The day after Koshien ended, all the high schools began heading ho, including Aoba Private Academy.
Aoba returned, but the baseball club mbers stayed in Nishinomiya for two more days to hang out.
It wasn't until the third day after the finals that Takashi finally boarded the return bus with the baseball club mbers.
As soon as he got on, he put on his headphones and collapsed into sleep.
"Sothing's off. Sothing's definitely off. Takashi, you're acting strange!"
Otani Shota, who had excitedly pulled out a deck of cards from his bag to play with Takashi, furrowed his brow after seeing how drained and lifeless he looked.
He gave Takashi a shove and pulled off his headphones.
"You haven't returned to the hotel these past few days. No one's seen you around. Co on, spill it. What have you been up to?"
"The coffee left the coaster, and the emotions I held back ca flooding out later…"
Takashi sang with a voice weak and full of exhaustion.
"…What?"
Otani Shota was completely confused.
"It's called Secret That Can't Be Told!"
Momodani seed to recognize the song and chuckled. "Takashi ans don't ask—he won't tell even if you do."
Takashi gave Momodani a thumbs-up and then put his headphones back on and shut off his phone.
"Kitahara's like this… yeah, we all know what that ans,"
Kamiozawa gave the kind of smile all guys understood and winked at the others.
"Definitely that."
Noda Yusei nodded confidently.
"Every ti I see my girlfriend, we go all out."
"When we first got together, we'd eat out, watch movies, take walks… Now we skip all that and go straight to the hotel after dinner."
"Yeah, after a while it's like that. Now when we go out for a walk, she doesn't even bother with makeup—just throws on a mask."
"A mask? You guys are into so kinky stuff, huh~"
"Get lost. That's not what we ant!"
Otani Shota didn't get it at first, but as the conversation went on, he slowly began to understand.
"Wait, you're saying Takashi has… graduated?"
Seeing his shocked face, the seniors looked confused this ti.
"Takashi's got so many girlfriends, and they're all beautiful. Isn't that normal?"
To them, it would actually be weirder if Takashi hadn't graduated by now, with all those gorgeous girls around him.
If he really could hold back, they'd seriously wonder if sothing was physically wrong with him.
"Losing it in high school is pretty common, right?"
"If you can't get a girlfriend in high school, odds are you won't in college either."
The more Otani Shota listened, the more anxious he beca.
He was already in his first year, and he still didn't have a girlfriend. What now?!
Ding!
While Otani was spiraling, his phone buzzed.
He looked down to see he had a private ssage on Twitter.
["Hiii (*≧▽≦)ノノ I'm a diehard fan of Kitahara-oniichan! I saw a picture of you with him in one of your posts. Are you his teammate?"]
Otani Shota: [Yeah, what do you want?]
NoCilantro: [I really want one of his jerseys (>///
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