( Haru's POV )
Haru: I'm home.
As every day no one answered me when I returned home, I went to the kitchen to prepare something to eat and a package was on my table.
Two people have a copy of my house key, so one of them must have brought it, if they had some time to come here at least they should have said hello.
The package had a note on it, the message was short and clear.
Haru-Kun, I hope you enjoy building this. |
The package was a gift, a late birthday present.
I leave the gift on the table, grab a snack from the refrigerator, and head to my room.
Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday I play fighting games with the same person online, he/she is an amazing player and is the only one who gives me a challenge, and fighting against someone weaker than me doesn't entertain me.
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The next day on my way to school I met Roka, waiting for me at the place where we parted the day before.
Haru: morning.
Roka: morning, you look a bit tired.
Haru: I'm not good at waking up early.
Roka: it's not really that early.
Haru: it is for me, by the way, you already decided what we play for our duel.
Roka blushes and looks to the side quickly to avoid my gaze, she still hasn't decided on a game.
Roka: I still have time to decide.
When we arrived at the entrance of the school, Chitose was waiting for Roka, she said goodbye to me and I went to my classroom.
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My classes went by quickly just like any other day and when the classes finished I went to the club room and when I opened the door I saw Roka and Chitose cleaning the club room, putting mangas and board games on the bookcase, while our advisor slept, I helped them and in a few moments, our club was ready.
Our club room had a table with chairs for each of us and when we sat down Chitose was the first to speak.
Chitose: I didn't think you would come.
She casually takes out some snacks from her bag and puts them on the plate that was on the table.
Roka: I knew Handa would show up, he wouldn't run away from our competition.
Roka did the same and I took the chocolates I had in a bag and put them on the plate.
Chitose: Do you always carry chocolates with you?
Haru: Sure, that's just normal.
Roka: As expected of Handa, he is the only one to pass our club's rigorous selection process.
Haru: I'm pretty sure you guys picked me at random.
Roka: N-no, we didn't.
Chitose took a deck of cards from the bookshelf and began to shuffle them.
Roka: Before we start our duel, we must take a break, orders from the club president.
We started playing old maid and the first to win was Chitose when she won she took some of the snacks and we kept playing until there were none left.
In the end, Chitose won most of the games, I won a couple less than she and Roka only won two games, she doesn't have a good poker face but she looked really cute when she pouted.
Roka: Ok, I already decided that we are going to play, hide and seek.
You just decided and it's also a child's game.
Sei: hide and seek, really?
Roka: yes, but we will have special rules, the playing field will be the middle section of the Fujou academy, Handa will have half an hour to find us and we will have a minute to hide, Handa will win if he touches the top of our heads and we win when thirty minutes are up, what do you think of those rules.
Fujou Academy is quite large, with three different buildings where students take classes and all the students refer to these as the upper part, middle part, and experimental part of fujou academy.
Haru: Sounds good.
We put timers on our phones for 31 minutes and when the clock ticks down Roka and Chitose rush out of the room and when a minute is up I do the same.
In a minute they couldn't have gone very far, I arrive at the first room where they could be.
???: Kyaa.
I open the door and someone was there, a blonde girl who had been surprised when I suddenly opened the door, she was quite pretty but she was not the blonde I was looking for.
I closed the door and kept looking for Chitose and Roka, and in the next room I checked it was the correct one, immediately when I walked in I knew someone was hiding under the desk,
I climbed on it and I reached out to catch whoever was hiding but a pair of hands grabbed me and threw me against the wall.
I put my feet on the wall and my free hand on the desk to support myself and I saw that it was Chitose who was hiding in the desk, when we made eye contact she ran out of the room, if I don't put my hand on her head the game won't end.
I chased after Chitose and every second I reduced our distance.
Chitose: You are better than I expected.
Haru: well thanks.
I increased my speed and when I was about to catch up with her, she took a sharp left towards the stairs, I was going too fast to turn or stop so I jumped and used the wall to propel myself towards her, She was surprised by what I did but before I could touch her head Roka appeared out of nowhere and tried to put a bag on my head, I dodged her attack but Chitose managed to escape from me.
We glare at each other and once again I get lost in her eyes, without realizing it a smile appeared on my face, I began to enjoy this game, I began to enjoy competing against the two of them.