[Shirabu's taken to texting Iwaizumi about all manner of little things, it's true. Everything from idle thoughts that pop into his head to complaints about his class and teammates, to anecdotes from his day that he thinks Iwaizumi might like to hear. It bridges the space between them, which often feels like a massive void despite not covering that much physical distance.
High school rivalries will do that, especially athletic ones.
This time he comes at Iwaizumi with no preamble and no real romance because he's been fighting the urge to ask this for several days. Longer, if he's honest with himself. Iwaizumi was very frank about the nature of his love for Oikawa and Shirabu wanted to give him space to process what they now had, to decide how far that could go when so much of his heart was elsewhere. And then, quite suddenly, Shirabu found himself out of extra space and in need of clarity.]
Really? So... that's it, we're dating now? We're a couple?
[He didn't think it'd go over without so much as a conversation, though. It's his turn to feel a hint of dizzy, fluttering vertigo at how much things changed with just two texts.]
i like iwa's inner workings tho <3
High school rivalries will do that, especially athletic ones.
This time he comes at Iwaizumi with no preamble and no real romance because he's been fighting the urge to ask this for several days. Longer, if he's honest with himself. Iwaizumi was very frank about the nature of his love for Oikawa and Shirabu wanted to give him space to process what they now had, to decide how far that could go when so much of his heart was elsewhere. And then, quite suddenly, Shirabu found himself out of extra space and in need of clarity.]
Really? So... that's it, we're dating now? We're a couple?
[He didn't think it'd go over without so much as a conversation, though. It's his turn to feel a hint of dizzy, fluttering vertigo at how much things changed with just two texts.]