My New Friend, Tomoko

By russtheman123

Chapter 1 The Shy girl Tomoko

Have you ever even felt like you had no friends and you ever wanted some? Or have you met a socially awkward, shy, or even a scared friend? Well I have and I am very glad to meet this kind of person because basically I was just like her once only much worse. First of all, I really never made any real friends at my old school, ok I lied, a few, but I never was the social type. I was scared of even talking to my friends and I never got out much. A lot of times I had played video games, read books, and got on the computer half the time. My name is Russ Williams. I just recently transferred from my old school in Tennessee because my mother works overseas. Since my mother's occupation as an telemarketer in Japan, she had decided that I needed to move in Japan. Anyways, today was my first day at a new high school in a foreign country and I was pretty nervous, too. Luckily, it was my first day as a freshmen and everyone spoke English. Sad thing is, I had to wear a dress code related to our school. I was wearing a yellow suit and a black tie with a long sleeve white buttoned up shirt under it with yellow dress pants. The school was a lot larger than my old school and yellow as well.

"Well", I thought while I was changing my shoes "my first day in a foreign school, I hope it's a good one and I hope I get to make a new friend." My wish came true. I walked into my new homeroom, homeroom 1-10, and my seat was very close the window one desk away in the very back to the left of the room. I was wondering who I was going to sit by. A mysterious dark haired girl with green eyes, bags under her eyes, had the same outfit as me except she had a yellow skirt, carried a small lunch and her small brown backpack with her, had sat by me close to the window. I couldn't help, but to speak to her since it was 10 minutes before class.

"Hi." I said to dark haired girl. The girl then started to shake a little bit and then spoke.

"Um…., H-Hi." The girl's hand had started to shake and quiver. I started to wonder what is wrong with her. She must have been shy, so I tried to talk to her again.

"So, are you new, too?" I said.

"Well, um, n-no, not really. I mean I am a new freshmen, but, um, uhh" She then just gave a nervous laugh. I decided to offer my hand and said, "My name is Russ Williams, it is a pleasure to meet you." She tried to reach my hand which was also shaking. She then said, "M-my n-name i-is…T-Tomoko Kuroki." As we were shaking hands, I couldn't help notice that she was blushing, too.

While we were in class going over our first lesson in English, I noticed she was looking at me while I was reading our textbooks regarding the lesson. As a matter of fact, I think she was looking at me the whole entire day even on break while she was eating her lunch. The day had ended at 3:00 and I had just survived my first day in a foreign high school. I was changing my shoes at my locker when I noticed that Tomoko was next to me changing her shoes at well. Noticing that me and her are locker mates now, I could not help but to speak to her again.

"Hey, Tomoko." I said with a smile.

"O-Oh!" She jumped as she saw me "H-hi, R-Russ." She then had rushed out the doors near us as she changed her shoes again blushing in the process.

"I hope I didn't scare her." I thought "I don't want a shy girl to think of me as a loser, too."