"What?!" shiraishi was visibly terrified at what Echizen had informed her.
"Yeah, it was during lunch break yesterday. Tanaka was right there when Miyano had told me."
The restless strawberry-blonde haired girl bit her lip nervously.
'There's no way that he was paying attention to their conversation.. right?' Shiraishi thought to herself. When has he ever paid any attention to anything related to her?
"I'm not the world's greatest face reader but Tanaka did look over at us the moment the secret got out." Echizen informed her, making the poor girl fall onto the floor.
"Shiraishi-san, are you okay?" Echizen tried helping her up, worried about the hard impact her knees must have felt against the hard wooden floor.
"I'm okay, Echizen-san.. I'm really.. okay.." Shiraishi said, a dark shadow covering over her eyes.
"I don't really know much about love but I thought I should let you know about this.." Echizen told her, a sympathetic look on her face. "I hope I didn't upset you?"
"No, I'm not upset!" She assured her. "Thank you for telling me, Echizen-san."
'I could live my whole life not knowing that Tanaka knows about my feelings. How embarrassing! If this gets out to the rest of the class, my reputation is bound to go down.' Shiraishi internalised. 'And not to mention Tanaka would have a hard time too.."
More and more kids started filling up the classrooms and Echizen eventually left to go to her own classroom.
Shiraishi had a hard time going into her own classroom. She wanted to act as normal as she could, but ended looking very awkward and unnatural.
Her class was almost half-full. She glanced over at Tanaka who was spacing out.
'Wait, if Tanaka knows already.. why hasn't he mentioned anything about it to me? Well of course he wouldn't, idiot. He prefers to avoid situations like this as much as he can.'
"Shiraishi."
'But doesn't that mean that he doesn't want to aknowledge my feelings? Which means that he doesn't like me back after all..'
"Shirashi!"
'Well I guess him avoiding the subject is the best for both of us. If he doesn't bring it up, I can act like I don't know about him knowing that I like him.'
"Shiraishi!!"
"Oh, sensei, I'm sorry.. I was lost in thought."
"That's very unlike you Shiraishi, You're starting to act like Tanaka these days."
Shiraishi's heart skipped a beat at the mention of Tanaka's name. She quickly went over to her seat while the teacher took attendance.
A few minutes later, she could feel someone looking at ger. She then turned left to spot Tanaka looking at her with that blank face of his.
"A-Anything wrong, Tanaka-kun?" She asked nervously.
'Oh no, Is he gonna talk about that?'
"You know.. I heard something yesterday."
"Y-Y-Yeah?? What is it?"
"I'll talk to you about it after school. I don't think it's fair if I say it here, where there is a possibility that somebody might overhear us."
'oh no... he really heard it then..'
AN: I'm sorry for the short chapter but I've been really busy lately with my Alevels coming up this May. I'll try updating on the weekends. And thank you so much for the nice reviews on the last chapter.