Hi, guys~~! I'm so sorry for the delay for this chapter. I was occupied with classes and everything. I hope you'll forgive me. After my schedule is calmed down, I was finally able to type up the third chapter. Anyways, I hope you guys like it and enjoy :)


Chapter 3

It is 3:00 PM, the time when school is over. Some students started packing their belongings while others were talking to other students about their day and plans later. While the students are doing their own business, Keita was sleeping on his desk again. The noise of the classroom didn't bother Keita from his nap. He was in deep slumber until a classmate decided to wake him up. The classmate nudged Keita from his slumber at the shoulder. Keita didn't budge, like always, and the student decide to nudge him hard than before. Finally, Keita woke up and looked at the classmate that woke him up. It was the same classmate that woke him up during lunch.

"Mmm, what is it…?" Keita asked with drowsy eyes.

"Dude… You've been sleeping the whole day today," the classmate pointed out, "Is everything okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine… Just lack of sleep."

"If that's the case, then you should've just stayed home today instead of coming to school."

Keita had thought of doing that when he woke up that morning but he knew the reason why he decided to go to school. He had to make the decision about Rina but he couldn't say that to the classmate. Keita sat up from his desk to gather his belongings.

"It's fine. I'm here because of attendance anyways," Keita said to his classmate, "I'm heading out now, see you tomorrow."

Keita left the classroom without hearing the classmate's farewell. He headed to the shoe lockers to switch his indoor shoes with his outdoors. As he switched his shoes, he spotted someone familiar on his far left getting their shoes from the locker. He recognized the long black hair and the juice box in the girl's hand. The girl noticed someone was looking at her and turned to the direction. She noticed Keita staring at her and showed a straight face.

"Can you stop staring..? I'm starting to feel like you're more of a stalker than someone that has his heart broken now…" Anika said to Keita as she sips from her juice box.

"I-I wasn't staring!" Keita defended himself, "I just noticed you were next me, that's all!"

"Uh-huh… Creep…"

Keita heard Anika's comment and was planning to talk back to her but decided to just ignore her comment.

"Ugh… Why are you here?" Keita asked to change the subject.

"My shoe locker's here," Anika replied, "Is there a problem?"

"No, not at all!"

Keita decided to drop the conversation and leave without a farewell. He started marching toward to the school gate to go home. After reaching a certain distance away from Anika, he walked in a normal pace and put his hands in his pockets to take his time to head home. He wanted to be by himself for a little bit before he reached home. As he reached the entrance of the primary school, he noticed someone was behind him. He suddenly turned and was shocked to see who it was.

"Why the hell are you following me?!" Keita barked at the person with an angry face.

"I'm not following you, my house is just in the same direction," Anika said with a straight face as she stood beside the brick wall that surrounds the primary school, "I'm not a creep like you."

"Will you stop that already?"

Anika looked away from his comment as Keita kept yapping at her. Anika sighed and looked back at Keita with an annoying facial expression.

"Can you be a little quieter…? You're in front of the primary school and scaring the kids…" Anika said as she looked towards the school.

Keita stopped his yapping as he noticed the kids and the staffs staring at him with concern. He turned pale and apologized to them of the commotion. He looked back at Anika with an annoying face.

"This is your fault!" Keita blamed as he pointed at Anika.

"You were the one yelling in the first place…" Anika said as she plugged her ears from Keita's yelling.

"Ugh… Forget it. See you," Keita said as he starts walking home.

As Keita tried to conflict with Anika, his frustration grew. He decided to just leave it as it is and started speed walking home.

"That girl… She may have a pretty face but her personality is terrible…" Keito thought to himself as he walks away from Anika.

As Keita walked farther and farther away from Anika, mumbling about her personality, Anika sighed and leaned against the brick wall. She took out her phone from her skirt pocket to check the time that read 3:10 PM and returned it into the pocket. Anika looked up at the sky and was lost in thought.

"… Five more minutes…" Anika said softly to herself as she sees the clouds floating by.

In due time, Keita arrived at the front gate of his house. He stood there for a couple minutes and looked up at his two story house. The house was white with black outlines, including the front door, windows and the roof. The front yard of the house was filled with grass with some flower beds alongside of the gate walls. He opened the gates and walked up to the front door as he reached for his keys in his pocket.

After closing the front door, he took off his shoes as he announced that he's home. Nobody replied, meaning that he's the first to return home. He remembered that his father was on a business trip while his mother was hanging out with their neighbors. He walked up the stairs to head to his room. As soon as he reached his room, he dropped his backpack next to his desk and changed out of his school uniform into a t-shirt with jeans. He wasn't in the mood to do some homework and decided to relax a little bit. He jumped on his bed and leaned back looking at the ceiling.

As he dozed off into space, Rina's face kept on popping up in his head. He knew that it will take some time for him to completely get over Rina. He sat up on his bed to get his head straight. Will I be able to move on is what he's more concerned about. He frowned from his conflicting thoughts and decided that maybe doing some homework would keep him occupied. He sat at his desk and gathered the materials needed from his backpack. As he looked over the homework, he looked confused.

"I don't remember doing this problem before…" Keita mumbled to himself as he looked at the math problems.

After looking through his notes in past lectures, he realized that the homework was based on the lecture that was taught that day. He looked over his clock and it read 3:54 PM. He sighed deeply and looked exhausted of how much work he's going to have to do. He got started by taking out his textbook and looked though the examples and steps to solve the equations in his homework.

"This is going to be a long day…" He mumbled to himself.


So, how do you guys like it? This chapter is kinda short and a little slow (I think...). While I was typing this chapter, I was thinking about what would be Anika's problem and after thinking about it for awhile, I got it. I'll try to upload the next chapter as soon as I finish typing it. So, look forward to it :)