Author's note: Once again I would like to thanks for the views and also the the amazing person who even left me a review :) This chapter is a little slow but the next chapter will be alot more eventful than this one! Thanks for reading!
The next day is here, and Miharu just woke up, her alarm on her phone is blaring a tune. She just lays there for a second and reaches over to her desk where her phone is to turn of the alarm. It's 6:15am, School starts at 7:45. Miharu took a shower last night before bed so she only has to toss on her uniform and get her homework and books ready. She finally gets up from bed, grabs her uniform from the closet and small make up bad from her desk. She steps out her room, and she can smell a nice aroma in the air.
Auntie must have a day off work today, she only cooks when she's got a free day.
Miharu doesn't pay attention to it, but her hunger is starting to sit in. She goes to the bathroom and sets her clothes down on the hamper. She looks a little irritated at how many tangles her hair has, so she grabs a brush on the sink and starts brushing her hair. She was wondering if she should style her hair today, she woke up earlier then usual so she could cook breakfast, but her auntie cooked instead. She decided she might aswell style her hair since she has the time. Miharu strips off her pajamas, and grabs for her uniform shirt and skirt. Miharu wasn't used to button-up shirts, she has a hard time picking out the sizing for her shirt because of bust. She didn't have a huge bust, but it was enough to notice her. She wasn't hit on often but she did get some stares here and there. She put on the shirt, and buttons it up, then she slips on her skirt. Miharu had the skirt modified and placed pockets in the skirt. She always liked to have her phone handy for internet use, she liked to read manga on the way to school back in Tokyo.
Miharu put the rest of her uniform on, the cardigan, the blazer, the tie, and the thigh high socks. Miharu decided to do her usual make up instead of a plain face, her make up-style was very influenced from visual kei bands. The make up didn't took long to do since she doesn't use foundation, or bronzer or even blush, she liked her face not feeling heavy. She styles her hair next, she splits it to the side so her long bangs could be on the side of her face, and so she slightly teases her hair so its a lot more volumized. She wasn't much for curling her hair like the rest of the girls, it didn't match her facial structure she though. She's ready and heads downstairs to the kitchen.
Her aunt has already placed the food down on the table and is currently making tea for them. Steamed rice, miso soup, rolled omelette and grilled fish on laid out on the table. Miharu is shocked at the amount of food placed out on the table. Miharu was slightly glad she went grocery shopping yesterday.
"Good morning, Haru-chan!", her aunt greets the girl, the woman likes to call her 'Haru-chan'.
"Good morning Chi-chan", Miharu greets back, her aunt's name is Chihaya.
"I wanted to tell you when I got home that I have the day off and was going to cook breakfast but you were passed out by 11 last night. So I got up extra early to cook you breakfast so you can pace yourself this time", Chihaya says to Miharu as she takes a seat at the table.
"Oh, thanks! I appreciate it, I finally got the time to style my hair and do my make-up!".
"No problem! Sit down and eat before the food gets cold", Chihaya places a cup of tea in front of Miharu, places the other cup in front of her meal setting, and sits down in the seat across from Miharu. The two smile at each other and grab their chopsticks that were there.
"Now to dig in!" the two say simultaneously. The two eat in silence, they weren't very talkative with each other since the two barely say each other, but their relationship was good. In between bites, Miharu reaches into her pocket to grab her phone, she checks the time, it's 6:30am. Miharu forgot she was going to go meet up with Makoto in front of his house so they could walk to school and she didn't get a specific time what time they were going. She starts eating a little bit faster and her aunt notices her pace has quickened.
"Are you going to be late?", she asks.
"Oh no, I forgot I was walking to school with a new friend today".
"Ohhh, I see, then don't eat too fast, you'll get a stomachache".
"Okay!", Miharu doesn't rush as much now, her rice and soup have already been finished, she's just eating the fish and omelette now. 10 minutes pass and Miharu is finally done eating. She stands up, and drinks the last bit of her tea.
"Thanks for the meal!", she says as she grabs her dirty dishes and places them into the sink. She walks to the fridge and grabs her bento box, she cooked her lunch before she want to sleep last night. She leaves the kitchen and runs upstairs with bento in hand. She goes into her bedroom, and grabs her bag that she has laying on the floor next to her desk, and places it on the desk. Her books are stacked up on the other side of the desk. She places her bento into her bag, shortly after grabs the stack of books and places them into her bag. She rechecks eveything - her keys, wallet, notebooks,books, cell phone, pencil case,bento and her mp3 player with headphones. She has everything, she reaches for her cell phone to check the time, the time is 6:45.
Alright! Now to get the hell out of here!
Miharu runs downstairs with her bag in hand. She reaches the door way and puts on her school shoes. She walks to the door, opens it and turns back.
"I'm leaving now!", Miharu yells out.
"Okay! See you later!", Chihaya yells back. Miharu heads out now. She starts walking on the path that leads to the school. She takes her mp3 player out of her bag and turns it on, she places the earbuds in her ears. She presses play on a song she was last listening to and continues walking. At a fast pace, it should only take her about 5 minutes to reach Makoto's house. She quickens her pace and see's Makoto's house in sight. She see's Makoto already in sight, he's knealing down by a fence.
Ahh, I wonder what he's doing, he's facing a different direction so I can't see that well.
Miharu walks some more and approaches Makoto. She leans over his shoulder to see what he's doing. He has three kittens near him, he's feeding them cat snacks and is petting them.
"Uwwaa! So cute!", Miharu squeals out and startles Makoto in the process as he looks over with a slightly frightened face. He topples over onto his side, still looking frightened.
"Ah- agh... It was just you Mi-chan! Don't startle me like that, oh my god-", Makoto says while trying to catch his breath. Miharu looks slightly amused by the fact Makoto is the type to get scared easily.
Miharu giggles then says,"I'm so sorry! I didn't know I would scare you so easily".
"I-I don't scare easily!" Makoto says hesitantely with a slight red face.
"Oh okay, then startled would be a better word, sorry", Miharu giggles some more. She reaches out her hand to Makoto. "Let me help you up", she says to the frightened boy. Makoto turns away and grabs her hand, she then lifts up him on his feet.
"Thanks, let's stop by Haruka's house to go pick up. I hope he isn't still soaking in the tub like yesterday", Makoto says with a slight pouty face. Miharu forgot that the two were late the day before and from their conversation, it was Haruka's fault they were almost late. The two start walking in the direction of Haruka's house. Miharu places the mp3 player and head phones back into her bag and was noticing some cats around the area.
"Why are there so many cats around, Mako-kun?", she asks the boy while she's looking around at the cats.
"I'm not sure, over the years we keep seeing more and more, I feed them whenever I can though", he says. Makoto was fond of the cats but he wasn't able to actually keep on of his own. Miharu always wanted a cat, she would have to try convincing her aunt if she could keep one, maybe with a cat around she wouldn't get lonely at home sometimes.
"Ah, that's so cool, I want to convince my auntie to let me keep one, my parents in Tokyo wouldn't let me keep one but I'm still hoping I can have one!", Miharu says with a smile on her face.
"Hopefully, cats are amazing!", Makoto says. The two continue walking and reach Haruka's house. They walk up to the door and Makoto rings the door bell. You hear a voice from inside, Miharu couldn't hear it clearly but Makoto opens the door.
"Haru-chan said the door's open, come inside", Miharu walks inside and looks around for Haruka. Makoto looks slightly confused at how familiar Miharu is with Haruka's house. Miharu reaches the kitchen and looks back to Makoto, she has a huge grin on her face
"Found him! He was in the kitchen", she says to Makoto, sounding very proud of herself for finding Haruka. Makoto steps next to Miharu and looks into the kitchen where Haruka is eating.
"See, I told you I wasn't going to be late today Makoto. Oh, hi Miharu-san". Haruka says to Makoto and greets Miharu.
"Hi,Haru-kun", she replies.
"You usually don't listen to me, so I'm shocked", Makoto admits. Haruks sticks out his tongue to Makoto and finishes his miso soup. Haruka stands up and places the dishes into the sink. He grabs his bag from the table, places it on his back and walks over to Makoto and Miharu.
"I'm ready, and right at 7 o' clock too", he says as he shows his phone to Makoto which says 7:00 am.
"Alright alright! Let's start heading to school then", Makoto says. Miharu and Haruka walk in front of Makoto and go to the door way. The three put on their shoes and go outside, Haruka locks up the house and they start walking to school. Haruka turns to Miharu and Miharu just looks at him all puzzled.
"Did you get home okay last night?", Haruka asks, referring to if she got home okay last night from his house last night. Miharu looks a little confused at first then remembers about what 'last night' was. Makoto just looks really wide-eyed about what Haruka is referring to.
"What was 'last night'?", Makoto looks slightly concerned at Miharu and Haruka.
"Oh, I ran into Haru-kun at the store and we ended up making dinner at his house since my house was really far and I was already extremely hungry. I got home alright on my own", she tries to explain to Makoto. The entire situation sounds kind of wrong and doesn't want to give Makoto the wrong impression. Makoto looks slightly relieved and Haruka doesn't really care and continues lookins straight ahead.
"Oh, okay, I see", Makoto thought an entirely different thing happened between the two. He doesn't know why he jumped to such a crazy assumption but he sways it out of his mind.
The three make idle chit chat and then they finally reach the school. They arrived early to the school. It's only 7:20 by the time they finally get inside the building. The three go to their own shoe lockers and change into their indoor shoes. They meet up in the hallway and head to the classroom. They reach the classroom and open the door. Only a small handful of people are inside, most of the students like to roam the hallways with their friends before class starts so not many people stick around in the classrooms. The three head to their seats and sit down. Miharu puts her bag on the side hook of her desk and turn around to the two.
"So, do you guys have any plans for today", she asks the two. They look up and then to each other. Miharu looked really confused.
"Well, Nagisa called us last night saying the old swim club we went to in elementary school is being torn down soon, and the three of use were going to go visit the swim club and dig up our old trophy", Makoto says to Miharu with an apologetic expression on his face.
"Ah okay, it's fine, I was just curious", Miharu said back. Haruka looks out the window and she notices he seemed slightly aloof after Makoto mentioned their old swim club. She looks at Makoto and half smiles, he smiles back. Class is about to start so a lot more students enter the classroom and get settled into their seats. Some are standing next to their friends seats and just chatting. Makoto, Haruka and Miharu are quiet. Miharu turned around and just starts getting her books out, a notebook and pen. There's 5 minutes til class starts and Miharu opens up the note book and flips over to a clean page, she then starts doodling. Miharu still is unsure of what club she wants to join.
The bell goes off, alerting the entire school classes are starting. Miharu managed to go all her homework the day before even though she got home pretty late. Amakata-sensei enters the classroom and proceeds with class like usual.
Morning classes have finally ended. Miharu stretches out her arms and then readjusted her self in her seat. She takes her bento box out of her box and stands up from her seat. Makoto and Haruka are getting their bento's ready, so she walks ahead and waits at the door for them. She smiles sheepishly because it's her turn to wait for them. The two start walking towards her and she starts to walk on ahead out of the classroom, now the three walk side by side heading to the rooftop. Miharu hear's running from a long distance, she looks around and notices it coming from behind them. It's Nagisa running to catch up to them, he finally reaches up to them and clings onto them in a half-group hug.
"Augh!" Miharu belts out. He was slightly tugging onto her hair. Nagisa finally lets go of the three.
"Mako-chan! Haru-chan! Mi-chan!", he exclaims out at the three, "I've got a great plan! I'll tell you all when we get to the rooft top!". Miharu was slightly aggrivated, her head felt a little sore from her hair being tugged on. She was starting to question why she ever decided to grow out her hair. The four start heading to the roof top, they start heading up the stairs and they finally reach the top of the stairs. Makoto opens up the door for the three, everyone goes onto the roof and Makoto is the last to go through the door. Haruka walks over to a spot the over looks the campus grounds then he places a sheet onto the ground and motions for everyone to come over to his spot. They all sit down and Nagisa finally starts to tell them the news he's been wanting to tell them.
"We should start a swim club!", Nagisa tells the group, "We just need four people! The school has a pool, and there's currently no swim club, we can try making one!", Miharu wasn't too keen on being in a swim club... She wanted to join the swim club. Makoto was indifferent to it aslong as Haruka was okay with it. Haruka just wanted to swim, aslong as he got to be in the water, that's all he cared about.
"I just want to be in the water", Haruka blurts out. Miharu remained silent, this conversation was mostly towards Makoto and Haruka it seems and she decided to stay out of it. Makoto feels a little uneasy about the entire idea but he'll go along with it for Haruka.
"Why don't we ask the school board to see if we can get it started then?" Makoto says.
"Yeah! We can ask after school before going to the old swim club!", Nagisa says. Miharu was feeling more left out then ever, so opens up her bento box and starts eating. She just listens to the idle chatting between the three and just let's her mind wander.
"-ru"
"-haru"
"Miharu?!" Makoto was trying to get her attention, Miharu was really deep in thought that she didn't notice him calling out to her.
"Y-yes?"
"Are you okay? You've been quiet...", Makoto was concerned, he wanted to make sure she was okay. She was slightly bored and feeling left out, but there was no way she could tell him that.
"I'm okay, just kinda zoned out today, sorry," she half smiles and continues eatting her food. She packed in onigiri but she wasn't feeling hungry anymore. She thought she might aswell share among the the three boys. "Oh, hey, I'm full now and I packed onigiri, I was wondering if you wanted them? I can't finish them and I would hate to let them go to waste".
Haruka didn't even have to say anything, he already reaches over to grab one. Makoto nods in confirmation and also grabs one, Nagisa put on a huge grins. "Thanks Mi-Chan!", the boy says in a cheery tone. The three continued eating and Miharu starts going through her cell phone. She checks her phone and goes to a manga app to see if her favorite manga has updated, she would usually just buy the latest manga magazine that releases the newest chapters but they don't sell that particular manga in the town. She notices the site hasn't updated the manga yet, she sighs and locks her phone. She was bored and the three boys are talking about the past. She keeps hearing a certain name being said: 'Rin'. Sounds like a girl's name, but the three boys have girlish names, so maybe another guy with a girly name.
Makoto looks over the girl who's just going looking at stuff on her call phone, he wants to invite her, but wouldn't want to take the girl into a dark place at night. He scoots over to the girl and pats her head. She turns to look at Makoto and he's just got this gentle smile you literally would have thought he was radiating. Miharu just has a straight forward expression, she's really startled though.
"Don't look so sad",Makoto says to the girl who's had a glum expression since the morning
"I-i'm not sad! I'm perfectly fine!", Miharu looks at the boy who's still patting her head, she starts to pout a bit. Makoto laughs when she starts to pout, her expression reminded him alot of Haruka when he would tease the boy or when he would deny something.
"Oi! What's so funny?" Miharu's voice grows slightly louder with a tone of irritation. She continues to pout. Makoto found the expression cute so he couldn't help but laugh.
"Nothing, nothing, i'm sorry," he apologizes for laughing.
Nagisa notices Makoto teasing Miharu and walks over to the two, he sits down next to Miharu.
"Oi! Mi-chan! Let's all hang out together tomorrow after school!", he tells her and Miharu's face lights up.
"Really?!" Miharu was very happy to be invited out. She hasn't gotten the opportunity to go out with friends.
"Yeah sure! We can go to the mall or even go a movie! There's a new movie coming out tomorrow!" Nagisa says in a cheery tone. Haruka also gets up and sits down near Miharu, he nods to her and she smiles.
"Yay!" She exclaims, and puts her hands together. The boys realized how left out she felt because of how distant and silent she was, she may have her awkard moments but she seems like the type to try make conversation so they knew something was wrong when she wasn't talking. Lunch break is ending and they start cleaning up the area. They return to their classroom and proceed with the afternoon classes.