Day3

I found a weird looking necklace on my way to school. It looked like a brown shrunken head with a long thread attached to the ears, for the sake of making it look like a necklace. Two hair-like strands pierced through what seemed like the head and below the head were two oddly shaped grayish things that can be imagined as hands holding the chin. To describe it simply, it looked like crap with a thread stuck on it. I kept it in my bag as a conversation piece and went directly to school.

During recess, I saw Miya seated on her seat, reading a pocketbook. I don’t know why my action didn’t feel awkward to me that time. But I approached her, weird necklace at hand and placed it between her and her pocketbook. Although I must say, her reaction that time was worth picking up the dumb thing for. She was very surprised when the necklace suddenly appeared in her sight.

She jumped a bit, her seat screeched loudly as it rubbed against the floor. “What the heck?” she angrily cried at me.

Both of us looked around to see if people are staring at us. Fortunately, only a few people looked at us and they only looked for a few seconds before looking away.

I laughed a bit and told her that I found it on the way to school.

After calming down, Miya closed her book and examined the necklace, turning it around as if searching for a button. “Ugly little rascal you got here… What is it?” she asked, her eyes still glued to the weird object.

“I think it’s a necklace,” I answered.

“Why did you bring it?” she asked. But before I could answer, the bell rang.

Miya shoved the necklace back at me and I went to my seat. Our conversation continued after classes, at the usual place.

In the rooftop, the moment I entered, Miya turned to me and asked me where the necklace is. I took it out of my bag and showed it to her.

“So, why did you take it?” she asked. “If I were you, I would have left it where I found it or throw it in the trash.”

Not wanting to admit that I just brought it along as a conversation piece, I wore the ugly thing and acted proud of it. “Eh? I thought it looked cool on me.”

I’m not sure if it was just my imagination. But Miya seemed to look at me as if I was a ghost for a moment before laughing, what seemed to me like a forced laugh.

“My eyes are blinded by your awesomeness!” she said with a joking tone.

After a few hours of jokes and laughter, Miya told me it’s time for her to go and asked me if I wanted to walk down with her. Of course, I agreed and walked down with her. Since our paths home from the school gate were different, when we arrived at the gate, I bade her goodbye.

“See you tomorrow, Rinei!” I said.

“Call me Miya!” She smiled. “That is… if I could call you Kyosei.” she continued, looking cuter than usual.

I was surprised with what she just said. “Sure!” I quickly answered.

She giggled a bit before waving and leaving. I then walked home, listening to the loud beating of my heart.

Day2

Aside from after classes, today was just like other days. I went to school, listened to the rambling of our teachers, waited for recess, ate some snacks while talking to my friends, more ramblings from teachers, waited for lunch, ate lunch… You know the routine. At each moment, I felt as if time was moving slower than ever. Anyway, I’ll skip those and go to the more interesting part.

Rinei and I were in the school roof, as usual. She was talking to me about her views on love, her favorite topic. Honestly, only around 20% of what she talked about registered in my mind. I loved watching her smile as she shared her feelings with me, as if I could never get tired of looking at her. Of course, I don’t just stare at her the whole time. I say some things once in a while so she won’t feel like she’s the only one talking. One part of the conversation I remember goes somewhat like this:

“Have you ever fallen in love?” I asked her.

“Me? No. Not yet!” she answered me, somewhat embarrassed. She leaned on the handrail, facing the horizon, her chin resting on her crossed arms on top of the handrail. “If I could tell my heart when to fall in love, I’d tell it to keep waiting until I find the person who I could love for the rest of my life.”

I walked beside her and leaned my back against the handrail. “If you could tell your heart when to fall in love, then how would you know if you could love a certain person? After all, you won’t feel love towards that person…” I asked, looking at her.

She turned her head to face the sky, as if to ponder on what I just said. “Hmm, I think I know what you mean. And you’re right…” she paused to stand up properly, brushing off her school uniform with her hand, and then she faced me. “Okay, then I just wish I wouldn’t fall in love until it is with the person I could love for the rest of my life.”

“You have weird wishes,” I laughed.

She turned to the horizon once again, “I just don’t want to be in a position where I have to hurt a person I once loved just to be happy with another person I love. When the time comes that I fall in love, I want the feeling to remain forever…” then she faced me again. “Except if the person I love is just plain bad.”

“Well, you could just stay loyal with the person you first gave your love to. Loving a person requires sacrifice, after all.”

She smiled and turned to the horizon once more. “Yeah… you’re right. It’s just that I don’t think it would be fair to be with a person while having someone else on your mind. It wouldn’t be fair to that person, I mean.”

“I guess…” I muttered, not knowing if she heard me, but not wanting to repeat myself either.

After a few moments of silently enjoying the atmosphere, Rinei told me it’s time for her to go and left. I watched her leave the school grounds from the rooftop before leaving.

Day1

It was just like other days. Even if our teachers gave us a lot of assignments, I took time to check the school roof.

It was the end of another busy day. Strangely, as I arrived at the school roof to check, I saw her there, gazing at the setting sun. She heard me come in and turned to me with a smile.

“You really go up here everyday, don’t you, Izaki-kun?” she asked me.

“Um… yeah,” I replied, hoping she doesn’t find out that it was because of her that I do. “I usually don't see you here when we have homework, though. What’s with the change?” I asked.

She turned to look at the sunset before answering. “You’re right. I see you here every time I go up. Yet, we both act as if the other person isn’t here. So, right now I want to change that.”

I walked toward her left side and looked at the view with her. “You could have done that some other day…”

“No, I wanted to do it before I change my mind or hesitate,” she answered.

We stayed there and talked until around six pm. I really enjoyed myself, and I think she did as well. No topic in particular, just random things… She left after noticing the time, saying she had to go home. I waved goodbye to her. And she waved back.