"I'm Yuuki Nagano, I'll be sitting next to you this year!"
Standing there in front of me, was a beautiful sight to see, a young girl who looked to be about my age, deep dark hair with purple accents as if I were looking up at the night sky. Her pasty white skin glistened in the sunlight beaming through the class window, she almost looked as white as paper, the light purple in her eyes had matched up perfectly with the color of her beautiful long hair streaming down the back of her slim but not flat frame.
As she looked down at me and spoke, I could not reply as she had caught me off guard. I Yuzuki Amari have never spoken to a girl in high school. It is not like I never wanted to, but girls never spoke to me, for that matter neither did guys. I was a complete and utter loner with only one friend to speak of.
"… I'm Y-Yuzuki and it's a pleasure."
I screwed it up, she's going to think I'm an absolute weirdo. How do I manage to stutter my own name? I had thought to myself, she was going to laugh and make fun of me, how does one seriously mess up an introduction? As she stood there I sat at my desk with her wide purple eyes looking down on me waiting for her to point fun at me, but she never did, she simply smiled at me with the sweetest smile that had ever been directed at me and sat back in her seat beside me.
As the day went on, I could feel Yuuki looking at me, she was barely trying to hide the fact that she was, like seriously who just stares at someone during class it's creepy.
"… Why are you looking at me? It's not like I dislike it but it's distracting."
"It's distracting ehh" She replied in a mocking tone giggling to herself as she teased.
So, she was making fun of me?! I thought to myself.
I couldn't read this girl; I know reading people isn't exactly my strong suit since I don't have many friends, but this girl was completely unreadable. I'll just ignore her.
"Good morning, Yuzuki!"
"… Good morning," I replied in a sheepish tone.
I don't understand once again, this is the second day she has talked to me first thing. Was she plotting something? Maybe she's not such a bad person and I'm just overthinking things. One way or another it'll probably just stay as good mornings.
"… Yuzuki? … Yuzukiii?" I hear a sweet delicate voice, is this an angel sent to guide me through my dreams.
"Ehh I'm not an angel and you aren't dreaming," she whispers.
I jumped up, standing there looking up at me was her. I was talking out loud. I didn't mean to, what the hell, she's definitely going to blab to the whole school about this. I'll be laughingstock for the entire school, my life is over. My eyes darting around the room making sure nobody else had heard me, thankfully nobody had heard, the class was loud because of lunch period.
"Phew, you're finally awake, I thought you weren't ever going to wake."
"I was going to ask if you wanted to have lunch with me, I just started so I don't really have many friends, so I was just wondering if you'd like to."
Looking down at her in confusion I didn't know what to say to her. "Hanging around me you won't get many friends, as you can see, I don't have any," I seemingly muttered.
"That's why it's not intimidating to ask you, because there's not a group around you Yuzuki."
This girl was strange, I've never met anyone who hangs around a loner just because he or she's a loner. On the other hand, hanging out with someone for lunch would be fulfilling in it's own way, even if it's only once.
".. Okay sure where you want to go?"
She looked up at me, smiled that same delicate smile and walked out of the class, as to tell me to follow her.
"You could've just told me we were going to a convenience store you know!" Pure disappointment filled my voice.
"What're you getting Yuzuki?"
"Probably just onigiri, I don't like too much I'm very picky."
"… Sounds yummy I'll get some too!"
She sounded overly excited about some plain old onigiri. This girl was definitely strange, but it was a nice change of pace for me. Even though I know it won't last, I might as well enjoy this, thinking to myself I knew it wouldn't stay this way. She would eventually make more friends as she is an attractive girl, maybe even get a boyfriend soon enough who knows. I better enjoy this while it lasts.
"Good morning again Yuzuki, how are you this morning? You look more tired as the days pass."
Has this girl been studying me? Like seriously how could she even tell. Truth is I've been up the past few nights and barely any sleep, I've been caught up in this new light novel series I recently purchased.
"I'm good, just haven't been sleeping the best."
"Sooo I've been wondering do you have any hobbies or interests like watching anime or reading manga?" Her eyes beamed with excitement I could almost see stars in her eyes.
"I read some light novels I guess."
I replied quickly as to not raise any suspicion. I didn't want her to think I was some type of mega otaku, who does nothing but watch anime and read manga and light novels. I admit it I watch and read my fair share of them both, but I am not an otaku.
"… I also read some light novels, and I watch some anime too when I'm bored." Giggling as she replies almost like she's having fun.
"Okay class take your seats class is about to begin." Our teacher abruptly calls out, cutting our conversation short.
The rest of class went by as any normal class would, but I could still feel this girl looking at me. She wasn't staring at me this time, but I could definitely feel her peeking over every now and then.
"Make sure you all look over everything and review as we have a test coming up!"
Class was over, finally I could eat something I was starting to think I'd starve to death.
"Hey Yuzuki, where do you want to go today for lunch?"
"Ehh?"
I thought it was only a one-time thing, is she going to drag me around with her on lunch every day? Not that I'm complaining but-
"… You see my mother actually made me a bento today." Showing her the lunch box my mother had made me early this morning.
"Oooh that looks good! I can just run to the bread stand in the cafeteria and be right back." She almost sounded upset that we couldn't go somewhere.
"Oh yeah sure." I replied hastily.
She ran out the door like she was a track runner in the final stretch. While I was waiting for her return, I had gotten a line message from Yuto. The only one friend to speak of, yes that's my best friend Yuto, my only friend really as sad as that may sound.
"Wanna meet up after your classes are over today?" Yuto had messaged me.
I agreed to meet up with him after school as I don't have very many plans, being friendless is a true blessing. Man, she's taking forever, at this point I'm going to finish my lunch before she gets here.
"Sorry! For making you wait so long, I ran as fast as I could, but the line was long." She was out of breath trying her best to cough up words.
".. You're okay."
With only about 20 minutes left of lunch we didn't talk much about anything as there wasn't much time left.
After lunch classes had resumed as normal, I wish I got to talk to her more during lunch break. I don't know why but I was thinking about her, she was on my mind a lot now probably because she was always trying to invade my free time at school.
Before I knew it the school day had ended, "hey want to walk home together Yuzuki?"
A girl asking to walk home with a boy? This could only mean one thing... SHE LIKES THE BOY? No there's no way she would I'm just completely out of it I should just agr- Oh wait I made plans with Yuto.
"… Sorry today won't work I made plans with my other friend" It had almost felt like I'd betrayed her for some reason like I felt bad turning her down. Well, there is no point in thinking too much about it, I'm kind of excited to hangout with Yuto it's been a while, and I have a lot to tell him about.
Yuuki just said "okay" and walked off droopy, I hope I didn't hurt her feelings or anything. I'll buy her lunch next time to make up for this, I guess.