The sights of the crowded streets are surely a commonplace in a rather big city, and this city is no exception. Walking in the sidewalk, the sounds of the vehicles in the street enters my ears as I catch the sight of my destination. It's the same fast food restaurant as the last time Akihito and I did our tutoring session.

The milkshake in that place is actually good enough for my taste. Not that I am picky, but it's actually good. Really, the chocolate milkshake is so tasty. Have I said that the chocolate flavour of the milkshake in that place is so rich that even a drop of it in my tongue is as if I am swimming in the pool of liquid chocolate.

Kidding. This is reality, there won't be foods or drinks that will makes you react like that.

I open the door and immediately orders my newly appointed favourite chocolate milkshake. Bringing out my purse, I silently curse. This is a fast food restaurant, right? And yet the service isn't fast at all. Still, it's definitely faster than actual family restaurant. I take another look at the menu. Yuck, junk food all around. Luckily I'm not hungry.

The waitress gives me my milkshake, and I reply with a thank you and smile before I search for a table. I find the table near the window. A stupid thing I forget is exchanging contact information with Akihito. How careless. When it was with Hyoudou, I give him my email address and number the first time we talk in the fas–

Gah, why is my head hurts?

Well, might as well reading over the material that I want to teach. Last time was just a review of the lesson his class. Let's see…

Fifteen minutes passes before a voice breaks my concentration.

"Sorry I'm late, Hanazono-san."

There Akihito is. And out of breath too. Seems like he is in a hurry to get here. Well, not that I am curious about his circumstance or something…

"It's not nice to make a lady wait, you know."

"I'm sorry."

"Then again, it's not as if we're on a date or something. I don't mind."

I his face adopted a grimace. Huh, I wonder why?

"Please don't joke about something like that, Hanazono-san. My girlfriend will be angry."

I raise my eyebrow, "Sure."

Inwardly I sigh. Why doesn't he invite the girl, then? Mark my words, sooner or later, his girlfriend will hear about our tutoring session and then she will be angry at him. Who am I kidding? My life is not a drama. But from what I gather from Akihito Nagai, there might be a chance of that happening.

He's dense like that. He doesn't even realize he's famous in Kuoh Academy.

He settles to the seat in front of me, and looks over at the spread book on the table before he speaks, "So… me first, Hanazono-san?"

"It's Miss Hanazono. Do you understand?"

He nods, and the lesson begins.

It must be a weird sight because during the session, I feel many pairs of eyes staring at the table we occupy. Well, it's not every day you see two clearly Japanese high school students talking using English, and apparently one is teaching the others. Does it bother me?

It bothers me.

This is when I go into a tirade of why it bothers me, it is a paragraph long and won me over many people in the span of a single book. Apparently, this paragraph defines my entire characterization that is never brought up in the previous books. Man, it's hard to find a good book in the Light Novel industry nowadays.

Anyways, yes, it slightly bothers me. Why of all times for Japanese people's individualism and their unspoken rules to not bother anyone because it's impolite to not appear now? This is why reality works in a different way from expectations. I am ticked, though not so much.

After an hour, it's Akihito's turn to tutor me in math. While I do find the last lesson hard, it actually makes today's math class easier to understand. Thank you, Akihito-san, I will never doubt you and your way of teaching anymore. Though I can't place my faith in those dense head.

The tutoring session ends in another hour. Overall, my understanding of this particularly hard subject is improving. We are in the same class, and yet he understands the material better. I guess when people said everyone has their own good points, it is true. I always thought it was just a sugarcoated look on life.

As I finish my milkshake, Akihito is on his second black coffee. Since our session has ended, I think I can satisfy my curiosity.

"Do you like black coffee that much, Akihito-san?"

"Hm? Oh, yes. It keeps me up. With club practices, English course, my girlfriend, and now our tutoring session, I don't get enough rest."

"You know, if you're too tired, maybe we don't need to do this tomorrow," I glance at the bag of his eyes that I notice is darken. Yeah, it's not like I need this tutoring session as much as he needs rest.

"Yeah, thank you for your consideration, Hanazono-san."

"It's nothing. Anyway, think we can exchange contact? To make it easier to arrange the session," I offer him. This is probably what I should have done yesterday. I don't know why I forgot to do this.

"Sure," he brings out his phone and we exchange our contact through the infrared feature. This is not the first time I've done it, I'm not exactly friendless, I just have limited range of friend so an exchange of contact information like this is rare. For example, when I gave my email address and number to Hyoudou, we didn't do it via infrared–Ow!

Eh? What am I thinking? Hyoudou and I exchanged contact using infrared when we were put together into a group.

After we finished exchanging our contact information, Akihito suddenly speaks, "And what about you, Hanazono-san. I seem to remember you buying the same chocolate milkshake yesterday. Do you like it that much?"

I give him a flash of smile. I actually do not expect him to ask me back. I guess he's more than just a dense popular guy. Oh right, he has a girlfriend hasn't he? I guess he's not that dense then. But that just leaves him as popular. Well, not that he realizes he's popular, so I can also rule that out. He would just be categorized as a normal guy then.

"Well, life is bitter, you don't need to add more bitterness to it."

"So you think by indulging in sweets it will sweeten your life?"

"I'm not that naïve."

"Well then, see you next time, Hanazono-san. Thanks for the lesson."

I nod and go my own way.

"See ya."

A/N: You might miss a small interlude a chapter before this