Chapter 20: Ginta Kondou(6)
W-what should I do?
I keep thinking too much in the situation I got in that I got sweat all over my red face
I sat on an wooden chair hands clasped together bending my back looking down deeply on the floor thinking.
"hey Kondou"
I hear an familiar feminine smooth voice on my side from distance calling me out.
I turn my head to face her
It's seitokaichou
We're currently on our first so called date
"I think it's about time"
Or so she said but I can't help my heart from beating non-stop
I got up from my seat while my legs are still shaking slightly that I would slip from just an wrong step
"isn't it kind of illegal to do this kind of thing?"
My heart isn't beating fast from the awkward atmosphere or nervousness but out of guilt by what we're doing right now.
"come on, how innocent can you be?"
She said in an exhaustion tone.
"and besides does it look like we're doing illegal here? It's just us reading in the library"
That's right, we're in the library right now
Seitokaichou proposed that we should go to the library as our first choice and I wonder why would she want to go where there could be a lot of people when she have an anxiety of it.
"That's why I want you to be there for me in case it would happen to me again"
She's simply relying on me and I decide to cooperate as an payback for her tutoring me at that time, just because I've help her first and that's only why she did it doesn't mean it will end that way.
"here we are"
We both stopped dead in our tracks looking at an large wooden bookshelf that could hold 70 books each one of the five rows.
I shift my eyes to look at seitokaichou folding her index finger placing it on her chin looking sharply thinking what to pick
"ah here it is"
She reached out her hands up to reach the book she pique her interest on.
Unfortunately she couldn't reach it due to her small height.
Feeling pity on her I just casually grab the book she's been trying to pick. she's shock to see me behind her that she froze a bit, our height ain't that big of difference but my arm are bit longer to easily reached an big height.
"here"
I got a quick peek at what it is that she's been trying to get and I'm not surprised by what it is but only froze me.
It's an English tutorial book, the subject that I hate the most.
Seitokaichou immediately takes it from me and stare at me with scorn eyes.
Ah, I now know where this is going.
It's not an date between us but back to her tort- I mean tutoring me on my free time.
"where should we start our study?"
Understanding what's going on I asked.
"what do you mean where? It's obviously here"
Huh?
"wait, what do you mean here? Ain't it illegal to be reading here and not paying the book? "
Her eyes are knitted together on me
"are you that dumb? What do you think library is for?"
She asked in an sarcastic way
"to buy books?"
She closed her eyes sighing in mostly about dissapointment.
"do you think this is an market where book is stored?"
"is it not?"
She stares at me emptied emotions.
"Let's just sit at the chair there where it has an table with it"
Tired talking with me she just change the topic
She points her index at an certain place
We proceed at walking to where the seitokaichou directed it
And so the silent hell began.
Being immersed in what we're doing we forgot what time it is and just finished our study casually.
We both got out of the library.
I'm completely in mental exhaustion of her tiny voiced blabbering or it could be said as scold and she's here still wearing an serious expression maybe even angry at me.
I noticed that she became pale all of a sudden and her hand is gripping at her sling bag, it caught my interest so I watch where she's looking.
I saw an stray cat slowly crossing the road that is just in front of us, and an black car in an distance from the side running straight to it.
Without me realizing I'm running heading to the sole direction.
The time seemed to be fast on moving that I can't hear anything aside from the wind that is coming to me everytime I take a step.
The car pumps his horn and is driving panickly everywhere when he saw the cat.
I caught of the cat's armpit while patting running all my might
"man, you little coochie you should look on where to go"
I shift the cat to face me while I'm still carrying him/her, what I saw broked me
"myaaaw"
The cat's left eye isn't visible to see.
The driver got out of the car and approached me
It's an man that look like he's on his 20s
"is the cat alright?"
He asked us worrying what might happen if I didn't get to save him/her
I would like to say the cat is alright but after seeing its condition, I don't know what to say.
But I guess it's better just to lie
"he's fine"
"haa thank God"
He sighs in relief.
"well, if he's fine then it's alright. I'm gonna go to work now"
He turns his back to us but immediately turn to face me again
He puts his hand on his pocket picking something inside of it
It's an wallet, he opens it and takes out some coupon of it
"here boy, it's an reward for your good deed"
"no no no, I can't accept it"
"no you should be, because thanks to you I prevented someone from being dead again"
"..."
Being pressured that way, I put down the cat and accept the money.
I take an look of it it's an 8k¥.
"thank you sir"
I bow my head to him and he didn't say another word and just gets inside of his car.
Looks like he really is in an hurry.
I turn my body around and saw seitokaichou in an painful expression carrying the cat I just saved.
"I got an 8k we should go watch an movie or something, you want to?"
I figured I should console her to prevent her anxiety triggered.
"but Kondou"
Seitokaichou looks at the pitiful cat.
Haa what an idiot I am.
"I change my mind, I think we should go to an animal care for them to take him and pay them with this"
Her face instantly beamed into an large smile.
It's an face I never got to see from seitokaichou not even in middle school.
"Yeah! We should go there!!"
Her voice became energetic unusually from her
I should savor this face in my memory like an saved photo.
She immediately turn around and start running full of energy.
"wait seitokaichou!!"
Seitokaichou stopped for a moment
"Rita"
"hmm?"
She turns her face and look at me with an bright smile face carrying the cat
"Call me Rita! Ginta"
My heart starts to throb from overwhelming mix emotion of embarrassment and flustered just by being called on my first name