Smile For Me
Sometimes, like now,
thinks why she actually agreed on this relationship. It was sheer torture, to her, to be Atobe Keigo's girlfriend.
Atobe Keigo is a narcissistic, egoistic, arrogant, spoilt and pampered prince of Hyotei Gakuen. Did I mention he is also the captain of Hyotei’s tennis club for boys, which is voted the most popular club yearly?
is a hot-tempered, strong headed and captain of Fudomine Chuu’s tennis club for girls. Fudomine Chuu’s girls’ tennis club is a black horse, like the boys’ tennis team which had ‘miraculously’ got into the nationals. Not that
agreed that it was miraculous. They earned it. The price to get into nationals is weeks of daily training menu that she made herself.
Really, what have they got to do with each other anyway? They are from rival schools, in different districts, with different characters and it seemed crazy how these two people can come together. Besides,
was in charge of the girls’ team obviously while Atobe was in charge of the boys’, how did they get to know each other?
Well, it all started with Atobe. He was the one who asked her out on a date first. Why did
agree, she didn't know. Did she actually love, or even like the egoistic, pampered prince of Hyotei, that she agreed?
***
It was actually a very fine sunny day. It was a fine day to go out with your best friends. It was a fine day to eat a burger and slurp on a nice cold coke and, a fine day to play tennis at the neighbourhood tennis courts. Nothing would go wrong on that day, and nothing had. In fact, she had been very lucky. Her neighbour had given her some blueberry pies that morning, she had won a new iPod nano from the lucky draw at the burger joint and she got Kamio to go out with her to play tennis at the neighbourhood tennis courts. Her cousin was normally occupied with his own tennis menu that Tachibana-san gave him, so it must be a very lucky day
had thought.
As she stepped onto the neighbourhood courts, she thought his luck must have been used up for that day (luck can be used up?). There he was, the Atobe Keigo, sitting on the side benches, with some of his teammates there.
***
, being Kamio’s cousin and captain of the girls’ tennis teams, had of course been to the boys’ tournaments to cheer them on whenever the schedule does not clash with the girls’ matches. That is where she first met Atobe Keigo.
It was the match that Hyotei lost to Fudomine.
walked out of the tennis court during Tachibana’s game to get herself a ponta. It was pointless to watch the game knowing very well that Tachibana would definitely win the game. As she made her way there, she found herself blocked by a huge group of girls screaming their lungs out near the vending machine. As there was no way to get to the vending machine by going round the group,
pushed her way through the crowd, ignoring the glares that others shot at her. All she wants is a can of cool ponta. As she got in front of the crowd, she got pushed by the squealing fan girls behind. ‘Damned!’ thought
as she tripped and fell forward. However, having been a tennis player at the age of 5, with her quick reflexes she stretched her hand out and put one of her legs bend in front of the other to brace and balance herself so she wouldn’t fall face-first to the ground.
Silence ensued. Then some girls giggled while some were whispering comments on
, loud enough for
herself to hear.
“How stupid”
“Did you see that?”
“Yeah! It’s totally dumb!”
“…”
was frustrated. All she wanted is to get a drink, just to find a group of fan girls blocking her way when they themselves do not need a drink. Now when they had caused the accident, none of them came up to help her. The nerve of them!
As she stumbled to get up, someone stretched out a hand to pull her up. Although
was not happy that someone had pulled her up so roughly, she was kind of glad that someone actually cared to help.
She got up with the help from a stranger and as she brushed the dust off her she looked up to find herself facing a guy in Hyotei uniform staring at her.
had to admit that this guy is actually gorgeous, and had an overpowering aura around him that captivated her. She blushed while trying to stammer a soft thank you only to find herself hearing the guy said, ”Ar~n? Haven’t you looked at ore-sama enough?” Then screams of the fan girls could be heard.
twitched and flung his hand off and glared at him. Who does this guy thinks he is?! It seems like he is the one here causing trouble. Those fan girls must be after him since he is the only one there besides the tall guy behind him, which doesn’t look attractive like he does.
“That is not how you treat someone who helped you. Right, Kabaji?”
“Usu,” replied the tall guy..
twitched again. She was pissed. ‘So what if he helped her up? So what is he looks attractive? So what if he had a group of fan girls after him? His attitude is terrible!’ thought
. ‘Wait. They are from Hyotei? Then they must be here for the Fudomine-Hyotei match. See whether you can take the defeat you arrogant idiot?!’ With that, she smirked and turned around to the vending machine and purchased her drink, then left without saying anything.
That was the first time she met Atobe Keigo. She doesn’t even know his name. The second time he saw him was after the match when
went to find Kamio and Ibu together while she passed him. She gave him the smirk again and walked off only to find herself stopped by him.
“Ore-sama’s name is Atobe Keigo. Your name is?”
’s smirk disappeared for a second when she was being stopped, but it reappeared again.
“Why do I have to tell you my name? Ar~n?”
***
smiled as she recapped what happened. 'Sometimes it was sheer torture to be with him, like now, but sometimes he gives me good memories.'
thought. Waiting for Atobe outside Hyotei Gakuen for their date on a extremely cold Sunday morning (it's winter, guys) in a long sleeved shirt and jeans with a scarf and her sling bag, her cold hands holding an ipod nano almost out of battery, was sheer torture.
"Oi! What are you doing over there? Let's go."
heard behind her, the familiar egoistic tone of Atobe Keigo as she turned around. Atobe, standing there with his branded long sleeves shirt with black pants in a long overcoat, looks completely dashing. He walked over and planted a small kiss on
's chapped lips and gave her a smile. It's not a smirk when Atobe's planning something, not an egoistic smile when he wins a match, not the polite smile that he gave to his fan girls, but a gentle, small smile. A smile that is gentle and sincere, that only she,
, Atobe's official girlfriend, knows.
blushed, and followed Atobe towards his limo. It was sheer torture to be Atobe's girlfriend, but sometimes it is rewarding.
End
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