oo4. ⛅️🦢🏐 ↬ SO YOU DONT CARE ?
— until you work with her !

Sonmi had never imagined herself opening her eyes to be surrounded by several boys. All their eyes darted around her body, from her face to her legs, all their faces had looks of worry and fear when they looked at her. The young girl was never a fan of attention, whether, in a good or bad way, she hated when all eyes were on her. As soon as she opened her eyes to see the plethora of boys hovering over her, she sat up.

"She lives!" Tanaka yelled, causing all the boys to almost let out a sigh of relief.

Sonmi scooched back from the boys, she had been confused, unsure of what exactly was happening, "Why are you- Why is everyone...what happened?" She couldn't even finish any sentence due to the fact that her head started pounding. Her hand went up to her head, "Ow," She felt a bump, "Why does my head hurt?"

"Maybe because that idiot over there smacked a volleyball right in your face." Kageyama spoke, his head signaling over to Tsukishima who had been sitting away from the rest of the team.

"He did what?" Sonmi asked, her face turned red with anger, her tone now dropped from confused to infatuated.

Asahi smiled, backing away slightly from the girl, "Yeah, I think he took our insults a little too seriously," He spoke, holding out ice to the girl, "We have ice though, and Daichi gonna give him a stern talking to. He's gonna apologize soon hopefully."

"Yeah right, have you met the guy? You'll be lucky if he even acknowledges what he did." Noya butted in, he looked at Asahi and laughed, "But at least you're being hopeful for your girlfriend." He put his hand on the tall boys' back, still laughing.

"Cut it, Noya, she's not my girlfriend. I'm just trying to be nice, she got hurt." He stated simply.

Tsukishima could see the rest of his team blabbering like idiots, he hadn't seen what was so wrong with what he did, it was an honest mistake. There had been more times than he could count where Kageyama set the ball right into Hinatas face. He stood by himself in silence with his water bottle in his hand, grimacing alone. The boy hadn't understood what he did wrong, he sat and thought of all the reasons as to why it was wrong, and could only think of one; it was because Sonmi was a girl.

"You okay?"

Tsuskshima looked over his shoulder, seeing Tadashi had now been standing next to him. The boy wasn't sure why Tadashi cared about him so much, but he always was there on Tsukishimas' side, no matter the circumstances, "Of course I'm fine, I didn't do anything wrong."

Tadashi looked over at the boy, he then looked down back at his gym bag, "You really think you did nothing wrong."

"Of course I didn't, it's just because she's a girl. None of you guys seem to interact with those so you guys will always go the lengths to defend her and make me look like the bad guy." Tsukishima could feel his blood boil, his nerves tense up, and his eyes felt as if they were gonna pop out of his head.

Quickly, the team had taken notice of Tsukishimas' mood change, as well as his tone. This caused heads to turn, Nishinoya, Kami, and Tanaka all exchanged semi-concerned looks with each other. Daichi sighed and put his hand on his face before he walked over to the pair of boys, this caused Suga and Asahi to give each other looks of concern.

Daichi approached the two, standing before them, his face read pure anger and disappointment. His eyes locked with Tsukishima, he pulled him by the arm, dragging him out of the gym towards the doors, leading the two outside.

"What are you doing?" Tsukishima shouted at the older boy, trying to force his hand out of Daichi grip.

"Do you even feel remotely bad about what you did?" Daichi asked, his face now turning a bright red, "She's literally just looking for help, she's an absolute ball of nerves, and she came here for help. Only for you to slam a volleyball in her face."

"It was an accident-"

Daichi cut him off before Tsukishima could even defend himself, "Oh bullshit!" He looked at the blonde, seeing his face was now a little more shocked, "Do you have something against her? Middle school drama or something? I don't get your animosity towards Sonmi! She's five foot three, I mean come on!" Daichi looked at Tsukishima once again, his face still read blank, he had nothing to say, he sighed, "Look, I know you've got a snarly attitude towards people, but your attitude towards that girl is something I've never seen from you. I don't even know how I'm gonna punish you for this behavior... I just wanna know why you did it."

Tsukishima listened as his captain chewed him out, not really paying all that much attention to what he was saying, all he could do was think to himself, "Why do I have to have something against her? Why do I have to be nice to her? I don't even know her, she just shows up and gets special treatment? Just because she's some girl?" He shook his head, clearing his thoughts before he spoke, "I did it by accident."

Daichis' face dropped, he had some faith that Tsukishima would finally own up to what he did, but, alas he did not, "Okay," He paused, now realizing there was no nerve in trying to reason with him, "Even if it was an accident, it was wrong and still hurt her. You're going to have to apologize."

"Okay." Tsukishima said blankly, he took his glasses off to clean them as he walked back inside the gymnasium.

Daichi stared where Tsukishima once stood, angry and confused. He took a deep breath in, put a smile on his face, and walked behind the tall blonde.

"Does your head still hurt at all?" Kami asked, placing an ice pack on her head again, "Your forehead looks swollen."

"I'm okay, it hurts a little but I'm sure I'll be okay." Sonmi warmly smiled back at the girl, it was nice to have a companion on the team, bonus points for it to be a girl.

Tsukishima was seen out of the corner of everyones' eye, slowly making his way toward the group of teens. He could feel his feet getting heavier as he got closer to the group, he could not stand for the fact he was about to apologize, and clearly, his body didn't agree with it either. He paused in his tracks, standing before everyone, taking a sigh of defeat.

"Are you just gonna stand there or say something?" Kageyama decided to break the silence, he stood far from Tsukishima, his arms crossed and his tone read annoyed.

Tsukishima bit his tongue, he knew saying anything else would only make it worse for himself. Sure, among this team he wasn't exactly everyones' best friend, but he'd rather not be sat on the bench, so apologizing will at least keep him in the starting line up, "I'm sorry."

Sonmi eyed the boy, her eyebrow quirked up, "Really?" She knew the boys talked about how Tsukishima was gonna apologize, but based on how he acted before, she didn't actually expect him to do it.

"Yes." He stated, "I'm sorry."

"Now see, was that so hard?" Daichi smiled at the boy, he placed his hand on Tsukishimas shoulder, "Now, since you apologized and patched things up, I hope you're happy to hear you're gonna be Sonmis' partner in getting her to be the best middle blocker there is. You know this is sorta your punishment for doing it in the first place."

Tsukishima suddenly looked over at Daichi, then back at Sonmi, "You're joking right? I'm not gonna help her, she's hopeless!"

"Oh wow, I'm right here you know?" Sonmi cried, she didn't wanna admit that the insults had begun to get to her. Normally the girl could brush off any bad remark made about her, but somehow Tsukishima just strikes a nerve in the girl that she can't explain. She was so angry she could feel tears begin to form in her eyes. She let out a sniffle causing her to catch some of the teams attention.

"So, you don't care if I just let you be benched until you work with her?" Daichi asked, he had a smile on his face, he knew exactly what he was doing.

That smile drove Tsukishima crazy, Daichi was doing this to punish him, but this felt worse than a ounishment, more like a hell senetnce. Being forced to spend time with someone he found insufferable, let alone a girl that thinks' she's better than everyone else. He shot a glance at Sonmi, he noticed Asahi and Kami at her side as tears streamed down her face. Tsukishima then Daichi before storming out of the gym in a fit of anger.

ELLE SPEAKS !
hi besties sorry for the long wait on this chapter! hope you like it!! i'm planning so much more angst! vote and comment yas! <3