Chapter 1
The Start
Again she is on the rooftop, sitting, her knees are on her chest and as always she is with her waterproof digital camera. She's scanning at the pictures, looking at the blue sky and back to the pictures. She's always been like this.
The door of the rooftop open and a guy with eyes that are blue as the sea meet hers. No one is looking away. Until she heard a familiar voice that is calling her name.
"U-Umi-chan? Umi-chan!" the familiar voice called her.
She stands and looks away to the guy and shifts her attention to the person who is calling her.
"G-Gou" she called. The name of the girl who called her is Gou but she wants to be called Kou because Gou is more like a guy's name. The girl runs to her and hug her. Umi return the hug too.
"Umi-chan its Kou not Gou." She corrected.
"But I used to call you Gou back then." Umi replied.
"Umi-chan!" she said.
"Ok ok" she replied with monotonous voice.
A fake coughs was heard. They look at the guys who are still standing near the door of the rooftop.
"Eh gomen, ah Umi-chan these are my friends, the boy with the blond hair is Haruki Nagisa and the boy with dirty light green hair is Tachibana Makoto, and the one with a blue eyes is Nanase Haruka." She said as she introduces the guys.
"Minna, this is Natsuki Umi, and right, her name is Umi as Sea." Umi bows as Kou introduces her.
"Dozo yoroshiku Umi-san" Makoto said.
"Can I call you Umi-chan?" Nagisa asked.
"Hai, no need for formalities." She said.
"Nee Umi-chan, why are you here by the way?" Kou asked.
"Nothing much. I actually heading down when you came." She said. "I'll go ahead now, see you around." She added and headed to the door. She passed Haru who is still observing her, but she didn't notice.
The class has ended and Haru and Makoto are now heading home. They passed the road near the sea. Haru saw Umi at the shore. With her long, silky pink hair playing beautifully with the wind.
"Is that Umi-chan?" Makoto said as he try to call her but Haru then starts to walk away so he didn't call Umi.
"Hey Haru wait up." He said following Haru.
On the other hand, Haru keeps on walking while looking at her on the corner of his eyes.
