Chapter 4

All of their classes have already ended. Kumiko met Shizuka at a corridor.

"Hey. How's the day?" Kumiko asked Shizuka.

"Well, it's fine. My class was cool, you know. My classmates were fun to be with. The guys were all handsome! Oh my God. Especially my seatmate, Hirazawa! He's such a bishounen, Kumiko! I love him! How about you? How's 3-D?"

Kumiko let out a deep breath. "I can't believe that the students there were like... monkeys." she answered.

"Monkeys?"

"Yes. Monkeys. They were such rude students."

"Rude?"

"Yah. Really. They were such rude, disrespectful students, Shizuka. I'm so lucky to be there." Kumiko said, in a sarcastic manner.

"Oh. I'm sure you'll get along with them. This is just the first day." Shizuka said to Kumiko.

"But –" even before Kumiko could finish what she was saying, someone interrupted her.

"Well, well, well. Look, guys. Our classmate is here!" a purple headed guy that was a class 3-D student told his friends.

Every one of them looked at her. The group was composed of four guys. The one who talked was a purple headed one. With him was a blondie. The other one was wearing a cap, and the last one was a big, fat guy.

"What do you want?" Kumiko asked them calmly.

"You know what we want from you?" The blondie asked her sheepishly.

"We want ya outta our class!" the fat guy said.

"Is that all?" Kumiko asked them. "What else do you want?"

None of them answered her. Instead, they greeted a guy that was walking to their direction.

"Shin!" the one with the cap called him.

The guy was the red-haired one that bumped Kumiko upon their arrival at Shirokin and he was also the guy who threw a paper at her.

"Shin… so that's his name, eh?" Kumiko asked herself.

"What are you doing here?" he asked them.

"Well, we're just making friends with them." The purple-headed guy replied.

Shizuka was afraid of them but with Kumiko, they were just nothing. Bullies that was not scary at all.

Shin looked at Kumiko. Then at his classmates.

"C'mon. Let's go." He told them.

"See ya tomorrow pigtailed girl!" the one with the cap said.

A couple of weeks have passed. Kumiko already knew all her classmates. She already knew the names of Shin's friends who first bullied her. The purple-haired guy was Uchiyama, the one with the cap was Noda, the blondie was Minami and the fat one was Kuma. She still hasn't gotten along with them though.

In their history class one afternoon, as usual, all of the guys were fooling around until the teacher came inside.

"Konnichiwa minna!" the teacher, Mr. Takahashi said.

Since Mr. Takahashi was a strict professor, they hurriedly went to their seats and greeted him in a dull way.

"Konnichiwa Mr. Takahashi." Everyone said.

"So today, I will discuss to you your project for the first quarter."

Everyone moaned.

"Project? What the?" Somebody muttered.

"So here it goes. First, I want you to get a pair."

Everyone looked for a pair. Because Kumiko wasn't close to anyone, she just waited if there was someone who doesn't have a pair yet.

Mr. Takahashi asked "Does every one of you have a pair now?"

Kumiko raised her hand. "I don't have a pair yet, sensei."

"Sawada, pair up with Kumiko." The teacher said to Shin.

Shin shrugged and went to sit beside Kumiko.

The teacher continued to speak. "You must compose a song regarding of what you have learned so far. Of course, when I say a song, it must be complete with lyrics, and sound. Obviously."

He paused for a while and continued. "I will give you three weeks for this project."

Everyone moaned for the second time.

"Three weeks are enough, students. You ought not to complain."

"But sir, we have a lot of things to do!" a student said.

"No excuses, Kato."

Mr. Takahashi paused again then he cleared his throat.

"As I've said, I will give you three weeks to do that. No excuses. Now, let us continue our lesson. Where did we stop last time?"

"With Shin as a pair, I don't know how we can manage to do this project?" Kumiko said to herself and sighed.

On their dismissal, Kumiko saw Shin and his pals walking.

"I must do this. It's now or never." She told herself. "Shin!" she called.

Shin and his friends stopped and looked at her.

"What?" Shin asked.

"When are we gonna do our project?"

"Can't you do it alone?" Minami asked her.

"It's a pair work! We should both do it."

Shin's friends laughed at her.

"On Saturday. Around 10 am. We do it at the canteen benches." Shin told her.

His pals were kind of shocked. They thought Shin would just tell her to do it alone but he did not.

"It's a deal." Kumiko said to him.

"Or rather, 'it's a date'" Uchi said, teasing and they all laughed hard.

Kumiko ignored them and just walked away.

Saturday came. It was already 10 when Kumiko arrived at the canteen benches but Shin was not there.

"Is he going to come?" she asked herself then sat on a bench, and waited.

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