Junior high

Hello, my name is Daiki Atahari. I'm currently 14 years old and I'm still in junior high. Today is the first day of school and I'm hoping I won't embarrass myself again.

As I entered the school gate, I could see the cherry blossoms falling. "How pretty." I thought to myself, but as I was lost in the beauty of the falling cherry blossom, I heard someone calling me from behind. I turned around and that's when I saw her.

"Hey Daiki, are you excited for our junior high year?"

"N-Not really, it's just the same as usual."

"Really I'm so excited that we get to be classmates this year too!"

If you're wondering who this is and why she's talking to me, this is my childhood friend Kumi Suki who studies in the same class as me in class 1-D this year. She's very popular among the boys and very liked among the girls.

"Oh, it's almost time let's go to class!"

"Hey! Wait up"

As she ran into the school building, I felt a bit anxious being left alone so I soon followed suit.

It's homeroom and the teacher are late so someone from the class volunteered to introduce themselves.

"Hello everyone, my name is Izumi Chizuru, and my hobby is that I love playing volleyball, and running, feel free to talk to me anytime!"

After everyone introduced themselves, my turn came, and I stood up.

"Hello everyone, my name is Daiki Atahari my hobby is reading and I'm looking forward to working with everyone!"

"We'll be looking forward to working with you too Atahari"

The moment I sat back down the teacher came while apologizing for being late and soon class started.

I was lucky enough to manage to get a seat behind Kumi.

After class ended Kumi ask me if I wanted to go anywhere and by coincidence we met Chizuru, she was looking anxious and was in a hurry waiting for the bus.

"Daiki, is that Chizuru?"

"I think it is, and it looks like she's in a hurry."

"Should we go say hi and ask her?"

"Nah, let's not she's probably busy, let's just go to the cafe already."

"Fine"

The truth is that I knew Chizuru even before I attended junior high, but I didn't know her name at the time. I only see her come to this bus stop at 7 pm and come back at 11 pm. At that time, I was going to the convenience store around 10:30 and was relaxing there till 11:30. When I first saw a teenage girl coming this late, I was curious and I thought it was a one-time thing, till 2 weeks later I saw her again.

So, like every normal person my curiosity grew bigger. I went back again tomorrow just to make sure and confirm. My curiosity grew bigger again and wondered what time she would leave, and so after that day I went back again and waited since 2pm then I saw her leaving at 7pm. If you're like any other person you would go up to her and ask her "hey I notice you've been taking the bus somewhere and coming home late at night. Aren't you scared that something might happen?" but for me no way I'm not going to go up to a beautiful young lady and ask her about all that it would ruin my image and would make myself look like a creep.

The next day the teacher announced that.

"There will be a quiz on next Friday so be prepared."

Everyone is studying for it and just like the popular girl she is, Kumi immediately got swarmed by people wanting to study with her. However, to everyone surprise Kumi walked to my desk and ask.

"Daiki, are you free this weekend? Can you come over to my place and tutor me? Cause if I fail this quiz my mum's going to kill me. You know how she is."

Everyone was frozen in shock, wondering why Kumi was so familiar with me. They started asking Kumi, interrogating her, what was her relationship with me.