Everyday, you followed practically the same routine. You took the train to school in the morning (maybe cramming for a test on the way), attended your classes, and spent time at practice with the Karasuno boys' volleyball team after school. You'd been a manager of their team since you'd arrived at Karasuno and had stumbled upon one of their practices on accident. After spending time with the boys at practice, you would ride home on the train by yourself.

Today had been just another one of your average days, and you found yourself waiting at the train station for the one that you always rode home. When it arrived, you promptly boarded it and looked for a place to sit. You weaved in between the crowd, heading straight for an open seat.

Sighing, you plopped down into the seat and rested your heavy bag in your lap. As you turned to your left, you flinched upon noticing that someone was sitting there, and shuddered when you noticed his intense stare. You were surprised you hadn't noticed the boy sitting there, with his snowy white hair and the fact that he sat so uncomfortably, like a giant sitting in a child's chair.

You quickly turned away from him, feeling your cheeks flush with embarrassment. What was up with that stare of his? Curiosity made you glance over at him and examine his attire—a school uniform.

"Excuse me, what school are you from?" you asked softly as you looked up at him.

"Datekou," he responded simply, the warmth of his voice taking the edge off that intense gaze of his, "And you're from Karasuno, right? I've seen a lot of people wearing that school's uniform."

You nodded and gave him a small smile. "Datekou is quite a ways away from here, isn't it?" you wondered.

"It is, but my family and I moved. My parents still wanted me to go to Datekou, so I make this commute everyday," he explained with a small sigh. He looked away for a moment, and there was silence as you each watched the world pass by through the train window.

"That's funny... I've never seen you on this train before," you said and looked down at your hands, which clasped one another tightly as you held onto yours bag.

"What makes you think you would notice me?" he inquired, a small smile playing on his lips.

"Well, you're really tall. Do you play a sport?"

"I play volleyball."

"Hey, what do you know? I help manage the boys' volleyball team at Karasuno!"

"Really?"

The two of you talked for quite a while about volleyball and about your schools before the train crept to a stop at your station.

"Well, I've gotta go. It was nice talking to you!" you said and smiled brightly as you stood up.

After you'd left, and the train had departed for its next station, you realized that you still didn't know his name. He seemed like a kind-hearted guy, even though he was pretty intimidating. Hopefully, you'd see him again.

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When you got on the train the next morning, you searched for the snowy hair and the giant who accompanied it, but you couldn't find him. Of course he's not going to be on this train. He has a longer way to travel than I do, so he probably has to get an earlier train, you thought as you sat down by yourself.

You had to admit that it felt a bit lonely without him, even though you'd just met him yesterday. You were looking forward to seeing him again after school, but you weren't quite sure why. You got a rush of nervous excitement every time you thoughts about him. He had been pretty cute, after all.

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Later that day, when you boarded the train to find an open seat next to the boy, you squealed internally with delight and rushed over to sit next to him, greeting him happily.

"I'm sorry, I never got your name. I'm (l/n) (f/n)," you said anxiously and extended your hand towards him.

"I'm Aone Takanobu," he responded and shook your hand timidly.

Once you had put names to each other's faces, your conversation continued as you each learned more and more about each other and about your different schools. He seemed to be so easy to talk to. It was nice.

As more and more days passed, you and Aone developed a sort of friendship just by the conversations you shared on that relatively short train ride home. You found that you were thinking about him more often and about what you were going to ask him the next time you saw him, since your time together was so short and you wanted to know more about him. You enjoyed his company quite a lot, and it felt nice to have someone to talk to.

Even though he'd seemed so intimidating and scary at first, you quickly learned that he was very reserved, but polite and kind-hearted.

"Hey, (f/n), do you want any of these?" Aone asked you once as he held up a bag of treats. "My teammates didn't want them."

"Those look delicious! Thank you, Takanobu," you replied sweetly as he plopped the bag down into your hands, "What kind of teammates do you have? How can they turn these down?"

Aone chuckled, making you look up at him and realize how cute he looked when he smiled.

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Over time, your feelings of companionship and friendship towards Aone started to develop into something more. You couldn't deny that you really enjoyed being around him and that his smile and his voice made your heart flutter in your chest. He was always so kind towards you and you wondered if he felt the same way.

Because of your attachment to him, you felt disappointed and lonely when you couldn't find him on the train a few days in a row. On the Friday of that week, you were hoping to see him, but you were upset to find that he was missing once again. Of course, you weren't worried about him. You knew he was probably doing something else, but you missed him all the same.

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On the following Saturday morning, you woke up early to attend a volleyball tournament that the boys had that day. Once you'd put a few things into your backpack, you hopped on the train to meet everyone at the school so that you could ride the bus to the gym where they were playing.

After meeting up with a bunch of mainly mellow boys—besides Hinata, Tanaka, Noya, and Kageyama, who were agitated as usual—you all boarded the bus and talked until you'd arrived at the gym. As you wandered into the gym and looked around, you squeaked softly when you walked into something that you hadn't seen.

Looking up, you found yourself gazing into the eyes of none other than Aone. The look of surprise on both of your faces was soon replaced with joy as you wrapped your arms around him and he hugged you back.

"Where have you been?" you asked.

"I stayed a little later after practice, so I had to catch a different train coming back home," he responded, "Were you worried about me?"

You blushed slightly as you nodded. "Yeah, a little bit. I just... I missed you..." Your face turned even redder, and you looked down at your feet. I can't believe I just said that! Talk about coming on strong! you thought nervously.

You heard Aone sigh slightly. "I missed you too." Your heart started to beat faster as you gazed back up at him. His cheeks were tinted a bit pink, and you thought it was cute. "Anyway, I brought this for you." He reached into the pocket of his jacket and retrieved a small bag full of your favorite treats and candies.

You smiled brightly as you accepted his gift. "Thank you! But why are you giving these to me? Were there more leftovers?"

He was about to respond, but was interrupted when a teammate called to him from another doorway that led to a different court. "Come on, Aone! We're going to start soon!"

Aone nodded at them before turning back to you and answering your question. "I'm giving them to you because I like you, (f/n)," was his blunt and quick response. He then leaned towards you and placed a daring kiss on your cheek before waving at you and jogging down to the court he was going to play on with his team.

You, in turn, stood in the same spot, absolutely speechless, holding your bag of candies in your hands as your face blazed. You couldn't find your words until long after he was gone. And even then, you could only utter, "I like you too, Takanobu..."

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