Prince Of Tennis Fan Fiction ❯ Translate This ❯ Tears ( Chapter 5 )

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Tears

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At exactly 6:30 AM the next morning, my alarm went off. But my alarm was also my radio, and currently it was on a sports channel. I blinked the drowsiness from my eyes as I heard the host commentating on the Kings vs. the Warriors game. I yawned and slowly sat up, giving Hikari a little wake-up nudge with my foot. I sat there for a while, listening to the radio. I always listened to sports in the morning, it was a habit, and now I was never fully awake until I heard a sports announcement. I switched the radio off as soon as I heard that the Kings had won, 189-177.

"Well, that, if anything, had to be a good way to start the day." I thought. My favorite team had won!

After taking a shower, I opened my closet and pulled out some clothes. I put on a plain blue spaghetti strap tank top, and over that I pulled on a black hoodie that said "skateboarding is not a crime" in white on the front. Then, I slipped on a pair of baggy black cargo pants, and the same black etnies as yesterday, except I pulled out the red laces, and replaced them with thicker white ones. Then I started my daily war with my hair.

*Narrator's POV*

Ryoma stopped before Tenaya's house, and peered down at his digital watch. 7:25 AM. Oh well, so what if he was a little early, he thought as he rang the doorbell. Carter answered the door, waffle in one hand, and motioned for him to come in. After Ryoma set his backpack and tennis bag down, he slipped his hands into his pants pockets, and followed Carter into the kitchen. He greeted Mrs. Rialles, and introduced himself to Joan. "Tenaya! Ryoma-kun's here!!" She hollered, and offered Ryoma a waffle, who politely declined.

"Alright give me a sec!!" A moment later, Tenaya stumbled into the kitchen, a hair tie in her mouth, and her hands pulling her hair back into a ponytail. "Sorry for making you wait," she said after securing her hair with the rubber band, even though her bangs still flopped into her eyes, and she pushed them irritably out of her face.

"It's okay." He smiled.

Tenaya glanced at the clock, which read 7:29, and grabbed a waffle. "Ugh, no time to eat with you guys, see you after school." She said, and kissed her mom on the cheek, and gave Joan and Carter simultaneous whacks on the head. "Bye!" She yelled as she grabbed her backpack and skateboard and opened the front door.

"Ready?"

Ryoma nodded and followed her out of the house. Tenaya hopped onto her skateboard. "So, what's our schedule again? I forget."

"Where'd your schedule go?"

"Uhh, I lost it?"

"Fine." Ryoma rolled his eyes. "First period, History. Second period, study

hall. Third period, science.-"

"Eww."

He gave her a look.

"Sorry, go on."

"Fourth period, English. Fifth period, math. And sixth period, P.E."

"Okay, thanks"

Tenaya looked up at the huge school as they arrived. "Ok, history first then. Just wait a sec while I put my skateboard away." But when they finished making their way through the crowded hall, all she did was stand in front of her locker, staring. Just as Echizen was about to say something, she smirked at him. "What was my combination again?"

Ryoma sighed, and rolled his eyes. As he leaned in closer to her to open her locker, a refreshing scent danced past his nose. It smelled like peaches. "There." He pulled her lock open with a resounding click.

"Thanks." She said, flashing him a grin as she stuffed her skateboard into her locker, and shut it with a loud slam. She picked up her backpack as she walked with Ryoma down the hallway towards B2, their history class. She smirked at him. "You know, you'll probably have to open my locker everyday from now on."

He gave a barely audible chuckle. "Yeah, I know."

Before either of them had a chance to say anything else, a girl with two pigtails sticking out the sides of her head sped towards them, coming to a halt before Ryoma.

"Ryoma-sama! Ryoma-sama! I am so glad to see you!" She couldn't seem to stop hopping up and down, giving Tenaya the impression of somebody who had to pee.

Ryoma gave her a look. "I just saw you yesterday."

"Yes! And that was more than...wait..." the girl gasped. "...18 hours ago!"

Tenaya brought her hand up to her mouth. "Oh! The horror!" She gasped with mock shock.

Echizen tried hard to suppress a grin.

The girl narrowed her eyes at Tenaya. "And who are you?"

Tenaya grinned. "Oh, nobody, nobody! Please! Go on with your conversation." She waved her hand at them, insisting for them to go on. "I won't interrupt again." She smiled sweetly. "I promise."

Echizen sighed. "Tomo, Tenaya. Tenaya, Tomoka." He introduced.

Tenaya bowed deeply. "It's a pleasure to meet you."

Tomo sneered. "It should be."

Tenaya had to look the other way to hide her "trying-not-to-laugh-but-not-succeeding" face.

At that moment, another girl walked up. A girl with long braids, and a flower clip.

"Ryoma-kun..." She murmured in a high, strained voice. "It's good to see you looking so, um...nice today." Then she frantically held up her hands and shook her head. "Oh! I mean, uh, not that you don't look nice everyday, it's just that...um, today you look especially...uh..."

"Uh, thanks Sakuno. But we better get to class."

Sakuno quickly snapped her head up. "Oh! Right! Um, see you later Ryoma-kun!" She said as she waved at him, who was already heading down the hall with Tenaya.

"Well," Tenaya looked curiously at Ryoma, with a hint of a smirk on her lips. "It's nice to see that you have your own fan club." She glanced down the hall again at Sakuno and Tomo who were still standing there waving. "Any other members besides inflated ego girl, and miss stick-up-her-ass?"

Ryoma glared. "You think I know?"

She smiled. "Ooh, touchy aren't we?"

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History passed by uneventfully. The class was told to memorize the original 13 colonies of early America, something Tenaya had done back in 4th grade. As for study hall, she never had it at her old school, so the eerie silence made her restless. So she folded a paper airplane and threw it, watching it sail over the heads of her classmates.

Tenaya gasped when she saw it collide with the side of the sleeping teacher's head, and automatically had to practically stuff her fist into her mouth to keep from laughing out loud. All the commotion that the class made when they saw the teacher jerk awake, and jump up, caused Ryoma to look up momentarily from his book. He took one glance at the teacher, who had the paper airplanes clutched in his hand and was demanding to know who threw it, and at Tenaya, who was shaking with laughter behind her book. Ryoma pieced these two together quickly and returned to his book with a sigh.

But besides that, the whole day seemed to just drag on forever, even science, where the class usually did experiments. But today, the teacher gave a boring lecture on the periodic table, and Ryoma fell asleep about halfway through. The teacher started asking questions a little while before the bell rang, and had obviously called on Ryoma because he jerked awake when he felt someone's foot come into

contact with his shin. He quickly answered the question, just as the bell rang, and hurried to catch up with Tenaya.

"You were the one who kicked me huh?"

Tenaya nodded. "Yep."

"Well, you didn't have to do it so hard." He said, rubbing his sore shin.

"Well, you wouldn't wake up the other forty million times I kicked you. Jeez

Louis, I thought you died."

"Still," he muttered. "That's gonna leave a bruise."

* Tenaya's POV *

I was sorta looking forward to English. Afterall, I didn't understand a word any of my other teachers said. But as I walked in, two words jumped out at me from the blackboard: POP QUIZ. Fortunately, the teacher reminded us that this was the quiz to see what the class remembered from my speech yesterday. She wrote three questions up on the board.

1. What is the new girl's full name?

2. What country is she from?

3. How tall is she?

I raised an eyebrow at her. Well, this was one hell of a quiz wasn't it? The teacher explained that I would walk around the class, and whoever finished would raise their hand and have me check the answers. She also told us not to worry, since this was all extra credit.

Some people got some pretty weird answers. Almost nobody got #1 correct, except for Ryoma. And I thought that everybody would get #2 right, but somebody put India...what the heck?! And everyone just guessed on #3.

At lunch, I ate with Ryoma again under the tree. Or actually, Ryoma ate, and I just stuffed my ham sandwich in my mouth, and that only took about 2 minutes. When Ryoma had about finished, I spotted the two girls from this morning making their way over here. Tomo and Sakuno, I think it was. "Hey," I said nudging Ryoma in the ribs. "Your fan club is visiting."

He glared.

"Ryoma-sama!" Tomo quickly took a seat on the grass beside Ryoma. Sakuno also sat down, a little more hesitantly on the other side of him, while I remained seated across from him.

"Hello Ryoma-kun." Sakuno murmured.

Tomo started to look excited. "Don't you have tennis practice today?!"

Ryoma nodded, quietly putting away his bento box.

Sakuno looked up. "Oh right!" I'm coming to watch today. I'm so excited because I haven't seen you practice in a while, since I have been sick."

I stared at them. They watched every one of his practices? If I were Ryoma, I'd be freaked out. I stood up and grabbed my skateboard, which I had brought along with me this time, much to Ryoma's puzzlement. "You guys have fun, kay? I'm gonna go." The two girls seemed to notice me for the first time, looked glad to see me go.

Ryoma, on the other hand, gave me a look that said "Don't you dare leave me alone with these two!" But I just smirked and leaned down to whisper in his ear. "It's okay tough stuff." I patted him on his shoulder and stood up. "You can handle it."

*Ryoma's POV*

I glared at Tenaya, who was already far away. Great. Just leave me here to deal with these two. Ughh, Tomo's voice was already starting to give me a head ache. So I sat there for the next ten or so minutes, listening to Tomo chatter. But I wasn't really paying attention to what she said, I was completely spaced out. I did notice that while Tomo talked nonstop, Sakuno wouldn't stop adjusting her clothes and touching her hair. She had always been a fidgety person, but today, she seemed extremely restless. I didn't mind Sakuno as much as Tomo, but whenever I was around her, it got to the point where Sakuno's nervousness made me uncomfortable as well. That's why the way Tenaya seemed to be

confident about herself, made me feel at ease too.

While my mind was still on Tenaya, I suddenly remembered something. While I thought, I realized that I had heard Tenaya's name somewhere. When I first met her, and found out that her name was Tenaya Rialles, something in my brained kind of clicked. Her name seemed familiar, and I didn't really figure it out until now. But the memory was too vague. I sighed, and decided to think about it later.

I sighed. Didn't the bell ring yet? I wanted school to be over so I could play some tennis. But even then Tomo and Sakuno would be there. Stupid Tenaya. Where does she keep running off to anyway? Just when her company would have been especially nice, she takes off. But just as I said that, I spotted her coming this way, without her skateboard. She walked slowly up to us, hand in her pockets.

"Hi guys." She said, smiling.

Tomo sneered. "I was just telling Ryoma-sama about this new tennis move that I saw in a magazine."

Oh, so that was what she was babbling on and on about.

"Well," Tenaya began, coughing a little. "I'm sorry to interrupt your

conversation, but I just remembered Ryoma mentioning earlier that he had to, uh, help out in the library, um...at lunch."

I blinked.

Tenaya raised her eyebrows at me. "Remember?" She drew out slowly.

I snapped out of my daze, suddenly understanding. "Right." I said hurriedly getting up. "Thanks for reminding me."

She smirked. "Anytime."

Tomo looked a little put-out. "Oh darn. Ok, I guess I'll see you at tennis practice then." I nodded and ran with Tenaya towards the main building.

"A little slow aren't we?" Tenaya said, once were out of earshot.

"Well, you could have come up with a better excuse than 'he has to help out at the libray'!" He mimicked as they came to a stop just insid of the main doors.

"Hey!" She put her hands on her hips. "Be grateful. Did you want to spend the rest of lunch with them?"

"Okay, okay. Thanks by the way, for getting me away from them."

She smiled. "You're welcome."

"What made you come back anyway?"

"Hmmm..." She thought for a second. "Even I'm not cruel enough to strand a poor defenseless guy-" She paused to point at me. "-like you. With that chatterbox. So I decided to come back and rescue you."

"And I'm glad you did."

*Narrator's POV*

Tomo and Sakuno watched as Ryoma ran off with Tenaya.

“Oh, well.” Tomo sighed. “I wanted to talk to him more, but we can't stop him from helping at the library. At least we can watch him practice, right Sakuno?” She turned to face her best friend, but was surprised to see her face shining with tears.

“Sakuno?!” Tomo cried, rushing over to give her a comforting hug. But Sakuno shook her off, and ran to the girl's bathroom, shutting herself in one of the stalls.

She sat down on a toilet seat and began sobbing. Why was Ryoma-kun doing this to her?! Before, he had always seemed fine around her, although not friendly, but that didn't really bother her since he was never really social around anybody. But now he was trying to run away from her. She knew that Tenaya had been lying, since she had just visited the library before Tomo found her, and there was a sign on the door that read “Closed for Lunch”. What broke her heart was to see Ryoma playing along. A couple days ago, Sakuno had resolved to make Ryoma like her, no matter what it took, but that girl had to come and ruin her plans! She usually got along with everybody, but she hated the fact that ever since Tenaya came, Ryoma disliked her and Tomo more and more.

“But maybe I'm overreacting.” She though, rubbing her eyes. “Tenaya has only been here for two days, and I've known Ryoma-kun for over a year now, and I know he likes me, a little.” She ended her thoughts with a sniffle, and exited the bathroom. She was trying her best to convince herself, but deep in her heart, she doubted what she just said.

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a/n: Just to tell you guys, I will only be able to update about once a week. Since I'm at my dad's house for half the week, and at my mom's house the other week. I tend to only go on the computer at my mom's house, so I won't be able to update if I'm not.

Once again, constructive criticism, comments, and flames all welcome!