As soon as I got to my classroom...
─Tohno! You arrived!
My best friend (with whom I still apologize from my heart), Arihiko Inui enters the scene, and greets me.
I returned the salute by raising my right hand (this is guilt, normally I wouldn't) and move to my seat, where Arihiko immediately moves to chat.
─Tohno, can you let me copy your math homework?
I knew something like this was coming and although ten times out of ten I would refuse to hand over my tasks (which this time, apparently Akiha did for me), but now I don't think I have the right to complain...
I degraded his image and Touko-san indirectly threatened him with death, how could she be so cheeky as not to make up for what I did to her?
Even homework is not enough.
I should get him an appointment with Ciel to pay him and I think that even that wouldn't be enough for it...
Silently, I took out my notebook and handed it to Arihiko. Doing this, Arihiko's expression contorts in surprise.
─Tohno?! Is it anemia?! Tell me what anemia is! Why the hell are you giving me your homework without complaining?!
─It is the first way I will show my forgiveness to you, I owe you a lot. Oh, and Touko-san said that he was going to kill you.
─WHAT?!
I ignored the shock Arihiko received from handing down her death sentence. Sorry, I had to save my skin.
This is where we left the comedy skit and decided to talk like we normally do.
─By the way, Tohno, didn't you hear anything from Sacchin?
─Hm? What happened to Yumizuka-san?
─Well, you see... it looks like she ran away from home.
Hm?
Yumizuka-san running away from home?
And speaking of weird things...
Hey, are you kidding?
─No. I heard it on the news this morning, she suddenly yelled at her parents and left her house, they've been looking for her since last night.
That sounds strange.
Has she gotten into trouble or something?
Yumizuka-san is a cute girl, sure she must be because of a stalker who threatened to hurt her parents or something like that.
Well, it's not like he knows too much about her.
She is more friends with Arihiko than mine, certainly. So at least I shouldn't get involved with her.
─I suppose she will have her reasons.
─I think the same, surely her parents are just as annoying as my older sister and she just went off to vent eating ramen!
─No, only you would eat ramen while sneaking out of your house. I honestly don't see Yumizuka-san doing something as ridiculous as you.
Haha, that's right... Oh!
─What?
Arihiko turns to look back, and entering our classroom... the same girl I treated badly last night, she is here. Ciel-senpai comes forward.
Immediately, I stand up and lower half of my body in reverence to Ciel-senpai.
─Thank you very much for last night, you helped me a lot!
─Tohno?!
─Huh?! Tohno-san and Ciel-senpai?!
─Damn, what did you do with Senpai?!
Many of my classmates started throwing verbal crap at me.
But this is something I had to do.
Of course...
I couldn't keep up with the lie I told Touko-san, she realized this instantly but she played along. After breakfast, she took me back to my room to get the truth out of me.
She is good at keeping secrets, so I had no choice but to tell her everything I was up to the night before. Touko-san patted me on the head having a smile on her face.
That smile reminded me a bit of Aoko-san, but hey, I can omit those details in my memory.
For now. Ciel-senpai blushed to her ears, her embarrassment is obvious right now.
Seeing that expression on her... makes me remember what we did last night.
─Thanks for... supporting me. B-but, that was my first kiss, so I'd like you to let me know if you will do it another time.
─Tohno-kun...! Don't say such things here! ─. Ciel-senpai replies with embarrassment and nervousness.
There was a brief second of silence in the classroom.
When everyone was able to process what just happened...
─SHIT?! TOHNO HAS STOLEN US FROM CIEL-SENPAI?!
─Ahhhhh! I can't go on living in this world!
─Tohno-san is more popular than all of us put together! We hate you so much, Tohno-san!
─Fuuuuuuuuck! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!
The classroom became noisy and without a doubt, everyone was throwing hateful words at me, including Arihiko.
...
There is still some time before classes start.
I take Ciel by the wrist to carry her with me. She doesn't resist me and gets carried away. Although I feel ashamed that everyone sees us this way, I still do.
I make sure to take Senpai to a place where they can't see or hear us, the solution was to take her to an audiovisual room that they don't use.
So, as if our mask was falling apart...
─W-what did you come up with when you said that?! Now everyone is going to believe that we are dating!
─I ask you, you great idiot! What was all last night?! You were acting like you were my girlfriend! Of course I'm going to have doubts about it!
I-I was just trying to help you...! I-it's not like she has a-a-love feelings for you! Not at all!
Her expression from her right now that makes her look like a tomato is enough to make me believe otherwise...
Well... that's how Ciel is, actually. She is very easy to embarrass and she also thinks that love is something very special that should be valued as best as possible.
But her behavior last night from her was too good...
If she was good to me for no particular reason, I suppose she would have let it slide.
However, Ciel isn't the type to do things like that without expecting something in return. She is a bit awful in that sense.
─Are you sure? It seems to me that you do like me.
─D-don't believe that, Shiki idiot!
She was twice as embarrassed now and was preparing to punch me in the face of her at any moment.
It would be best, in most cases, to keep quiet. Just seeing Ciel embarrassed, which is a side of her that I don't normally see, motivates me to keep pestering her to see what her next reaction will be.
She is very cute when she is blushing, that's why.
Except that...
─It's a shame... after yesterday, I started to realize that my feelings for Aoko-san are nothing more than my confused admiration for her.
─What...? What are you talking about?
Agh...
I have never done anything like this in my life.
So I don't know how to act naturally at times like this. Although... my vision is... clouded a little.
Hey? It's... hard... to breathe...
─Shiki?
Ciel-senpai calls my name at some point, noticing the change in me.
I stagger to my feet, and with a slip of my shoe...
I fall to the floor.
─Shiki!
It seems like it's taking a toll on me after yesterday...