Ezra pointed to himself as if making sure. “Me? My life mostly revolves around volleyball.” He chuckled as he placed his hand on his chin. “Is that boring? Maybe I should find another hobby.” His eyes look like they disappear whenever he laughs, and it was something I didn’t expect would be something I wanted to see.
What’s wrong with me? Why am I having these kinds of thoughts? I was flustered when his eyes met mine and made me avert my gaze.
“How about you? How did you end up liking volleyball?”
My gaze slowly went back to him after he asked that. “S-Someone important likes it… that’s why I ended up liking it too.” I still couldn’t look at him for longer than a minute. Though my fri
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I tilted my head. Why is Ezra stuttering? "Yeah. He's my only friend."Ezra sighed out of relief which I couldn't understand.What was that for?"Is that so? I could be your friend too." We arrived in front of our room, and he opened the door for me after he said that."Can I also be your friend?" He asked as we got inside.I stared at him. Even though it was dark, I could still catch a glimpse of his face. I'm trying to figure out if he's serious with what he's saying.Why would he want to become friends with me though? It's not like I'm someone important or anything like
Hearing those words causes me to smile as I avert my gaze. Am I delighted with what I heard? Is this what they call happiness? I actually don't understand, but I can't stop smiling either. "I'm still lacking, but thank you for your compliment.""But I'm not complimenting you."I froze after hearing that.W-What? Did I misunderstand things again? Did I assume that he was complimenting me because the word 'amazing' sounds like a compliment?H-How am I supposed to say anything back now? I don't know what to do. It's too embarrassing to look at him now. This is why I shouldn't assume things too soon."I'm just stating facts. Y
I chuckled. I'm slowly getting used to Ezra's presence. "Mitch was the one who suggested to play a game in the first place.""Mitch chose to leave you here? That's super rare."It's not like Mitch should stay by my side all the time. He has his own life to enjoy. "It's good that he's having fun. Mitch's been waiting for this trip with pure excitement and cheers. That's why he's disappointed because of the rain."Ezra nodded as he sat beside me on my bed. "Then what about you? What do you want to do?"I shrugged. What can we do in this weather and this condition? "It's not about what I want to do. There's nothing I can do in this condition. I could only sit here and stare at not
"Really? That's great! I could see how delighted Ezra was even though I haven't let him see Chewy yet. "Uhmm, do you want to see some pictures?" He nodded lots of times after I'd asked him that, but then I remembered that my phone was still charging. "M-My phone's still charging," I said as I pointed to the other desk where I placed my phone since it's near the outlet. "I'll check if it's already full," Ezra suggested as he went towards the desk and opened my phone. "Is this your cat?" He quickly turned to me with a massive smile on his face while holding my phone. Right, I remember using Chewy's face as my lock screen. "So cute! Oh, it's already fully charged."
"Alexis?" I grunt as I hear Lean calling for my name again. What's her problem this time? She always disturbs my sleep as if it's the most normal thing she can do. "Alexis, we're here." I opened my eyes upon realizing that it wasn't Lean's voice. I felt the embarrassment seeping into my body after realizing that I had fallen asleep on Ezra's shoulder, and he was the one calling my name. Wait, did I drool on him?I immediately wiped the corner of my mouth and was relieved after noticing that there wasn't a drool there.Thank goodness. I would have died due to shame if I did dro
It took me a whole week just to recover from the injury I got from the school trip. Talk about dramatic. Lean told me to rest for a while, so I couldn't work at all, and Lean didn't have any choice but to cancel everything in Lia's schedule without telling anyone about what happened to her. People must be thinking again that she's overly mysterious. Though that's just what I thought— Anyway, Armin became the temporary setter for the team. I'm so glad Ezra helped me explain how that injury happened to me, though it led to them complaining to him. He basically said that it was his fault why that incident happened. All I could do the whole week was watch all of them train on the side. It's not bad at all, watching on the sidelines, that is. I see h
The next day arrived, and just like what I said yesterday, I paid our family doctor a visit. "Your ankle's fully healed now, but you should still be careful, okay?" Said Doctor Michael. He's our family doctor who is a close friend of mom and dad. He stood up from his seat as he was about to put down his stethoscope, but upon witnessing that I still hadn't left my seat, he looked back at me. "Is there anything else, Ion?" I gulped as I hesitated to tell about my heart disease, or so I think? But I'm getting anxious because my heart gets weird often. "I… My heart feels weird." Doctor Michael grabbed his stethoscope as he sat back on his chair again. "Could you elaborate that?"&
It's not just Jasper anymore. The guy I was trying to find turns out to be the same guy who wants to become my friend. But the good part here is I can watch his every move, and I'll threaten him right away if he ever tries to reveal Lia's secret. That's it, that's what I'm going to do. As long as Ezra doesn't figure out who I really am, then it'll be fine. I can still protect this secret. "Sorry for my brother's mistake." Ebony made Ezra bow his head again as she smiled at me. "We'll go now." I nodded after Ebony said that, and she pulled Ezra, who's still out of it, away from where I was. When they disappeared from my sight, as if something was pulled out of my chest, I could breathe freely again.
Alexis's POV I woke after I felt light touching my face, which made me grunt. I wanted to get up, but I felt Ezra's hand wrapped around my waist. "This guy, really," I muttered as I tried to get his arm off, but before I could even get up properly, I felt my waist hurting like it was about to break off. In the end, I couldn't get up, which led me to feel annoyed. "You should really learn how to control yourself." Ezra chuckled as he snuggled on my back. "My bad. It's been so long since we last did it, and I just came back from our competition in Los Angeles." He said those could be used as a proper excuse for fucking me until I passed out. "Hey, you're not mad, are you?" He asked as he made me turn around, but I groaned due to pain as soon as my back touched the bed. All I could
Mitch's POV"Mitch, would you like to go out with me?"I was dumbfounded after hearing Dwight ask me that after our practice. "What are you on? Are you drunk?" I asked as I raised an eyebrow at him, which caused him to laugh. The other members that were cleaning after training were looking at us."I'm not drunk. I really like you, even though I liked girls before." Dwight had this sheepish expression on his face as he smiled at me widely. "I really want to—" He was cut off after Royce stood in between us.Joaquin followed as he wrapped his arm around Dwight's shoulder. "What are you doing, dude? You already know that Royce's head-over-
I was so nervous when I sat on the soft and comfy bed. "May I kiss you again?" Ezra kept asking for permission, and I kept nodding to allow him to do whatever it was he wanted.I want to kiss him too.We were dismissed too early today that it wasn't even sunset yet. Ezra was staring at my lips as if he needed to quench his thirst, and it gave me shivers down my spine. He placed his hand on my waist as he pulled me closer to him. The moment his lips touched mine felt like I was electrified, even though it wasn't the first time it happened.I don't know if I'm doing great to match his pace, and as we continued kissing, all I could hear were the lewd sounds, making me so flustered to the point of pushing Ezra away.
I stayed the whole night in Mitch's place, and Andre was the one that delivered me some clothes and other necessities I needed. It seems like our mother's still going on with her rampage, and I wouldn't be able to come home yet.I actually like this better. I'm always uncomfortable being at home anyway. Today, Mitch apologized to everyone and coach Alfred for ditching practice yesterday without any excuse. Though we thought he'd be receiving severe punishment, coach Alfred let it go since he knew how sincere Mitch was with his apology. "So that's what happened." Mitch and I looked at each other while waiting for Jade's reaction after explaining what happened yesterday. "Wow, a lot happened
I looked up, and my eyes widened after seeing Royce. "What are you doing?" Why is he still here? I thought he had gone home already before me? I was too flustered that I immediately stood up. "Are you waiting for the captain?" Royce asked, which made me shake my head many times."Please don't tell anyone that you saw me here."Royce tilted his head as he looked down, and I quickly tried to hide my shoes that I couldn't wear properly. "I won't ask anything else, but if you're planning to stay out here, why don't you just go to your best friend's house?"I instantly thanked Royce for that and bid him goodbye. I was too distracted by my problem that I forgot I had Mitch.I just hope he will accept me.&nb
"What are you talking about, Tiffany?"Tiffany giggled after being asked like that by Ezra. "Are you playing dumb, captain? Wasn't it you who said about Alexis being your boyfriend— And what was it? Mitch's not interested in girls?" Her eyes twinkled, and I didn't know what to say. "Then why is he hanging around with that third-year girl?" She placed her hand on her chin and looked at us."What do you want?"Tiffany looked at Ezra with uninterested eyes. "Nothing much. Just stay out of my way, and I'll do the same." She said as she looked at me with a smile. "You wouldn't want your mom to learn about this, wouldn't you?" I was frozen in shock after she mentioned that. Why is she talking about my mom?
The training camp ended without any problem, although my body was in pain after the training with the Golden Bell warriors. Right, they've been training with us side by side. Though I wonder why when we're the teams that always compete right before the championship, where the only one between us could get into that said championship.It didn't matter since we should already know what we needed to work on after playing against our greatest rivals. Even though we were going to play against each other soon, the players on the other team didn't look so bad, in fact, they even helped us learn lots of things. They're too kind, or maybe they're content because they think we wouldn't be able to win against them?However, during that training camp, I noticed that Liliana received even more bullying than before. I don't kn
Alexis’s POV“That’s all for today. We won’t be having rigorous training for now since we’ll be having the training camp soon.” Those were coach Alfred’s last words before dismissing us.“Lexi! Let’s go home together.” Mitch called up to me. That reminds me, I still haven’t told him about my relationship with Ezra. “You wouldn’t be coming home with Ezra again today, wouldn’t you? Honestly, what’s going on with you two?”“Actually—““Ah! Lili! What happened to you?”
Jade's POVI heard a knock on my door while drawing on my tablet. "Go away." It's probably Gelo again. I don't have the time to deal with him right now, but instead of following what I said, Angelo opened the door to my room which made me look in his direction. "What the hell? I said go away. I'm busy."My younger brother, Angelo, didn't listen again, and instead, he sat on my bed. Purposively pissing me off.This goddamn brat."I thought you weren't going to join any clubs? Why are you joining the boys' volleyball club as a manager? Ion was there too; did you know that?" This brat really kept on getting on my nerves the past few days.