"Ah, I'm afraid not! I was thinking of trying out for the football team but Ishida-san decided that I was too gay to be allowed to do that, so, you know."

"Kid, what you do on your free time is none of my business, you've got hands."

Everything sounds like an innuendo right now for some reason. You have hands!

Handsome, just say the word and I'll show you exactly what I can do with these hands.

"Very enlightened of you."

"It'd be fun, and the team would appreciate having someone like you. If that wasn't a fluke."

Haru, over in the corner, bursts into quiet giggles.

"It wasn't! I've got good reflexes."

"Then show up for practice tomorrow. And don't worry about Ashikaga, I'll kick his ass if he makes any kind of fuss about it."

"—hey!"

"I saw the way you threw that ball," he says, acidly. "You could've hurt someone, even if not Iwasaki. Stop being such an asshole and grow up."

The teacher arrives, then, stopping Ashikaga from saying whatever it was that he had been going to say next.

Well that went differently than last time.

Nakao seems like good people.

Yeah, he does. I didn't really get to know him last time.

I guess he didn't do anything about the ball-throwing when it didn't look like you'd be an asset?

I got into a rude standoff with Ashikaga so I probably didn't look as cool then, even if he wanted to step in I was too busy being kind of a bitch.

A rude standoff?

I was sniping rudely at him, he was sniping rudely at me, it was all in good fun. I guess it wasn't much of a standoff because the teacher showed up just after I'd gotten a good jab in so I won but we kept doing that every time we ran into each other for the rest of the month.

How enriching?

It was fun, I'm not gonna lie.

No accounting for taste.

Well, in order to preserve karmic balance, I need to have strange tastes in hobbies so that I'm allowed to have the best of tastes in men.

Quiet giggling.

"What's got you so amused, Suwan?" somebody calls.

"I just thought of something funny!"

Getting a reaction out of you is so addictive. I wish I could stop time at will just so I could kiss you.