain that his assumption was a mistake. She did put the card in his bag but she didn't write it.

Yachi didn't know what to do. The last thing she wanted was for things to get awkward between them. It would make things more complicated.