Prologue
Yawning, tired and no more energy left to spare. I re-positioned myself to be able to stand with the most minimal energy being used.
Behind the yellow line, I put down my bag that I was carrying from my back. This kind of day is not my usual 'every day'. Usually after school I'll go straight to the clubroom and have some of my reading and then go home straight immediately.
But in this particular day, after I finished the book, I heard my phone ring, I checked about what might be it and apparently an anime that I really like released a new PV (promotional video) for the coming season. After watching the PV there's a big smile left on face.
"As expected, this anime is really good." I said to myself in an empty club room with just a table, a few unused cabinets, books and me.
After I finished witnessing the start of a new good season to come, I open my socials to check what's the trend about this new PV. Most of I can see are people praising its greatness. I mean what I can say, it's really good.
After some time has passed scrolling through an endless text and images, I thought that I should also go home too. My Senpai (senior), a third-year student who's the president of the club has already left a while ago. He said that he has some errands to do mainly caused by his homeroom teacher. Apparently, his homeroom teacher saw that the volleyball guys just left the balls and equipments just lying on the floor and did not put it away properly. So Senpai is called to put away those properly. Unlucky Senpai
I'm now leaving the club room but I remember that Senpai didn't left the keys so that I could lock the door. So, feeling a bit irritated, I went to the teacher's office to fetch a spare key for the club. Going there, I immediately noticed how quiet it is compared when it is school times. I entered the teacher's office and no one is present. I grabbed the spare keys tied with other clubroom keys that's hang on the wall and returned immediately to lock the room and come back again, I'm now back in the teacher's office again returning the keys.
But after I closed the office's door, I can spot a human figure in a distance walking towards this direction. I'm surprised that someone is even left at this time on the school, I wonder what's their affair here. The person is walking towards me which is a path that leads to the main buildings and classrooms. This got me confused at to what might their matter left to do in there in this time.
I started to walk into the same path that person is walking into. A few moments later I can now recognize who's that person.
She is Tachibana-sensei. A teacher that teaches Japanese and also teaches in our class. She is in her mid-20's and she's much shorter than me. I'm 5'8 (172 cm) and she around 5'5.
Given that it's a teacher and not a student I guess it's not that rare for some teachers being left in the school at this hour I thought. She is also the said homeroom teacher of my Senpai.
I now approaches her and I thought that maybe I'll offer a greeting or start a small talk to her because she's a good teacher to me, she has that clumsy personality that usually kids at my age possess but for some reason she is but from time to time I have witnessed that she is also an adult and I respect her greatly for being a good teacher and a good person, but I just can't help to tease her. Yes. Like I said she has that clumsy personality so whenever I teases her, her reactions are the best. Sorry, but I'm the type of per that will always admit it if I see something cute, I can't lie in that aspect.
So, as I approached, I raised my hand in attempt to say my greetings to her, but my hand stopped mid-point as I noticed that her face, her reactions while slowly walking are what I can describe as fidgety nervous. She is not calm in any degree and her face is blushing; kind of the one you can see from her when you tease her. After seeing her like that I got a bit worried and curious as of what could might be the reason for her to act like that at this time in an empty campus. But I guess with the two of us being here, It's not that empty anymore.
"Sensei, What's wrong?" I asked.
"――――"
She stared at me.
"M-miyahara-kun..." with a shaky, wobbly voice and teary eyes she replied.
"What happened sensei?" I asked again as I approach her closer.
At this point I'm now really worried as to what really happened to her to be at this state. But thankfully nothing bad happened. It's all good.
And because of those circumstances, I'm now on my way on the gymnasium.
Tachibana-sensei said to me that after some time has passed after she asked Senpai to put away properly the left balls and equipments like the net, she came to the gymnasium to check on him, but she found that no one is present inside and the balls are still left on the floor. She immediately flustered as she searches for Senpai. After a while of searching, she didn't find Senpai anywhere the gymnasium, so she just decided to put away the things on her own. But as she walked towards the storages the reality of being alone in an empty silent campus hit harder and harder. Every sound is now more audible and this didn't help her at all given that she's already flustered and with I assume, a cute blushing face.
You now may think that I have a crush on her but I'm not really sure but It's a fact that if she somewhat for some reason leaves the school, I'll be really sad, maybe even depressed. One of my greatest fears.
Even she had gathered all of her courage to put away the left things; fear took all over her mind so she sprinted out. And there, on her way to get her stuff in the teacher's office to also go home too, Me and her had crossed paths. And now as I said, my way on the messy gymnasium toying the key that she gave me to lock the storages and gymnasium afterwards. She also said that I can carry the keys home with me and just return it on Monday because it's weekend tomorrow.
After entering the widely open gymnasium, I can't still believe the fact that the people who used this didn't put them away and just go home. Maybe they're really excited for the weekend? Or perhaps they have something to do and didn't have the time to put them away. But what I can't really comprehend is that Senpai did the same thing. I clenched my fist because this isn't a good way to end a school week given that it's a whole gymnasium. I need to clean out a whole gymnasium. Even just the thought of it is exhausting.
"Haaaaahh..." I let out a big sigh.
1
After finishing that excruciating task, I'm now on my way on the train station. I lift up my left hand even though I'm barely walking. I take a look at my watch and it's already 6 pm. It's really tiring that I want to go home so bad and take a bath. I mean putting all of those clutter isn't in any degree an easy task. I spend most of my time moving back and forth between separate buildings, even if you can say they are not that heavy, the quantity of it is the one that made me experience hell.
Although it is a very exhausting task, the thought of saving Tachibana-sensei to do all of that troublesome brought a little bit of justice to my expended energy, But I'm still angry at Senpai not doing his errands properly and being disrespectful to just completely ignore Tachibana-sensei's request. I mean did he really not thought that Tachibana-sensei is the one will be left to do it all if he just ditches his job like that.
Or...don't tell me... Thinking about him will not give any more justice to my efforts, instead my energy used to think about him are all in vain.
"Really that idiot..."
So, after that walk that felt ten times longer than usual, I'm now here at the station.
Behind the yellow line I put down my bag that is now much heavier than usual because of my extreme tiredness. I tried my best to stand in the line and wait because if I sat down in the benches to wait, the line of people that will que up is enough to take all the open seats on the train. Or so I thought. I cannot waste more time waiting. I wanna go home so bad.
"At this point...I'll be..."
After a painful waiting for the train to come, my body felt a bit of relieved and joy hearing the sound of the incoming train.
The sound of the train echoed through the hushed station. No one is really making a sound and a train station is really the place you expect people to make a lot of sound. I wonder, maybe I'm just too tired.
As the cart that is aligned to where our line stopped, I rush inside and find an open seat to comfortably sit down the way up unto my station and luckily there's some few seats open left, fortunately. I didn't think about it that much and picked the seat in the other side of the train on the right side. Even though let's say I wanna choose elsewhere I have no energy left to do as such.
"Ah this is bad," I muttered because I'm now on the verge of sleeping. The chair is too comfy.
I feel the soft knock of this thing called sleepiness, begging me to open the doors. The chair is too comfy. But as much as I want to sleep right now, I need to hold it until I'm home, because if I sleep here now right now there's a huge, big percentage that I will miss my stop. Well, I haven't missed any of my stops before but I prefer to keep it that way and to not experience it at all.
But that might change now.
My eyes, my consciousness now have their own will. They don't listen to what I'm telling them anymore. They just keep resisting.
I can't force myself anymore to stay awake, so I just fuck it and hope for the best.
2
An unknown time has passed since I decided fate to have full control on what will happen to me after I carelessly let myself fall asleep in a train, I hoped that my situation isn't that bad as I'm thinking. Well, it's not that I assume things to happen, I just fall asleep in a train and that's it. What things could possibly happen? I'm just exaggerating things.
I hear the announcement of the train and of course I missed my stop.
But other than announcement there's something else that I can hear. There is I think a younger girl's voice.
"―――Uhm... excuse me..."
It has a shy tone on it and I'm very confused as to where this is coming. It sounded very near to me. At this point I'm still not fully awake but I'm trying to be. I try to locate where this voice might be coming from. I noticed something else too, there is a sweet-smelling fragrant that is present. I never have smelled something like this inside a train. It usually smelled like a car freshener but due to people, many people riding here many times, I guess you can now imagine what it smelled like
I try to sit down properly because when I opened my eye everything was rotated to the left. Most likely I fell lying on my right side on the chair of the train. I try to push my body up using my left. I put it in front of my face, on the chair to help me elevate from this position but as when I though I reached the chair I felt something odd. A soft sensation, I thought immediately that this kind of texture isn't what a train chair should feel like. It's also as soft like a marshmallow and definitely softer and better than my pillow, and the realization that this is what I've been sleeping on hit me. It is the best pillow I slept so far.
But this isn't the time for that. Although my body and mind wanted to sleep in this pillow a bit more, my mind had fully awakened and realized what's this heavenly pillow is.
A lap.
"Excuse me, mister..."
After I heard that voice again speak with a soft, flustered-like voice; I immediately get up on her.
Yes. Somehow someway I found myself lying on someone's lap.
Well, now I think it's a bad idea to let fate decide what will happen to you. I missed my stop and I need to deal with this situation.
I looked at the face of the person I was using his lap like a pillow and it turned out to be a girl. That explains the heavenly softness and texture of what I now call the best pillow in the world. It's hard to imagine any man having that kind of a lap.
I sit down properly, the I started to move away from her bit by bit, dragging my butt on the chair. I put quite the distance between me and her so far that the metal pole hit my back, I was all away on the other side of the bench like chair but with cushion. I felt the metal pole in the train that supports the storages over head but it didn't matter. My focus and eyes are all directed at her, every second that I move away from her the more my mind started to go blank.
I calm myself down. I closed my eyes and take a deep breath, Inhale exhale inhale exhale . I opened my eyes and take a better look at her. From a distance, she wore an quizzical face, her head slightly tilted to the my left. I took the moment to examine her more. She clad in another school's uniform and I assume it's from another high school because she didn't look much older neither younger to me. I noticed that the condition of her uniform was kept pristine, it looked like she didn't go to school at all. Maybe she's just kept it that way but it looked better than the majority of the girls that I saw in my school. Almost looked like what Tachibana was earlier this after-school.
I just felt asleep on a school girl's lap. I don't know if this is a lucky occurrence but I'm more surprised that my manly instincts didn't kicked in. In this kind of situations, I assume that every boys in my position would be having the time f their lives but I found myself surprising calm. But, one thing is for sure, that I need to apologize now.
Neither of us doesn't seem to want to break the awkward silence. We have been averting from each other's eyes for the past minutes. But at one moment, our eyes met. Our eyes stayed staring at each other for a second but I think this is the right moment to tell my apologies. I gathered all my courage and bowed on her, my forehead almost hitting the chair. And there I say my apologies, more like shouted.
"I'm very sorry! I do not mean it and was an accident!"
I apologize as sincerely as I can because I don't want to be accused or misunderstand for doing something vulgar. It would be really bad if that happened. I can't stop thinking of bad things that will happen to my future if that would be the case.
"Ah n-no it's alright. Everyone's tired at this hour, r-right?" She replied with a uplifting voice. It was way softer than the volume I spoke with. Maybe she was caught off-guard by my apology. Yea it seemed like it.
"P-please lift your head up." She added
I lift my head up; look at her and saw a sweet, soft smile like it was she was an angel. She is indeed cute but seeing her with that smile, if heaven does exist it will most prolly look like her.
Seeing her that she genuinely didn't bother the matter it put me in relief. But I can't avert my eye to her. I kept staring at her and I can see that she started to feel uneasy but I can't control myself, my mind and body just wanna keep looking at this heavenly scene.
"U-um―"
She was about to say something but the announcement went before she can start to say anything.
This helped me greatly to avert my eyes out of her. We both look at the speakers at it announces the next stop.
As expected, I missed my stop. I was confused on why a school girl will just let someone lie in their lap and didn't woke them. Especially that she is a girl. Normally they will push you away. Right? Who wants someone in the train just suddenly sleep on you and in your lap? Yea, no one. So, I ask her and try to offer something as an apology.
"Uhm, I'm just wondering why you didn't wake me up as soon as lied in your... l-lap?" I stuttered as I asked the last parts.
"When I was going to wake you up..." she paused.
"――――"
"...your sleeping face looks so happy lying down on my lap so I thought that it would be better to just leave you alone." With a hint of fluster, she answered.
I admire her courage to be able to say things like that upfront. Making her and her partner blushing because of the matter.
Of course, as boy who haven't experienced something like this before, this made me embarrassed too, my face turned all red, no, our faces turned red as we try to avert from each other's eyes.
"A-ahh. I that so... he he he" I said wheezing at the end as an attempt to play it cool with scratching the back of my head.
It didn't work and embarrassment is all that can be seen in my face, and a hint of it on hers.
I feel really guilty now. She just let me rest on her lap. What a kind and sweet person. And you know, she is cute not gonna lie.
So, after I witnessed how good a person she is, I now tried to offer something to really make up with this angel.
"Is that so, if that's the case I will treat you with something. Please don't decline and request whatever you want." I offered with a guilty, apologetic tone and a slight smiling face.
"Are you okay with that?" she replied with a rather confusing reaction as if she didn't expect something like this at all. Asking me as it looked like she was to request something that I'll regret later. But that didn't bother me at all.
"Yes, feel free to." I said immediately and leaned a bit towards her.
She seems to consider my offer, she put her right pointer finger on her chin and look upwards. But a few seconds later, she pointed at the map on the train and said a critical thing that I have been ignoring all this time.
"I appreciate the offer but I think we should go home first." She declared. It seems like she really wants to take my offer but we're forgetting a big thing over here.
That's right. I missed my stop. Wait, did she missed her stop too?! Wait! Did she missed it because she let me rest at her?!
"Wait, you missed your stop too?!" I asked with a escalating tone.
She nodded slightly.
"Ah yea... Of course, I can't walk off to my stop if you're still in my lap." she answered in slow phase.
"T-that's right..."
Haa... I caused so much trouble with this girl now.
"I'm really sorry! Let's get off this train first then I will treat you anything later...." I try to offer to make up for my actions.
"And thank you also..." I added
"Thank you?" with a confused face she asked.
"Yea... for letting me rest in your lap." I answered with a smile.
In my answer to her, I said it with all confidence. Because I am genuinely grateful that she didn't push me away and of course sleeping in her lap is such a treat. I know that I cannot make up for the inconvenience I caused her but at least I want to convey that I'm really grateful for her.
"Aah."
"You're welcome." she said with an angelic smile, of course, as an inexperienced boy who never something like this in my life, I blushed after I seeing something as cute like that.
Chapter 1: I woke up lying in a School Girl's lap on a train
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