Chapter 19 - Time

Sayaka Mayu. Currently, she was thinking about what was going on with the friend beside her. Since this morning, her friend seemed to be in a very good mood and often smiled to herself. She had tried to question her about what was going on, but she didn't answer and just looked away with a red face.

Although it seemed strange, seeing her own friend smile and chuckle every few moments, as if she was thinking of something funny or uplifting, but Sayaka didn't try to bother her. As long as her friend, the only friend she had ever had was happy, then by that fact alone she already felt happy.

'hmm~~~~ Katsudon, Katsudon~~'

Sayaka turned her thoughts to the meal she would have this afternoon. Based on her friend's recommendation, today she would choose Katsudon as her lunch menu. Walking with Midori who was still trying to cover her smile, Sayaka excitedly headed to the cafeteria staff table to order.

"Midori-chan, as always, please find a table for us to have lunch~~ I'll go order first!" she said.

"Okay!", with her beautiful smile, Midori went to find a vacant spot. Sayaka, not waiting any longer, immediately ran to order excitedly.

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'Empty place, empty place' At this time, Kawajima was meticulously looking for an empty place for himself and her friend to have lunch. There was no need to search for too long, as the cafeteria was so big, of course they also had a lot of tables available. So, she quickly found a spot that was still vacant and quickly occupied it. Waiting for her friend Sayaka to arrive, she placed her lunch box on the table, then took out her flip phone from her pocket.

'... Nothing. Anyway Midori, what exactly did you expect?!'

Looking at the contact currently visible on the screen, it was someone by the name of Toru-san. With a profile picture of an ordinary-looking man who was taking a picture with his family while wearing a karate gi with a dojo background. He was Ryousuke Kawajima, her friend.

She was slightly expecting a new notification from him, perhaps asking how she was doing, or something else. But there didn't seem to be a single new message coming from him. 'Well, I guess this is to be expected..'

After all, why would Toru-san, who was just a friend, send such things to her? Who is she, her girlriend?

But still, since this was the first friendship she had established with a man, let alone with Toru-san. It made her forget herself a bit and expect too much.

Her face turned red at the thought. She was embarrassed for wanting so much attention from a man who had just become her friend. And she was even more embarrassed for daring to think about things like a girlriend with him.

Instantly, she quickly put her flip phone back away again. She was currently in a public place, what would others think if an ugly girl like her suddenly acted strangely. Uuu... If there was a hole, she wanted to get into it.

'Allright, Midori... Stop thinking about it'

Right now, the most important thing for her to be her usual self is to forget about him. Just think about something else, and maybe she'll come back to her old self.

That's... Proved to be very difficult. The more she wanted to forget about yesterday and their promise, the more she remembered it vividly. So, the only thing she could think of was to keep her head down. Just look at the floor, and others won't see your ugly face, she thought.

Finally, after waiting for a while, her friend arrived with the food she had ordered, Katsudon. Along with some water, she seemed to be looking forward to eating. Sayaka immediately sat down beside her, matter-of-factly said "itadakimasu", and immediately ate the food in front of her.

Seeing this, Midori smiled helplessly and also opened her lunch box. While saying, "itadakimasu", she also immediately ate her food. The homemade food tasted delicious even by her own standards, and she managed to distract herself from the events of last night by eating the delicious food in front of her.

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After the lunch break ended, the next lesson began. With some of the hard times that some of his classmates had in chemistry, he went through the lesson seriously. Despite looking like this, Ryousuke never slacked off when it came to lessons. He always tried to get the best grades he could achieve with his abilities, so when it came to lessons that required a high level of understanding to learn, he would study with more seriousness.

He will usually evaluate his learning results every day after school. While doing some homework (if any), he tries to make the lessons he learned well stored in his brain.

*deng dong deng deng!

"That's all for today. For next week, sensei wants you to form groups. The group members will be decided by me, I hope you have mastered today's lesson well by the time we meet again next week, if not... You will know by looking at your grades later. "The chemistry teacher, an old bald man who looked like a philosopher, said.

"""" fine, sensei. Thank you very much. """"

"Okay. You can go home", the bald teacher left with a quiet step. Instantly, the serious atmosphere of the class was broken and replaced with an atmosphere of after-school excitement.

"hey, are you ready to go? I can't wait to visit that famous cake shop!"

"I'm ready, let's go!"

"hey, Taro, let's go to the club room right away"

"Okay!"

"Toru-kun! Are you ready to go?"

All the students immediately went about their respective activities. Some went straight home, hung out with friends or even boyfriends, or went to the club. Ryousuke was among the latter. With Joozu calling him, he quickly cleaned up his study tools and put them into his bag. Then after that he got up and walked towards the front of the classroom where Joozu was sitting, and with her, they went towards the drama club room.

'What's today's activity? I wonder...' he thought, not knowing what they would be doing today. Last time, they as new members were told to act in a witch drama, but today, the senpai did not share any information about what they would be doing in the group chat and only told them to arrive on time.

"Joozu-san, do you know what we're going to do today?" he asked his clubmate and classmate who was currently walking beside him.

"Hmmm... I don't know. The senpai didn't tell us the plan they were going to make us do. Usually they would inform us about something like this in the group chat, right? But it seems like not today. Are they hiding something...? " Joozu replied. Also not knowing the answer, she was also curious why the senpai didn't tell them what they were going to do today.

"Maybe... But I guess we'll find out soon enough. For now we'll just have to come to the club room"

"Un."

They walked at a slightly faster pace. The drama club room was on the first floor, to the right of the school building. Walking from their class to that place took about five minutes. That was if they walked quickly. If they walked at a normal or slow pace, it might take up to ten minutes.

When the two of them were close to their destination, Ryousuke was distracted by something. Incidentally, he was feeling rather thirsty. And in the corridor of the building, next to the cleaning staff's room, a vending machine was seen.

"ah, wait a moment Joozu-san. I'll buy a drink for a while, wait for me" he said.

"kayy~"

He walked towards the vending machine to buy a chocolate-flavored milk drink and inserted a coin. pressing the button, soon the chocolate milk fell down and was ready to be picked up. Only, it seemed like he had enough luck today. Just like the last time in the park, the drink next to it, the strawberry-flavored milk, also fell down and made him get two drinks at once.

'It's okay I guess. I'll give the strawberry one to Joozu-san. '

He picked up both milk containers, then walked towards Joozu who was sitting on a bench in the corridor.

"Here, Joozu-san. For you" he handed the strawberry milk to her.

"Eh?! Is it okay Toru-kun? I can buy it from you."

"It's okay, just take it"

"Alright if you say so, thanks!" happily, Joozu took the strawberry-flavored milk packet that Ryousuke had handed over. They enjoyed their drinks together, and after finishing, disposed of the trash in a nearby garbage bag.

With that, they continued their walk towards the club room.

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Notes: Don't forget guys, always throw trash in the trash cans୧(﹒︠ᴗ﹒︡)୨