Awkward

Madoka's POV

I yawned as I watched Homura talk to Kenji but Kenji looked like he wasn't paying attention, looking somewhere else. I quickly wiped the bottom of my shoe with a piece of cloth and tightly tied my shoe.

"Hey Madoka!" called out Emiko

I turned to see her waving.

"Are you going to attend the school festival tomorrow?" asked Emiko

"Yea." I bluntly replied

"That's cool, are you going to watch the performance?" asked Emiko

"Yea, sure." I replied

'Did Kenji sign up?'

"I heard that Kenji auditioned and he got in, it's surprising to see him perform." said Emiko

"Kenji's performing?" I questioned, pretending like I didn't know.

"Yea, one of my senseis told me that he auditioned and it was amazing but he wouldn't tell me what he performed." said Emiko, "I kind of want to see him perform."

"I see." I simply replied

"Oh also you know that we're doing an activity for the school right?" asked Emiko

"Yea I know." I said

"But I can't believe Kenji is getting a lot of fame lately like look at him." said Emiko

I looked towards Kenji and there were a bunch of guys from the other schools talking to him and passing around phones. Kenji seemed uninterested but he complied with the others around him.

"He's kind of hot." mumbled Emiko

I looked at her and she covered her mouth in embarrassment.

"Did I say that out loud?" asked Emiko

"No, did you say something?" I asked, trying not to make this awkward

"Oh nothing nothing." she replied while smiling awkwardly

"The game is about to start, stop talking." said Ayaka

"Sorry Ayaka chan." replied Emiko

The game was about to start and things were already getting heated. The audience was roaring with cheers and the noise of people clapping.

The tip off started and we got the ball and we began moving down the court, taking it slow at first. But then two players from the opposing team started guarding me making sure I didn't get the ball.

'This is going to be hard.'

I tried shaking them off but they always followed me around, but they knew how to defend pretty well. Ayaka shot a three and it went in so I didn't really have to worry about anything but the two girls who were defending me were now pushing me as I guarded them.

One of the girls drove into the paint so I followed her but the other girl set up a screen blocking me from guarding the girl. I bumped into her and she fell onto the ground so I just walked over and she tried to catch up with her but she did a layup and scored.

We ran back down the court with the ball in our possession but the two same girls were guarding me. But I was able to get the ball but the two girls started to aggressively guard me, getting really close to me while waving their arms around to prevent me from passing the ball.

I quickly thought of something so I pumped faked a shot causing both girls to jump up so I took that opportunity to move to the side and shot a three, making it.

The two girls continued to do the same thing but I learned so I prevented the girl from moving at all by pinning her at the corner of the court. She tried to pass it but I blocked it and threw the ball to my teammate on the other side of the court.

'Nice try guarding me.'

The game went on with the two girls trying to guard me but I was able to pass them, I even crossed one of the girl's ankles.

The game ended and we won our first playoff game, scoring 86 to 65. We hit the locker and celebrate for a bit then hit the shower so that we can celebrate afterwards. Apparently Homura made some reservations at this 5 star steakhouse.

"So let's get this season off to a great start." said Coach

We all cheered and did our huddle up thing I hate and we left the school to meet up with the boys.

"Let's go and fill our stomachs!" cheered Homura

I sighed, not really hungry at the moment but then I saw Emiko talking to Kenji and Kenji seemed a bit new to this. Emiko was smiling and even touching him a bit on the arm and Kenji seemed awkward.

I felt some kind of strain in my heart so I decided to just ignore those two as we entered the bus. But during the whole ride I just kept staring at Kenji and Emiko talking, they weren't sitting next to each other but they were close talking. Kenji didn't seem to talk that much but Emiko was babbling a lot.

"What are you looking at?" asked Homura

He looked towards my direction and saw Kenji and his facial expression dropped.

"He's been getting a lot of fame for just being lucky in one game." I said

I had to say that in order for Homura to think that I wasn't friends with Kenji.

"My point proven, he's such a suck-up." said Homura, "Heard that he's also performing. He's getting all cocky and shit."

I felt a strain of hate towards Homura for saying that but I kept my cool since I didn't want to make a scene.

We got to the campus so we quickly rushed over to the restaurant but Kenji didn't really want to go inside. But Emiko just dragged him inside and she sat next to him while I sat on the opposite side of him.

Kenji looks at me and I could tell he feels awkward and anxious since Emiko is always around him.

"Kenji kun what do you want to eat?" asked Yuziki who was sitting next to him.

'You too?'

"I uhh-"

"Kenji kun I think this will be nice." said Emiko

"Right yea, sure I'm fine with anything." replied Kenji

Kenji looks at me and I just shrug.

'This is going to be a long dinner.'

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40 minutes later

I was back in my dorm laying on the bed right after I got out of the shower texting Kikotei. But after a while he fell asleep and I decided to go to sleep as well but I couldn't. But then I decided to text Kenji if I can come over and he replied saying sure.

I got changed and quickly headed over to Kenji's dorm and he let me in, inside his room he had a guitar and some music papers on the floor.

"Tomorrow's the festival, are you ready?" I asked

"Kind of, just debating which song I should sing but I made my decision." replied Kenji

"Can I hear it?" I asked

"Uhh I mean you'll hear it tomorrow." said Kenji

"Yea you're right I should just wait for tomorrow." I replied, "Good thing tomorrow's a half day."

"I guess, apparently I'm the last one performing." said Kenji

He hands me a paper with lists of names of the performers.

"I see, so best for the last." I said

"No there's a lot of other great performers." replied Kenji

"I see well if you lose, it won't matter cause you did your best." I said

I stretched and Kenji began cleaning up his stuff.

"So, after the festival are you going to go home?" I asked

"Yea I packed up most of the stuff I'm going to bring home already." replied Kenji

"You're always a step ahead." I said

"Not always." replied Kenji

"You're really humble." I said

"Humble doesn't really describe me, I'm just, quiet." replied Kenji

I looked at Kenji and he was busy cleaning his papers and for some reason I felt something tugging in my heart and I just couldn't get it out of my chest.

"Okay I'm done cleaning, why did you-"

I cut off of Kenji by jumping on him and I aggressively kissed him. Kenji's eyes widened as he fell onto his bed with me on top of him. I began kissing him aggressively, exploring his mouth, using my tongue to dance with his tongue. We made out for about 5 minutes before I pulled away and looked into Kenji's eyes.

"Hey you okay?" asked Kenji

But Kenji's mouth wasn't moving and I gasped and snapped back to reality where Kenji was waving his hand in front of me.

"Wait what, oh sorry." I said

"It's fine." he replied

"I'm going to quickly use the bathroom." I said

Kenji nodded so I quickly entered the bathroom and began to quietly go crazy. I was just looking at the mirror and slapped myself gently.

'What the fuck, how can I possibly think of that?'

I washed my face with cold water and just let out a long sigh before walking out of the bathroom.

"Are you going to sleep here as well?" asked Kenji

"Yea sure, if you don't mind." I replied

"I don't mind." replied Kenji, "Just worried about Homura."

"Don't worry about him, he just wants the attention." I replied

"He has enough attention, the entire school knows him." said Kenji, "Why does he suddenly want more?"

I looked at Kenji giving me the clueless look.

"You're always as clueless." I sighed

"Oh sorry." apologized Kenji, "But can you explain?"

"He's jealous you're getting all the attention." I explained

"I see." said Kenji

Kenji looked down for a bit and just sighed.

"You know it'll be a huge problem if Homura figured that we're friends." said Kenji

"Why are you so worried about that?" I questioned

"Cause I don't want to ruin your relationship with him." said Kenji

"Don't worry, I got it taken care of." I said, "Don't talk about this."

"Sorry." he apologized

"Anyways since we live near each other want to go home together?" I asked

Kenji's eyes widened just a bit but went back to his normal size.

"Sure I would like that." said Kenji

"It's going to take 6 hours to get there so let's stop by some places to get food." I said

"Sure I'm fine with anything." he replied

"Oh and let's meet up during the three days we get break." I said, "Kikotei wants to meet you."

"Your friend, yea sure that'll be nice." replied Creed

"He's very frantic and he likes to say things back to make himself look tough." I said

"Hmm sounds like you." said Kenji

"Oi what you say?" I said while frowning at him

"Nothing nothing." said Kenji while waving his arm in front of him, "But I have a question?"

"What is it?" I asked

"What made you want to become a tomboy?" asked Kenji

I thought about it, it was something I haven't really reflected on. It was just something that happened throughout my life.

"I guess it was because of my ambition in basketball. Girly things didn't really fit me." I replied

"So during the sports banquet in the summer does that mean you're not going to wear a dress?" he asked

"I don't like dresses, whenever I go to a place where they require some kind of fancy or formal wear I either don't go or just wear a suit." I replied

Kenji nodded in response, actually understanding me.

"I see." said Kenji, "Do some people mistake you as a boy?"

"Yea a lot, even Homura senpai said that." I said

"Does it sound like an insult to you?" asked Kenji

"No I don't take it to heart." I said

"I see." replied Kenji

I felt my bra loosen up a bit which annoyed me since I washed my sports bra so I reached my hand into my shirt but Kenji immediately looked away.

"Uhh do you mind doing that inside the bathroom?" he asked

"Calm down I'm not stripping." I said

I quickly fixed it and made sure it wouldn't loosen up again.

"There you can look now." I said

Kenji sat up and sighed in relief.

"Anyways get some sleep, it's going to be a long day tomorrow." said Kenji

"Can't wait." I sarcastically replied