The grass was swaying in the gentle morning breeze. The school was awefully quiet as it was still pretty early.
Shiraishi fixed her skirt around it's hem and looked out at the school entrance once more before taking off towards her classroom.
She had always been the first to show up. She felt that it was her duty to be there in class if anyone needed her.
But to her shock, she caught sight of a black-haired boy leaning his head on his hand. He slightly moved his head to see who had come.
"Tanaka-kun? You're early today." Shiraishi walked into the class, feeling nervous. She had never been alone with him like that.
Tanaka put his arm down when he realised who it was. "Shiraishi-san.. Good morning. I came to school early so that I can be ready for when the classes start. Classes used to start right after I came in and that always put me off.."
Shiraishi nodded understandingly. "It always is better to be on time for everything and take things at a slow pace."
She sat down on her seat and glanced over at Tanaka who had gone back to blankly staring out the window. She admired his way of thinking, although it was a bit out of the ordinary at times.
She had forgotten the fact that she had been staring at him for 3 minutes when Tanaka snapped his head to the side, catching her red-handed. "Something wrong, Shiraishi-san?"
The flustered girl's face turned bright red and she looked away immediately. "N-N-No! Nothing like that.. I was just.. lost in space."
"His eyes really are like a void of darkness." A voice had barged into their conversation. "Can't really blame you, Shiraishi."
Shiraishi and Tanaka had looked to see who had come in. A girl with short blonde hair and sharp eyes painting the image of a rebellious delinquent stood in their visual space, with one hand on her hip.
"Shiraishi I came to tell you something.. would you spare me a minute?"
"Uh.. S-sure." Shiraishi and Echizen exited the classroom.
Echizen slammed her hand on the wall next to Shiraishi making her flinch.
A random girl walking by had seen a persuasive rebel after the nerdy goody-two-shoes making a very effective move on her.
she screamed before running away fron the scene that she was too innocent and pure to witness.
meanwhile, Echizen and Shiraishi were having a serious talk. "You like Tanaka??"
Shiraishi finally surrendered. "but how did you know?"
"Miyano had accidently spilled it to me after she got high on sugar yesterday." Echizen said. "But that's not the point! The other day when you were talking to yourself and you had said that you liked his food, you were trying to hide the fact that it was actually him that you liked weren't you?"
Shiraishi nodded, accepting an inevitable doom that was awaiting her now that Echizen finally knew. "Echizen, pleeeease don't tell anyone."
"oh you can trust me, Shiraishi.. but.." A serious look took over her face and the crease between her eyebrows wrinkled up in concern.
"but what?"
"Tanaka knows already."