Party

Madoka's POV

"That'll be it for today!" yelled Coach Yamoto

I haven't been doing cardio in such a long time that I was sweating a lot and Coach gathered both the boys team and girls team around.

"Good work everyone, since I like my teams a lot I'll treat all of you to some food, how does that sound?" asked Coach Yamoto

Everyone cheered except for me and Kenji, in fact Kenji grabbed his stuff and left without even saying a word but Coach Yamoto stopped him.

"Where do you think you're going?" asked Coach Yamoto

"Back to my dorm." he replied

"This is a team bonding, you have to come." he said

"I have papers due." he replied

I could tell he was lying just from the way he looked around.

"I'll talk to your teacher don't worry about that." he replied

Seeing that there's no other escape route Kenji closed the door and rejoined the group.

"Get ready and meet me outside." said Coach Yamoto

The team cheered and rushed to the locker room but I stayed behind a bit to watch Kenji drop his stuff on the floor and Coach Yamoto pulled him aside.

I decided to pretend to clean up and gather my stuff while eavesdropping on them.

"What's wrong with you? Did something happen you seem like a changed man." said Coach Yamoto

"I act like a changed man? Sorry about that, there's nothing going on." he replied

"Well that's it, we're here for you if there's something troubling you." said Coach Yamoto

Kenji left into the locker room so I quickly left, showered and got changed into my regular outfit. And left with my team towards the front gate of the school. Ayaka kept glaring at me which I still don't understand why she's not talking to me about it but I just dropped it once Homura's arm wrapped around me.

"Let's party!" yelled Homura

I looked behind and saw the boys approaching us, most of them had a sense of fashion except for Kenji, he was just wearing a plain hoodie with black jeans and vans.

'Typical.'

"Where's Coach?" asked a boy who looked like a freshman

"He's not coming, but he entrusted us to use his card wisely. But don't worry rookie, we'll be using my card when we get to the karaoke." said Homura

Everyone cheered so we headed into the city, Tokyo, the capital of Japan. The bright city lights were amazing, a lot of people were here at night and we were filled with energy.

We entered this sushi restaurant and took off our shoes and entered a reserved room with cushions for our seats. I sat next to Homura at the front of the table and when I looked over Kenji sat at the back, next to someone but no one in front of him.

We began ordering food and talking, normally I don't like to interact with anyone but I just had to tag along and talk since there was no other choice.

The food started coming and we all started eating, the boys were eating like monsters, laughing and shouting at each other. Homura was having the most fun out of all of them, laughing and making jokes that weren't funny but were funny to others.

I peacefully ate my food but I could feel Ayaka glare at me so when I looked at her she looked away but then she looked towards Kenji and I remembered Homura telling me that Kenji liked her.

I just quietly ate for a while until I started getting a phone call and it was from Kikotei.

"Who's that?" asked Homura

"A childhood friend." I replied

I wanted to accept it but Homura laughed and declined my call and it kind of ticked me off but I just put my phone away.

I began to feel full so I stopped eating while others continued laughing. Bored, I decided to examine Homura a bit, his brown hair, short trimmed beard, brown eyes, the more I look at him the more I get attracted to him.

But the Homura looked at Kenji and chuckled a bit before grabbing a metal cup and throwing it to Kenji, hitting the side of his head. Kenji sat still while everyone laughed at him, but I felt bad, even though he was a liar I felt sympathy.

'Wait what am I saying? You're not supposed to have sympathy for him.'

So there I was chuckling as well.

"Hey get us our check." said Homura

Without arguing Kenji got up and left the room and everyone burst into laughter once he did that.

"He can't do jackshit." laughed one of the boys.

"Damn he's so bad at basketball now, even my grandma can do better." said the girl taller than me

Everyone laughed at her remark but I just pretended to enjoy what was going on. But then the checkbook hit the side of Homura's head and he fell to the side and clutched his head in pain.

I looked over and saw Kenji standing there with his arm extended like as if he was throwing something.

"Why you little-"

"Oops." simply said Kenji

He grabbed his stuff and left, I supposed he completely left us.

The boys started oohing and laughing from what happened. The girls were making fun of him by imitating him, especially Ayaka.

We paid and left to go to a karaoke to do some kind of singing competition. Kenji left us entirely so that lessens the burden on me since I didn't like him around me. He always gives me mixed feelings but overall, he's just a liar.

We entered the room and we began the singing competition. Most of the boys hogged the mics but I was fine with that since I hated singing or anything that has to do with standing in front of people to perform.

Everyone was going crazy, they were way too energetic and I needed a breather so I left to drink some water. I checked my phone and I had a lot of messages from Kikotei asking me if I was okay or if I was just dubbing him, other text messages tell me what happened and the last one was a goodnight to me.

I sighed and felt bad since I didn't call him after Homura declined the call without my permission. I quickly sent him a text apologizing for missing the call and a quick goodnight.

I headed back to the room and now the girl's were singing songs about relationships and all that and the boys were drinking some beer.

"Madoka, you should sing." said Homura

"I'll pass." I replied, "I hate singing."

Luckily they didn't care as they were already a bit drunk. We continued to stay there for about an hour until we left and headed back to campus. I helped Homura to his dorm with a few other guys but then he stopped me and smiled.

"I have an idea." he said

He went into his room and came out with two paint spray cans. The others smiled and watched as Homura began spray painting Kenji's door, writing loser, stupid, trash all over his door.

The others quietly laughed and when he was done everyone took pictures and left. I helped Homura onto his bed and he immediately crashed so for the first time since I came to school I decided to sleep on my bed.

I opened the door to see Kenji cleaning his door with a bucket of water and soap and a sponge in his head.

"Leave." he said

I approached him to help but he swatted me away.

"I said leave." he snapped not in a angry tone but in a more scared tone

"I'm trying to help." I said

"After smiling while he spray painted my door and taking pictures of my door, that seems like great help." he sarcastically said, "And when he threw the cup at my head. Thanks a lot but I'll be fine, go back in there and tend your annoying boyfriend."

I didn't know how to respond but the fact that he insulted Homura pissed me off.

"Hey."

I grabbed the collar of his hoodie and pinned him against his door.

"Don't you dare insult Homura senpai you lying piece of shit." I snapped, "You also threw the checkbook at him so you are in no position to insult him."

He slapped my hand away but he didn't look mad, but he looked guilty.

"Sorry about that." he whispered

I was taken aback by how easily he apologized.

"But leave." he said

He went back to washing his door and I watched him for about 5 seconds before leaving for my dorm. I decided to shower again since I smelled like beer and I hated it a lot, after I finished showering I decided to scroll through instagram.

Homura was already following me so I followed him back, he had a lot of followers and a lot of pictures. Most of them were of him playing basketball or of the basketball team. I saw one group photo and there was Homura with a bunch of boys I knew and others I didn't but then there's Kenji on the side, smiling.

I tapped on the picture and Kenji's instagram account was tagged so I decided to check his account but it was blank. His profile picture was blank, his bio was blank, no photos, he only has 300 followers and he follows no one back.

'What a lame ass dude.'

I put away my phone and went to sleep.

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3 weeks later

It's been 3 weeks, 3 dreadful weeks for me since there's still Ayaka who glares at me, the Coach who loves team bonding and a lot of homework. Homework wasn't a problem but Ayaka loves to spread false rumors but everyone seems to know that those rumors are fake.

I haven't talked to Kenji for 3 weeks and it felt a lot better not talking to him. For these past 3 weeks since I was able to focus on Homura more. I've been constantly having sex with him, showing him the part of me no one else ever gets to see.

"Okay guys gather around real quick!" yelled Coach Yamoto

We all gathered around in a circle all sweating and panting.

"The jerseys arrived today so I'll be handing it out one by one and also as a reminder we have a scrimmage game tomorrow for the boys against Komazawa university and three days after that the girls will be having a scrimmage game against Keio university, both home games. Let's do our best!" said Coach Yamoto

Everyone gave an enthusiastic cheer except for me, even Kenji pretended to be enthusiastic about it and I could see the tiredness in his eyes.

We continued practice while Coach Yamoto called out us individually to get our jerseys. I looked over to Ayaka, the team captain looking at Homura in a sad and angry way.

"Hey Madoka, are you going to watch the game tomorrow?" asked the center whose name is Yuziki

"Yea, we're all going." said the small forward who's name is Emiko

"You should come as well." said the shooting guard whose name is Haruka

'Damn it.'

"I'll come." I replied

That's when I was called out so I left and Coach Yamoto started handing me my uniform, two tank tops one was mostly red with white letters for home, the other was mostly white with red letters for away, same with shorts. He handed me a long red sleeve shirt with our school logo in white and tech sweater which had the colors red and white with sweatpants that also had the same color. I looked at the jersey and my number was 11.

"Oh I forgot to tell everyone but the you'll be partnering up with one of the boys team." said Coach Yamoto

"Just me?" I asked

"No everyone gets a partner to help each other." replied Coach

He started flipping through the papers and he went down a list.

"You're partner is....Kenji." said Coach Homura

My heart shattered, I didn't want him at all, why did I get him? Why can't I get Homura?

"Why Kenji?" I asked

"Why, you want Homura so you can lose focus during practice? Kenji's the best fit for you plus he has a girlfriend so don't worry about him falling for you." said Coach Yamoto

'He has a girlfriend? That trash has a girlfriend? The girl must be trash as well.'

I sighed and just left back into the court with my stuff.

'I hate this so much.'