"Hey Rudolph, what do you think about this?"

"Hm?" You turn away from the canvas and look over at a video on Oikawa's phone. Your eyes widened. "This game looks completely one-sided!" Your eyes trail over to one of the players who seemed to take center stage. "Who's that?"

Oikawa looks over at who you're pointing at. "Hm~ That's Ushiwaka-chan, Shiratorizawa's ace."

You take in the new information and continue watching the game, your stomach feeling more unsettled as you notice the gap between the two teams. "Is that who you're going to face?"

When you face him, the look on his face seemed to answer it. His face held a mixture of different emotions and the only one you could identify was that he was very much looking forward to this game.

You can now see why he had been having extra practices recently. The same extra practices which lead you guys to befriend each other.

As excited as he was, you could notice that he started to lose himself while he was watching the videos, and not in the good way. You put your hand over his shoulder to make him look up at you. "I'm done for the day, lets go."

As if he knew what you were asking him to do, he sighs and pockets his phone a few moments later. "Just give me a second, I need to grab something real quick." You nod as he stands up and grabs his bag.

"I'll wait for you at the entrance then." You follow him out the door and close it. He makes a noise of acknowledgement that he heard it before you part ways.

~~

The following morning seemed like a mess. One moment you're having your usual walk to school with Ami until there's a six foot tall high school boy clutching onto you for his dear life.

"Rudolph! I lost my phone!" He whines as Ami shoots you a look from the side that said 'we're talking about this later'. This meaning how he was clutching onto you as a lifeline.

"Well, when did you last see it?" You hastily pry him off you in attempts to gain some of your pride back.

"That's the thing! The last time I saw it was when I was showing you the video yesterday!" His voice goes up a few notches higher in a more childish tone. "I can't live without my phone~"

You roll your eyes and see Iwaizumi coming up from behind him. "Hey Trashykawa it's your own fault, don't bring [Surname]-san into this."

You rack your memory about what the phone looked like before an image pops into your head. "No, that's okay Iwaizumi-san, I'll look for it too. It might have just dropped in the art clubroom." You think a little more. "Oh, but before we left you said you needed to grab something so you might have dropped it there too." You turn to him and shrug.

He beams at your response. "You're the best Rudolph-chan! I totally forgot about that!"

"Well, if it's solved for now, lets start walking again!" Ami interjected. You look around to see more and more people forming around you four in an audience. "Chop chop, time to walk!"

As soon as Iwaizumi manages to pull a whining Oikawa away from you, Ami sticks to your side like a magnet. "When did you guys get that close?" She gave you a teasing look.

You just sigh and brush her off. "Wasn't he always like that to people?"

Ami shakes her head. "No, not at all! You guys seem to be pretty good friends now though!" She nudges your side. "Maybe I should stay after school more often and grab myself a nice looking guy too!"

"What? Don't you have that guy you've been pining over? What was his name again..." You look up in thought. "...Uh, Hanamato-san?"

Soon after, you are met with a swift blow to the arm.

"It's Hanamaki-kun!" She pouts. "And don't change the subject! There's something going on with you two!" Her eyes narrow at you, trying to study your relationship with Oikawa.

You roll your eyes. "Yeah, it's called friendship." You nudge her side. "As I said before, you can't just ship everything." Not wanting to deal with this topic anymore, you walk ahead of her to get to your class. "I'll see you at lunch, okay?"

As you walk off, Ami stays back and just snorts at your response. "My ships always sail!"

~~

After school ended, you talked to Iwaizumi before he left for practice to let Oikawa know that you'll check out if his phone is in the art clubroom. He nods in confirmation to let you know that he'll relay the message.

"You're too nice to him, [Surname]-san. If he gets babied too much, he'll never grow up," he mutters.

You laugh. "I guess in most aspects he's really childish but he grows up on matters that count." You start thinking back to the times when he provided support for you...and all those times when he'd come whining to you like a little kid.

Iwaizumi stares at you for a moment before chuckling. "Thanks for sticking around and being his friend." He pats your shoulder lightly. "He can be such a handful."

You shake your head. "No, the feeling is mutual, he's a good friend." You give him a teasing smile. "Even if he is a handful."

Iwaizumi's brows rise in surprise. "Well, you'd be the first to verbally say that." He shoots a teasing smile back in your direction.

"I guess you internally agree with me then?" You gave him a knowing smile.

He chuckles, "can't say I do." He turns from you to indicate he was going to go to practice now. "See you tomorrow then."

"Yeah, see you tomorrow, Iwaizumi-san!" You raise up your hand halfway to say goodbye before you walk off to your own destination.

When you finally got to the art clubroom, you survey the surroundings. You had arrived first and took the time to walk around the whole room, checking out the places you assumed Oikawa was fluttering around at while you were painting.

You texted his phone and you could hear it vibrating. A few more tries later and you finally notice the sun's rays aim itself right onto a reflective object, the said object a gleaming beacon of hope. You walk towards it and sigh in relief. It's a phone alright. Picking it up, you study it, trying to figure out if his phone looked like this or not. It would be really awkward if it was just one of your club members phones they left here for the moment as they grabbed something. You click the home button and your doubt is cleared.

It's Oikawa's alright. You couldn't help but roll your eyes at the photo on his lock screen. There was Oikawa, a smile so wide you wondered if his face would split, and a dark haired boy whom you assumed was younger bowing towards him.

Well, Oikawa will be Oikawa.

Another thing you noticed was that the name he saved with your number wasn't Rudolph at all. Because of all those texts you sent his phone, you saw your own name bounce right back at you.

[Name].

If anything, you were confused by the name he chose. Your surname wasn't attached to it either... This just made it even more questionable.

Not knowing what to think of it, you close the lock screen and pocket the phone for safekeeping. You would definitely ask him about that later on today.

~~

"Rudolph-chan! Did you see it?!" Oikawa bursts into your room after his practice.

"Hello to you too." You stuff your hand in your pocket and take his phone out from him to see. "I guess someone did drop their phone in here."

"I thought I was a goner when I couldn't find it at that other place you mentioned!" He runs over to you and quickly takes his phone from your hands, cradling it. "You're a lifesaver!"

You nod nonchalantly and continue painting as you listen to him chatter on about how great you are for finding it. "Yes, yes, and don't you forget it."

After that, Oikawa died down and you assumed to reply to the texts he missed out on. Once he sets his phone down and sighs in relief only then do you speak up.

"So...I guess you didn't call me Rudolph on your phone?" You try to subtly slip in.

His head snaps towards you after a beat of processing what you just said. "Ah! You saw!"

You arch your brow at his surprised voice. "Of course I saw! I was texting your phone so I could find it!" You huff. "You were gracious enough to leave that nickname out of your phone though, why can't you just call me by my name?"

He pouts. "But [Surname]-chan is so bland—"

"—Excuse me?" You interjected. "So my first name isn't as bland?"

He winks. "Hm, it suits you~" His smile morphs into a teasing grin. "I didn't realize you like being called Rudolph so much~"

You shoot him a glare. "Don't put words in my mouth Spotty."

He cringes a little at his own nickname and looks away from you. "...Anyway, don't friends have nicknames for each other?"

You look at him for a moment before you sit back and contemplate his words. Yeah, you guys were friends. You can't stop the smile that sneaks up on your face.

Oikawa considered you as a friend from the very beginning.

And frankly, even if you weren't aware of it before, you considered him one too.

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*raise hands* who else here is an Ami? I love seeing people get together lol their stories make me go ahhhThanks for sticking around and I hope you enjoy this weeks chapter! Until next week (: