Everything is Possible in a Story

Ayumi Nazu/Author's Note: Ninth entry of the 15 One-Shot Contest! Ryoma Echizen's POV. I thank you for your comments, critiques and votes in advance.

Disclaimer: Prince of Tennis belongs to Konomi Takeshi.

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Theme #9

If You Want it, then Come and Get it!

Written by: AyumiNazu

     I flipped through the pages with a funny smile on my face. When did her aunt capture all these photos of us?

     Ayumi hasn’t come back yet, so I went into her room, with her aunt’s permission. She left to make some snacks for when my girlfriend would come back, so she couldn’t keep an eye on me. Not like she would ever stop me from doing anything, her aunt was always more than positive about my relationship with her precious niece.

     You can tell with these photos in this album I was looking at, most of the pictures had me in it as well. We would be on a date or something. Her aunt did great on capturing her blushing and sometimes embarrassing moments.

     I found the album on her bookshelf, there were more too. I skimmed through the pages so that I could get through all of them before Ayumi came back. She wouldn’t like me going through her stuff, but hey, all I’d have to do would be to give her a kiss on the cheek, then tease her a bit more before she couldn’t help but give up. Ayumi was cute that way, so sweet that it made us inseparable like honey and bee. There’s no one like her in the world.

     I arrived to the last page. It was a snap shot of the first time she kissed me back and in the corner, she wrote in fancy latter ‘RyoxAyu’. I honestly blushed when I saw it. At that moment, Ayumi opened the door in her room and called out my name in joy because I had come to visit her. However, when she saw me sitting beside her bed on the floor, surrounded by the piles of photo albums, she yelled out in shock, “Ryoma, what are you doing?!”

     I smirked and waved the album I was looking at, opened to the last page. Her face immediately turned cherry red out of embarrassment. Ayumi dropped her bag and rushed to snatch the album out of my hand.

     “Too slow,” I said while jumping out of my seat to avoid her clasping hands, “If you want it, then come and get it!”

     “Give that back, Ryoma!”

     I wasn’t going to just hand it over. I’ll have her exercise a bit more before she deserved to get it back. Out the house I went and ran all the way to the park. Due to my speed, she had trouble catching up. Playing tennis had an advantage in running away too. I slipped a few of her pictures out of the album and kissed them in front of her face.

     I couldn’t help teasing her. It was almost as fun as playing tennis. When she rushed towards me and almost tackled me to get hold of that album, I lost my balance and fell backwards.

It was funny how she said, “Are you ok?” and forgot all about the album as soon as we both hit the ground.

     “I’m fine,” I said while sitting up again.

     I picked up the fallen pictures and album and gave it to her. She hugged the album in her arms, her cheeks remained pink.

     “Ne, do I get anything in return since I give it back? Maybe a kiss or something?”

     As soon as I asked, she quickly backed up. I laughed, “Just joking.”

     I put my arm around her shoulders and walked her home, delicious treats made by her aunt was waiting for us. If you wonder why I didn’t really kiss her back, it was because I had received my payment already. In my pocket was the picture that was on the last page. She didn’t know yet, but I wished I could see her expression when she finds out it was gone.

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