Once class was done I couldn't meet up with Raigen or Johnny since they left sooner. So, I decided to leave by my lonesome but as I approached the gates I saw Kuzu looking at the sky with her brilliant eyes, most likely thinking about the classwork and processing what Johnny said.
I approached her and told her, "You should wake up, we have to walk for 30 minutes Kuzu, we should hurry up." At that moment, I saw Kuzu wake up as if her alarm just rang, and I snarkingly said, "Good morning sunshine, it's past noon." She looked at me with her eyebrow pointing up and said, "Are you okay?" I looked at her and told her, "I am, why shouldn't I be? I should be asking you that question…"
Right after that remark Kuzu ignored my reply and said " don't worry about me" following the sentence by telling me I should relieve some stress and talk to more people, since the strongest and smartest person in the world should at least socialize.
I stared at her for a brief second and started laughing while telling her, "I don't need anyone else other than my friends and family." She looked at me in a weird expression that looked simultaneously happy and sarcastic and replied with, "You should really consider what I said Sora, but yeah I agree with you." I looked at her and I told her "Let's get going before our parents start questioning us."
After that statement, Kuzu quickly said, "Oh no my parents are gonna kill me..." I looked at her and said, "We better run then." She looked at me, grabbed my hand and said in a rushed voice, "Then let's go!"
We ran for 13 minutes and made quick work of our legs… To be honest I've never felt so tired in my whole 3 months of being a freshman. And when I looked at Kuzu in her ripped gray jeans and a bland gray jacket... I thought that she might die from exhaustion from running like that.
Well, what can I do, she does what she can and always does her best at it. Even if it is running like hell to make it to her house while holding on to me… And then I looked around and realized that we were on the street that's only a few blocks away from our houses with 5 minutes to spare.
I looked at an exhausted Kuzu and told her while gasping for air that we don't need to run anymore because we've already arrived. She looked at me with a tired expression and started to tell me gasping for air as well, "alright, let's walk..." I looked at her trying to keep myself from laughing and replied by saying, "sure, no problem..."
Now thinking about it, I really am lucky I have done so much to get to this point in my life. Just to get my ideal friends, ideal strength, ideal intelligence, and an ideal family for now. I really couldn't ask for more, I'm just so happy I can live a life like this.
Before we realized it we were on the street with two of our good friends Tucker and Sariah lived in. Personally, I don't really know Sariah, but Tucker is one of the big bullies that was in our 9th grade but apparently I changed him. As that thought crossed my mind Iheard a voice coming from the street yelling, "HEY, SORA AND KUZU!"
I looked in the direction of the voice and saw Tucker running towards us. Without any time to react he went up to me and a tired Kuzu then proceeded to hug us both… The crazy thing is that he used to be a bully.
He stopped hugging us and told us where we were going. Looking at the time I told him that we're going back to our house of course. He looked at his phone and said, "Oh yeah, you guys have your folks to go back to." I looked at him and said, "Yes we do..." Following that he told us to get going then.
Without a second to spare Kuzu and I decided to keep on moving towards our house. While I told him, "Sorry we had to cut this short, Kuzu's parents are gonna kill her if she doesn't make it to her house, metaphorically speaking." Tucker proceeded to look at me with a weirded out face saying, "What do you mean metaphorically speaking..."
And just before I accidentally started a tutoring session in basic English to just explain what metaphor is I told him to just look it up and we'll talk about it later. As I said that, Kuzu started to yell at me and exclaim that "the time is running out!"
I rushed to her side and left Tucker with Sariah saying see ya guys later. Before we knew it, we arrived at the stop that me and Kuzu always depart at. Mainly because of the fact that we live on completely opposite roads... Basically, she goes right and I go left.
As soon as we looked at the time we realized that we were almost late. So we quickly said goodbye and went to our houses. While running to my house alone I told myself something and it's true… "I really am happy I can spend these days like this."