Ajax

01 || Ajax

Biology Class (7:38AM)

There you we're, on your seat tapping a pen on your notebook. You we're admiring Tartaglia aka Ajax, who sat in front of you. You gave him full attention not knowing that the teacher was already beside you.

"Ms. L/n, it must be a nice view isn't it?" your professor said before scolding you off. Good thing he wasn't a strict teacher or else you could've had detention. Detention means no volleyball nor Ajax for you.

Two subjects passed by, it's almost time for Volleyball practice. Here you were again, you were staring at his short orange choppy hair that swayed easily with the soft breeze. You could look at his hair for hours...

Well, that's not until you clumsily let go of your pen, falling on to the floor and rolling towards Ajax's chair.

"Shit." you whispered as the pen stopped by just below the sole of his shoe. You looked at him, knowing math is also one of his hated subject. His head leaning on his arm.

After you gathered the courage to finally ask him, you gently tapped his shoulder. He then turned around to face you, there was little to no space between you two causing a bright red color to appear across your face.

He chuckled and whispered, "Hey girly, need anything?" You felt like your heart skipped a beat. The sweetness in his voice was the reason why you almost fainted in class.

You then gulped and asked, "I... uhhh...my pen fell down under your chair... can you please?..." you whispered to him.

He slightly turned his head and he spotted the pen, and returned it back to you while smiling. You took the pen from his hand shakily but then the teacher saw you two.

He was already standing in front of him and said, "Ajax, what do you have to say for yourself?" He flinched. You we're dying of embarrassment, so you decided to cover yourself with a hoodie and look down.

The room fell into a dread silence, the pressure was unbearable.

He stood up and bowed down to the teacher and said "I'm very much sorry, Sensei for disturbing the class. I promise you it won't happen again."

After he said those words were when you realized he didn't tell about you. Since when did he become a gentleman though? Maybe he wanted payback?

As you were about to speak, the teacher followed up with, "oh I'm sure you are, which is why you'll allow me to dismiss your volleyball practice today right?"

Those words hurt the hell out of both of you, knowing Ajax, he loved volleyball and his brother Teucer more than anything in this world.

It felt like a needle just went into your heart knowing that this was your fault in the first place. But still, you didn't dare to speak a word.

"But... sir, practice is essential for our team! And my team needs their captain to lead them." he said, you can see tears forming in his eyes. You can't see him like this.

"They'll be perfectly fine." he pats his shoulder before continuing to teach. Ajax plops back down to his seat, not saying a word.

He was pulling his hair, you felt sorry for him but also you felt a sense of fear. Your thoughts were now filled on how he might kill you because of what just happened.

After classes, you directly went to search for your bestfriends, Chongyun and Xingqiu, as usual they were hanging out under the tree near the gymnasium.

Chongyun is the setter while Xingqiu is the middle blocker, it might not suit their height but there jumps are so high it's like they are giants.

When you came in their sight, they greeted you with a wave, Xingqiu calling out your name. "Y/n, over here!" Chongyun was sitting beside him, eating a popsicle.

"Guys, I did something terrible." you said while grabbing both of them for a hug.

"Waft dwid yu dwu?" Chongyun asked while devouring a popsicle in his mouth.

"Did something happen with Ajax?" Xingqiu asked while patting your back.

They both knew you so well even though you just became friends a month ago.

"Yes." you say slowly breaking away from the boys. "The teacher dismissed his volleyball practice because we disturbed the class." you said while you sat next to them.

"Who am I supposed to toss to now?" Chongyun sighs while throwing the popsicle stick on the garbage bin beside us.

"Who am I supposed to block now?" Xingqiu puts away his book and you three just sit there waiting for your coach Baizhu to open the gymnasium.

Minutes passed by, your coach has arrived, you three change into your volleyball uniforms but you still couldn't get Ajax out of your thoughts.

As you were collecting water bottles for the team, you felt ashamed for attending practice without him, after getting him in trouble.

Everyone was waiting for their captain to arrive, but only 3 of you knew what happened.

Kazuha and Scaramouche can be seen talking to each other at the corner of the court, while Chongyun and Xingqiu were taking warm-ups in front of the net.

Kazuha is the ace or wing spiker of the team while Scaramouche is the libero.

Coach Baizhu approached you while you were filling up everybody's water bottle and said "If you're thinking it's your fault why he's been dismissed, it's not." he whispered.

"He broke school rules, and it doesn't have to so anything with you. We just recently knew that he was skipping his supplementary classes and you know what happens if you skip those." he was looking at the team.

"But I should be with him in detention, I also caused him trouble." you replied after filling up Chongyun's bottle.

He stood up and patted your shoulder, "It's not, don't let that affect you with today's practice. Spread positivity in this room and cheer them for the upcoming game." The coach looks at you, his emerald orbs were shining. "That's what managers do." he said before blowing his whistle meaning that practice is about to start.

You sat on the bench and watched them do tosses to each other as the start of their warm ups, Coach Baizhu was being more strict today and it shows.

Then again, Ajax found another way in your head and you couldn't get him out. You wanted to face him, and say sorry.

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