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Second Thoughts

Chapter 25: Schedule

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"This college is like high school all over again" Mahiro sighed as his cheek leaned into his right palm, looking over at the incoming waves of students ready to eat lunch.

"I heard it was" Yoshiki said with a slight smile at the end.

Mahiro noticed and returned the smile with his signature smile; the one that gets him "lots" of girls.

Something isn't right

"I guess so…" Mahiro suddenly pondered for a few seconds, "Now that I think about this college, do you think they lied about this school being "safe" and "strict" just to get more people to enroll here?" Mahiro said.

That got Yoshiki's attention. His head shot up instantly, giving the question a thought for a few seconds before answering, "You are onto something," Yoshiki replied, "it makes sense how it isn't safe and not strict at all with fights starting everywhere in this college" Yoshiki finished.

A few minutes passed before Yoshiki suddenly has a look of realization.

"What?" Mahiro said, obviously noticing Yoshiki's face.

Yoshiki opened his mouth to speak but instantly closed it, he then shook his head, "Never mind, let's leave it for now and talk about it some other time" he said as he started to get up from his seat.

"I feel like whatever was going to come out of your mouth was going to be important," Mahiro sighed once again, "going to get lunch?" he said, looking up at Yoshiki.

"Yeah, I am starving" Yoshiki said, stretching, "I'll be back, see ya" he waved.

"See ya" Mahiro responded.

Once Yoshiki left, Mahiro spotted Josh out of the corner of his eye. The black haired boy was with a group of other students that were laughing along with him. Josh surely is popular in this college.

Josh sensed someone's gaze on him, so he turned around and spotted Mahiro sitting down, looking at him. He smiled, turned around, told his friends he will see them later, and walked over to where Mahiro was sitting.

"Yo" he greeted with a smile, "anything new?"

"Nope, just another ordinary day" Mahiro replied, boredom clearly plastered all over his face.

Josh chuckled, "What about your new schedule? Mind showing it to me?"

Mahiro dug into his pockets in search of his new schedule that was given to not too long ago. Once Mahiro felt the dry and rough feeling of a crumpled up piece of paper he took it out and held it in front of Josh - who flashed him another smile before he took it from Mahiro's hand.

"Ooh, interesting…" Josh commented as his eyes wandered around the paper, taking in all the new information.

After a few seconds Josh's eyes lifted up from the paper he was holding to look at Mahiro straight up and smiled once again, "We have some classes together" he said.

"Really? That's great," he replied, "now give it back" Mahiro said as he tried snatching it from Josh's hand, but failed.

Josh held the paper up and away from the orange-haired male who was now scowling at him.

"Why aren't you more… happy about having me in your classes? Now that I think about it, you haven't been like yourself lately" Josh said, he then crossed his arms as he waited for an answer.

Mahiro scoffed, "And how would you know?" he said.

Josh rolled his eyes, "Mahiro," he said taking a seat next to him, "we've been out together more than once before, trust me, I know" Josh finished.

Mahiro let out a dissatifying sigh, "Liste-"

"Hey"

Yoshiki said as he sat down - facing both Mahiro and Josh - and began to open his milk carton, getting a quick sip of it before he went onto his food.

"Gimme some" Josh said, his hand reaching out for Yoshiki's food.

Yoshiki in return frowned and prevented Josh's hand from touching his food, "Get your own food" he simply said, having a tight grip on him.

Josh snickered, "The lines are long, waiting isn't exactly my thing" he said, managing to escape Yoshiki's tight grip that was around his wrist.

"And I'm hungry, so… get your own" Yoshiki simply replied, giving him a deadly stare.

"Alright! Alright! I got it" Josh responded with his hands raised up defensively. Yoshiki gave him a slight smile before going back to his food.

Mahiro rolled his eyes, a small smile slowly forming on his face.

Josh suddenly grabbed Mahiro's hand, taking out a piece of paper and crumpling it into a ball, he put it in his hand. Standing up he dismissed himself from the cousins and left to join his friends who were waiting for him from afar.

Mahiro looked down at his hand, opening up the crumpled up piece of paper that Josh so suddenly gave to him not long ago, he smiled once he read what was written presumably from Josh,

We'll continue some other time

The orange-haired boy shook his head with a smile still plastered on his face.

To be continued…

A/N: Hey guys! It's been a while since I've ever done a Authors Note to you all. I know I haven't been posting chapters for this story lately and I am extremely sorry for that! I've been busy with school now that I am going into the higher levels of education. As you can see my writing has been gradually improving and it's because I've been growing as a writer. I've seen some writers that left their fanfic and came back with a surprising big improvement in their writing, and I'm glad for them! It fascinates me the growth being distributed right before my eyes. Anyways, as for me I'll keep writing until this story is complete. Let's hope I'm alive by then.

Please leave a review about anything you desire to say, it will really help me out. Thanks for those who are still reading this fanfiction! I appreciate your loyalty! And until next time!

- Ficzilt