When Tetsuro first saw you, a new student who transferred to Nekoma in the middle of his third-year of high school, he was completely in awe with your beauty.

Not only were you beautiful, but you were kind, intelligent, supportive, and you genuinely found his puns and jokes funny.

So in order to make you fall in love with him, he tried everything. He helped you catch up with the other students, he was the first one to talk to you when you were first introduced, he complimented you once in a while, he invited you to his games, he even asked you for your phone number.

Subtle flirting, touching, compliments, staring at you. He thought it was obvious, but you were too dense and oblivious for your own good, it pained him.

He wanted to run his fingers through your beautiful hair, he wanted you to call him by his first name; Tetsuro, and not his surname.

“Kuroo, dude, just accept she doesn’t want you. Stop being so creepy,” Morisuke Yaku, his best friend, would say, making fun of his friend’s infatuation for the fifth time that day. “What? Say that again. She just hasn't realized her feelings for me yet! Stop proving you lack docosahexaenoic acid for once, please?” Tetsuro angrily replied to his friend between his teeth, and the bickering began again.

But maybe his friends are right. He hasn't been able to get any closer to you. He's losing hope. He gets very discouraged every time someone mentions the future; he doesn't want your paths to part after high school just because he’s too much of a coward to confess. He's even pictured a happy life with you; he thinks with certainty that you'll both get married, have three dogs and beautiful twin sons.

Right now, he's alone in his classroom during lunch time, having forgotten his wallet in his school bag. As he heads to his desk, he sees a poster with a ‘funny’ pun about chemistry, and the corners of his lips turn up slightly at the sight. He really likes chemistry.

And soon, he finds himself singing the famous periodic table song, getting louder and louder, all passionate and emotional as he goes. He loves chemistry so much he memorized the entire song.

He already has his wallet in his hand, but he keeps singing, as if he were a professional opera singer.

“Scandium, Titanium, Vanadium! And Chromium and Manganese~!” His deep voice rises to a high note, his hand holding his wallet reaching up to the roof while his other hand clutches the fabric covering his chest, all with his eyes closed.

He’s filled with passion, until he hears the classroom door slide open, making him immediately shut up. He stays in that same pose, his head turning to see who had arrived. All he sees is you, the girl he has a crush on.

Tetsuro quickly put his arms back down by his sides, smiling nervously at you, his face turning comically red.

"...Ah, hello there," he tries to say hello, but he is very embarrassed, his nails digging into his wallet. The young woman he is crazy about just saw him singing a stupid song with so much passion, ridiculing himself.