Authers note: hi there! I don't claim to know anything about Japanese school life and I only researched it after writing this chapter so I'm sorry that it is incredibly inaccurate - so I just sorta made up my own also in the previous chapter my description of the Samezuka School building Is not accurate I again just made it up as you don't really see much of the building in the anime. I hope you enjoy this crappy chapter!
The next morning Rei had woken up at the early hour of 6am, he struggled to find his alarm, digging around in his bed until he sought out his phone. He quickly switched off the alert with a tired yawn and then looked over to the other side of the room to see a human shaped lump in the other bed.
Rei contemplated waking Sousuke up but didn't want to risk it, his schedule could start later than Rei's after all. He slowly stood up and stretched letting out a second yawn.
Making his way to the bathroom, Rei went over his schedule in his head, he had memorised it the day before. He had Biology first which he was looking forward to, then he had his English class as he wanted to learn the language in case he wanted to travel when he was older. After that was calculus which was a shared class between the second years and first years.
He broke from his thoughts for a second as he undressed from his pyjamas and stepped into the small shower, after about two minutes of figuring out how to use it he finally got the water running.
Going back to his school schedule he then had lunch after calculus , he should probably remember to take some money for that. After lunch he had Physical Education which he remembered was swimming, he then had free period after that which meant going back to his room to study.
He was interrupted from his thinking by a loud knocking on the bathroom door.
"Oi! How long are you gonna be in there? I need to get ready" Rei jumped slightly at the noise and quickly hopped out of the shower after rinsing the soap out of his hair.
"Sorry! I'll be out in a few minutes" He hastily replied wrapping a towel round his waist. He looked around and realised he had left his uniform on his desk chair. After pulling the towel tighter around his waist to ensure its security he walked over to the bathroom door opening it quickly. He almost dropped the towel at the close proximity of his roommate who was stood a mere few inches from the door.
Sousuke smirked as Rei went to push his glasses up his nose but then realised they were not there. After a few seconds of painful silence Sousuke moved past the awkward mess that is Rei and headed into the bathroom. Rei sighed rather loudly as he moved over to his chair to pick up his uniform.
After putting it on, he glanced in the mirror not liking the way the completely white uniform looked on him, it messed with his complexion and for some reason it made him look a lot paler than before or maybe that was just the nerves that had suddenly attacked him.
It had dawned on him that he would know no one and he barely knew his way around the campus so getting lost was most likely going to happen. Rei barely had any friends at Iwatobi until Nagisa had confronted him about the swim team and even then he still had trouble talking to people.
Speaking of Nagisa a few moments later Reis phone buzzed signalling he had a text which had coincidentally been from his blonde friend, he also had one from Makoto and one from his mum.
He sat down on the bed and reached for his glasses, checking the time. It was 8:00 which meant he had time to check the messages before his classes started at 8:30, providing his journey to the Biology labs went smoothly.
Nagisa: Hey rei-chan! You better come to training on Friday I'm already missing you :((
Makoto: Good luck Rei, hope that your first day goes well! P.S Haru says tell Rin hi.
Mum: Just checking to make sure you woke up on time, don't be late for your first lesson!
Have you got money for lunch? Do I need to send more next week? What's your roommate like? Is he nice? Good luck son. Your father says good luck as well he just can't be bothered sending a text. Xx
Rei smiled at the concern of his mother's text, and replied telling her everything is fine. He then replied to Nagisa telling him that he doesn't have to worry and he will be at training and he said thanks to Makoto and lied saying he will say hi if sees Rin but being honest Rei was not planning to confront the Redhead any time soon.
He checked the time once again and sees that fifteen minutes has passed indicating that he should get going and the fact that Sousuke had gotten out of the shower five minutes ago and had already left himself.
Biology and English had gone perfectly fine, he had been given work to catch up on from the months he wasn't in the class, It wasn't much so he could probably get it done tonight after classes. Calculus he had ended up being five minutes late to the lesson due to getting lost between the English block and accidentally going to the Humanities corridor. Being late resulted in him having to have the embarrassment of interrupting the lesson and then not being able to choose his seat which meant being seated next to Nitori Aichiro, a second year like himself.
Nitori wasn't a bad person, in fact Rei thought he was one of the nicest people he had ever met, he helped him with the questions given to him in class and even offered to help him catch up after lessons in the school library because they shared free period together. Rei had accepted as he felt it was very hard to decline this meant pushing his Biology and English work to later on in the evening. He even had lunch hour and Physical Education with him, it wouldn't hurt to just stick with Nitori for the rest of the day Rei thought as they packed away to head to lunch, it's not like he was going to become friends they were just classmates, acquaintances.
The cafeteria was a lot bigger than the one at Iwatobi, although Rei didn't spend much time in the cafeteria at his old school, he brought his own Bento boxes and ate on the school roof with Nagisa, Makoto, Haru and occasionally Gou.
He had been informed by Nitori that there was three lunch slots. third years had their lunch from twelve till one and then second years were from one to two and then first years were from two to three. So Nitori had said he was glad he had someone to sit with because his friends were mostly in different years.
Lunch was just a simple Bento and he also found out that it was provided by the school so no money was needed, Rei should probably let his mum know so that she didn't need to keep giving him money. Throughout the hour Nitori and Rei made simple Smalltalk. They talked about Reis old school and his friends. He also learnt that Nitori had met him at one of the joint team meets and it was then that Rei realised the boy looked familiar. He had been asked if he was going to join Samezuka swim team to which Rei replied with no saying that he was planning to stay with Iwatobi.
After lunch they headed to their last lesson which was at the swimming pool. Rei had almost forgotten to bring his swimming stuff with him to the school if he hadn't been reminded by his mum about ten times. They had gotten changed with the rest of the second years and Rei had begun to feel a bit claustrophobic with about twenty other students in the small room which was quite warm itself. When they went out to spacious pool area he had almost sighed in relied if it wasn't for the fact that he was still quite nervous about swimming in front of so many people. Sure he had swam in front of a lot more than this when he had been at competitions but he was in the comfort of his team, this time he was on his own and Rei had to admit he still wasn't the most confident of swimmers.
A whistle made him jump as he looked around for the source. Rei's eyes widened in surprise as at the other end of the bench was two third years but they weren't any random students they were Rin and his roommate Sousuke.
Where were the teachers? Why was there third years giving out instructions.
"Rin and Sousuke take this class because Captain Mikoshiba is always busy at this time" Rei looks over to Nitori confused until he realised that he must have spoken his thoughts out loud.
A few moments later they are ordered to get into two lines and do some warm up laps around the pool.
Swimming wasn't as bad as he thought it would be, he didn't think Rin had recognised him and if he did he didn't do anything to make Rei suspect he had. He was now back at his room after being in the library for about two hours doing calculus
It was currently seven o'clock in the evening and he had been doing biology for the past hour and still hadn't finished, he also had English to do and Rei would rather he got them both out the way at the start of the week so that he could be on track with the rest of the class and not be falling behind.
A few hours later and Rei had finished at the late hour of ten. Sousuke had come back around nine and they spoke briefly about how their days had been. Rei had learnt that he wasn't that bad of a person, just that when they had first met the dark haired teen was late for a meeting with a friend so didn't have time to talk, he had apologised to Rei for pushing past him and Rei had accepted it with a smile and the two had seemed to get along quite well, Rin had been brought up by Sousuke at one point but Rei didn't let him know that he already knew he was.
Sousuke had gone to sleep about ten minutes earlier and Rei had learnt that he tended to snore which was distracting him from his work so the younger male decided that it was time he had gone to bed as well.
He quickly got changed into his pyjamas and climbed into bed and checked his phone to see if he had any messages. He had one text from Nagisa asking how his day had been. Rei didn't reply as he was just too tired so he made the decision to reply in the morning. A few moments later Rei had drifted off to a peaceful sleep and soon began snoring himself.
