Say What!
Did I just hear right!
"thoughts"
The next day…
In the ever calm and peaceful Fujiwara residence, Mayumi picked up the phone that rang as if it were to explode if it was left unanswered for another ten seconds. She sighed before greeting the caller with a "Moshi moshi?"
"Ohayou, Mayumi-chan!" "Great…" Mayumi thought to herself after she heard the voice of the person on the other line.
"Sengoku, Don't try to piss me yet on a very beautiful early morning because I might eat you alive!"
Mayumi heard Sengoku chuckle and by that she growled a little bit.
"Anyway, today's the first day our deal yesterday would take effect…. Wish me luck…"
"Get bent."
"You're so mean as ever…" and then he hung up leaving Mayumi nothing better to do but sigh…
The class 3-4 which is Mayumi's class is having arts. Mayumi doesn't like the subject since she damned well sucked at it. Anyway, they were having this by Pair on the school grounds (truth only knows why). Again, Saeki and Mayumi were paired up.
Mayumi and Saeki decided to stay under a big tree near the Rokkaku play ground, which was inside the campus, of course.
The theme of their work this week was a propos about the 'past'. That's way Mayumi and Saeki positioned themselves there. Mayumi was at Saeki's right and the playground was also on Mayumi's right.
"The breeze's so nice today, ne, Saeki-san?" she asked as the wind met her face. She had missed their small talks together and now was a perfect time to catch up.
"A-yeah… it's nice…" Mayumi caught Saeki's tentative reply which aroused her curiosity.
"Koujiro, is there a problem?"
Saeki's eyes widened. Now that was what he wasn't expecting. Mayumi just called him by his first name. He actually thought that the world could in fact crumble. He turned his head to stare at her wide-eyed.
"D-did you just…"
"Did
I just what?" "Saeki
never stutters, does he?" Mayumi thought
"Call me by my first name?"
"I did?"
"That's why I'm asking."
"I don't think so. Are you sure?"
"I'm asking the questions here."
"Okay, okay, I was just kidding. Yeah, I did. I did call you Koujiro. Man, you've changed a lot in just a short period of time. You've become a little bit more childish. Guess you got it from me." Then she smirked at him.
Saeki was still speechless. Mayumi never calls him by his first name. They were childhood friends but she never used it at all. Sometimes he wondered if she knew he even had a first name. But he felt good. He was going to make her use it all the time.
"Let's start our work; we're kinda wasting time here."
"…Uh…Sure…" then the pair began drawing.
Mayumi has already started sketching while Saeki, on the other hand, was still deciding on what to draw. Saeki leant on the trunk of the tree and sighed. Later… Saeki turned his gaze back to Mayumi… he looked at her left wrist and found the bracelet Mayumi found days ago. Saeki smiled. The wind brushed Mayumi's face and made her hair dance with it. Saeki, seeing this, blushed since he has never seen Fujiwara Mayumi like this. Saeki then started sketching.
"At last! I'm finished! Koujiro…" Mayumi asked as she looked over to her left to see Saeki fast asleep. His head was slightly tilted to one side and his mouth was somewhat gaping. His sketchbook was now laying on his chest and his pencil was nowhere to be seen. Mayumi wondered what he drew about his 'past'.
"Hmm…" she knelt down beside Saeki and gazed upon him; marveling at how he looked when he's asleep. He seemed so peaceful; she has never seen him like this before. He was like a boat sailing on a calm sea. Wavelets rock him to wonderland; to a place where frown were illegal and a happily ever after was a right not a privilege. Mayumi unconsciously leant closer to Saeki and peered on his drawing. Her eyes widened at what he drew. Her mouth opened just as she saw two sleep-filled sapphire-blue eyes that grew wide when it met her two equally startled mint-green eyes.
Saeki has already started sketching after he decided on what to draw. Strokes over here and over there. Shades down there and lines over here and VWUALA! He was finished. He glanced upon Mayumi again and smiled since she was so absorbed on her drawing. He leant on the tree trunk and another gust of wind blew against them. His eyelids grew heavy and the next thing he knew is that he dropped hid pencil and slept.
The silver- white haired lad felt something move beside him and he noticed something tugging at what ever he was holding. He fidgeted and opened his eyes only to see startled mint-green eyes looking straight into his own taken aback sapphire eyes. He saw her clutching his sketchbook loosely as her mouth agaped.
"M-Mayumi-san?"
"S-s-saeki-san…"
Mayumi saw the disappointment in Saeki's eyes as soon as she mentioned his name. She was caught red-handed and she didn't know what to do next.
Saeki's eyes switched from 'shock' to disappointment. He was expecting her ti call him by his first name again.
Author: hi guys… finally chapter 9 is done, and yeah, it's another cliffie… I have some bad news… uhmmm… I think the next chapter will be posted late again since I still have a game or tournament next week (soo sorry).
I would love to thank my reviewers especially to unknown player (thank you for reviewing, it really means so much for me. The reviews just tell me that there's really someone reading the story. Once again… thank you).
And to my beta: thank you for editing this chapter… can't wait to send you chapter 10
-Kari-
