Chapter 2:
I woke up the next morning remembering the promise I made to my dad.
"I need to try and be nice to Yukimura…" I said brushing my hair out.
I quickly got dressed and raced downstairs to find my dad
"Pandora you're up early"
"Yea, I'm off to school now"
"If you wait five minutes I'll take you"
"Thanks but no thanks; I said I would walk with um… Kitaki!" I made up quickly trying to hide my true intentions
"Ok have fun"
I walked out the door and quickly walked out of the gate.
The real reason I wanted to go early was Yukimura. I knew he always went to school extra early to practice for an hour or so, I thought this was my best bet. I ran all the way to the school and walked over to the pitch where Yukimura was practising on his own. I took a deep breath and began to walk over to him
"Y-Yukimura ohayo!" I said walking over
He took a glace in my direction before completely ignoring me but then looked back like he hadn't quite realised someone was there.
"P-Pandora? W-What are you doing here?!" he said shocked
"I..um..wanted to practise with you?" I said
"Me? You want to practise with me?" he said holding the ball still
"Y-Yea…"
"…No"
"Ehh what do you mean no!"
"I mean no wasn't it clear?"
"I-I-You know what I mean!"
"Hmph why would I want to train with you, you would just drag me down" he said continuing.
"Jeez your so stubborn" I said quietly so he couldn't hear "Let me think…"
I thought about different ways to let Yukimura let me practise with him but one stood out. It was a 50/50 chance but I was willing to take it.
"Hey Yukimura-kun!"
"What?!" He said grumpily turning round but before he realised what was going on I quickly snatched the ball from him. "Hey give it back!"
"Hmmm…no! Hehe come try and get it off me!" I said teasing him
"I'm not doing it!"
"Why? Because you know you can't get it?"
"N-No I could get it easily!"
"Prove it!"
"Fine!" He said charging towards me but I swiftly dodged him.
"Hehe come on!" I taunted him
He kept on charging at me but it was no use, he just couldn't get his ball back.
"Yukimura what's wrong? You're not normally this bad" I said to him
"N-Nothings wrong! I'm just a bit tired!"
"Come on you're not going to get the ball back like that!"
"Aghhhhh!" He said charging once again but looking closely at his movements.
I found it. He was hesitating, only for a moment but that was letting him down. Usually he would charge straight into it but no…
"You're hesitating!" I said
"W-What?!"
"You're stopping yourself from getting the ball!"
"I-I don't know what yo-"
"Stop acting stupid!" I shouted louder than I thought.
He looked at me for a moment confused before getting back up looking more serious.
"…fine…" He said charging at me again but this time was different.
His movements were a lot quicker and we clashed for a lot longer before I slipped up and he stole the ball.
"Told you I could get it!" He smirked
"Hehe yep you did"
We both smiled before going silent
"…you were right" He said
"What?"
"I was hesitating…"
"Well why?"
"I don't know, I just couldn't go full on…" He said looking down
"You not usually like this; you usually go head on trying to tackle me to the ground!" I said trying to cheer him up.
"Heh…" He said putting on a smile.
"Oy Yukimura what are you doing with her?!" Shouted a voice
I looked up to find a group of mean looking boys heading our way.
"Oh no…" Said Yukimura tightening his fists.
"Well, oh don't tell me your friends with the midget?" said the leader
"Hey!" I said protesting
"No I'm not her friend! I hate her! She came over to me just to be annoying!" Yukimura said storming off.
"Haha that's what we thought!" They said before also walking off.
I was left standing there in the snow staring at the ground.
"He still hates me…" I said
It hurt. I knew he hated me but hearing it then really hurt. I could feel the rejection more than ever and wanted to cry.
"W-Well I hate him too! It was stupid of me to try and be friends with him! Urhhh!" I said running off to find a quiet corner.
I found an abandoned corner where I began kicking the wall to take out my anger.
"Baka!" I shouted at myself hitting my head agenised the wall.
"I knew it was a stupid idea! How could we ever be friends?!"
"What was a stupid idea?" I heard a voice say.
I turned round to find a girl with long blonde hair and red eyes wearing a long brown coat, smiling.
"N-Nothing…" I said looking away
"You can tell me, I want to help. My name is Harmonia" She said holding a hand out
"…Pandora…" I said shaking it.
"Now why were you shouting?" She asked me
"…There's this boy…we hate each other, always have but I got asked to try and be friends with him and I thought it was working until some more boys came over and he said that he hated me…" I said looking down "It hurt…"
"Ahh" She said leaning agenised the wall with me. "I think you should try again"
"W-Wha? Why?!"
"I have a friend a bit like you. She met a boy when she was little and they became good friends… But one day he stopped seeing her…She got really upset and thought he hated her and she began to hate him too. But then seven years later he came back! She was really angry but really happy too…"
"And you think your friend is like me?"
"I think you have this thought in your head that you really do hate him but truly you don't and want to be friends with him" She said smiling again.
"Maybe…But what if I really do hate him?"
"Hate is a strong word…I don't think you can hate people just like that" she said before looking at her phone "I need to go, I was here for longer then I should have been, see you around Pandora!" She said and ran off.