CHAPTER 2: MIDDAY DREAM

"Inoue!!"

Someone was calling her name.

"Inoue Orihime!!"

Who?

"Wake up!!"

Wake up? But I was in class.

There was no way that she was sleeping right? Wait or maybe she was sleeping in class.

Her eyes opened widely and she stood up suddenly.

"Red beans and tomatoes!!" Some words were coming from her mouth.

"I'm afraid that I don't have those. And our school doesn't have any meal like that either." Someone was still talking next to her with a low voice.

As Orihime's vision started to clear, she saw a figure of an older man that she didn't know.

Wasn't Oichi-sensei who she had seen the one in charged the first period?

"Who are you? Where's Oichi-sensei?"

"Are you finally awake? I'm your teacher. Your homeroom teacher. And my name is not Oichi-sensei."

"Ah, I'm sorry sensei. I felt asleep." Whatever happened to Oichi-sensei would come later. First she needed to apologize for sleeping in class to this sensei.

"I think you're tired after being discharged from the hospital. Do you want to go to the infirmary?"

Being discharged from the hospital? What was this sensei talking about? Since when was she in the hospital? She only had a fever at home.

As she was going to answer, a school bell signal the end of the period rang.

"You are lucky today. I think you better go home and take a good rest." The old man sensei said and patted her shoulder. He went up to the board to pack his things and walked out of the classroom.

As Orihime finally looked clearly the surrounding around her, she realized that this was not her usual classroom. It was a classroom but not the classroom that she first came in and sat down to her seat. This classroom was bigger and seemed more different in color. She was puzzled.

Did she sleep walking to another classroom? No, she was sure that she didn't have that kind of habit. Besides, Oichi-sensei and her friends would stop her from doing that.

So then where was she really?

"Hey, Orihime." A voice from behind was calling her.

She turned her head back.

It was Tatsuki. So she didn't sleep walking into another classroom at all. Because Tatsuki was in this classroom.

"Tatsuki-chan."

"Are you sure that you got enough sleep yesterday? You were totally sleeping an entire period."

"Eh? Really?" She didn't know.

It was just time seem so short to her. Was it because of those dreams she had every night that were cutting her sleep? And she had to feel asleep during class.

And then when she looked up to Tatsuki again, she noticed something strange. Tatsuki's uniform was different. Not the same as the one she first saw before class.

"Tatsuki-chan, did you change your uniform?"

This time, it was Tatsuki that gave her an odd look as if she was talking something strange here. Tatsuki reached out her hand and grabbed Orihime's face closer to her face. After looking carefully at Orihime's eyes, Tatsuki let her face go.

"What are you talking about? This is our second year uniform."

Ah! A second year uniform!

Wait, what did she just say?

Second year?

Since when did she start going to second year?

She was sure that she hadn't taken the final exam yet. And she was sure that she was still fifteen years old. But she will be a second year in April next year.

Why did the time pass on rapidly and she didn't aware of it? It couldn't be. Right?

And then Orihime started to notice that she herself also wore the same uniform as Tatsuki.

"Right now which period we are in?" She asked Tatsuki an obvious question, just to make sure the time could not pass that much quickly as she was sleeping.

"Fifth period."

Ah, so she felt asleep from the 1st period to the 5th one on her first day of comeback school.

But why did the whole scenery change just like time was passed in 5 months? Because right now she was a second year student.

OK! One more question to Tatsuki, just to make sure that she was not dreaming here.

But as soon as she was going to voice out the question, there were hands grabbing her boobs from behind. Feel so familiar.

"Hime-chan~~~~!!"

It was Chizuru. If Chizuru were here so it meant that I was not dreaming?

"Uwah, your boobs are so sof-"

As Chizuru was going to finish her sentence, a kick from the side was thrown to her by a quick Tatsuki. And she was flying. It was just like any normal day. Yet why?

When Orihime started looking back to Chizuru who gathered her strength back to stand up and gave out a thumb to Tatsuki. She noticed that Chizuru's hair was longer than before. What was really happening here?

"Hime-chan~~~~!! Don't forget to wear yukata tonight. I'm looking forward it."

"Yukata? What for?" Chizuru's words made Orihime say her thought out loud.

This time, both Chizuru and Tatsuki were looking at her like something incredulous. Chizuru quickly grabbed Orihime's head to her breast like she was comforting her,

"Hime-chan~~~!! Are you still talking in your sleep? How cute ~~~!!"

At that time, Orihime still didn't understand the situation and also Chizuru's action.

"You saw Orihime sleeping, yet you didn't wake her up." Tatsuki made a sigh and a comment.

"Because ~~~~ Hime-chan's sleeping face was so~~~ sexy~~~!!" Chizuru said with her joyful voice.

OK. She had to ask them or she won't get anything out of this strangeness.

"Ano… Tatsuki-chan, Chizuru-chan, what's the date today?"

"Don't tell me that you had forgotten? You are the one who look forward it most." Chizuru said. Her voice sounded higher pitch than before.

"Orihime. It's Tanabata today." Tastuki said.

"Tanabata? Tanabata as in July 7th?" Orihime asked again to be sure the date.

"Yes. Yesterday it was you who told everyone to prepare. Did you forget?"

No, yesterday, she was sure that she had been at home. And she was sure that today was December 7th, because she checked the calendar before she went to school.

If what Tatsuki said were true, then it seemed that she was in the future of 7 months later, of this day. How could thing like that happen?

"We got lucky because today is Saturday. So we can get out of school early." Chizuru said with her enthusiasm.

"Yeah, the boys skipped school today, just to prepare for the festival in the town."

"I think they are gonna show up in the festival soon."

"The boys?" Orihime asked in curiosity. She still hadn't quite accepted the time travel idea.

"Ichigo, Ishida, Chad, Mizuiro and Keigo went to the festival for the volunteers." Chizuru answered.

"They are more like getting punishment by volunteering." Tatsuki corrected.

"Are they still in the same class as us?"

"Yes, it's destiny for you and me to be in the same class, Hime-chan~~"

Chizuru clapped her hand together and spin around crazily that Tastuki had to make a chop to her head.

"You get the question wrong."

"But since the day Orihime got herself a boyfriend, I was so lonely. Nobody play with me." Chizuru whined.

Boyfriend? Me? What did the future me do during 7 months? By the way who was he? Was it okay to ask?

Asking my friend about who my boyfriend was seemed odd in this situation.

"Didn't you pair up with Keigo? Go and play with him."

"You don't understand girl's dream, Tatsuki. Girl wants to play with girls. Boys are just our mascot."

"I'm a girl. Why do I have to understand that?"

"Well, maybe Tatsuki has a good boyfriend."

"Tatsuki has a boyfriend?" Okay! Orihime knew it was strange for her to have a boyfriend, but it was stranger for Tatsuki too. She couldn't be help but keep asking the question.

"Hime-chan~~, you knew the guy. They have the same kanji "dragon" in their name."

"Dragon… It can't be…I…Ishi…Ishida-kun?" Orihime tried to cover her mouth for not too much surprised. She didn't know they were like that in the future. She still thought that Ishida had a crush on Rukia.

Tatsuki looked like she was blushing and she nodded. Orihime had never seen Tatsuki in that face before.

Maybe the relationship between Tatsuki-chan and Ishida-kun really worked out. Tatsuki in this future liked Ishida, yet 7 months ago, Orihime thought that Tatsuki didn't even give any look to him. Orihime wondered what was changed between them.

While her thought ran wild, she jointed back to the reality. She was stuck in here without any knowledge and memory about what she did in 7 months of the future. And she needed to go back to the past, go back to her 1-3 classroom before everybody thought that she was crazy in the future. But how?

Suddenly the bell of the next period rang and Orihime was startled.

"Ah, class is gonna start. I have to go to my next class. So bye you girls. See you at 7 tonight."

"Why does Chizuru go to another class?"

"She has a free-choice class in the 6th period. Something involves art."

"Free-choice class?"

"In our second year, we will freely choose a class to study to get the extra credit. Mine is home maintenance. And if I remember your is home economics right?"

Home economics? That sounded like something that I would choose in the future. I liked to cook after all.

"Ah, yeah, te heh…" Orihime made a cute gesture.

While she returned to her seat, she tried to think about her current situation while listened to the future lesson at the same time.

She didn't understand much about what sensei said in the class despite she always had good grade in her year.

Sensei's words somehow became series of codes and lullabies that made her eyelids heavier and heavier. By the time she knew, she already felt asleep on the desk.


To be continued...