Chapter 21

                                    

                                          

Bzzt. Bzzt. Bzzt.
You woke up from another nap feeling mentally exhausted. At this point, you were drowning yourself in sleep with no productivity. You got up from the clothes pile you had slept on and played some music before cleaning your room. You started removing pictures and posters, any sort of hanging decorations or art pieces you'd collected.
The walls became bare.
You liked it.
You turned your music louder and stripped the whole house of its decorations. It became simplistic, less stimulating.
Minimalistic.
You liked this too.
It was simple.
Straightforward.
Direct and to the point.
No hidden meanings.
No hidden truths.
No stories to tell.
It felt like a satisfactory sigh.
You were starting to love it.
An echo followed you from behind as you carried the last box of items up the wooden steps, up the attic ladder, and closed the attic door. The house was now loud but silent. You crept down the stairs again, not wanting to disturb the peaceful atmosphere, holding your laundry basket to put the stained clothes of the past to be washed for the upcoming future.
You had a shower.
You freshened up.
You ate food.
You heard a notification from your phone. You had been busy distracting yourself, forgetting about the thing that annoyed you the most. The notifications. You hesitated before picking up your phone with disgust to see another friend request. You rolled your eyes and clicked on the hidden messages that were ignored, counting 34 of them in total. Great. You noticed texts from Tooru and his friends, asking for your well-being, and strangers giving you support about your cheating boyfriend... Can people really not mind their business?
First things first.
Call Oikawa.
You navigated to your contacts and pressed his name. Each ring made you feel more and more nauseous until he picked up the phone. 
"Y/n! Hey, how are you?! You haven't been answering me and King flew back because she said her boss cut her holidays short."
Her holidays short?
There was no fight?
He does not know.
HE DOES NOT KNOW.
How many lies did King tell?
"Eh? My bad, I got zoned into my art again and forgot I have a life too."
"Really? I'll never understand that... How's Iwa? He won't talk to me either... is there something going on?"
"Other than the fact your friend decided to cheat on me twice and hide his face like a coward? Or do you mean the fact King actually set this whole situation up so she can hurt me to help her own best friend?"
Oikawa paused before speaking in a less friendly tone. "Y/n, I am going to get the next flight available and I want you to explain this to me with all details."
"Tooru, don't be dramatic, you don't need to fly all—"
The line was cut dead.
"Nah, me and him decided to take a break to work on ourselves more before coming back together, so we're fine. I'd say he's just in his zone too."
It's not a lie... but it isn't the whole truth.
"Ohhhh! Oh? Oh. Did something trigger that? Did you guys get into a fight?"
"King told me YOU guys got into a fight."
"Tooru, relax, you have competitions coming up, stop stressing. If it makes you feel better, I'll improve my communication for you and I'm sorry for leaving you worried, okay?"