That same morning too, because of everything that had happened, she came running late for school. And worse, the poor high school student was punished to stand in the school's hallway with two buckets full of water, occupied both of her hands. These unpleasant memories kept playing in her mind, stopping her from focusing on her club work.
"This is so frustrating!" she shouted frantically inside her clubroom and in front of her computer. Then a triple knock on the door brought her back to reality from her bothersome imaginations. "Ah! Come inside!" she called back to the person behind the door.
A young boy in his teenage years with moss-like colored hair appeared before her eyes. "Oh it's you Takashi-san! It's good to see you again." She smiled sweetly at the boy and this certain boy can't help but to feel shy in front of her. He can feel his blood gushing up in his head causing him to blush.
"I'm even more happy to see you again too Yuizaki-san."
"Oh stop it with the formalities already. We're friends now so you can call me by my first name you know." Hiyono said while slapping the air with her hand.
"Really? Then, is Hi- Hi- Hiyo.." having trouble pronouncing her first name, Takashi blushed even more. But he braced himself. He has to stop looking so pathetic in front of her. He repeated, "Is Hiyono-san alright with you?" he locked Hiyono's eyes inside his tangerine-colored eyes, looking at her with full of emotions and feelings just for her.
Hiyono didn't expect this especially coming from the gentle Takashi so she didn't manage to respond on his question. She was caught up in this boy's gaze.
They gaze at each other for almost like ten seconds. Then until, "Ehem!" the glasses guy with spiky fiery red-colored hair cleared his throat. The two was startled by this and nearly jumped off from their position. Seeing this, Kouseke raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Are we interrupting something?"
"We?" asked Hiyono.
"Oh yeah. Blade children here and our savior!" the lad with a cat-like eyes clamored proudly with a big proud grin is evidently shown on his façade. Then enter the tall athletic girl with long legs, a short girl with silver-colored hair and beside her, a guy which is so known and familiar to all of them, tugged by Rio with both of her arms. And probably the smartest guy in their campus. Narumi Ayumu. And by his expression, anyone can presume that he is in a bad mood and is pissed about something.
Hiyono grimaced when her eyes caught Ayumu in their sight. She's still mad at him because of what had happened. Even if he, this guy Narumi Ayumu actually apologized to her, still it doesn't change the fact that he had seen her body without covering! It's unforgivable!
'Hmph!' she abruptly turned her head away from Ayumu. And of course, her actions haven't escaped the staring eyes of the young detective. And he had already guessed that this woman still hadn't forgotten about the recent incident this morning.
"So uh," the red-headed guy continued, "we apologize if we happened to interfere with your chit-chat or whatever the two of you were doing in this room alone and no one else is watching you, and ah I remember that the two of you were absorbedly gazing at each other, so concentrated that I assumed the two of you were already caught up in your own private, impenetrable worlds, so what are the two of you supposed to do when we haven't- Ouch!" the constant nattering of Kouseke was intervened by Ryoko"s solid punch.
"You're exaggerating Kouseke! Stop it will you? You sound like a girl! Geez." The short-haired brunette chastised Kouseke.
'Geez, Ryoko's such a KJ. I was just trying to make Narumi-otouto jealous..'thought the poor Kouseke.
"That's right Kouseke-kun! I was just telling Takashi-san that he can call me by my first name since we're already friends." Hiyono said while gesticulating and pointing her pointy finger in the air.
"Really? Is that all?" Rio added while eyeing Takashi with bantering eyes.
"Um yeah. I admit that I was in fact glad that Hiyono-san proposed that I call her by her first name." the determined Takashi confessed.
"Wow, is it just me or does that sound like a confession?" Ryoko said with an amazed voice.
The tête-à-tête and teasing sustained, chuckles and chortles, embarrassed voice and mischievous tenor can be heard all over the clubroom. All of them were so engrossed in their talk that they didn't notice that one of them is actually not so fond, not so interested and perceptibly so annoyed by their conversation.
"Hey," Ayumu finally said, and his words truly caught everyone's attention that resulted for him to be the focus of everyone's concentration. "Hiyono-SAN," he intentionally stressed the word san while staring fixedly at Hiyono alone, and then he continued, "YOU DROPPED SOMETHING."
