Long Odds
Long Odds
Author: PocketFox
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Summary: Shy, bookish Aizawa Miki never believed he could ever be noticed by his idol, the brash, headstrong basketball player Ito Ran. In fact, he felt lucky to even be able to exist in the same airspace, thanks to his twin sister Misa being best friends with Ran’s little sister Yukari. But when Miki’s class runs a fundraiser that involves a contest to win a date with the popular Ran, Misa and Yukari get it into their heads to play a little trick on the two, and Miki might end up with a lot more attention than he bargained for!
Rating: R, eventual NC-17
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Author Notes: Yes, the summary reads like a yaoi manga. Yes, it\'s supposed to. ^.~
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“How about some sort of contest?”
The sound of his sister’s voice jarred Miki out of his daydreams, and he lifted his chin from his hand to look over at her, mildly concerned. Misa always had the cleverest ideas, and they invariably went over well, whether it was for fundraisers or school festivals or anything. Unfortunately, she also had a rather twisted sense of humor. As the class representative asked his twin to expound on her idea, Miki braced himself.
“How about we hold a raffle or a contest to win a date with the most popular boys and girls in school?” Yup, there it was. Miki grimaced.
He grimaced some more when Misa’s best friend, Yukari, piped up, “How about my brother? He’s like the most popular guy in school!” This idea was greeted rather enthusiastically by the rest of the girls in the class, and Miki made a third face.
Yukari’s brother, Ran, was a senior and the star of the school’s basketball team. He was tall and handsome, athletic but also exceptionally good at academics. He was the kind of guy you would dearly love to hate, but you couldn’t, because he was so kind and generous to just about everyone, despite his rather brash and hotheaded personality. Because of all this, he was the love interest of most of the girls and the envy of most of the boys. And he was the type of guy that, under normal circumstances, a shy, introverted guy like Miki shouldn’t have been able to get within twenty feet of.
Fate, however, has a funny way of working. Ever since middle school Miki’s twin had been best friends with Ran’s younger sister. The relationship often threw Miki into much closer contact with Ran than he ever thought possible, and it wasn’t any surprise that over time Miki began to idolize his older classmate. Unfortunately, that idolization took a rather nasty and unexpected turn when Miki hit high school: he fell in love.
For the first couple of years, he tried desperately to deny it, telling himself over and over again that it was just normal, run-of-the-mill hero worship. After all, who wouldn’t worship a guy like Ran? He was everything Miki wasn’t – popular, athletic, socially adept. …Tall. It was totally understandable that he would want to at least be near Ran, if he couldn’t be Ran.
But when Misa came home one Saturday that spring, gossiping rather vociferously about some senior girl named Ayano who was now Ran’s girlfriend, Miki had felt like his heart had split in two inside his chest. He’d wondered how Misa couldn’t have heard it breaking – it had sounded so loud in his ears, like glass dropped on cement -- but she’d just continued nattering on without a care in the world. Miki had skipped dinner that night and spent the evening curled up in his room with his face buried in his pillow.
Miki wrenched his thoughts back from his reminiscing in time to hear his classmates offering up their own ideas for “prizes” for the contest, as well as suggestions of how the contest itself would work. He sighed and sank lower down in his seat, praying he wouldn’t be called on to come up with anything. He was so preoccupied with counting the scratches and dings on his desktop, he completely missed the wicked little smile Misa exchanged with Yukari.