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Confessions
Himeko will not hear about this. If she would she would probably kick me on my shins and be done with it. There are also a lot of dark prospects awaiting me, if ever the truth gets out. She could hang me in a tree and be done with it. She could chop my body into pieces and be done with it. She could skin me alive and be done with it. Maybe she could even burn me, cook me, make me into a lollipop, throw me from the peak of Mount Everest-and yes be done with it.
This should not have happened. If Himeko had just been careful enough not to show me her soft sides, if she had been careful enough not to remind me that she's a girl and she's my friend, the situation would be much less awkward. If she was sensible enough not to tell me about her unrequited love then I could not have the chance to hijack all her plans—her plans of confession, yes, to the person she said never paid attention to romance much less the possibility of falling in love with her.
You see, this story happened two days ago, when Himeko lost her Pelorin,
***Monday***
Himeko lost Pelorin, that hideous doll which came from getting a winning Pelollipop wrapper. Himeko was frantic. She never stopped looking here, there, under, above, on and in anything and anyplace she could look Pelorin for.
Switch and I do not have single idea as to where she could have left it. I was not entirely enthusiastic about finding the doll, see, I was hungry, I haven't ate my lunch that day, and that doll's worthless to me. It's not like she could solve my ongoing problems. Problems, you ask, yes I have problem, see the very owner of this cursed doll is my problem, she's a very harsh girl, a tough cookie, yet here I am thinking about some moments we shared, and the question that have long lingered in my mind ever since that wretched school trip. "What do you think of Himeko?"
"WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU DAYDREAMING ABOUT?" asked Switch's electronic voice. In my trance I have forgotten what we were discussing about. The only thing that reminded me of it was Himeko sitting in a corner, hugging her knees, looking very depressed over something—something like a doll.
Switch elbowed me and gave me a photo of the Pelorin doll. We knew, there and then, that Pelorin is a prized possession and we could not afford to lose her—the doll, not Himeko, I mean.
"THERE ARE ONLY TWO PEOPLE WHO OWN PELORIN DOLLS IN THIS SCHOOL. HIMEKO AND HIGUCHI-SAN FROM CLASS 2D"
Himeko had left her corner and listened to Switch as well.
"HIGUCHI GAVE HIS AS A GIFT TO A GIRL LAST WEEK. WE COULD CROSS OUT THE POSSIBILITY OF HIM MISTAKING HIMEKO'S AS HIS DOLL"
"That about all?"
"AND NO ONE WANTS A PELORIN EXCEPT HIMEKO AND HIGUCHI"
Although hope was not ignited, this bit of information fascinated us.
"THAT'S OUR SWITCH!" Himeko and I both said.
We left the clubroom in the hopes of finding Pelorin around the school, we searched high and low, asked all the persons we met, double checked rooms and even put up a sign on the bulletin which had the picture of a Pelorin doll.
"Now Himeko" I said to her. She looked at me with eyes devoid of their usual glee. There wasn't even the customary glare she gives me when she's annoyed. She was sad, she was another person. There was a dark aura emanating from her body. I swear she almost scared the shit out of me. "We'll find it, don't worry." Himeko gawked at me
" If switch and I can't find it by this day, we'll just open every Pelollipop and find you another winning wrapper" I flashed her a smile
"You'll do that, Bossun?" She asked
I promised to never let a friend down. I live by my rules. I just don't go breaking them.
"Of course, you're my friend"
Himeko smiled and then by the looks of it was temporarily happy but then with the length of an afterthought Himeko's face succumbed again into a frown.
"It's not really Pelorin I am this worried about"
"Not her, then what?"
Her face reddened and she found her shoes suddenly interesting. I asked her what was the matter but she completely ignored me and almost marched off without a word. I only held her back by holding her left wrist.
It was then that she decided to speak. There was something off though. Her voice was so calm, unlike the voice which can make me cry pathetic-shameless.
"A confession, there was a letter of confession inside Pelorin's secret pocket"
I didn't know why but in that exact moment my stomach had this sensation I couldn't quite figure out the cause.
"You have a person you like?" I asked her, she started flushing again and turned away when her face is almost completely red
"It's none of your business"
Somehow, those words gave me a weird feeling. Like I seriously wanted to do something like stalk the girl, find out the identity of the guy and then make him suffer, drop him from a helicopter without a parachute-something like that. But then I shook the feeling off because I'm not entirely sure if I still have my sanity intact.
With a final glare, she walked away with her nose in the air. What now? What wrong have I done?
"LET'S FIND THE DOLL" Switch suddenly said. He had this determined look on his face that I'm not quite sure of the meaning, when I asked him why he was suddenly interested he told me that he's playing cupid at the moment
"Why the hell are you paying cupid for?" confused, I observed him, watching every click of the cursor and every flick of his fingers.
"HIMEKO'S LOVELIFE IS AT STAKE" said switch.
My eyes widened.
"WE NEED TO HELP HER"