Rubber Duck

You went to school today with mixed feeling. This morning when you woke up you prayed hard that you're sick again so that you can skip another day of school and avoid seeing people you don't want to see. But the odd is never in your favor. Well, you could have lied to your mother but it would only make you a traitor to yourself. So here you are standing in front of the door to your classroom. With a deep breath, you twisted the door knob and slide open the door. 'Just another day of my twisted life.'

You stepped in and right at that moment, you sensed a of group of angsty teenagers shooting their glare at you. You spotted that girl among the girls so you braved yourself to walk toward the hungry pack.  

"Kaname-san, I'm so-"

She left the place with a 'hmph' before you finished your word. The group dispersed so you were left there standing like and pole frozen like an idiot.

"Move out, [L/name]-san. You're blocking my way!"  A girl with thick make up who look just like a bimbo appeared from the back and pushed you aside.

There's a strange sensation in you that made you felt the urge to push her back but you shut it down and acted like how a normal person would do, return to the seat quietly. 'It's okay. Everything's gonna be fine. One day they'll treat me like a friend. It's okay, [F/name].' You tried to comfort yourself. 

That's how pathetic you are. Blinding yourself from the ugly truth of human nature. Hoping for miracle to happen. Just like a kid who believes in fairies and world peace. There's no such thing, my friend. Human will always be human. They care for no one but their own selves. You knew it well, you just don't want to accept it.

The bell rang and it's time for lunch. You walked your way to the usual place but halfway there you saw Kaname alone at the hallway. 'Maybe I can try to talk to her again.'

"Kaname-san, I'm sorry for not helping you with your assignment. I fell sick suddenly yesterday. I'm so sorry."

"Keep that sorry for yourself. It's useless. I got myself a scold from the teacher and extra work. What do you know? You never got scold before, right? Ah yes, You're the apple of the teacher's eyes who never do a single mistake. That's why the teacher treat you special and always talk about how good you are, how smart you are. You love all the attentions you got from the teacher aren't you?"

"That's not true! I don't want all the attentions and praises. I just want to be good enough so that I can help my friends who need me. That's all."

"Friends? Who's your friend? Heh. Stop dreaming, missy. No one wants to be friends with you. We hate you and we sick of your goody-two-shoe act." 

With that, a splash of cold water hit your face and bring you back to reality. Every single words she said pierced through your heart. Your eyes start to tearing up. The girl pushed you hard as you feel like falling but a man blocked her and got pushed instead of you. You felt his back pressed on you so you opened your eyes and look. Guess who?

"Midorima-kun! I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that to you." Kaname uttered nervously.

The man didn't say a word. He threw a death glare to her and sent her off running. Pushing his glasses up his nose bridge, he dragged you to where there's no one around. [Think of somewhere you like]

You didn't bothered by him as you're busy crying your eyes off. That words the girl said really got into you. After all the hard work you did, all the fake and lies you did to yourself seems useless. No one ever appreciate your effort. They were only using you to their own benefit. True friends will never exist.

"Why do you like to cry so much? It's annoying, nanodayo." The man's word made you snapped.

He's the last person on earth you want to see right now. And to make it worse, you're crying in front of him. "Go away. I hate you, you evil frog master!"

"Still got that mean words, huh? Why don't you say something like that to that girl? You shouldn't just let her do anything to you."

"Shut up. You don't know anything." You turned your body around so that he couldn't see your tears. At least you thought it will work.

"Then tell me. It's not that I want to budge in your business or what. I'm just curious how weak you were in front of that girl."

"You really want to hear it?" You turned to him and looked at him with your teary eyes. You're already sitting on the floor to get ready to pour your heart content.

He took his position beside you. "Not really."

"Then get lost!"

"Okay, okay. I'll hear it. Just say it already, nanodayo."

"I just want to make some friends. I thought being nice to people will make me a friend to them. I did everything. Only yesterday I fell sick and I couldn't help that bitch with her assignment and she's going around telling people how suck I am. I'm tired of all this acting. I'm sick of it. If only I have money filling up my house I'll buy myself a bunch of kind and loving friends. Then we'll do fun stuff together, walk to the sunset hands in hands and grow old together."

"Hahaha!! That's the funniest thing I ever heard. You had such a weird idea of friendship.There's no such thing in life. What, do you think you're living in the anime world?" The man ends up laughing at your word. 

That's new. It's the first time you saw him laugh. And it annoys the shit out of you. He just made fun of you and crushed your imagination of friendship. As a result you punched the side of his arm as you bit your lower lip. It didn't hurt him though.

"I don't know much about friendship because I rather be alone but I do know a thing or two about it. First, you can't buy friends with money. Second, friends did not use you for their own good. If they do, they are not a real friend. Third, no one told you to pretend to be like someone else. So stop it and just be yourself, nanodayo." He said as he finally settled down when he noticed you stay quiet.

"They gonna hate me if they know who I really am. I'm a bad person who only say bad things about others."  Hugging your legs with both hands, your put your head into the circle as you continue to cry.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with you. You're just fine the way you are." Midorima put his hand on your head. You were surprised by his act so you raised your head to look at him. Your [eyes color] orbs met with his. 

Once in forever, he said something nice about you. A weird feeling arise from your chest filling up to your head. It's just a common words he used but for it to come from him make it feels different. 'Maybe he's not that bad as a person.'

"Well, apart from the gorilla part of you." He turned his head to the other way as a slight shade of pink appeared on his cheek. Of course you didn't see it. He quickly retrieved his hand and began stroking the rubber duck head on his hand.

Your imagination crashed to the ground upon hearing that annoying line. You regretted what you had just said to yourself. That guy will never be nice to you. 'If that is what he thinks about me then that's what I'll be.' 

Drying the tears from your face, you spoke to him. "What's with the duck?"

"It's my lucky item for today. Oha-asa told that one will never get into bad luck as long as he has the lucky item with him."

"That's stupid. Why did you believe in something like that. You're the one who control your own life. Not some random constellation prediction." 

 "Oha-asa is not some random constellation prediction! It's the one that made me who I am today. Without it I will never be like this."

"Like what? A crazy megane carrot? Yeah. Thanks a lot, Oha-asa." Sarcastic.

"Now I know why people just hate you. I need to teach that mouth of you some manners." He said as he pinched your cheeks at the same spot he did before and it hurt like crazy.

"It hurts, you moron! I hate you! I'll tell Takao what you did to me." You ran off as you got free from his grip.

Midorima's eyes followed your trail until your figure disappeared from his sight. He heaved a sigh. He knew shouldn't let you run away from him. He wish he could take it back. 

Maybe, just maybe he had grown a liking toward you.

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Wow! That was hard. This is the longest chapter I've ever done.

I just noticed that I've been missing the 'nanodayo' part in the earlier chapters. So here goes. I'll put as much as I can that you'll become annoyed by it :p

This chapter is dedicated to dear MichelleTovar! Thanks for voting in every chapter!! I really appreciate it. >_<