The Perfect Girl

Chapter 7: The Second Reach


I walked into World Geography and Cultures on Monday to notice that Shishido wasn't there. I hoped that he wasn't going to be sick until Wednesday if he was sick or anything. I sat down and put a hand under my chin, still worried.

"Ryuuka-san."

I looked to my left to see a boy with straight brown hair. I had seen him in this class before- I think he was Kishi-chan's partner.

"Um, yes?"

"I'm Taki Haginosuke and it looks as though my partner is not here today either."

I nodded to him, sighing inwardly at the fact that today Kamori-sensei had decided to be absent and we were assigned the class to work on out projects. This sucked.

"Are you interested in cultures, Ryuuka-san?"

"What do you mean, Taki-san?"

By the end of the class I had agreed to becoming a member of the Cultural Committee[1]. It sounded like it was just up my alley. Taki nodded to me as he was getting ready to leave since the tone sounded. My first meeting would be on Sunday.


"Are you gonna come and support us?" Jirou asked me happily as he and I kicked a ball back and forth. The three of us- him, Mukahi, and I- had made it a daily thing to now spend Free Period doing something outside.

I shook my head,"Iie, not this week Gawa-san. I have a meeting with the Cultural Comittee on Sunday."

"How did you know it was on Sunday?" The Orange- haired boy asked, ignoring the cartwheeling Mukahi.

"Shishido-san told me yesterday."

Mukahi jumped in front of me,"What? Are you guys together or something?"

My eyes widened into saucers and I shook my head,"Iie! Iie! We had a project to finish and I decided to ask about Tennis!"

The magenta-haired boy backed off, jumping around again,"Good, cause Shishido's a complete baka. I swear that he lost his brain or something."

I laughed at Mukahi's comment, but something in my brain nagged to me that I was worried as to where Shishido was.


I hummed as I walked Jirou and Mukahi to the boy's locker room. It was on the way from where we would spend our last period, so it was sensible to walk this way. As they entered the locker room, waving goodbye of course, I was intent on getting as far away from the room as possible. I didn't want to be stopped b-

"Ryuuka-san."

I stopped and looked back, sighing,"Hai, Atobe-san?"

"Ore-sama has a question to ask you."

I looked up at him with scrunched eyebrows,"Okay?"

"Do you watch the Rugby games?"

I put a hand to my chin, thinking back. I do remember watching them with my grandfather last year. I was trying to be nice and hang out with him, but he had fallen asleep.

"I did last year."

"Ah," he flipped his hair and spoke in English,"Would you like to make a bet?"

"Keep talking."

He put up 3 fingers,"3,000 Yen says that the Saxons will lose to the Elite in their upcoming match[2]."

I looked at his fingers, thinking. I had heard about the squads from my grandfather and I was willing to take this bet,"Make it 6,000."

He put his hand out for me to shake, and I shook it- roughly,"Have fun losing."

"Ore-sama does not intend to be losing."

I turned around and shook my hand at him,"Yea, yea."


I knocked on the door to the Shishido Residence. I heard a few voices and some heavy footsteps before the door opened.

"Simone-chan?"

I looked up to see Elrin. His hair was cut short and was a very light brown, unlike Shishido's. His eyes were a dark hazel- but filled with a lot of happy.

"Ah, Elrin-san, is Shishido-san here?"

He looked shocked that I was asking for his brother. He nodded.

"Is he alright? He wasn't at school today."

Before Elrin could speak out of his hot high school senior mouth, a certain third year middle schooler got to it first.

"I'm fine."

Elrin moved over to let Shishido walk to the door. Kyon jumped up onto my legs and I laughed, scratching the cute dog behind the ears.

"Kyon, stop. I'll be back in a few Ani."

"Got it. Bye Simone-chan."

I waved goodbye to Elrin and looked to Shishido, and right into his brown eyes. We stared at eachother for a moment before Kyon whimpered, the atttention away from him. We both looked down to the dog, remembering him.

"So, were you sick today?" I asked the long-haired boy next to me, I didn't think about daring to call him a friend ever since the incident in Second Grade; I wasn't exactly over it yet.

"A little I guess. Why?"

I shrugged, easily coming up with something that wasn't me telling him that I had worried about him,"Kamori-sensei decided to not be at school today either and we were able to work on our project all day. Of course, we already finished it."

Shishido sighed angrily,"Ugh. Stupid sensei."

I snickered and opened up the gate to my household,"Are you gonna be at school tomorrow?"

"Eh, probably."

I decided it was good enough.


[1] Taki is apart of the Cultural Committee, so I decided that that would be really good for Simone to join.

[2] I don't exactly watch Rugby, but I know that these are actual Sqauds. I was going to make it a bet with someone breaking an arm, but I decided no. I still don't know if these two would ever face eachother, but finding information on them was difficult DX.

I hope that you liked this chapter. Thanks to anyone who has favorites or alerted this story. I will be making sure to update when I can because I need to finish this Summer Assignment that I have.

~Tai.