Nothing compares to the happiness that he's feeling. But Yuzuru still can't believe what he's seeing.
"What if she's just someone who looks like her. Maybe she's a doppelganger, maybe not. Ah! Maybe she's her twin sister, but that beauty seems very unique...mutter...mutter...mutter...mutter...mutter..."he muttered for a whole while as he takes mysterious notes in his myterious notebook.
Misumi even distanced his seat from him.
Then Yuzuru finally decided, 'They should have the same names, ofcourse!'
"Introduce yourself..." the teacher said as she looked at the beautiful girl.
"Hello everyone, I'm Haruka Tachibana." she seemed friendly and said it with a smile.
Yuzuru was very, very delighted.
All of the students were happy to know that the new student was friendly, and beautiful.
But the new girl's next words wiped their smiles away.
"I hope...we get along each other." she suddenly said with a wide, evil grin.
Yuzuru was quite familiar to this attitude and was not even surprised by this. In fact, he nearly jumped off his seat laughing madly.
The name and attitude of the girl Yuzuru has been looking for matches perfectly with this girl, ofcourse he would be happy.
But everyone else had a deadpan look in their faces. They felt a murderous intent with that new girl's words.
His classmates looked at him with even more shocked faces. You could easily imagine continous strings of "W**T T** F***" coming out of their heads.
'Is this guy, CRAZY!!!' they instantly thought.
When Yuzuru noticed the imaginary strings of "W*F" coming out his classmates' heads, he became embarrassed. He don't know what to do, even his teacher was looking at him.
"Aha-haha! Ta-Tachibana-san, would you like to sit here beside Hiro-kun, it's nice here, you could focus." he just let it slip out his mouth, to break the awkwardness.
This is catching two birds with one stone!
He can get her to sit beside Hiro so he can catch a glimpse of her beautiful face whenever he wants while breaking the awkwardness at the same time.
He also wanted to have her sit beside him, but Misumi was already there, he was left with no other choice.
"Oh Haruka-san, that's true, you can indeed focus more on your studies if you sit near Hiro-kun, he barely speaks." the teacher agreed.
'Oh my almighty sensei, may you be blessed forever!' he thought as he smiled.
And so, Haruka sat beside Hiro.
Even Hiro himself was flustered when he saw the young beauty up close.
Yuzuru?
He fell in love with Haruka at first...no, second sight. Just getting to take a look of her pretty face is like sitting on cloud nine. He's really, really happy.
"Okay, since we're all here, let's start the lesson" the teacher said.
"Yes!" all the students energetically said.
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Lunchtime
'All right! I've been waiting for this!' Yuzuru thought as he got up from his seat.
"Ta-Tachibana-san can I talk to you for a while I-"
But before he noticed, the seat in front of him is already crowded of girls, chatting and laughing gleefully.
He tried to squeeze through the crowd, but he ended up getting hit in the nose.
'Wow, that girl's elbow is really strong' he thought.
"Just give it up," Hiro said as he gave him some tissue
"But-" Yuzuru said as he pinched his bleeding nose
"Come on, let's eat. I'm getting hungry," Misumi said as he clutched his belly.
And so, they went to eat downstairs.
Their school's cafeteria was quite high-tech. There was a meal ticket machine at the front of the counter, then the staff will serve you the food you ordered.
The three took their meal tickets then chatted as they wait in the counter to get their food.
"That transfer student was really scary back there." Misumi said.
"She can't be my girlfriend. I want a cute girl, " he added.
"We didn't ask. " Hiro said.
"I like her. Can you help me?" Yuzuru suddenly said, looking troubled.
Misumi and Hiro, "!@$!!!!::$'/"::("!'/@@'"'@!"
The food serving took longer than expected. They chattered until they suddenly heard someone shout.
"HAYAMA-SENPAI!!!!" a pale girl with orange hair and green eyes, wearing the same school uniform shouted as she ran to the three boys.
Yuzuru was startled.
The two other boys were frightened.
The girl stopped on her tracks and calmed down.
"Hayama-senpai, thank you for what you did for me." she had a shy expression as she pointed her fingers together.
"Oh, right. It's my pleasure to do so." Yuzuru answered.
"You, what did you do?" Misumi said with an ashen face.
"You didn't do something crazy did you?" Hiro said as he cracked his fingers in a rather, cute way.
They were probably thinking in a whole different angle.
"Don't get the wrong idea." Yuzuru was speechless.
"We just took a picture." he added.
"Stop lying with a straight face!" the two boys shouted.
"It was true. I just took a picture with Hayama-senpai." the pale girl smiled as she showed a picture to the two bastards.
"Ohhh..." the two bastards finally calmed down.
Yuzuru was about to ask her name but she said...
"Anyway..." she said as she turned to Yuzuru.
Then she unexpectedly jumped and gave him a big hug.
"THANK YOU SENPAI!!!" she screamed.
Yuzuru lost his balance because of that unexpected big hug, from the little girl, and didn't notice someone picking her meal in the meal ticket machine.
He bumped into her, and she accidentally picked "Super Duper Extra-Hot Flaming Spicy Curry" for her meal.
When the two other boys turned to see who the girl was, their eyes almost popped out of its socket.
The pale girl released Yuzuru from her arms.
"I'm sor-" Yuzuru turned around. But the moment he saw the girl's beautiful face, he felt like the world was over.
It was Haruka Tachibana.
He did not expect his luck to be that bad. He didn't even know how long she's been there already, what if she heard what he said?
'This is getting bad' Yuzuru thought.
"Ta-Tachibana-san, I'm sorry for that." he said as he bowed deeply.
"Food is here" the voice of the cafeteria staff sounded out of the blue.
"Oh, le-let's switch. I will eat that "flaming curry" or whatever it is instead" he said as he offered the food he ordered to her.
"T-This is much better than forcing yourself to -"
"No. I refuse to eat food that was ordered by someone as pathetic as you, you're even stuttering. How pathetic" she intertupted him.
"P-Please accept it." Yuzuru still insisted.
She ignored him. She told the staff to give her the "Super Duper Extra-Hot Flaming Spicy Curry" that she accidentally ordered, and left.
'Damn, why am I stuttering,' he thought to himself while clenching his fist.
"Sorry, Hayama-senpai." the pale girl said.
"It's not your fault. Go and get your lunch too, let's eat together." Yuzuru said.
"Thank you, but I already ate. I'll take my leave then. Bye. I'm really sorry again." she said as she ran.
Yuzuru turned to his two friends and saw that their eyes were still falling.
"Stop acting like cowards let's go eat, I thought you were hungry." he said as he slapped their faces.
"Oh, right." Misumi detected a sad feeling in his friend's face
He turned to Hiro, and he nodded back.
And so, they sat on a table at the cafeteria's corner.
The two ate but Yuzuru didn't even touch his food. They didn't say a word to each other. As the two were about to finish their food, they noticed someone standing behind Yuzuru.
He noticed that his two friends was looking at his back with their jaws dropped. He turned backwards and saw Haruka.
"Can I sit here" she said with a blush on her face.
"There are no vacant tables so," she added.
"Of-Ofcourse..." Yuzuru don't know what to say.
And so, she sat beside him and started eating.
She scooped some of her "Super Duper Extra-Hot Flaming Spicy Curry", then took a bite.
Her face instantly became red. She couldn't help it, it was really "flaming". She didn't even notice that everyone else in the cafeteria was looking at her.
'Why the hell is the cafeteria selling things like this!' all of them instantly thought.
They even blamed the cafeteria staff for serving that kind of food.
Yuzuru could not bear to watch her doing this anymore. He took Haruka's "Super Duper Ext-...let's cut that introduction, he just took her spicy curry and switched it with his own food, vegetable tempura.
"Just eat that instead, Tachibana-san. Don't worry, I didn't lay my hands on that." he said while smiling, charismatically.
This was the very first time that he ever talked to her without stuttering. He regained his energy again, changing his depressed expression with a smile.