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Chapter 25 - Maya...

"Ow!" shouts Arashi as he falls down to the ground after getting rammed by the girl bicycle

Arashi then quickly pick himself up from the ground and check his body for any injury

Luckily there's only a slight scratch on both of his arms, and due to his physical body that have been trained, he couldn't felt any pain at all.

Arashi then blow out a breath of relief that he didn't get into any hard injuries but he just realizes the person who just hit him might be

He then quickly turned toward the girl who are still laying on the ground not moving, while her bicycle is laying next to her

"Um… Are you alright?" whisper Arashi toward the girl ear

After not having a reaction out of the girl, Arashi quickly turned her upward and look closely on her face

Just then he thought of checking her breath as he put his ear closely toward the girl nose but just before he could do that the girl opened her eyes abruptly

"Kyaaaa!!!!" the girl screams when he saw Arashi putting his face closer to her

Hearing her screaming, Arashi quickly thought on moving away from her but before he could do that, she punches Arashi face sending him flying across the road

The girl then shouts out something but Arashi couldn't hear any of it as his head is still dizzy over the punch

"Pervert!!!"

"What do you think you are going to do to me just now huh?!" Shouts the girl

Arashi then quickly gets up from the ground as soon as the pain on his head gone and stared directly at the girl

"Huh? Who are you calling pervert?"

"I'm only trying to check if you are breathing or not…that's all." Said Arashi explaining his situation

The girl then gave a dissatisfied look toward Arashi as she still didn't believe Arashi story

"Why would you think I'm not breathing?" Ask her still not satisfied

Arashi could just gave her a look of confused while tilting his head over her weird question

"Well, I mean…You hit me and fall to the ground not moving that's why I thought that you are already…"

But before Arashi could finish his word suddenly the girl interrupt

"Ahhh, that's all just your excuses, the truth is you are a pervert right!" shout the girl again

Arashi start to look pissed over the girl but he tried to hold it

(Why every woman that I've encountered somehow only manage to make me angry?) thought Arashi inside his head

"It's not an excuse, I only wanted to help alright!" Replied Arashi while holding down his anger

"I would be put in trouble if someone died from falling of the steep hill!"

The girl then quickly brushed off the dust on her dress and walk closer to Arashi

"Liar! There's nothing as people getting killed as they fall down the steep hill!"

Arashi started to look more confused, he is thinking if the falls they had hits her on the head too hard that she start to talk nonsense

Just then Arashi notices something weird about her, Arashi is quite shocked to see that there is something weird about the girl as she got close to him

What Arashi realizes is that the girl had zero to none injury at all on her exposed part

That realization shocked Arashi that he couldn't speak out looking at her

Just out of sudden the girl snaps her finger in front of Arashi to snaps him back to reality

"Helloooo? Is there someone in there?" Said the girl

Arashi just shook his head as he seen the girl face so closed to him, he also took a few steps back as he felt surprised

"Is your head, okay?" The girl asked

She then stared directly at Arashi face with a curious look but that looks kind of gave Arashi a bit of creep. After all the girl survives a fall that could possibly killed her without a single injury, there's no way Arashi would think of her as normal

"Did I hit him too hard with my bicycle?" Said the girl mumbling alone

"You…" Arashi then out of sudden called out to the girl

The girl then quickly turned her view toward the confused Arashi waiting for what he is about to ask

But just before Arashi could let out the word out of his mouth he just shook his head as he thought it wouldn't be polite to jut ask the girl anything about her background

"It's nothing…"

"Anyway, what's the reason you use this steep hill furthermore while riding a bicycle…" Said Arashi as he turned to point at the girl bicycle

"Don't you know that's dangerous?" Said Arashi lecturing the girl

The girl just scratched the back of her neck and make an innocent face toward Arashi

"Well, I thought of going faster to school considering I would be late…"

"So, I thought that the steep hills would help me to get there in time."

Said the girl as she felt a bit guilty

She then puts her hands together and bowed over at Arashi

"I'm sorry for hitting you with my bike, okay?"

But Arashi didn't respond over the girl apologize instead he is looking directly toward his school with a scared and sweaty face

"Did you say that you are late for school?" Ask Arashi as he pointed toward the school

The girl then quickly turned toward what Arashi is pointing and as soon as she realizes it her face start to turned blue over it

"We're late!!!!!" Shouts both Arashi and the girl

Arashi then quickly run over toward the school while the girl had to turn back to pick up her bicycle up

Just as Arashi is running he looks over his watch just to realize there's only 1 minute left before the school start, he started to run even faster after looking at his watches

Just as Arashi was running down the steep hill suddenly, the girl appeared beside him on her bicycle. The girl then turned over at Arashi

"Ride on my back!" Shouts the girl over to Arashi

Arashi then didn't say anything at all and just jumped on the girl bike sitting on the back

"Are we going to make it!" Ask Arashi nervous

The girl just smiled over at Arashi while showing up a thumbs up on her finger

"Don't worry, We are going to make it!!!" Shouts the girl

As she hit on her paddle to add more speed to the bicycle, The bike indeed became more faster as she does that, Arashi starting to see the glimpse of hope due to the speed their having

This way they won't get late is what he thought, But then he accidentally realized that their school ground is flat, and the speed their having could made them to fly over and hit the school

But before he could warn the girl its already too late as they already hit on the school gate while the both of them got thrown away from their bicycle onto the ground

After that incident, the both of them were send into the principal office and they got scolded over the broken gate, not just even that the both of them are also already late the time they arrived at school so they had to wait after school to clean the pool together

The sound of mops being taken out and put in inside the basket could be heard around the pool as there is only the two of them there

Due to the hot, Arashi wipes his head with his shirt and after that he starts to sighed over it

"Damn it…Why do I have to do this…" Said Arashi

The girl then sighs after hearing Arashi sighing

"There's no other choices…"

"We've made mistakes so we need to atone it…" said the girl as she continued to mop the pool

Arashi then couldn't object the girl and just continued to mop the floor

"By the way…"

Out of sudden the girl spoken out attracting Arashi attention as he looks over to the girl

"I still didn't know your name yet…"

The girl then put her chin on top of the mop sticks while looking directly at Arashi

Arashi is a bit stunned over the girl questioned as he thought that she hated him just a while ago

"Arashi…"

"Hirota Arashi…"

The girl just nodded over after Arashi stated his name

"Arashi…Huh…"

The girl then look to the sky as seems like she's thinking about something but after a few seconds she turned down back while looking at Arashi

"Maya."

Arashi is a bit shocked when the girl spoken out of sudden as he still looks kinda blurred

"Excuse me?" Said Arashi as he couldn't grasp what the girl just said

The girl just hit her forehead while trying to understand the reason Arashi could be this dumb

"That's my name…"

"Maya…"

Maya as she stated her name turned back to do her job on cleaning the pool leaving Arashi to be clueless