“Kya~ Atobe-sama~”
“Keigo~”
“Atobe~!”
“Kya~”







The embedded jealously in the Glass of Wine Jelly







“Kuso-Kuso Atobe!! Do something about your fan girls!” Gakuto said as they opened the door to their training room. The cool breeze of the air conditioner waved the red headed boy’s hair to the side.
“A-n? You jealous Mukahi?” Atobe grinned; his powerful gaze scrutinizing Gakuto.
“’Sif!! I’m telling you I can’t concentrate idiot!”
“Agreed.” , the third year temporary manager of the Hyoutei Tennis Club said. “Your fan girls are totally distracting everyone Atobe. Tell ‘em to just shut up already. Besides which Atobe―――”
“Who cares about Atobe, ne, -chan?” Oshitari cut in as he smiled at .
“Oi.” Atobe said sounding somewhat annoyed at Oshitari who didn’t seem to be paying attention to the point of his popularity, which of course means everything in the world at Hyoutei.
“The point is, you’re going to be leaving us now that our winter training session’s up right?” Oshitari said as he moved closer to .
“Ah, yeah. Sakaki-sensei only asked me to help out during this winter so I guess my term’s up.”
“Eeh-!? Maji-Maji-!? Jirou popped his head out from behind his locker door. “We should do something!”
“Then let’s meet at Atobe’s house tonight at 7.” Oshtiari said as he looked at is watch.
“Yeah!” Jirou jumped up and down.
“Hey! Oi!!” Atobe frowned at the hasty decision being made.
“Are you going to be coming Mukahi-senpai?”
“… Ah, yeah.” He replied hesitantly to Ootori who was besides him.

Behind the door of his locker, Gakuto sighed as he put away the 2 movie tickets he had prepared for tonight. As he scrunched it away into his pocket,
“Well, I’m off. I’ll see ya’s all at Atobe’s at 7 then.” Gakuto said as he swung his bag and racket over his shoulder and walked out of the room.
“Come for a coffee -chan~.” Oshitari said as he put his hands around ’s shoulder.
“Sorry!! I have to go home and do a few things before tonight!! I’ll go home with Gaku-chan today!! See ya tonite~!!” replied quickly as she too picked her bag and moved Oshitari’s hand off her shoulder; running out of the training room door.


“““““………………………..”””””


The 5 sets of eyes followed out of the training room.
“Damn Gakuto….” Oshitari sighed.
“Oh well Oshitari-senpai, she had something to do.” Ootori laughed softly as he put on his tie.
“But man, -chan is so KawaE~! I want her to be our permanent manager!” Jirou shouted as he jumped onto the sofa.
“Not as much as me.” Oshitari sighed. “Or Atobe.” he added, forming his crafty grin.
“A-n?” Atobe frowned. “I’m not as desperate as you Oshitari.. Right Kabaji?”
“Usu.”
“…. You’re just as bad as Fuji at Seigaku Oshitari.” Shishido sighed.
“Hmm?”
“You knew that Mukahi had tickets for him and for tonight didn’t you?”
“Oh really~? ♪♪”
『『『『….Evil….』』』』
Atobe, Ootori, Shishido and Jirou whispered under their breath, watching Oshitari take out his mobile phone.







“Hey! Gaku-chan, wait up!” called for the red headed boy as she ran out of the school gate.
“Hmm? ?” The red headed boy turned around; his hair swaying in the wind as it did. “Aren’t you going out for a coffee with Yu-shi?”
“Nah…. How did you know?” she asked, sounding somewhat confused.
“Yu-shi was saying something like that during our training.” Gakuto said as he unwrapped a lollypop, putting it into his mouth as he handed another to . “Why don’t you go out with him? He seems to really like you.”
“Nn-…. Nah… he’s not my type.” laughed to herself sarcastically as she threw the lollypop into her mouth; the sweet scent of strawberry swivelling around her.
“Type?”
“Yeah, I like people who have this ‘subtle kindness’”. winked as she took out the lollypop out her mouth.
The next moment;
“ -cha~n. C’mon, you’re coming this way~!”
She heard Oshitari’s voice and then felt her body being lifted into mid-air.
“Oshitari!? What on――― ”
Before she could finish her sentence, she felt herself on Oshitari’s shoulder.
“C’mon, we’re going for a coffee.” He said in his low whisper-ish voice.
“I told you I have to do a few things at home!” she tried to put herself back down onto the ground but having over 15cm height different with Oshitari, her feet were high off the ground and her hips being strongly held by Oshitari’s hands.
“I rang Inui. According to his data you’re not doing anything this afternoon♪”
“How the hell would Inui know my schedule damn it―――!”

Gakuto stared at his hands and sighed; his lollypop sliding from side to side in his mouth.
There was no way in the world he could do something like that with his height and build.
“See ya ~” he waved as he saw kicking his tall doubles partner in the distance.
“Mu-kahi!” Jirou tapped his shoulder from behind. “Don’t worry! Being small has its advantages too!” he grinned.

Gakuto didn’t quite understand what Jirou was on about with his innocent smile….
Until they were at Atobe’s house later that night.



“We’re gonna miss you -cha~n!” Jirou said as he hugged her from behind.
“Awwwww Jirou-chan~” said as she ran her fingers through Jirou’s curly hair.
He winked at Gakuto.
(Fair enough….)


It was almost 9:00pm and everyone was now lounging about his Atobe’s massive lounge room.
As Gakuto sighed and grabbed a drink from the table,
“Jirou-senpai’s getting quite good isn’t he?” Ootori laughed to Shishido who was standing next to a jealous looking Oshitari.
“That’s one thing we can’t do hey Ootori….” He muttered to himself.
“Oi Oshitari….” Atobe sounded somewhat annoyed.
“K…Kei-chan.” Oshitari slowly turned around to the cold voice calling his name.
And as if that snapped the veins and rising blood pressure in Atobe, Atobe glared at Oshitari then grinned.
“Yo, .” He called ’s name.
“Hmm?”
“Have a glass of this.” Atobe said as he handed a glass.
“What is it?”
“Wine Jelly.” He grinned. “It’s nice.” He said as he handed her a spoon.
The clear lump of jelly decorated with cream and a cherry was handed to .
“Thanks.” She took a bite. “Wow this is really nice~!” she smiled, taking another bite.

“Gaku-chan, Gaku-chan, have a bite?” she said as she called the red headed boy’s name.
“Ah, , that’s for you only. Mukahi’s a tennis player, I don’t want him to have any alcohol intake whatsoever.” Atobe grinned.
“This has alcohol in it….?” It was after she only had a bite left of the glass when Atobe’s words slipped out of his mouth.
“Atobe you moron, you know can’t have alcohol!” Shishido said; but it was a minute too late. ’s face was already starting to glow.
As Atobe held Oshitari back by his collar;
“Hey Mukahi.” He called.








“Kuso-Kuso Atobe…”
Gakuto mumbled as he put on his coat and swung ’s arms his shoulder.
“ , you okay?” he asked as they began to walk home.
“I’m fine….” She replied; each step she took showing that she obviously wasn’t.
As they silently walked through the still night of the night of winter, shuddered, feeling the cold breeze cut through her skin.
Feeling her muscle tense,
“Hang in there….” Gakuto said as he took another step forward.

Of course, when Gakuto had returned back inside Atobe’s house after hanging about the balcony with Jirou for a while, was sitting on the sofa looking like an octopus.
『Atobe you idiot, not every junior high student has a glass of wine for dinner every night!!』
『A-n? Shut up and take her home Mukahi』
『Huh!? Me!? Jirou lives closer!』
『Go on Go on♪E-jan!』
『Yeah go on Gakuto….』


And so, here he was.

“I wanna go home-!!” shouted as she let herself free and began to run down the street.
“Oi!! , don’t run while you’re drunk damn it!” Gakuto shouted quickly after realising what she was doing.
“C’mon Gaku-chan!” waved her hands in the air as she continued to run down the street.

Of course, a few metres later,
“ !” Gakuto ran as fast as he could when he saw suddenly pause.
As he expected, the next minute, was falling into his arms.
“The alcohol gets around quicker when you move around like that …” Gakuto sighed as he heaved her arms back onto his shoulder. Although he was a tennis player, Gakuto didn’t exactly have a big build (rather the opposite) and though he had muscles, it wasn’t exactly an easy task to carry a girl who was taller than himself down a dark street of a cold winter night.

Dragging down the empty street, it was after a good 20 minutes after Gakuto finally reached the front door of his house.
“Tadaima~.” He said, only to be greeted by the silence in his house.
As he helped into the lounge, he saw a message on the kitchen bench notifying him that his parents had gone out to his grandmother’s for the weekend.
Gakuto sighed.
Getting a glass of water, he took off his coat and sat next to .
“ , have a drink. You’ll get a hang over if you don’t.”
“Nn~….”
He felt ’s cold hands slightly touch his as she took the glass of water and somehow swallowed it down her throat.
Rubbing her eyes,
“Nn~~~~~ Gaku-chan~ .” said as she put her arms around Gakuto’s neck.
For a minute, Gakuto felt his heart skip a beat.
“H… Hey, …!” he panicked, not know what to do.
“Oyasumi~” she chuckled as she kissed him on the cheeks and fell onto the couch, letting go of her conscious as she did.






“……..”






Seeing that had totally fallen asleep, Gakuto chuckled softly to himself as he went to his bedroom, coming back with a blanket in his hand.
Putting it over as he rested his back on the edge of the sofa; sitting on the carpet besides the sofa which lay fast asleep.




“Good night.”
He whispered softly, giving her a light kiss on her forehead.
Putting the two movie tickets under her pillow.
“Sweet dreams.”






A dream served with a glass of wine jelly and a hint of sweet jealously.

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by kyoh
04.07.04

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