Of Truth and Denials
Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (Izumi Tsubaki)
MunonaKomusume || November 2, 2014

"You may believe that it was better left unsaid, but secrecy can never beat the truth that was said."

"Leave me alone Seo-senpai." Wakamatsu said, doing his best to avoid the girl's gaze; proceeding to follow the basketball captain's orders. They were having their club activities, and again; Seo Yuzuki was asked to assist their club.

"But Waka…" Seo about to complain, but Wakamatsu stopped listening.

Wakamatsu cannot deny the irritation he was feeling towards Seo-senpai. She, the cause of his insomnia was becoming more irritating than usual. She started to exert more force when slamming her body into his when playing basketball. She threw more shots at him. She started to attack him even outside club activities. And her invitations of having dinner together are becoming more frequent.

That's why every time he gets home, Wakamatsu will immediately plug his mp3 player into a speaker, playing his Goddess; Lorelei's songs louder compared to the usual.

How thankful he was for Lorelei; without her, he will probably sick, sick enough to skip school or the basketball club. His goddess was really a gift from heaven, the only miracle that happened in his life.

In exchange of Lorelei's efforts in comforting him in times of distress (which was almost everyday) he started to avoid the root of his sorrow, Seo-senpai herself, as if helping his goddess in making himself feel better.

Now, he will gladly dodge the Seo every time she was going to perform her infamous 'body slam' in their game. Now he will be attentive enough to dodge flying cannon-like ball shots from Seo. Now, he always stayed in places that Seo will never set foot on or at least will not be allowed to enter. And now he rudely (at least the most rude method that he can think of, which is uttering unbelievable excuses) declined her offers, telling her his made-up appointments during the day.

Of course this didn't went unnoticed by his senpai, at first Seo Yuzuki thought that all of these were nothing but mere coincidence or maybe his beloved kouhai was just too shy. But no, when his avoidance was happening frequently, and when his reasons were becoming more ridiculous as time passes by; she just realized that he was indeed, avoiding her.

And she can't let that happen after all, she can never find a person who was fun to tease like Wakamatsu.

No one can level or beat the happiness Wakamatsu gave her.

"Everyone, listen up!" the captain shouted. "The summer tournament is coming, and as a preparation, we will be having more intense practice than usual. Take care of yourself everyone! Even the slightest injury may affect your game! Okay, club dismissed!" The captain announced. "Ahh, Wakamatsu, you're in charge of cleaning the clubroom."

"Hai…" Wakamatsu answered, unenthusiastically, what happened to Waka's usual happy self?

Seo followed Wakamatsu at the small room where the equipments were placed. Wakamatsu continued to ignore her, acting like she didn't even exist.

"Waka, why are you avoiding me? Are you experiencing something that teenage boys feel because of puberty?" Seo asked, still unaware how tackless her question sounded.

Wakamatsu sighed, how can she act so nonchalant when asking a question like that? Didn't she have some decency or something? Her assumption wasn't even near enough!

"Stop it senpai." Wakamatsu said "You're assumptions aren't even near enough. It's either you'll leave me alone, you'll help me clean the gymnasium."

"Just admit it, you just missed spending time with me…" Seo teased, her usual crazy look designing her face while she helped her kouhai clean.

Wakamatsu felt one of his vein ticked, he thought "Far from it." But he chose not to comment.

Silence embraced the two of them, the usual clattering of the basket ball equipments were the only sounds heard. Out of habit Seo started humming one of her songs, and her humming gets louder and louder.

Suddenly, Wakamatsu had the sudden urge to sit and sleep in this very room. Was his Lorelei singing? Did he leave his mp3 on again? When he was about to turn his music player off, he was shock to see the device's battery dead; it wasn't turned-on, and his beloved goddess's voice wasn't coming from it.

He slowly turned his head sideways to the other living entity who was with him…

As he turned and saw his senpai singing, his image of her changed, she wasn't the annoying, obnoxious senpai, and he saw her true self.

Lorelei; a witch who has a golden singing voice who lures sailors to their death.

"L-lorelei…" Wakamatsu called, and unfortunately, his senpai absent mindedly turned her head and answered.

"Yes?"