Pinky Promise Alhaitham x F!Reader
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Y/N L/N is a college student who carries an immense burden. One that she cannot rid herself of. One that forbids her from going back to swimming. However, one day her biology teacher asks of her to participate in an undercover mission to save the whole of Teyvat. Y/N accepts in an attempt to feel free of the sin she carries. Along the way she butts heads with another recruit known as Alhaitham. Th fate of Teyvat now lies in the hands of Y/N, Alhaitham, Kaveh, Tighnari, Cyno, Dehya and Nilou. Will they conquer their mission, or will they be trampled by their opponents?
Case one~
I remember the first time I dove into the water. I felt alive, like time was slowed just for me to capture the moment of me swimming for the first time. The way the water hugs my body as I dive in, how freely I am able to move in it, the gorgeous way light cascades through it, dancing everywhere. It's like a more tranquil version of the sky. Swimming and just being in the water was my freedom.
I pestered my family until they just got fed up and officially signed me up for the community swim team at the age of seven. I was at the pool every day. Swimming to my heart's content and while doing so I was able to do competitive swimming. During then I was unbeatable.
Since I was excelling in the sport and was naturally good at swimming, I climbed my way up the list of the best swimmers in Inazuma and became one of the top 5 swimmers at sixteen years old.
However, my career only lasted as long as it did due to the incident. After what happened 4 years ago, I never set foot in a pool for about 2 years. My once freedom became my prison. It trapped me deep in my thoughts and put weight equivalent to the amount of pressure at the bottom of the ocean on my shoulders.
Since the incident, my family refuses to interact me. My family paid an immense amount of money to cover up what happened that night and get it off my record so it wouldn't taint theirs.
Ever since that huge dent in their bank account, they've been adding up everything they've paid for that benefits me and they demand that I pay them back after I finish the college that they are paying for as well. As of now, I owe my family over 2.4 million dollars. Crazy amount right, but then again, I guess I deserve it, this is one of the burdens I can't be freed of.
A huge splash of water on my face is what sends me jolting up coughing and attempting to catch my breath. Once I had calmed down, I turned around to shoot a glare at the culprit. Like I said, there are some burdens you can't be freed of. There he was, squatting on the edge of the pool, beaming with that stupid smile and stupid ginger hair. Ajax is one of the top male swimmers on the swim team, also one of my best friends. Although right now I wanted to wring his scrawny little neck.
"I was floating." I deadpanned.
"I know" He spoke in a stupid sing-song cheery voice.
"So why in fuck's name would you splash water on my face?" I glared so hard I could see the holes being put into his unnecessarily large forehead.
"Just for funnnn," he caught my wrist before my hand could make contact with his face. Damn his grip was strong.
Eventually I was able to get into the water again, only the shallow parts though. I'm too scared to let the water get past my mid-thigh. Due to my background in swimming, the swim coach is really trying to get me on this swim team to become a valuable asset. She believes letting me roam around the pool will help convince me to join hence the reason I was here in the first place. I hate to break it to her but as much as I loved swimming, I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to how I was before.
I groaned before asking, "What do you want Jax?" The ginger bitch let go of my hand before answering.
"Coach wants to see you like right now, it's urgent" I stared at him with an expression of confusion, but he just shrugged his shoulders. With a sigh I asked him to help me out of the water. As soon as my hand made contact with his I smirked slightly, which caught his attention and made his eyes widen. "WAIT WAI-"
Splash
I shielded my eyes from the large splash of water laughing loudly. Ajax is not the type of person to let that slide so I didn't have much time.
Before he could grab me and pull me down with him, I exited the pool ignoring the profanities being screamed towards me. Still feeling smug, I grabbed my towel and his and walked out of the pool area. 'Have fun air drying'!
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After two knocks a soft "come in" was heard. I went in while drying my hair and coach looked awful. Her normally combed hair was all over the place and her eyes had bags I could put groceries in.
I whistled, "Damn ma'am, you look rough."
Miss Focalors glared up at me before sighing and running her hands through her light blue hair. She gestured for me to have a seat before speaking, "I need a huge favor."
She slid papers toward me and after skimming through them I realized that these were her national lineups from within the past two years and their placings. "Damn, the only person who placed was Jax at first huh."
"Yeah, it's rough but it could be improved you know" she hinted. Ah, so this is what this was about.
"What do you mean?" I questioned, feigning innocence.
She sighed as she caught on before leaning back and crossing her arms. "Look kid, you're an incredible swimme-"
"Were." I interrupted.
"Fine, you were an incredible swimmer, someone like you would benefit our team a whole bunch you know."
I sighed before leaning back and mimicking her position, "Miss Focalors I adore you, truly and I am forever grateful for the treatment you've given me even though I'm not a part of the team, but I made it extremely clear that I will never join the swim team. Swimming is just not something I want to be a part of my future."
"Kid I know but please we need you-"
"My answer is no, goodbye." I stood up from the chair, causing it to screech against the hardwood floors of her office. Her face contorted to one of disappointment, forming a sense of guilt in my gut so I walked away before I could let it get the better of me.
After closing the unnecessarily large wooden doors, I leaned my forehead against it. I hate it when people try to push me into swimming, usually I say a few things passive aggressively to get them off my ass, but Miss Focalors is someone I don't want to take my anger out on. That woman has been more of a mother figure to me than my own mother, she doesn't deserve disrespect from me in the slightest. "I'm sorry," I whispered before walking away.
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I'm now at my locker, staring at my reflection in the little mirror I had hung up. When did the girl in front of me look so dull. Usually, the smell of the chlorine in my hair would have me smiling until I could possibly crack my face. Right now, I just felt defeated. Snapping out of my thoughts, I closed my locker door only to scream in fear at the sight next to me.
"Goodness, what is with you red heads and scaring people almost to death!" I placed my hand over my rapidly rising and falling chest. I glared at my friend, and roommate, Nilou who only smiled at me. It looks like red heads had a smiling at their own unfunny jokes and antics habit too. Nilou is on the school's dance team and is also the captain. Nilou is quite the individual, she's cheery, bright, fun, smart, kind, talented, she's basically perfect. There are many times where I envy her and her positive outlook on life, but I never really voice these opinions in fear of making her uncomfortable.
She giggled before speaking, "Just checking on my favorite swimmer and carrying news for her." At her words I quirked an eyebrow.
Adjusting my bag on my I inquired, "Not a swimmer, and what news?"
She followed me out of the locker room, "Welll my favorite not a swimmer, swimmer, Miss Nahida wants to see you after school."
"For what?"
"I don't know," she answered that way too quickly for comfort making me narrow my eyes at her. She was an awful liar, even so, I didn't press on the matter. She makes up for her lying with her stubbornness. Sighing, I hummed as my version of saying okay. We've been roommates for two years, so we picked up on each other's body language and stuff like that.
While walking and conversing with Nilou, I became completely unaware of my surroundings and felt myself colliding with someone. Immediately I started spewing apologies left, right and center, until I saw who it was.
"Well, that's new, me getting an apology from the one and only Y/N? I'm beyond flattered." Alhaitham smirked down at me. Curse his height, if he wasn't a fucking skyscraper I would definitely have this guy shaking in his boots. However, unbeknownst to everyone around us, Alhaitham and I have way more than we let on.
"Oh, it's you, I take back my apologies then, you don't deserve to hear anything flattering from me." I narrowed my eyes
He spat back almost immediately, "Who said I needed to hear anything from your mouth? You only spout nonsense."
Oh, this bitch, tension was thick as we glared daggers at each other, making everyone around us slightly awkward. Right now, I feel as though there has never been a time where I have wanted my fist to collide with someone's jaw this badl-
"Alrightt, Y/N, go on ahead, I'll meet you at our room okay!" Nilou stepped between us, being the problem solver she was. I envied that about her sometimes, but right now was not the time.
"No need, we can go now, I have nothing more to say to a jackass like him." I began to walk away until I realized, Nilou wasn't following. I turned to look at her glaring, "Something wrong?" I spoke with more malice in my tone than I intended. I only realized after I saw Nilou flinch slightly, instantly softening my gaze so she would relax.
Her shoulders released themselves of tension and she exhaled in relief before speaking, " I have to speak to Alhaitham about something important before I can join you." Her words made my glare return and her flinch again, only this time I had no intention of softening my gaze.
"Whatever." I walked off briskly, not taking the time to look back at them, with fear that I'd lash out. However, I couldn't help but think about what the hell Nilou wanted to speak to Alhaitham about. It's none of my business though, I really could care less.
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It was the end of the day now and I was fucking tired. Groggily, I made my way to Miss Nahida's class. I don't even know what she wants, unless it's another conversation about my grades. Biology was not my best subject, I found myself more attracted to chemistry, but Miss Nahida was horrifying sometimes. I shuddered at the thought before swinging the door open.
Now I was even more confused, why were all of these people here? Some of them don't even do Biology, at least not in this class. Seated in the middle of the room were Cyno, Tighnari, Dehya, Kaveh and Alhaitham. I groaned out of annoyance upon seeing Alhaitham while he just rolled his eyes. After our interaction in the hall, I think I saw him enough for today.
"Miss Nahida wanted to see you too?" Tighnari questioned. I glanced around upon hearing the word 'too'.
"Yeah, you got any idea what for?" I spoke while grabbing a chair to sit with them. I ended up sitting between Dehya and Kaveh.
"Not a clue, but we're yet to see Nilou." Cyno was right, she was nowhere to be found.
"Relax Cyno, maybe she got caught up with something" Dehya spoke leaning back and resting her arm over the back of her seat.
"She's right let's just give her and Miss Nahida some more time", Kaveh agreed while placing a card down causing Cyno's eyes to widen. I have never seen so much expression on that dude's face before. It looked like the four of them were playing TCG and Alhaitham was in a corner on his phone with his headphones on. He doesn't even pay any mind to the conversation or the people at the table. He wouldn't even pitch into the conversation, too engrossed in whatever he was doing or just ignoring us.
Tighnari is a cool dude in my opinion. I admired that he was respectful to people he spoke to and that he wasn't afraid to call people out on their shit. Not to mention he's cunning and smart as fuck.
One time, I got paired with him for a biology experiment and he executed it as easy as he could breathe. He was way too humble about his skills sometimes though, because even after he finished his part, he helped me with mine, which gave excellent results for our write ups. I also admire how blunt he is. His sass is at a level I could only wish to achieve one day, all in all Tighnari is probably the student I admire most in The Akademiya.
Cyno is a... special case as some would say. I barely know him since I think our majors are vastly different. Cyno has this intimidating look and aura about him, but so far from my short interactions when he comes to wait for Tighnari to finish class, I've just come to the conclusion that he has a common case of the resting bitch face.
He's extremely kind and goal oriented, he also has this thing for weird jokes. I would never dare tell him they aren't funny though. If you do or if you don't understand it, he goes into extreme detail about said joke, explaining the concept, origin and the reasons for why it should be funny. Even then, if you don't laugh, he re-explains it. I learned that the hard way.
Tighnari just told me to fake laugh every time since Cyno wouldn't know the difference. Since then I have never faked a laugh so many times in my life. Overall, I respect his work ethic and I think it's cute how he always meets Tighnari after class, he never lets Tighnari go to him, it's endearing.
Dehya is a badass. If I had to describe her, I would just play Boss Bitch by Doja Cat. I think she got in with a sports scholarship. I often see her playing basketball in the court when I pass by since it's next to the pool. She has the body of a goddess I swear, and her charismatic personality makes it even better. She's really social too, I don't think there's anyone in school who doesn't know about her.
Now Kaveh, I don't know much about him since he's always with Alhaitham and they're roommates. What I do know however, is that if he sees me carrying something heavy in the halls he'll immediately offer to help. We engage in small talk regarding school until we get to wherever I needed to go and I appreciate that even though he sees Alhaitham and I bickering it doesn't make him treat me differently.
My thoughts are interrupted by the sound of, a lock. We all looked at each other, thoroughly perplexed. "That's strange," Tighnari eyes his watch suspiciously, "classroom doors don't lock until 7." He's right, and it's currently 5:57.
Simultaneously, Kaveh and I get up and make our way to the door. After playing around with the door handle for a bit, we were most definitely locked in. "Are you kidding? Do they not check the classes before locking them?"
Kaveh took one of his hair pins out, making his bangs fall in front of his face and wow did he look ethereal. No wonder he's the school's unanimous pretty boy. "Let me try-"
"Don't bother, these locks are different." Kaveh was rudely interrupted by Alhaitham who didn't even give him the courtesy of looking at him. His eyes were still pinned to his phone. This is his arrogant attitude that I despise. Why couldn't he even give Kaveh the benefit of the doubt. I knew it wouldn't work either but damn let the guy try. Poor Kaveh looked so defeated too with his head hanging a bit in shame and an evident pout.
With my hands on my hips, I turned to Alhaitham, "Got any better ideas smartass?" Finally, he gave me the pleasure of eye contact, but it was evident that we were both still tense from earlier with the invisible daggers being thrown between our gazes.
"Actually, I do, Nilou and Miss Nahida have yet to join us, don't they?" He returned his gaze to his phone before continuing, "So when they do, they'll realize we're locked in and they can get us out, simple isn't it?"
Ugh, I hated it when he was right. Everyone agreed and was at ease again. However, I didn't want to give Alhaitham the verbal confirmation that he was right. So, I crossed my arms and stomped to the closest chair, glaring at the floor while I quietly cursed him out.
"What's that sound?" Cyno cocked an eyebrow.
"You mean the air conditioning?" Dehya stated almost obviously.
"No, that sounds like air pressure being released like from a tyre, and the air conditioning is off." Tighnari looked around.
He was right though, the ceiling fans were the only thing on. Come to think of it, when the air conditioning is off the windows are opened, however they were currently closed. Tighnari was roaming the class looking for the sound and I got up, following not far behind him.
Thud
We had gotten closer to the sound when Tighnari grabbed his head and fell back. He collapsed in front of me, causing my eyes to widen. Everyone called out to him and luckily, I got to him before his head could hit the floor or any furniture. I laid his head on my lap while I checked his pulse. A sigh of relief escaped me, "he's okay, maybe the heat of the roo-"
I was cut off by a stabbing pain on my temple where my scar was. Was I floating? Why was everything spinning? Why does the room smell so sweet? Why is the room getting.... darker?
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Hey guys this is part one of my Alhaitham x Reader storyy, posted the first chapter here to see if there were any prospective readers!!
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