(Continuation from Chapter 3: Peach!
Sorry for the late update *sob*
Enjoy(^O^)/ -Hirari)

Language of Flowers

Chapter 4: Freesia～Innocence～

I stand dazedly at the rooftop where the wind breeze softly sweeps past, and nobody else is in sight.
It's such a good day.
I relax and breathe in deeply.

Now that I think about it, it was here that I had the first conversation with Okita-kun...

Just as I had been thinking such things, I feel someone's presence from behind.

"What're you doing there?" the voice I had just been thinking about, Okita-kun.
With happiness, I try to spin around to face him...
...but before that, my body becomes immobile.
I then realise that it is because Okita-kun is embracing me from behind.

"Eh? O-Okita-kun?" I call out in shock.
Okita-kun then tightens his grip and then whispers something in my ear.

"I love you... Hina"

"!"
I shout aloud and wake up.

...Eh? Wake up?

I rub my eyes and look around at my surroundings.
What reflects into my eyes is not the view of the rooftop, but classmates who are chuckling at me.

Eh? Is this... is this just...

"...a dream?"
I quickly look at the blackboard.

Am I in class right now! Why was I dreaming...?

I become really embarrassed and I hold my cheeks.

"...Eh? Really? Is it really thatsurprising to see sensei teaching properly?" Teacher: Ginpachi-sensei asks as he stands in front of the blackboard, unusually writing proper things upon the blackboard.

"Ah, no... sorry..." I say quietly and triggers the classes burst of laughter.

"Oh, is that so?" sensei says and then turns back to the blackboard again to write something else.

That's so embarrassing... it was only a dream...

I drop my shoulders, but then suddenly panic.

D-did Okita-kun see me just then! If so, that is soooo embarrassing...! I think and cast a glance beside me.
But luckily, Okita-kun is slumping on his desk with his eyemask on.
Okita-kun has no intention of listening to class at all and boldly sleeps right through it.

"T-that's good..."
I put a hand to my thumping chest and relax a little.

...I dreamt something incredible...
Though I would be really happy if it were true...

"But that's impossible..." I say quietly to myself.
Kagura-chan turns towards me and if I cock my head in question, she starts grinning, and what she has in her hand, is a permanent marker.

"Past revenges," she says and then starts drawing things on Okita-kun's face.

"H-hey...Kagura-chan. Okita-kun will wake up!" I whisper fiercely to pull a stop to her, but it's too late.
On Okita-kun's face, it reads clearly: Sado-Baka (Sadistic idiot)

K-Kagura-chan...

As I look at Okita-kun's face in pity, Kagura-chan looks towards me.

"Marron, you write something too!" She suddenly says and tries to hands me the permanent marker.

Ehhh! Impossible! I don't have any past revenges to give!

I wave my hands in response, rejecting the marker, but Kagura-chan forcefully puts the permanent marker into my hand.

"Write! This is how you take another step forward to being an adult!"

"No, this is definitely not what an adult does!" I whisper back fiercely, but to Kagura-chan's strong push, I sadly end up thinking of what to write.

Hmm, what to write...

I hold the permanent marker tightly as I stare at Okita-kun.

Oh, I know! Let's write something that first comes to mind when I think of Okita-kun!

"Right!"

And the first word that comes to mind...

"...lo..."

'Love'...! NONONONONO!

I tighten my grip on the permanent marker.

What the hell are you thinking, Hina! There's no way you can write that!

I feel my face burn up and then I see Kagura-chan cock her head to one side.

"You blush and sigh a lot, Marron. It's as if you're a maiden in love."
My heart jumps hearing that from Kagura-chan who makes a cute face.

Kagura-chan is sometimes really sharp.
That is when I hear a voice from beside me.

"He~, 'a maiden in love'?" Taking off the eye mask, Okita-kun stares towards me, "fallen to whom?"

W-when did he wake up!

While I'm panicking inwardly, Okita-kun's eyes travel downwards to my hands.

"And what's with that marker?" he asks pointing at the permanent marker in my hands.

That's right... I was about to graffiti Okita-kun's face...

I try to hurriedly hide it but it gets taken away by Okita-kun.

"Pass it."
Just as Okita-kun had said that, Ginpachi sensei looks in our direction.

"Err, okay. Then, Kagura. Read here," the teacher says as he dully looks down at the textbook he is holding.

"Ah-, I am not home at the moment," Kagura-chan answers like an answering machine, not bothered to do as the teacher says.
And of course, she gets scolded by the teacher.
As I watch in amusement, Okita-kun gives me back the permanent marker.

"There, done."
I receive the permanent marker from the grinning Okita-kun.
Just as I wonder what he had done... Kagura-chan stands up.

"Fine, fine. I'll read it for you!" She says, and it is then that I see her back.

'IDIOT'

...is what had been written with a permanent marker and I widen my eyes in shock.

Okita-kun... you're so amazing to write this without getting noticed by her...
And more so... you found out that she had drawn on you...

That's something you can't look down on Okita-kun.

Asides that, Kagura-chan's uniform!
What should I do? Should I tell her? I think as Okita-kun smirks.
...with that face that says 'Sado-baka'.

"Actually, pass me the marker once more," Okita-kun says, and his eyes are on Toshi-kun.

Poor Toshi-kun... I think and stare in Toshi-kun's direction as well.
And then apparently, another class mate had told Kagura-chan, and she comes back with rage expressed upon her face.

"Oi you f-ckin prick, yo! Wat ditcha do to my uniform, ahn!"
Okita-kun mildly laughs at Kagura-chan whose dialect had changed.

I feel sorry but it is just too funny that I join the laugh too.

OMG what the hell is up with this ending～～～?＞＜
And plus, its real short!
I'm sorry again；；
I think I've only just got a little bit to go till the end of this story (*^▽^*)
I will be very happy if you can read this till the very end・・・(ノ◇≦。)

And Freesia means 'Innocence'.

Thank you for reading!