3.
He pretended that he hadn't noticed her watching them while they were sitting in the grass together the next day. He was starting to think it was less about the noise and more about… something else. Maybe she knew Nagisa? They were in the same year. Or maybe she had a crush on Haruka? Since she was a first year she probably wasn't familiar with his personality, which normally convinced most people to give up.
He didn't want to get too caught up in wondering about it. She wasn't doing anything bad, after all. Besides, what had happened in the swim club the night before was taking up most of his thoughts; he wasn't at all surprised that they were scolded for trespassing, though he wasn't sure how the school had found out.
He felt bad, though it was more because of the discovery of how much Rin had changed. Haruka had decided to put the events behind him, but Makoto and Nagisa were persistent. He had a feeling that persistence was what had convinced Haruka to leave school early, but it gave him and Nagisa the opportunity to snoop around all the lockers for Rin's name.
It was a little painful to bend so low, and he was starting to feel like it was for nothing. Judging from Nagisa's muttering, he hadn't found anything either.
Maybe I was being a little too optimistic when I suggested this. Ah, here..! Or, maybe not.
"Matsuoka Gou?" For some reason, all he could think of was a small girl in a dress.
The girl on the roof…