30. Reconnect (Suga pov)

                                    

                                          
a/n: whewwwww it feels like forever since i posted!!!!! im so glad i finally got this chapter done, id been waiting to do if for a long time and it is so nice to have out of the way :)))) sorry i couldnt post at a normal time over the weeknd, im just glad im getting this in now tho and not later in the week lmao. quick notes, ignore me trying to sound like ik what im talking abt with ice skating cause i definitely dont lol so sorry for inaccuracies, feel free to correct me. also sorry the first part isnt very plot heavy, its just random casual stuff happening, but it does pick up in the middle, so there you go. i hope you guys had a great weekend, i dont own the coverart, enjoy!!
                          
The rest of the week went by pretty slowly for me. It wasn't exactly bad, it just...everything felt kind of draining, between the schoolwork, volleyball, ice skating, by the time I got home, I just wanted to flop on my bed and pass out for the next ten hours. Mostly it was because of Sora I think, trying to go about a normal week without her presence, it was really strange. Making or eating breakfast alone, no one texting me that they either needed a ride or already found one, no one asking about my day...
                          
   Well, that last part was a lie. Quite a few people were making a much stronger effort than before to talk to me and see how I was. Pretty much everyone on my team, a lot of people on the Seijoh team (they were a bit more discreet than Karasuno, not explicitly asking how I was, more like having a normal conversation about random things). And then there was Oikawa.
                          
   He had no qualms about reaching out to me, but it never got annoying. His texts and calls I looked forward to the most, because he had been there for longer than everyone, cared a ton about me, which I don't think would ever get old, not after so many years feeling so alone.
                          
   Of course, none of this changed the fact that Sora was gone, that I swear it physically hurt, and sometimes I just had to stop and sit down until the dull ache in my chest subsided. But, it did help. A lot. I felt...not alone anymore. I felt...kind of hopeful.
                          
   When Friday finally arrived, I was actually feeling kind of excited. I mean, as excited as you can be when your close foster sister just died like a week ago, but still. Daichi and I would hang out after school (which meant no ice skating :( ), hopefully catch up and get past whatever little funk our relationship was in, hopefully I would even come clean to him about, you know, my past and stuff, like a trial run before I told other Karasuno people.
                          
   What was even better was after practice on Saturday, I would get to go hang out with Oikawa and his friends (dare I say our friends?), not even having to go out and do something, just stay in and watch stuff and play minecraft probably, which honestly sounded so amazing. When was the last time I was able to just relax and hang out with friends?
                          
   There was no morning practice, so I got to sleep in...until I remembered the Nakajimas had said if I ever wanted I could use the rink in the morning when there were virtually no people there, so I was kind of like screw sleeping in, I wanna nail the quad loop! which is why I woke up at 5:30 so I could go skate for an hour or so.
                          
   I was overjoyed to find no one there, except for the Nakajimas themselves. "Suga-kun, what a pleasure to see you here in the morning!" Mrs. Nakajima exclaimed when she saw me. "Are you gonna do the quad loop today?"
                          
   "I sure hope so!" I replied, eagerly starting my stretches. Much to my chagrin, she had seen me wipe out quite a bit attempting it. I finally had all the triples down, I had learned most of them back before I quit, and most of the quads as well. It had taken a few weeks, but after I started again, they came back to me. The quad loop I really struggled with though. I had managed to figure out the triple axel a few weeks ago, so I was making progress. Now if I could just get this lutz I would have all the jumps (...I mean...assuming we're not counting a quad axel–).