Sakusa doesn’t seem to talk about you a lot. Or at all, even.

It’s not that he’s embarrassed by your relationship with him or anything—never that. In reality, he just prefers to keep things private between you two. Sakusa sees no point in flaunting your relationship everywhere he goes. He’s just more of a reserved guy, but it’s not like he doesn’t care about you.

Sakusa doesn’t voice his affection for you. The boy prefers to let his actions speak for him. He always shows up five minutes early to your house in the morning to walk you to school. He keeps a hair tie on his wrist in case you need one. He has strawberry pound cake scented hand sanitizer in his bag because you can’t stand the scent of the usual kind. Sakusa cares about you way more than you know.

And his teammates? Completely clueless about you. They don’t even know who you are. Sakusa hasn’t once brought you up—what’s the point? So imagine his surprise when he hears your sweet voice while he’s at after-school volleyball practice; jumping up to spike as the ball meets his hand in the air. The boy immediately stops in his tracks at the familiar sound of you, landing on his feet with a slight wobble as the ball bounces onto the ground next to him. “…Hello,” Sakusa mutters awkwardly, his voice considerably softer than usual.