3| Graduation and Encounters

                                    

                                          
   You left...left Fukoradani without so much as a goodbye. That's when I realized you had moved on without me. When I realized I'd never get you back. Even though it's selfish, I feel betrayed. I never wanted this, no matter if it was the right thing or not. 
                          
   I hate you. 
                          
   I hate you, F/n L/n. 
                          
   I hate you for leaving me alone in a world so cold. 
                          
   I hate you because you made me feel important, loved.
                          
   Now you're gone for good, and I'll never see you again. 
                          
Present Time: 
                          
   For a while, I convinced myself that it was N/n I hated. But, in reality, it was me. I didn't have to try to break up her friendships and relationships, but I still did. I thought I would find satisfaction in it, but that never happened, and it never will. I'm such a fool for thinking that it would. 
                          
   Now, every day, I walk through the halls of Aoba Johsai High School with my head down. At least here, I don't have to put up with cruel beatings from an angry volleyball team, which I quit after the incident. 
                          
   Graduation is coming up soon, and I'll finally be able to climb out of that hellhole of a home. And this unbearable school. Every day I'm forced to watch as Tooru Oikawa and N/n flirt and smile and laugh. It's insufferable. Yes, I'm glad she's happy, but it hurts to know it's with someone else. 
                          
   Something about Oikawa doesn't sit right with me. It never did. But that could always be my suffocating jealousy. 
                          
   I sit down in class next to Hajime Iwaizumi, which is always awkward as hell. I do my best not to make eye contact with him. Pulling out my books, I sit completely still. 
                          
   A group of Oikawa's fangirls comes into class, taking their seats all around me; One of the reasons I hate school so much. 
                          
   "Did you hear the latest news about Oikawa?" One girl asks, looking towards the other three girls. 
                          
   "Huh? No, what is it?" The one with caked-on make-up inquires. 
                          
   The first girl looks down, sadness playing in her eyes. She's probably going to bitch about how Oikawa's with N/n and not her. They've been doing that for around three weeks now. 
                          
   "Oikawa's moving away after graduation," She frowns. 
                          
   What? Where's he going? 
                          
   "What!? To where!?" The girl with curly hair asks, bringing my thoughts to the surface. 
                          
   I'm looking at them now. 
                          
   "Argentina." 
                          
   My eyes grow wide. Argentina is a ways away from Japan. Is N/n going with him; am I going to lose her again?
                          
   "Argentina!? What does his girlfriend have to say about this!? I hope she told him to stay!" The girl sitting right next to me exclaims. 
                          
   The first girl looks down in what I can only assume is disappointment. "I heard she was really upset, but she didn't try talking him out of it" 
                          
   So he's leaving her? Just like that? 
                          
   I turn to my left, finding that Iwaizumi's fiddling with his pencil, though I can tell he was listening in on that conversation too. 
                          
   "Is what they're saying true?" I ask the boy without much thought. 
                          
   He looks at me and then back down to his desk. "It's true," He confirms, causing anger to fill my veins. "Why do you want to know?" The guy questions, now looking me in the eyes.