Ch 20 Grandma?

BOOM*

He was a good player that had polished his techniques through fierce training and I respect that but against me, it was not enough.

Easily killing its momentum and simultaneously passing it to another player to take over the role of setter.

It was obvious at this moment, my facial expression put a lot of pressure on him because he was going into setting position. Probably setting to me for a back court attack…did I say probably. No, he is definitely passing it to me and I am all up for it.

FWOOM*

Jumping just before the line, I decided to leave the team a gift and leave due to the fact moments before I had recalled the reason I felt there was something nagging at the back of my mind.

Just as I was about hitting the ball, I went for the tip and as much as I would love the look on their faces, I had to skedaddle.

'Shit'

'Shit'

'SHIT'

'How could I have skimmed over so many clues and forgotten so many details?' The gears in my mind were starting to turn.

'It's all coming together, the puzzles pieces are coming together to build a picture'

'First, on my first day of school, any parent would kill to accompany their children's first day of school, much less grandparents.'

'Second, the car, how could I have forgotten the car? It couldn't be such a coincidence we didn't use my designated car to get to school but the only other car. The car obviously meant for my grandmother. Kenzie, my caretaker, was no doubt going to pick up grandma after dropping me off.'

'Lastly, she literally told me she was coming back today and to wait for her arrival, oof I am finished.'

After rummaging through my bag and making sure all my belongings were accounted for, I made my way to the very not so 'inconspicuous' black Toyota Highlander emitting ominous aura.

'Gulp'

Opening the door to the backseat in hopes of avoiding meeting her eyes, welp that was a bust because as soon as I opened the door, her eyes were the first thing I made contact with.

'Damn it'

"H-hey g-grandma?"

Hmm wait a minute, she can't be my grandmother right? We look nothing alike, I was expecting a cold jade beauty but she's more of an exotic chocolate femme fatale.

"Huh, who are you?" I voiced out in concern and turned to look at 'Kenzie' in the driver's seat.

"And you Kenzie, how could you let some stranger into the car, I thought you were picking grandma up?"

"Uh, grandma, why are you… sigh.. Where's Mackenzie?"

Silence**

'Pfft' The delicate and tense state of nothingness was instantly dispersed by the sound and following soon after was the roaring sounds of laughter from both Daniel's grandma Amelia and her seemingly friend.

A few eye twitches and blank stares was all it took for Daniel to return to his serene state. Ignoring their wild laughter, he moved into the backseat and sat at the far right seat and turned to face the window.

Muttering out 'can we just go?'

Prompting the duo to increase the intensity of their hilarity and Daniel's grandmother to begin driving. Few minutes later, silence finally returned but the stranger broke the silence.

"Aren't you going to introduce ourselves to your precious grandson?" She snickered but sported a warm smile as she turned to face Daniel.

"Uh, yes, of course, good evening Daniel. I'm so glad to finally see you, I would ask you to give me a hug but as you know I'm currently driving so that would have to wait."

Suddenly, the air got tense and serious,

"My name is Dr. Amelia Dort, the sole CEO of Dort inc," Her gaze turned sharp but as soon as she saw Daniel a bit ruffled through the rear view mirror, she smiled and corrected her posture.

"But to you, it is grandma."

"Mhm, grandma. It is nice to be able to finally match the name to the face." He nodded and soon turned to face the other person in the vehicle.

"So, who is she? A close friend of yours?" He mused.

"Haha, yes indeed, a very close friend of mine." She replied with a strange glint in her eyes

"She is Yuri Kibutsuji, the founder of Kizuki Organization, she's also-"

"Woah woah woah now, I'll take it from here. We are talking about me after all." Yuri interjected, cutting off Amelia from tarnishing her image in front of the youngin.

As if in answer to her conjecture, a 'tsk' sound was heard, confirming she was right.

"I am your grandma's friend or maybe even best friend if she actually admits it. I won't you to force use the same calling as her but-

"It's okay grandma Yuri, why not?".

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And that was it, the end of the episode but what comes next a happily ever after or a gruesome beginning after the end. Well it was the latter, a few hours later, there was a lot of shrieking and yelling. After it was all over, faint sounds of sobbing could be heard in one of the halls in the Dort Estate.

"Hey, hey don't write about this"

Ok ok fine.

Timeskippu 3 hours later*

Click*

The door was shut and the rhythmic clicking of heels rang through the walls of the house.

"So I heard you joined your school's volleyball club, I assume it went well".

Her voice came from the pantry until she made her way to the living room. She sat down on the sofa, twirling the wine glass in her hand.

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Apologies, I was busy this week but I got this out. Blue lock is actually crazy for a sports anime. It's definitely on the same tier as haikyuu, kuroko no basket and that bicycle anime.