Sunday.
I'm super nervous. It's seriously 5:37 am and I don't know why I'm awake and at the park swinging a bat while Logan is throwing his ridiculously scary pitches at me.
"Senpai, *yawn* how long *yawn* are you going to keep this shit up? *YAWNNN*"
"Shut up and focus on the ball," said Logan as he proceeds to throw one of his fastest pitches towards me which ends up going inside my mouth while I was yawning.
"BAHAHAHAHA! That was hilarious Lynn! You can apply that technique while catching." Logan says cracking up even harder.
I take the ball in my hand from mouth and give a death glare towards Logan.
"Hey hey Lynn! Don't look at me like that-" he tries to plead holding back his laughter.
"Lynn! Lynn-sama! I'm sorry, okay? Please put that ball down-"
Logan throws up his hands in the form of surrendering as I continue to throw my deadliest pitch towards him. Bruh? I FUCKING MISSED!? The ball passes just along his ear. Someone bounces it back like a volleyball from behind. And wow! It misses Logan's head and hits me right on the stomach.
"Ouch ouch-" I bend down in the ground holding my stomach in pain as Logan and Neo come towards me running. Yeah! It was Neo who bounced back a baseball like a volleyball. I can tell he was out for a morning walk. As soon as they bend down and ask, "You okay, Lynn?"
My two fists go straight up to punch both of those two stupids right in their stomach.
"AH AH OWWW-"
"LYNN! OUCH-"
I stand up at once and look down on them with another death glare as they both are rolling on the ground holding their stomach.
"I thought you got hurt in the stomach?"
Neo asks me still moaning in pain.
"Huh? You think your dumbass volleyball throw can hurt me?"
"But you-"
"It was but a mere acting to get back to you dumb brothers. I don't do appointments for taking revenges." I say as I proceed to unwrap my fist by which I caught the ball and drop it from my hand which hits the ground.
"When did you-"
"As soon as the ball came near my stomach, I caught it and acted like I was hurt while keeping my fist near the stomach. Simple as that. Baka~"
"Why the hell are you capable of so many shits-" Neo kept complaining.
"I'm trying to be a detective here, sir, you know. And if you can already talk that much I guess you two might as well get up and move your ass out of here."
Neo gets up, still trying to hang on there. I help him stay static and help Logan up.
"So what's up with you two practicing so early in the morning? Where's the rest of team?" asked Neo
"This girl called me at 3 am today complaining about stuffs I didn't teach her in baseball which aren't even needed in this friendly tournament and barely any professionals know about them." Logan kept ranting.
"Okay okay my bad. I'll head back now." I apologized.
Maybe I'm troubling everyone. I can't reach Austin since Friday. Cannot gather up the courage to talk with Steve and Mac either. Because I didn't want to think about them I stayed up all night researching about baseball, lost my cool over the new skills and ended up troubling Logan too. I really am hopeless, ain't I?
"Wait, Lynn!" Neo calls me out grabbing my hand from behind just when I decided to head back.
"Is something bothering you?" he asks.
"No, it's just-"
"You can come straight with me you know."
"Just worried about Steve you know. I kind of can't contact with Mac either. Weird how they're not also trying to contact me too."
"I'm sorry, Lynn. It's because of me."
"Nahhhhh. Totally my fault for hiding from them."
"Still-"
"And also, your boyfriend who happens to be my boyfriend too is ignoring me. I think."
"Uh huh. You know..... Ummm..... It's...yeah! It's because of the surprise he wants to give you today."
I raise my eyebrow. Neo's hesitating.
"Uh... you know, maybe?" he said nervously.
"Whatever." I release myself from his grip. "I'm heading out Logan-senpai." I shout towards him from the edge of the park.
"Okay. Stay hydrated and don't punch people on the road." said Logan which earned him another glare from me.
"Huh?"
"Sorry ma'am. Meet me at 2 then?"
"Alright, see ya then."
Sigh. I don't know why but I feel really comfortable sharing stuffs with Neo more than Steve and Mac. Maybe because Neo doesn't know the real me. Yet. I'm confused by myself. Better go get some sleep.
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Neo's POV:
So I'm at the Stadium to watch my bro's match as always but also Lynn's at the same time. I called Austin to come and cheer up Lynn but he said he has some urgent work. When I asked him if something happened with Lynn he gave me half-assed answers. But guess what? On the way here I saw him walking with a woman only God knows who that is. Maybe he really had work with that woman, she seemed older though. He even answered my call after 5 fucking times and talked to me like I'm just a random shit out there. Ugh! Concentrate on match Neo. You even bought flowers for...
_ _ _
It's Lynn's turn. Wow her pitches are scary. They are better than the previous ones, not to say the previous pitcher was my brother. Alrighty, first half's over. Going great. They might actually win. Others are doing pretty great too.
"I CAN WALK ON MY OWN."
"NO YOU CAN'T. Just shut up and follow me."
What's the chaos? I search for the source of noise. Ahh, I see. It's Lynn being dragged over here by bro.
"What's the fuss about? Y'all did great out there." I congratulated.
"Heh what can you expect?" Logan says with a proud grin.
"Lynn did better out there though."
"I trained her of course she'll do best."
I see. Logan a.k.a my bro ain't letting off his pride. Lynn on the other hand looks tensed though.
"So he didn't come huh?" she asked giving me sarcastic look.
"He didn't." I replied sincerely.
"That wasn't a great surprise though, Neo. The one you were talking about."
"Him not coming isn't a surprise?"
"No? I knew he wouldn't." she raised her eyebrow. "Whatever, I'm leaving."
I suddenly stand up from my seat.
"Is Austin the only one you care about? I'm here too, cheering you up not HIM and you don't seem to care at all."
"You're here for your brother only-"
"Who said that? I did? Why can't I be here for both of you?"
"Listen Neo, I'm not saying you can't. I just meant you'd be here even if I didn't play."
"But these flowers wouldn't have been here."
"Why not?"
"Because, I, Neo Naclerio has never brought flowers for my brother's match."
"That's true. He never brought flowers for me." Logan said from the side.
"See, Lynn? YOU AND LOGAN AREN'T SAME!" I don't know why I'm shouting but I am.
"THEN YOU AND AUSTIN AREN'T SAME EITHER!" She shouted back.
Wow! Shocking, indeed.
"Yeah we're not. Sorry for not knowing my place."
"Hey! Don't fight you two-" Logan tried to stop it. But Lynn leaves the spot at once. I messed up. I really did.