The next day, Shin wakes up early and manages to reach school on time. At the gate and saw Mai, who seemed to be waiting for him.
"Good morning Shin!" Mai says with a cheerful tone.
"G-Good morning Mai! Shall we go now to our first class? It's 8:30 AM already" Shin replied with a smile.
Mai nodded and they proceeded to go to their first class, which was Science. They enter the classroom, then sit in their assigned seats and, after a few minutes, the Professor enters the classroom and starts their session.
After an hour, Science class is done. Shin meets up with Mai and talks about the things the teacher presented during their class session.
"Oh yeah Mai, we have homework we need to do in Science, right? Like research about those Scientific Theory things? You wanna make some progress about it during break time?" Shin said.
"Sure, Shin! If we can finish it, let's finish it then! It would grant us a lot of free time later!" Mai spoke joyfully while she clasped her hands together.
"Oh yeah, Mai, It's 9:50 AM now, we should head to our next class, which is Math. The classroom is located on Floor 2, Room 5. Let's go now, Mai. We don't want to miss anything about math, since that subject is such a pain."
Shin said while making an anxious expression.
Shin's anxious expression made Mai chuckle.
"Hey! What's funny? I'm just saying the truth, Math is just so hard to understand. I just can't deal with that subject." Shin shook his head as he said.
"But you know Shin? Math is quite fun to learn. If you are having a hard time trying to understand math formulas, I can help you with it! Hehehe. I'm sure you'll enjoy studying math once I show you the cool side of it!" Mai spoke joyfully.
"Yeah right... I'll 'enjoy' it.. yeah... Oh wait, time is running out, let's head to class now, quickly!"
They reached 2F Room 5 in time. Shin and Mai decided to sit next to each other since The Professor didn't state any seating arrangement in that class. After that, the class starts and the Professor presents the lesson.
As time passed by, math class finally ended. By Mai's side was Shin, who was about to fall asleep after listening to tons of mathematical things. Mai poked Shin's forehead to keep him from falling asleep.
At last, math class has ended. It's finally break time, Mai and Shin decided to go to the canteen in order to discuss things about their Science Homework.
"Alrighty then! Shin, let's gather information about these Science Theory things!" Mai spoke happily.
Shin nodded and started doing research about their homework. Mai and Shin wrote their information on a piece of paper. For their homework, Mai was identifying which information could be utilized and which could not.
As time passed by, Shin lost himself for a moment because of how beautiful Mai was. He couldn't just stop himself from admiring her beauty, kind personality and how positive she was when it came to things.
It's as if she's a Goddess that just keeps on spreading good things to everyone she meets. That's how Shin sees Mai after being able to talk to her more and more.
"Shin, I separated the information we could use and the information we can't. On the left page is the information we could put in our homework. Do you understand Shin?" Mai asked.
Shin made no comment at all. Shin did not answer, leading Mai to believe that he was simply daydreaming. Shin's eyes caught Mai's wave.
"Shin! Earth to Shin! Are you there?" Mai yelled at Shin.
Shin finally came back to his senses and finally answered Mai's question. Shin was embarrassed by his thoughts as he lost himself.
"Y-Yes, I-I'll go put these information on the right side of the paper to my notebook n-now!" Shin spoke in a terrified voice.
"No Shin! Not that one, it's the one on the left page, the information we could put in our homework." said Mai.
Shin scratched his head and was slightly embarrassed as Mai explained about their homework but he didn't notice.
"Sorry, I was just thinking about something..." said Shin.
"It's okay! It's okay! No need to feel down because of it! Hehe! And Shin, if you have some problems, you could always tell me, I'll always be here to help you!" Mai said in a happy and positive tone.
"You can always count on me, Shin!" Mai said in a happy and positive tone.
Shin looked in another direction to avoid having eye contact with Mai. He was too shy to look at her because of how nice she was, but deep inside, Shin was happy that he finally had a very nice friend in his life.
Time passed by and all class had ended, it was time for them to go home. Mai and Shin walked to the school gate to say goodbye.
"Goodbye Shin! I'll be going home now and be safe!" said Mai.
"Goodbye too and be safe as well!" Shin replied.
As Shin was about to walk in the other direction, Mai yelled Shin's name all of a sudden.
"Shin! Let's hangout on Saturday, if you are free! Okay?" said Mai.
"I'm free on Saturday so I guess.. I guess we can hangout." Shin replied.
"It's settled then! Hehehe!"
They waved to each other and then went home.
Shin finally reached his house and went to his bedroom to lay down. Shin still has those thoughts he had when he lost himself during break time. He was still a bit embarrassed but he was also laughing a bit.
"Hahahaha.. I'm really happy to have met Mai. She is a very nice, positive and probably the type of girl every boy would want."
"I wish things would stay the same this time... I no longer want to experience the bad things that happened in my past... I want to be free from the pain I felt from that girl in the past..."
End of Chapter 2