Chapter 4
"It is so nice here."- said the girl happily, while walking in the vernal green fields- The flowers are beautiful! "I like this so much."- continued she said, staring at the wide horizon. Than she stopped walking, turned her head back, looking at the boy, with a beautiful smile.
"I' m so happy, so happy, yeah, at last, I have succeeded !!", thought the boy, while staring at the girl who was standing in front of him. He couldn' t move, just look at the girl, his girlfriend! His first one! He sat down in the grass when the girl looked back, than turned back and started walking towards him.
When she arrived, she lied down in the green, next to the boy, still smiling at him. They were like this for a short time, when the boy started to bend down to the girl, his lips aiming her lips, he approached slowly, gently..
At this exact time the alarm rang, so Erik had to wake up, and finish his dream about his girlfriend.
"Why now? Why exactly now? I almost, almost succeed! Dreams are always finished before the best part!"- he grumbled, for a some time.- "Well, maybe there would have been better parts in that dream later"- he said to himself and started wandering about, Katherine's other body parts, instead of her lips. This activity took a while, and he had to notice that he had to run be on time for his mornings lessons!
The lesson went by extremely slowly. Especially in Erik's wiew. He saw Katherine sitting in the lecture hall, far from him. He wanted to sit next to her, but he could just sit in the back, because of the late arrival. This way he couldn' t do anything else than continue dreaming about the girl, and he wasn' t able to concentrate on the lesson.
In the break he wanted, to meet the girl, but he couldn't do so because, when he wanted to go down to Katherine, he heard his name shouted by somebody. That somebody was nobody else than Ahmed.
"Why has it to be right now?"- grumbled Erik, while he tried to greet Ahmed nicely. It wasn' t that easy, but he succeded, that the Turkish didn' t notice anything.
- Hello, Erik! How are you? Are you tried? You didn' t notice me! I was sitting not far behind you. Wasn' t it an interesting lesson?"- he spoke so full of enthusiasm, that even Erik started to change his opinion about the class.
He had to endure Ahmed's long lecture about the importance of good lessons, and paying attention to them. First he nodded sometimes, and loudly agreed with the Turkish, but later he noticed that if he looks more or less at him, it is ok for Ahmed to continue his speech, without the chance of discovering that he isn' t paying attention. He only finished his lecture, when the break ended, so they had to return to their seats.
The other half of the lesson started like the first part. Erik wondered how to approach Katherine. While thinking about this, he remembered the waitress at the café. "I' m in Japan now, and I' m trying to get together with an European girl. I should try to get a local one. I always wanted to try a woman from the Far East! An unique beauty!" he continued wondering, and comparing the benefits of a European girl and an Asian one, but according to the situation, he has a date with Katherine, so the European girl won.
At the end of the lesson, he met the girl, and Ahmed of course, who continued his lecture about the lessons importance. When they got outside of the building, both Erik and Katherine told Ahmed that they have programs, and they have to leave as soon as possible.
Erik went home, and got ready for the big meeting. Tried to make himself look as good as possible, and he left, full of expectations, for the meeting point. He arrived quite early in front of the girls hostel, so he sat down on a bench to wait for her. The minutes went by really slowly, and he tried to calm himself down. He hadn't met with many girls before, and he never knew what to say, how to start a conversation, what to say to avoid silence.
Erik was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't notice how time was flying. When he looked it was already half past three. " It's this late? She didn' t came? Or she came, but I didn' t noticed? I don' t even know her cellphone number!" the boy was full of questions, without answers, but he had to realize that he can' t do anything else but to wait. "Girls are always late, I' m sure of this! But this much? I don' t know, I don' t know!" he started to wonder again, and waited for some more.
At almost four a clock Erik considered leaving, but then he saw a familiar face, with blond hair coming out of the dorm. "Katherine! She came!"
- Hi Erik, I' m so sorry. I made you wait for almost an hour. You waited for me, thank you so much! You, know getting ready takes some time for a girl.
"Yeah, I heard that before, but I didn' t imagine it would take this long"- thought the boy.
- Please, don' t look so down! I'm really sorry about being late, I will try to make up for it. Please!- said the girl, with a look that couldn' t be refused.
- No, no problem, just the heat, I' m ok.- replied the boy, - Let' s go and start our tour!- he added.
- Yeah! Let' s discover the whole city!- said, Katherine, full of enthusiasm.
"She looks beautiful, maybe it was worth the waiting." thought Erik, "She' s cuter than normally, can it be for me? I hope!" thought the boy, while walking the streets of Kyoto.
As they walked the streets of the city, Katherine was more and more amazed. She stared at the buildings, the people at the street, everything. Erik saw this on the girl so he felt pleased. "Yeah! It was a good idea to go with her to the city, we walk a bit more and than we can sit in a café, talk, and let' s hope for the best!"- thought Erik, than he noticed that Katherine was staring at something.
She focused on a building, but she wasn' t looking at the traditional roof, or the beautiful frontispiece of the building, but a shop- window. And what a shop! Not one, an avarage european girl would be avaited to stop. This was the manga shop, where Erik has been before.
"Wow! Maybe she is interested in managas? Let' s try to talk about it! " -Thought Erik
- Do you like these Japanese comics? – asked Erik with a bit if uncertainty in his woice
- Well, sometimes I read them, you know, there are a few good ones. -came the answer with the same doubtfulness.
- Oh! That' s cool! I like manga too! – said Erik full of enthusiasm.
- Reeally??- asked Katherine with a happy face. – At home I have only one girlfriend who likes them, all my other friends laugh at us. It' s really rude of them.
- Yes. It is.- replied the boy- At home my frinds also laugh at me for first, but later they found some mangas they like too.
- Oh, you are a lucky one, my friends won' t even try it. – said Katherine, while staring at the shop window.
- I was amazed too, when I first saw this shop. There are so many mangas we don' t even know about. It must be better to be an otaku here than at home. – explained the boy
- Yes it must be much different.- answered the girl, while she slowly started going towards the shop.
- Would you like to go in? – asked the boy
- Yes, I have to see this form the inside- replied the girl with sparkling eyes.
They went in the shop, and Katherine looked amazed. Erik thought about himself when he came here a few days ago. It has to be the same for Katherine too, this is a new experience for a real fan. When she got used to the atmosphere, Erik carefully asked her about her favourite manga and what kind of manga does she like.
The answer was not as surprising for Erik as the girl's reaction for the shop. Romance mangas, and shojo. Well, for a girl this is completely ok, and the fact that she likes mangas is still a good thing for him. Maybe this incerases my chances- finished Erik his thinking.
When he returned to the real world, he niticed a strange thing. Katherine was staring at a corner of the shop. "She can' t really hide her surprise and admiration"- thought the boy, and checked what is she staring at this time.
When he looked there he was quite surprised, that corner was full of doujinshi. "What is this?- is she interested in this kind of manga or does she hates them?"
At this point, Katherine noticed, that the boy has seen her admiration, she saw the embarrassed look on his face, and with this she started to blush, and quickly turned towards the boy.
- I- I was just amazed of these lots of hentai mangas, how can the Japanese be this perverted. Ho- How can they read this mangas?- she said, while trying to be as serious and indignant as she could, but considering her confused face and her blushing, her excuses didn' t sound too convincing.
- Ye- Yes, you are right they sure are perverted. I can' t understand either how they can buy things like those.- replied the boy, still full of embarrassment.
After some time, and a few more embarrassed, disparagement of the doujhinshi reading people, they left the shop. Back in the street they had some difficulties in restarting the lively conversation, but later they succeeded.
"She has to like doujinshi, her strafe at the doujinshi didn' t sound too convincing, but I can' t talk about this, she would never admit it, and I' d lose all my chances, so lets' s forget this for now."- finished Erik his short wondering.
- This town is soo amazing- said Katherine, full of admiration- I love this far- eastern culture, and their architecture. It ' s soo much different from home.
- I think this is the same for a Japanese coming to an old western city. They can be amazed too, and maybe some of them like it very much. By the way, where do you live in Sweden?
- Oh, I live in Stockholm, the biggest city, but still far from a metropolis, and what about you? - asked the girl
- Oh, me? I' m from Salzburg. – came the reply from Erik.
- Wow! That' s a beautiful city! High in the Alps. It goes well with your name. It' s Hochberg isn' t it? - added Katherine the question
- Well, It' s not exactly. It' s Hochbreg. It used to be Hochberg although. I know this sounds a bit weird, but it was misspelled when my grandfather's name was registered. Until now the family was too lazy to change it back. At least it is unique.- explained Erik the situation.
- That is true! – said Katherine with a smile,
- At least I have something outstanding!- added Erik with a forced smile.
- Nooooo, You mustn' t think this lowly about yourself. You are a good boy. – said the girl, with a cute smile, while patting Erik' s head.
"YEAH! She accepted my whinig so well! We have a lot of common things too! Maybe I have some chance!"- thought Erik and he went to continue his wandering in the city with Katherine.