A week in

*It's been a week huh? A week since I have been teaching here. I was starting to get used to it.

"Morning Sensei!" She particularly sang to me.

"Morning Chi-chan." I wasn't going to call her darling, but she was happy with Chi-chan. Continuing my walk, I spotted her; just like my eyes always seemed to scan my surroundings for her.

"Morning Mogami-san." I greeted the girl that was pointedly avoiding me.

"Morning." I replied. I took a step to leave but he stopped me.

"And what are those?" I asked her. She was carrying some rather old English CDs.

"None of your bidness." I replied in English, embarrassed from my slip up. It's the CDs! I have been listening nonstop to them. I blamed the voice that was teaching me basic english while he chuckled.

"Don't you mean business?" I amusedly asked her. The way she said it was too cute.

"Isn't that what I had said?" I was annoyed because I was embarrassed in front of this man.

"Technically no, the pronunciation is off. I don't remember there ever being a 'd' in business." I corrected her as I chuckled some more, glad that I could finally to talk her outside of the classroom.

"Well, I guess you are not doing your job right, sensei." My embarrassment caused my rude words to spill.

* And with that, she left. Oh, this girl. She always seemed to somehow manage to get an insult whenever I would try to start a conversation. She's very special. I smiled to myself as I made my way to class.


She wasn't sure why she easily snapped or insulted him but she felt a little guilty. Ever since he started teaching, she noticed that he wasn't flirting or sexually harassing her or any of the female students that followed him, but she just couldn't find herself being nice or at least pleasant towards him.

~ I should apologise the next time I see him. Turning a corner, I bumped into the very man I was thinking of.

"Watch where you are going?" I bet him to the punch line before he had a chance to say it.

"The same could be said to you too." I echoed her words from our first meeting.

"If I didn't know any better, I would say you are stalking me, sensei." I accused him.

"Out of school I am no longer sensei, and as you can see, I was out for a jog." I explained myself, arms out open and displaying my grey sweatpants.

"At this hour?" Who jogged at 10 at night?

"And what are you doing out at this hour?" I may say and act foolish sometimes, but I knew it wasn't safe for a girl out on her own at this time.

"None of your business Tsuruga-san." I said, making a point that right now he wasn't my teacher; therefore, had no relations with me. Passing him by, I continued my short walk to the convenient store.

"Since we are not in school, feel free to call me Ren, Kyoko-chan." I said to her as I followed her inside the convenient store. She grabbed a box of instant noodles and some fresh ingredients.

"And why are you still following me, Tsuruga-san?" I asked. Moving along, I contemplated about what to make for lunch on Monday.

"Just like you, I'm also here to buy..." I grabbed something from the right shelfs. "This." I said.

"That explains the mood swings." I stated.

"What?" Looking down, I was holding onto pads. "Man do not get peri-"

"Don't say it!" I blushed. This is not the kind of topic I should be having with him of all people.

"What, it's just per-." She punched me in the rib cage.

"You baka, stop following me!" I ran to the counter and paid for my things.

"It's not what it looks like." I said to the cashier, as he had looked worriedly watching her run out like that.

"HAHAH, you messed up." He had said.

"What?"

"Girls don't like to talk about those stuff."

"Huh?"

"You were trying to be buy her pads; since she was too embarrassed to get them herself...weren't you?"

"..."

"You do realise, it's that time of the month for the little lady...don't you?"

"..."

"AHAHAH, I have five sisters; three older and two younger, noticing things like that has became natural. You usually tell from how they walk and what they wear." He told me. Heading back to the isles, I bought three packs of pads; one labelled light, another medium and the last said heavy.

"I will take these." I added a bottle of water to lessen the embarrassment from my purchases.

"Better run after her, it's dangerous leaving her alone at this hour."


His next actions can be describe like a scene from a movie. He had looked left and right before running after her. She refused to look at him or stop at his calls as she also ran, but that only increased his speed. Getting to her apartment door before she had a chance to enter, he had trapped her by the wall.

"Kyoko!" I heavily breathed. She may have short legs but she could run circles around me.

"Kyaa!" I screamed as his hands caged me in and his breath tickled my neck. TOO DAMN CLOSE!

"Kyoko-chan." I quietly and lovingly whispered. She froze and I took that moment to place the pads in her plastic bag. "Goodnight, Kyoko-chan." I kissed her on the cheek.

"..." This time, I aimed correctly as I sent him to the floor. Opening the door, I ran inside and slammed the door shut before locking it.

He laid there, hoping he still had the chance to have children. He was so caught up in the moment, that he never saw her kick coming.

With a pounding heart, she sat by the door. She occasionally looked through the peephole to observe his progress. OMG, what did she do? What if he could never have kids now because of her? The guilt was eating her up, she was about to open the door and apologise, when he slowly got up and limbed his way home.

Lucky for him, he only lived three blocks away from her. Lucky for him, he had two days to heal and make sure everything was all right down there.

Unlike in the movies, a guy buying pads for the girl would have been seen as cute by the girl, but for this couple, she could have blown a fuse and that was why he gave her his purchase in secret.


"EEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHH?" She had finally opened her plastic bag.