Chapter 2

After Yuma finished his food from his lunch box, he went to a nearby candy shop from the school and purchased some chocolate bars and cold water to cool him off from the heat of the sun and returned to the English classroom to get his backpack and filled his bottle with the cold water and went to the history classroom. 

When he gets there, he enters and sighs deeply when he sees Akamato just sitting in the back while eating the snacks from the money he had given to him because he threatened to hurt him even if they are in an open place and in people's eyes...

After 3 minutes of waiting, all the students come in, and we are just waiting for the history teacher to introduce themselves, and the class officers are in front of the classroom, especially the president, with a big paper, and she sticks it to the board to fix the seating arrangements, and she first calls Yuma and Akamato's names to sit together by each other on the second row in every subject throughout this year...

Yuma approached the president and the officers and whispered in her ear to not be heard by anyone.

"Hey Sophie, are you sure you wanted me to be seated next to Akamato...? I mean, it's okay and all, but is he the meanest boy in this classroom...!?"

Sophie looks at him with a teasing smile on her face and replies in her soft tone, not the typical tone when she is angry, or that's how he hears from the classmate that has been with her last year when she was also president.

"Oh, it's okay, Yuma. You don't have to worry about that stupid muscle guy that doesn't care if shit happens, and you can either notify me or the officers since we are all sitting nearby you, so you don't worry about that, Yuma."

Yuma just sighs and nods his head slowly, getting his bag and going to where Akamoto is sitting and putting his bag down and sitting down while trying to ignore Akamoto as best as he can so he doesn't get in trouble with him...

The history teacher came to the classroom with a long sheet of paper and asked the student close to her desk for a tape, and she taped the paper to the board and told the classroom to get their history notebook to write this to make their lessons easy to go through in the next day.

Yuma pulls out his notebook, and Akamato glances at Yuma's history notebook and notices it has many cute animal stickers, and he laughs a bit in a mocking tone. 

"What are you, 3rd grade!? Why in the world does a 12th grader have cute animal stickers on their notebook? You are truly a nerd... pathetic..."

Yuma's cheeks immediately reddened, not because he is blushing when angry at Akamato and wants to punch his stupid face out of his freaking head...

Akamato is in his pants pocket and pulls out a pink strawberry-flavored bubble gum and begins blowing a small pink bubble while looking at the paper on the board, at least trying to learn something from it to not get a complete 0 on exams.

Yuma suddenly taps his shoulder, and at him, clearly annoyed by Yuma's sudden tapping on his shoulder, he asks, not calming but not loud enough to get him in trouble with the teacher,

"What the fuck do you want, Yuma?!"

Yuma's face suddenly gets serious, but his fingers are pointing at the pink strawberry-flavored bubble gum, and Akamato almost bursts out laughing but holds it on his chest.

"Why do you think that I will give you even half of this bubble gum? I will give you an answer now... hell nah, of course I wouldn't, for a nerd you are stupid..."

Yuma quickly replies in a quiet tone too, so as not to get caught talking to someone while the teacher is talking in front of the class.

"Oh come on... just one bubble gum, you only muscle idiot..."

Akamato groaned and picked up one of the pink strawberry-flavored bubblegums and gave it to him in a mean way, and it hit Yuma's glasses, making him laugh a bit.

Yuma replied in his usual tone.

"Thank you. You are not that mean as I thought you would be, hehe..."

"Don't be comfortable with someone like me...remember that and even write that to make you remember this shit..."

Timeskip to the end of the first day of school, and Yuma goes to the locker and opens it with a tiny key and begins putting his books and notebooks to not make his bag lighter to carry when he is done doing that he closes his locker and locks it and sees Akamato just sitting and laughing with his friends in the distance and speaks to himself while blushing a bit.

"Akamoto Kunorashi, huh... you are an interesting guy and a rude one too... and actually kind of a cute one, too."

Suddenly a girl taps his shoulder, and Yuma looks back to see her classmate named Natalie, and he is confused because she just taps his shoulder and asks her

"Oh, it's you, Natalie. What's up? Do you need something from me, or do you want to talk about something?"

Natalie giggles and punches Yuma's shoulder gently, not enough to hurt him, and replies in a teasing tone while staring into his eyes.

"No, silly, I know that you are looking at Akamato. Do you have feelings for him already? If you have one, then what part makes him attractive to you, Yuma? Hmm?"

Yuma blush deeply and shakes his mind he keeps saying no in a quiet tone and Natalie just watch him and then Yuma respond in a flustered tone

"I don't have any feelings for a guy who doesn't even care for his future... just looking at his friend group, that's all...!!"

Natalie just laughed and giggled and began walking away, but she stopped in her tracks and looked at him.

"If you have even a bit... just be careful with Akamoto... and you seemed cool and a kind guy. Wanna be friends, Yuma Kagane?"

Yuma nods, and Natalie is far from him, and he is glad to make a friend on his very first day in an American school...but there is a fear in his heart about the words Natalie says about Akamato, but he shrugs it off and goes outside the gate and goes to a milk tea shop nearby to get some cookies and two milk teas for his mother.

All of a sudden, the worst person he didn't want to see us, Akamato, besides him, while looking up the options of flavors and sizes of cups, small to large 

He doesn't mind him and orders two medium-sized milk teas, and Akamato bumps his shoulder for him to get his attention, and Yuma looks at him with an annoyed expression.

"WHAT do you want now...! Don't tell me you will get a milk tea and make me pay for it...!?"

Akamato smirks when he sees how annoyed Yuma is with him and points his finger at the mango flavor and at the medium-sized cup. 

"Yeah, you have complaints!? I lose to a coin flip with my stupid friends, so you will pay for my milk tea since I gave you one strawberry-flavored bubble gum. Remember that, nerd?!"

"But that is less than a dollar, and the medium-sized cup is worth—oh darn, never mind... just a medium one...?"

Akamato nods and sits at the table and just waits for the milk tea to be done, and Yuma sits at the same table because all of the tables are full. He pulls out his phone and texts his parents he is getting milk tea so they don't have to worry about him being in danger since there are many crazy people out there. 

Moments later...

The milk tea is finally done, and Yuma puts the two on the plastic and gets two straws, and Akamato gets his and pops the seal open and begins drinking. Yuma sighs deeply and pays on the counter and leaves the milk tea shop and goes straight to the road where he and his family are living, and Akamato is following him and turns left in the direction of their house.

At late at night...

While Yuma is just scrolling on his phone, trying to get sleepy fast, and while thinking deeply, he remembers what Natalie says to him: "If you have even a bit... just be careful with Akamoto..." He feels a little bit of fear in his heart because of her advice, but he doesn't mind her saying that, but now... he is kind of curious why Natalie would say something like that...