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Chapter 3 - The Passing Days of High Schoolers

One month has been passed since the last semester has been started and a new transfer student Sakura Izuya, who seems a bit weird to me, joined our class. Now in our class, there are both Miya Ichinose and Sakura Izuya, who are basically the prettiest girls in the school, apparently I have friends with both of them and except them I only have one more friend that's Ryou Sekke who seems to have a crush on Sakura, and he purposely asked me to talk to her on his behalf that I respectively declined. Well I don't know why I do that, I guess I just don't wanna talk to her like that or about that and its not like Sekke is the only one acting like that, many students in our school acts like that means they have a crush on Sakura, not like it matters to me though I believe she hate people like that who just go after her appearance or don't know why but our group is the only one she hangouts with, I mean with Ichinose, Sekke and me and since I live near her house, we sometimes accompany each other to school or when coming back to home from school. Now the days were seem pretty normal to me like before, except the fact that Sakura joined us. Well most of the students wants to know who is better, like in Ichinose and Izuya, since they both are pretty cute in their own way, both of them have a cute face and while Izuya has a shinning silver hair, Ichinose has a long shinning black hair which perfectly suits her face. Both of them have pretty eyes too, to be honest most of the students treat them as angels of our school. As for the two of them, they become quite the goods friends and treat each other equal, well I know Ichinose for a while but seeing Sakura like that is a bit surprising for me because she doesn't seem to me that kind of person, now so I think about it I remember some things about her I that I shouldn't. Today is our Physical class combined with other sections, I am not the athletic type, so I am not fond of these things either, but I am not bad at those things or should I say its the contrary, I am a little good in these athletic activities I just don't like them. Unlike before there were some loud voices, when I turned to see what's there I saw a boy who seems completely unknown to me, "he's Nakazaki, Jun Nakazaki, apparently he's also a transfer student who joined our school in this semester" Sekke said from my back, "Hmm, two transfer students in two different classes in their last semester and both seems to be pretty popular" I said and suddenly my eyes caught the glimpse of Sakura, I saw her for a mere second but I knew she was a bit uncomfortable, wonder why's that. I rushed towards Sakura thinking what happened now. I saw her at the back side of store room where all the things related to our P.E. class stays, "Sakura, what's wrong" I asked her, "Nah, its nothing, Tomoya" she replied, but I knew that she's disturbed, there were other Physical classes before that one for our section, and if my memory is with me, Sakura did a great job in those classes but today she looks distracted and uncomfortable, seeing her like this the teachers told her to rest for the day, now the time is for boys sprint race of 100m and the two that everyone has eyes on were Nakazaki and me, since I am a little better in race then others, "You're Tomoya right, let us give everything we have in order to see who's better" Nakazaki said to me like we are in some kind of competition, "how the hell did he know my name anyway ?" I asked myself, the race started and everyone left the starting point I took a faster start than others and so did Nakazaki, when I started noticing him I see something about his running technique which was quite different than other students, he was using his ankles to get an extra bounce which exceptionally increased his speed and he overtook me in a sec, I might not be fond of these activities but I don't like to be defeated like that, I don't use that kind of technique to run but in that moment I only have two options either accept my defeat or use that technique and I choose to use that technique, "Amazing, I never saw him running this fast before" Sekke said from the crowd to Ichinose and Sakura. "I refuse to accept my defeat like this" I said it in a low voice though Nakazaki heard it and said "neither will I, Tomoya". We both were on equal stands at the last moment of that race, "just one more step and I'll win this" that were our words, of both Nakazaki and me to ourselves and to each other, when our technique failed and we both fell messing our ankles, everyone finished the race except Nakazaki and me, "hey, that was close I thought I'll defeat you but unfortunately for us we both ended up like this, let's compete some time again" Nakazaki said to me and in return I said "sure, why not". That was out of character for me again, after that our friends helped us to the nurse's room, what I was surprised of most was the fact that Sakura didn't show up after we fell like that, I mean yeah she too has no good health right now and might have to go early but still I don't know why I am acting like that. Nakazaki left before I do, I guess he used to it, I left after most of the students and teachers have left from the school. When I was about to leave I saw someone near the front gate like she's waiting for someone, when I went a little closer to her, I found out that she's Sakura waiting for me. " Sakura what are you doing here ?" I asked her as I was a bit surprised, "I was waiting for you, I thought that you might have a hard time reaching your home with that busted ankle, and since you helped my brother I thought it would be a great opportunity to repay you for your kindness" Sakura said, "for real, I mean don't you have health issues right now ?" I reacted, "not really, on the contrary I am feeling quite well actually, we were just worry about you, I mean Ichinose, Sekke and I were worrying about you, and since I live near your house I told them that I'll watch over you and sent them to their home" Sakura said, "you could've stayed in the school, you know ?" I said, "Nah, its okay huh, huh" she said laughingly, which seems a bit weird to me. After that it took us some time to reach our home since I was a bit slow with that busted ankle, afterwards when we reach Sakura's home I gave them my greetings for the night, "well I didn't notice before but seeing Ms. Izuya is kinda hard to believe that she's the mother of Sakura, since they both don't seems to have that much age difference" I said it a little out loud while standing in front of them,crap, "well you can't judge a book by it's cover now, isn't that correct, Tomoya" Ms. Izuya said, after that I left them and reached my home straight to my room, I hide my face in the cushion, I was so embarrassed that I said that out loud, after that I head to dinning room for dinner and it was quite the silent one then I head towards my room. Thinking over today's courses of actions, I remembered that Sakura was acting kinda same when I first met her and it was because I saw her that night. That's right I never tried to see her again in night, I wonder if she's out right now, I walked towards the window and I was a bit lucky she is out her shinning hair proves that when I move forward a little I saw someone else too, "who is he ?" I asked myself, again the clouds moved away as they heard my voice, when the silver rays of moon fall on those two I got stunned there was both Sakura and Nakazaki, it was like the whole world has been nullified to me, this aching pain in chest, this awful feeling that I have, at that sudden moment it was like, the flower I was appraising up until now is belonged to someone else's garden.