Hello guys, this is the next chapter. The total length is 7,2K words and it was one heck of a long chapter. Due to the length of the chapter, I might be missing some formatting, so I apologise if there's any mistakes in the writing
As always, I'm looking forward to came back at it, when I have time to do so. Anyways, Enjoy!
7.35 PM, 15th July 2012
Aiko had returned to Fukuoka with her parents yesterday. Nobita had granted her wish to visit the Tokyo Skytree and the festival. Even though, her visit to the Tokyo Skytree was cut short because of the weather. But her wish to go to the festival was granted by Nobita the next day.
Shizuka eventually joined her in a visit to the festival few days ago, and Aiko was so excited when she knew that Shizuka was going with her. Shizuka and Aiko had become so close together since that bitter first day of her visit to Tokyo.
Tomorrow is the day where Nobita and his friends will go to Sendai, where they will be doing their summer assignment in a ski resort. They have been planning this trip since early summer, and all of them were excited about this trip.
That night, Nobita has prepared everything and placed it on a mountain bag he got from the storage room. He choose the mountain bag because he thought that it would fit a lot of things than his normal bag that he usually wore when they went camping over the mountain.
The night was pretty boring for Nobita at least,
He was sitting in his desk with nothing to do other than staring at the night sky. He had wasted his phone battery this afternoon and forgot to charge it again.
The sky at that day was pretty clear. Few patches of clouds can be seen on the sky that day. Moon is shining pretty brightly over the night sky.
"Huh, I should've charged it before when I was packing my stuff." Nobita said as he rested his head on his desk.
Then he glanced at his phone. Turns out, the battery is now 56% full. Then he unplugged it from the charging port.
As he unplugged his phone, a call came in.
"Oh, who's this?" He said as he glanced towards his phone screen. "Shizuka-chan?" Nobita said as he placed his charger on his desk.
"What did she want?" He asked himself.
Then he answered the call, expecting Shizuka to be on other side too. But, the one who called him wasn't Shizuka. But it was infact, Non-chan who used her phone to call Nobita.
"Moshi Moshi, Shizuka-chan…" Nobita said to the phone.
"Oi, It's me Nonko… I borrowed Shizuka phone to make a call." Nonko said on the other side of the line.
"Oh, okay…"
"I found your contact was placed under Shizuka's Favourite tab-" Nonko said before Shizuka interrupted. "Oi oi oi, stop!" Shizuka pleaded in the background.
Then Shizuka snatched her phone from Nonko's hand and yelled towards Nobita right through his ears via the phone speaker.
"L-listen Nobita-san… P-people under the Favourite tab is going to be having a b-bad luck!" She said.
"Uh, okay….. I get that. I have enough bad lucks already to handle that." Nobita said jokingly. He stood up and leaned on his window to get some 'fresh' air.
"Well, anyways…." Nonko came back at the line. "Tomorrow we're going to go to the Ski Resort, right?" Nonko asked.
"Yeah, it looks like it." Nobita answered. "Suneo and Gian have notified me on LINE last night."
"Okay, cool…" Nonko replied "What are you going to bring to the ski resort." She asked.
"Well, I'm going to bring my entire house with me." Nobita said with intention to make a joke.
What followed is just an awkward silence between the two.
"Huh, Nobita-kun…. You do realize that your joke is as dry as Sahara Dessert, right" Nonko said on the other side of the line.
"W-well, of course I'm bringing my clothes and something like that." Nobita replied with a slight disappointment in his face.
"Oh okay, and also don't forget to bring some extra clothes." Nonko reminded. "Because we don't know how's the weather there in the mountains."
"Noted!"
"Well, I think that's it…" Nonko said. "You should also see your contact name in Shizuka's conta-" Nonko said before being cut off by exclaiming Shizuka again.
"Non-chaaaaan!" Shizuka exclaimed before she hung up.
Nobita then paused for a second before placing his phone back on his desk.
"Hahaha, girls.." Nobita said as he grinned.
Then Doraemon came into the room, after coming back from somewhere Nobita didn't know where. He entered the room with a bag, half full of Dorayaki.
"Nobita-kun…. You haven't prepared for tomorrow's schedule?" The blue cat robot said.
"Yes I have, it was right there…." Nobita said as he pointed a mountain bag at the corner of the room
Doraemon then looked at it for a while, then asked him.
"A mountain bag?" He asked the obvious question.
"Yeah, don't ask why…."
"How many stuff did you bring?"
"I don't bring much stuff to be honest."
"Then?"
"I just felt that it was the right thing to use, and that's all…." He said.
Doraemon then nodded and decided to stop asking because Nobita started to show signs of annoyance.
"Where will the rendezvous point be?" Doraemon asked.
"Hmmm, Suneo said that we'll meet at Kanagawa Station, tomorrow at 9." Nobita said as he plugged his phone back in, to recharge it.
"You gotta be punctual, tomorrow you know…." Doraemon said.
"Yeah, I know."
"If you need me, feel free to call me via the Home Telephone, I'm here to help."
"Yeah, alright." Nobita said as he gave Doraemon a thumbs up. He then yawned as he said "Better hit the hay early, so I don't be late tomorrow." He said as he took his futon out.
"You want to go to sleep this early?" Doraemon said, he was a bit surprised by Nobita's decision.
"Yeah, it wouldn't hurt too much, right?" He asked
"That's a spirit!"
The Next Day, 6.45 AM
Doraemon opened his eyes that morning. Yes, it was the day that Nobita and his friends will do a trip to a ski resort to do their summer assignments. Everyone was excited to go to that place.
He then sat down, and about to do his morning routine, waking up Nobita. But, as he slid the door open, he saw the bespectacled boy is already up. He was standing near the window, poking his head out to get the fresh air that morning.
He heard the sound of Doraemon's cupboard door opened, he glanced to his right.
"Morning, Doraemon!" He greeted him with glee.
"Morning Nobita-san, woke up early?" Doraemon said. Sense of proud engulfed him.
"Yup I was, I woke up roughly 20 minutes ago." He said.
"Wow, that's the earliest record…. Your past record was 7.02 AM, and It was years ago." He said as he stepped out from his room.
"That's good, right?" He said as he smiled towards Doraemon.
"Yeah," He nodded "I'm glad that you're improving as you got older, Nobita-kun!"
"Ahaha! I-I mean it's nothing…." He chuckled as he scratched the back of his neck.
Meanwhile few hundred meters away from that place, in Shizuka's bedroom. Shizuka had just woken up in her bed. She was awake but she hasn't got out from her bed. A camping bag was sitting on the corner of her room. It was full of stuff starting from her clothes and plenty of her stuff.
She then reached for her phone, unplugging it from the outlet as she turned her phone on. After a while, she then fiddled around with her phone, checking her social media and stuff like that.
She took her time to upload a new status on her social media before finally rose from her bed.
She whipped her messy brown hair up. The scent of Strawberry Shampoo she used last night was still pretty strong.
She then walked towards her desk, to write on her diary. But she paused when she noticed at one of her pinned conversations, Nobita was online at that morning. She was surprised at the sight, because the earliest time Nobita went online is 8 AM even in the summer.
Then she messaged him
'Good Morning, Nobita-san….'
She typed reluctantly. Shizuka sat there impatiently, her feet fidgeting as she waited for an answer from Nobita.
Sheg got excited when it says 'typing….' On the other side.
'Morning Shizuka-chan, what's up?' he asked.
'Woke up earlier today?'
'Yeah I was actually, Doraemon was still fast sleeping in his bed when I woke up'
'Wow, you that excited?'
'Yeah, I do'
'Well, when will you leave your house. Shizuka-chan?'
'I think I'll leave my house at 8 AM. Suneo said to me last night that the train leaves at 9.30 AM'
'Oh nice…'
Then Shizuka paused when she was about to type the next message.
'Ey, Nobita-san….'
'Yeah?'
She was stuck on typing for a while, deciding what to type. But then she entered this message.
'Wanna walk there together?'
'Umm, sure I guess….'
She grinned after Nobita sent that message without hesitation.
'Uhh, when will you come to my house?' He asked.
'Like I said, 8.00'
'Oh, okay then…. You can message me when you're leaving your house.'
'Sure!'
Shizuka was excited when Nobita accepted her offer to walk together towards the station. She then quickly grabbed her clothes and went downstairs to get some morning bath.
2 hours later, she have everything ready. She was currently tying up her hair into prominent Pigtail hairstyle and changed to her casual attire. She then checks her bags and making sure that she had placed everything she needs inside her bag. Before closing the zip, she puts her charger into her bag.
Then she picks up her bag, she groaned as she picked up her bag.
"Gosh, this is heavy…." She said as she opened her bedroom door.
Then she walked downstairs. Her mum was there, cleaning the house when Shizuka walked downstairs.
"Have you checked your luggage before leaving?" Michiko assured Shizuka as she walked towards the front door.
"Yes mum, I have checked everything." Shizuka said as she glanced towards her mum before sitting down to wear her sneakers.
"Oh, yeah… Don't forget to bring a small umbrella just in case." Michiko said as she took one of the small folded umbrella and placed on the side pocket of her bag.
"Okay, thanks mom…." She said as she stood up after finally worn her sneakers. She then proceeded to give her mum a small peck at her cheek before leaving the house.
"Bye mom!" She exclaimed before opening the door.
"By, dear!" Her mum replied before the door closed.
Shizuka marched towards Nobi residence. Putting her headset on both of her ears, she played her favourite playlist while walking there. Humming the tone of the music and occasionally singing faintly as she walked.
The weather that day wasn't sunny and wasn't overcast either. The sky was pretty cloudy. It's not too hot nor too cold either for a summer day. It was the perfect day.
After 3 musics or so, she has arrived at Nobi residence. She knocked on the door and waited patiently for an answer.
"Konichiwa!" She exclaimed as she took out her headset.
After a bit of a while, someone answered her.
"Okay, Shizuka-chan! I'll be there in a bit!" Nobita exclaimed from inside.
Shizuka noticed Nobita was placing something heavy from the commotion inside the house. This made her wonder what he was bringing to the Resort.
Then the door swung open, revealing the bespectacled boy that she might have crush on. He was currently wearing a white hat and a summer attire.
"Morning, Shizuka-chan?" Nobita exclaimed. Shizuka answered him as she looked at what he was carrying over his shoulders.
"M-mountain bag?" She asked.
"Shizuka-chan asked the same question too?" He exclaimed.
"L-let's just say that he was a bit comfortable bringing the back…." Doraemon said as he pushed Nobita forward.
"O-okay then…" Shizuka hesitantly nodded "Shall we get going? I'm pretty sure Suneo and Gian is on their way there too.
"Oh yeah, okay…. Bye Mom! Bye Doraemon!" Nobita said as he waved his hands.
"Bye Mrs. Nobi! Bye Dora-chan! Shizuka said as she left the house too.
At the station…
Nobita and Shizuka had arrived at the station. They glanced left and right to check for their friends, but they're nowhere to be seen. It seems like they were the first to arrive.
"Wow, we're first to arrive here…." Shizuka said to the bespectacled boy.
"Let's sat down in that tree?" Nobita said as he sat down on a small tree that has a place to sit around it in front of the station.
"Good idea!" Shizuka trailed off.
Then they sat down in the tree. Nobita glanced at the nearest vending machine, and then nudged Shizuka.
"Oi, Shizuka-chan there's a vending machine….I'll go get some drinks" Nobita said. "You want some drinks too?"
"Oh, yeah sure!"
"What'd you want?"
"Orange Juice please." She said as she showed her index finger.
"Okay, hold on a second." Nobita said as he about to left for the vending machine.
"Hey! Here's my money!" Shizuka exclaimed as she handed out few coins. But Nobita rejected it.
"Nope, I'll pay for it. Few hundred yen wouldn't hurt that much right?" Nobita said.
"Yeah but…."
"Nope, no need to change the money." Nobita said as he left Shizuka for the Vending Machine.
While Nobita was taking some drink, Nonko came. She wasn't directly greeted Shizuka that was sitting alone. Instead she surprised her. She then pulled her big suitcase and placed in on the chair.
"Uh, sorry can I have this seat?" She asked politely as if Shizuka was a stranger.
"Oh, okay… No Prob- Non-chan!" Shizuka replied politely before noticing that it was Nonko.
"Hey! Where's Nobita-kun?" Nonko asked.
"Oh, he's there, taking some drink…. Oh look he came back…" Shizuka said as she points at the bespectacled figure walking towards them.
"Who's mountain bag is that?" Nonko asked as she sat down.
"Oh, it was Nobita. You can ask him why…"
Then Nobita came to the girls with two can of beverage on both of his hands. He then greeted Nonko.
"Oh hey, Non-chan!" He exclaimed. "And here's your juice, Shizuka-chan…" He handed over the cold beverage towards Shizuka. She thanked him.
"Hey, Nobita-kun!" Nonko greeted back. "By the way, what's with the Mountain Backpack?" She asked.
"Oh, again?" Nobita groaned. "Let's just say that I was comfortable bringing this bag here."
Then Gian and Suneo's thunderous greeting struck Nobita from the back.
"Oi, Nobita-kun.. Shizuka-san and Nonko-chan!" Gian greeted.
"By the way, what's with the Mountain bag, Nobita-kun?" Suneo asked as he marquee over the mountain bag over Nobita's back.
"Y-you too?" Nobita exclaimed "Don't ask me why!"
"Anyways, 'Sup Gian, Suneo!" He exclaimed and wanted to give Suneo a high five. But Suneo tricked him and he fell (Somehow)
"Hey, Suneo-san!" Shizuka exclaimed and gave him a complete high five. Followed by Nonko who did just that.
Nobita groaned at the sight of that "Oh, come on, Suneo! This is a discrimination against humanity!" He exclaimed.
"Oh sorry sorry, I didn't see you." Suneo said as he gave him a sly grin.
Then Gian gave an initiative to give him a high five. But he tricked him too. Because Nobita wanted to give Gian a hard high five, he has created enough momentum and he fell over again.
Gian laughed at the sight.
"Hahahaha, don't be so easy to be tricked, Nobita-san!" He exclaimed.
Nobita stood up again as he got a bit worked up, "Hey, what's with that." He yelled at Gian, literally.
Gian responded by clenching his fist and beamed at him in terrifying way. "hey hey hey, it looks like we have someone to throw my punch on."
Shizuka and Nonko watched as the boy got worked up in tricking Nobita.
"Does this happen often when you're in elementary school?" Nonko asked.
"Beats me…" She said as she took her bag. "But, at least it wasn't as worse 2 years ago." She said.
"What? it's way worse then?" Nonko said, somewhat surprised.
"Yes, yes it was" Shizuka chuckled as she glanced over her watch.
She then walked past the boys, Nonko trailed behind her.
"Oi, let's go catch the train. The train will arrive in a few minutes." Shizuka said.
The boys obeyed Shizuka's order. And took their belongings as they trailed Shizuka towards the ticket queue.
Suneo had bought them a reservation ticket few days ago (That was 700 Yen more expensive than the original ticket) and they boarded the Shinkanses.
The Shinkansen blasted off towards Sendai at the speed of over 200 Km/h. They sat down comfortably in their respective seats as the train blasted through the interior of the island. They enjoyed their own time with their phone and magazines.
All of them proceed to fall asleep 30 minutes after leaving Tokyo.
After an hour of riding, they have arrived at the town of Sendai. As the Shinkansen approached the Sendai Station, Shizuka was the first to wake up. She glanced over the outside and she was a bit disappointed at the sight of rainwater covering the window up. She can see how dark it is in the outside, even though it was 11.04 AM.
Then Nobita woke up. He was the second to woke up after Shizuka. Then he said to her.
"Disappointed by the rain, eh?" He asked as he woke up. He watched as Shizuka blue eyes glanced at him. Both Nobita and Shizuka was still drowsy in their neck pillows.
Shizuka nodded as a response to the bespectacled boy.
"I just hope that it's not going to rain tonight…" She replied.
"Yeah, We hope so." Nobita said.
Then the rest of the gang woke up as the train come to a complete stop. They need to be quick because the train left again in a few minutes from now. They disembarked the train and headed towards the bus station, to catch a bus towards the mountains.
The strong scent of wet ground entered their noses. It made them a bit relaxed and comfortable for a second before realizing that they need to go to catch the bus before it was too late.
As they ran through the tarmac, raindrops started to fall down to the earth. The western horizon is very dark. 'Dark Grey haze' was seen approaching the station.
They finally embarked the bus before the rain came down, hard. The heavy rain poured down in the city of Sendai.
"Huh, it's raining pretty hard now." Suneo frowned.
"I just hoped that it's not going to rain tonight." Gian said, mirroring the fox headed kid frown.
"If that did happen, then…?" Nonko asked.
"We still have Doraemon to rely on…." Shizuka answered "Don't worry….. right Nobita" Shizuka said to the bespectacled boy who was looking at the road.
He glanced at her with a mean glance "Huh, you said to me that we shouldn't rely Doraemon help…." He said. "Now you wanted his help…" He added.
"Te he…." She chuckled as she took out her tongue in playful way.
"Well, he did say that If we need help, we can let him know…." Nobita said. "So, that's still possible…"
"Yeah, we'll let him know tonight…." Suneo said.
Then the bus started to take a climb towards the mountainous area western of Sendai. The rainstorm still poured hard and with no sign of stopping anytime soon.
The weather made Suneo somewhat anxious. Turns out he was worried about Suzume's well being. Because she was climbing a mountain. Gian was the first to notice his anxiousness.
"Oi, Suneo… what'dya thinkin'?" He said.
"U-uhh, well…." Suneo said, snapped from his thinking session. "I-I just worried about someone…." He added
"Who?" Gian said.
Nobita, Shizuka and Nonko glanced at him, as if they were awaiting for an answer.
"I-it was Suzy-chan actually…." Suneo said.
The gang was stunned, except for Nobita who knew that Suzume and Suneo has a ' truce'
"Well, she did hike at this time of hour." Shizuka replied.
"She might be hiking down a mountain currently." Nonko added.
"Yeah, you probably correct."
"You cared for her, Suneo!" Gian said, smacking the fox headed kid's shoulder in playful way.
"Eh, i-I'm not even cared about her!" Suneo said, as he denies everything.
"Hehehe, you're in denial!" Nonko exclaimed.
Shizuka was laughing in the background. While Nobita was smirking at him in the background.
After 30 minutes or so, the bus had reached the attitude of 1,870 Meters above sea level on the mountains. The rain still poured down, but the raindrops became smaller and finer. The valleys of the highland was covered with fine mist of thick fog. The silhouette of the hills across the broad valley can be seen through the thick fog.
Eventually the bus stopped at a big resort in the mountain. The resort has a big parking lot. Infact it has two, on the opposite sides of the road. Few cars was seen lined up on the parking lot.
Then Suneo came forward, carrying his luggage. Then he paid for the entire gang.
But he was hesitant when he was about to exit the bus. Of course he was, it was raining pretty bad outside. Then he came back at his friends who was standing in the bus.
"Hey, do you guys have umbrella's?" He asked.
"I have a small umbrella, and a pair of sandals." Shizuka said, she had worn her sandals and had her umbrella taken out.
"I too have a small umbrella… enough for one person." Nonko said.
"Well, I don't have any…." Nobita said, "Me neither." Gian added his answer.
"Well, How are we going to go through the rain?" Suneo said.
"I think you should run?" Shizuka advised.
"Running wasn't really an option, since we have a heavy luggage." Nobita said.
"Yeah, it'll make our stuff soaking wet." Gian said.
As the gang were having a testy exchange, the bus driver took pity of them. Since they were the only passenger of the bus at that time, the bus driver decided to park his bus directly in front of the resort's lobby. He then asked the teens
"Hey kids! How about I parked my bus in the front of the lobby?" He offered.
The teens got surprised and excited. But in the same time, they have a feeling to reject his offer.
"N-no we can figure this out ourselves." Nobita said as he shook his hands together with his head.
"We couldn't let ourselves waste your time, sir…" Shizuka said.
"Nope, It's not going to waste anyone's time." He said. "Besides it's just right there… and you guys were the only passenger this time around." He said as he engaged the reverse gear and backed up.
Then he took his bus into the parking lot and proceed to enter the front of the lobby, where there was a pretty good cover against the torrential rain.
The gang thanked him and Suneo gave him a big tip. But the Driver rejects his tip.
"Nope, you can have your money…. It's my job to make my passengers satisfied if I could…." He said as he shook his hand.
"Oh, okay okay… Thank you very much sir!" Suneo exclaimed as he followed his friends.
As he stepped out from the bus. The cold humid air of the mountain struck his skin. Even though it's not too cold, but it was considerably cold.
"Well, should we head in already?" Nobita asked as he took his mountain bag.
"Yeah, let's go!" Suneo exclaimed as he leads the gang into the resort lobby.
The gang trailed him off, as he enters the resort.
Suneo then checked in and bought 3 rooms. He divided the total of his gang and the number of each room occupant, in which the number 3 came up. Little did he remember, that he forgot to count that there were 3 boys and 3 girls. So, one pair needed to be a boy and a girl.
He also don't know that the resort room can house for around 4 person each. In his mind, he knew that each room can only have 2 occupants in it. He was imagining it was just a hotel room,. But in reality, it was different.
He hadn't realized it until he handed over the cards.
"Hmm, Gian, you're with me…." Suneo said, "Nonko, you're going to be with Suzy chan…." Suneo said as he handed over the card to Nonko
"Oh, okay!" She exclaimed.
"And Shizuka, will be on the same room as….." He paused when he realized his mistake.
"N-nobita?" Suneo said
Shizuka's cheek turned a beet red. Same goes with Nobita. Her blue eyes beamed at him.
"Wha- Wha- What did you think! There's no way I'm staying with Nobita-san!" Shizuka yelled at him.
"S-sorry I don't know!" Suneo said, defending himself.
"Huh, what are you thinking before?" Shizuka yelled at him.
"I-i…uhhh…" Suneo said, he didn't know what to say and do. He has overbooked a quite expensive room
"Return the room!" Shizuka crossed her arms.
"Eh! H-how…." Suneo said.
"I don't care! Return it!" Shizuka exclaimed with her beet red cheek
"O-okay….." Suneo said, as he was defeated by Shizuka.
Then Suneo returned to the counter. He was hesitant to do so…
"Umm, ma'am.." He said to the Resort Receptionist.
"Yes?" She said, as she glanced away from the computer screen.
"Can we return the room, we overbooked it?" Suneo said, practically clinging against the table because his height.
"I'm sorry, but it was against our policy…" She said "Any room that have been rented, can't be returned before 24 hours."
Shizuka heard the conversation between the two, and approached the receptionist.
"Uh, ma'am we're overbooked here…. Is there any way to return the booked room?" Shizuka asked politely.
"I'm so sorry, but it was against our policy…" The receptionist said.
"Well, I can't stay on a room with a boy alone…" Shizuka said.
"Still, I'm so sorry…." The receptionist said. "You can just stay with the other girls right?"
"Yeah, but…. I felt guilty leaving him alone…" Shizuka said as she glanced over to the bespectacled boy who was looking towards the outside.
Then Shizuka glanced again with a pleading face. But the receptionist insisted again that it was against their policy. Shizuka was defeated, she turned on her back and walked back to Nobita, Nonko and Gian
"So, what does she say?" Nobita asked, glancing back towards the frowned pigtailed girl.
"We can't…" Shizuka said.
"Oh, that's too bad…." Nobita said, mirroring the pigtailed girl's downcast.
Then Suneo came back to the group. "Hey, let's head to our room…." He said.
"Yeah good idea, my luggage is heavy…." Nonko said.
Then Suneo Gian and Nonko walked towards the left side hallway. Shizuka and Nobita stood there, before exchanging glance for a second. After that they decided to follow Suneo anyway.
Their room was placed in the 2nd floor of the Resort. Suneo's room is facing the ski area. While Nonko and Shizuka's room are facing outside to the valley.
As the gang entered their room, the same goes with Nobita and Shizuka, they were reluctant to enter their room. Shizuka still disdaining at Suneo fumed a little inside the room.
"How could he forgot that there's 6 person in here." She murmured. "Look, it could even fit 4 people here!" She said as she entered the main room.
"Huh, enough… Shizuka-chan… I felt the same" Nobita said as he entered the room with an intention to calm Shizuka down.
Then Shizuka stared at him. Nobita wonders why. Then she said
"Don't ever dream about taking opportunity, Nobita-san…" Shizuka said,
"Huh! What!? I'm not interested in taking opportunity" Nobita exclaimed. "Heck, I'm not even interested in you…" Nobita added.
Shizuka eyes widened, as if she was guilty of what sentence she just said. She looks like somewhat wanted to revert sentence she has said.
"Uhh, t-that's not what I want…." Shizuka murmured.
"Huh?"
"Nono, forget that!"
"O-okay.." Nobita said as he placed his mountain bag in the room.
"Huh, I guess we have to just enjoy the short vacation anyway…." Nobita said as he opened the bedroom door.
"Yeah, I agree…." Shizuka sighed as she was trying to accept the fact that she was with a room with a boy she 'definitely don't like'.
Then Nobita walked over to the window. The room has a pretty big balcony in it, facing eastward (Outside of the resort). The valley can be seen faintly behind the thick mist of rainfall.
"Oh look, we got pretty nice view out here…" Nobita said.
Shizuka followed him in the balcony after putting some of her stuff beside Nobita's mountain bag. A slight gust of wind, blew over them. The wind were carrying few droplets of rainwater and landed onto their face.
"u..uh…" Shizuka said as the wind struck her face. "Wow, this is a good view."
"Yeah, we might be able to see the City of Sendai from here." Nobita said as he marqueed over the seemingly empty 'gray' area behind a hill across the valley.
"Too bad that it was raining currently." Nobita said.
The slight gust of wind, caused some of his hairs to get over his face. He then brushed his hair back, he did this on the right time, as Shizuka was glancing at him.
"Well, yeah too bad that it was currently raining-" Shizuka stopped as she witnessed Nobita tossing his hair.
She gazed at him for a while "Wow, what did I just see…..…wait why I was intrigued by this view?... Nonono, it can't be….. But he's cute though… No, I don't like him… But he looks cute!" Those thought ran through her head before Nobita snapped her out.
"Uh, Shizuka-chan… What'cha looking at?" He asked.
"U-uhhh Nothing!" She exclaimed. Her cheek turned red again. "W-what if I go inside…. It's getting a bit chilly here."
"Uh, yeah… Now you said that." Nobita said "It really does get chilly here." He trailed off before entering the room.
"Anyways, Shizuka-chan…." He said as he closed back the balcony door. "Do you want to use the….bathtub..?" He said, his voice got slower as he glanced back at Shizuka.
Shizuka was releasing her pigtail, she did this usually when she was relaxed. Shizuka whipped her hair after she released the pigtail, revealing her hair. Shizuka hair was much longer compared to what Nobita had seen last year.
He gazed at her for a minute.
"Yeah, I might use the bathtub…. Why though?" Shizuka asked as she glanced at Nobita who got his cheek a bit red.
"Yeaaa, nothing… Just asking" Nobita said, glancing away and scratching the back of his neck. "By the way, how will we change clothes?" Nobita asked.
"Hmm, we can use the bathroom right?" Shizuka said as she took a glance over to the bathroom. "It's pretty wide… And has 2 separate room."
"Hmm, yeah" Nobita said, as he also took a glance inside the bathroom behind Shizuka. "Wow, what a wide bathroom" He said as he took a glance inside the main bathroom. The bathtub is pretty big, with a showering room beside it.
"We might also use the bedroom though." Shizuka said as she walked over to the bedroom. She then opened her bag to take some clothes, soaps and shampoos.
"Okay sure…." Nobita said as he sat down on the chairs in the main room.
"Well, you can knock on the door if you need anything…." Shizuka said as she entered the bathroom.
"hmm."
Meanwhile, at the front of Suneo's door. Nonko was seen knocking on the door.
"Oi, Suneo-san…." She said.
Then after a while, the door opened.
"yeah, what?" Suneo asked.
"Suzume said that she's going to be here soon."
"Then?"
"What else! You came and pick her up…" Nonko exclaimed.
"Why wouldn't you do that yourself…." Suneo said, glancing away.
"Well, I have to take a bath…." Nonko said. "That's why I have my towel wrapped around my neck."
"W-well, I have something to do…"
"No, you're not…"
"Well, she's here! Get her Suneo-san…" Nonko said pulling Suneo out and pushing him away from the room.
"E-eeh….. Okay okay I'll get her…" Suneo said finally accepting her.
"Goodluck!" Nonko said.
Then Suneo walked outside, taking 2 small umbrella's with him. Yeah, Nonko was right. Suzume's bus has been arrived at the bus stop in front of the resort.
He quickly went to meet Suzume in the bus stop. She glanced left and right, and was seen typing messages on her phone.
"Oi, Suzy-chan!" Suneo said as he approached the bus stop.
"Oh, Suneo-san… What are you doing here?" Suzume replied.
"Nonko asked me to pick you up…" Suneo said. "Here is the umbrella…."
"Why are you the one who picked me up, Desert Lizard?" Suzume said.
Suneo glanced at her before saying,
"Well, you wanted to use the umbrella or not, you fricking Blonde Monkey?!" Suneo asked, practically yelling at her.
"Y-yeah of course!" Suzume said as she snatched the umbrella.
"Let's go already…." Suneo said as he turned back and walked towards the Resort. Suzume nodded and trailed him off.
Long story short, the gang had went through the rainy afternoon in the Resort. Doing everything they can to kill the time.
The same day, 7.46 PM
The rain had stopped that night. The gang was at their respective room, doing pretty much anything. Nobita was currently sleeping, Suneo and Gian were playing some games together, while Nonko, Suzume, and Shizuka were returning from the hot spring in the resort.
Shizuka then entered her room, wearing a Yukata. She tied her hair to a quick ponytail. After putting her clothes on separate plastic bag, she then prepared the food she had bought from the Resort Services.
After she did that, she approached Nobita who was sleeping fast on his futon. Shizuka intention was to wake him up to have a dinner.
"Oi, Nobita-san wake up!" Shizuka said, nudging him multiple times.
But Nobita won't open his eyes. Instead, he turned around. "Mmmph, shut up Doraemon…."
"Oi, woke up! Dinner is ready." Shizuka said, hitting him softly on his shoulder.
Then Nobita opened his eyes. A blurry figure can be seen wearing some sort of pink think. He looked closely at it, but he still couldn't figure out who is that. Then he reached around for his glasses, and wore them. Turns out it was Shizuka, gazing at him.
"Oooh, S-Shizuka-chan…" Nobita said before yawning.
"Yeah, it's me… Wake up, dinner is ready." Shizuka said.
"Oh is it?" Nobita said as he scrunched up his eyes. "The rest of the gang are waiting for me?" He said, glancing to the bedroom door.
"Actually no, they were having dinner in their own room."
"Let's go already…." He said as he stood up. "My stomach is empty right now…"
Shizuka chuckled before following him on his trail.
"So, they did have smaller yukatas?" Nobita asked as he sat down on the dining table.
"Yeah, turns out they do…"
"Well, at least you got what you want right?"
"Yup, I don't have to wear adult sized Yukata." Shizuka chuckled as she took some Miso Soup from the big bowl.
"By the way, where'd you get all of this?" Nobita asked.
"I bought it actually." Shizuka said as she took sip of the Miso Soup.
"Oh…. I think we should divide the bill.." Nobita offered.
"Nono, no problem. I got this…." Shizuka insisted.
"But…"
"No, Nobita-san…. I got this, really.."
"You sure?"
"Yeah!"
And they were having a great dinner that night. The foods were great and warm. That's what they needs in the cold mountain climate. While eating their dinner, they were trading jokes and sharing some puns.
After having the dinner together, they neatly tidied up the plates and placed them in front of the resort room for the Resort workers to take. After that they decided to watch some TV to wait the call from their friends.
"Hey, Shizuka-chan… Let's watch some TV shall we?"
"Sure!"
Then they watched TV Together, but when deciding what to watch, they have some sort of disagreements.
"Oh look! My Idol!" Shizuka said as she was gazing fanatically at her idol, playing drama in the TV. Nobita, has the remote in his hand, he ignored her and changed it to a superhero movie he wanted to watch.
"Hey hey hey! What are you doing?" Shizuka said, glaring at Nobita. "Change it back!"
"No! I wanted to watch this movie!"
"No, you won't! I wanted to watch my idol acting! Give me the remote!" Shizuka exclaimed as she was reaching for the remote.
"No, you can't!" Shizuka said as she was trying to reach the remote from Nobita's hand.
Nobita stood up, followed by Shizuka. Shizuka was practically pressed against Nobita to take the remote. Nobita has to back up slowly as Shizuka presses against his body. He puts the remote as far as possible on his top rear.
Then he went too far, his center of gravity got so close to the point of falling. Shizuka who was 'clinging' against him this whole time, made things much worse. Both teens then tripped and fell.
Shizuka fell on top of Nobita. Nobita and Shizuka were in awkward position right now. Their faces were so close together than they could ever imagine.
They're exchanging gaze for a while. Shizuka's fluster went so red, the same goes with Nobita. They froze on their current position.
"MY GOD! THIS IS THE MOMENT!" Shizuka panicked in her heart. Butterflies exploded inside her stomach, and flowers were blooming
"THIS IS THE BIGGEST EXISTENTIAL CRISIS!" Nobita yelled inside his heart.
"Move…" Shizuka faintly said.
"Y-you first.." Nobita said.
Their faces is so close that they can barely feel and hear their breath.
Then a call came in, disturbing their time with that. Shizuka got up and rushed to answer the call. She checked out who it was, turns out it was Non-chan. Calling in the 'worst possible time'
"What do you want!?" Shizuka exclaimed in somewhat angry tone.
"Oh, I just want to tell you that we should gather at the Resort Lobby for stargaze." Nonko said on the other side of the line.
"Oh, okay…" Shizuka said, somewhat calmed down. "When?"
"Around 10 PM, Suneo said."
"Oh okay…." Shizuka replied. "We'll be there."
"Okay," Nonko replied.
"By the way, why are you picking my call angrily? Did I disturb you two or anything?"
"N-no! Y-y-you're fine…. I swear.."
"Uh ok then, bye!" Nonko said before she hung up.
"Ok, bye!"
Then after she put her phone back on the table, she glanced over to Nobita, who was staring at her, still flustered by what just happened.
"H-h-hey, l-let's not do that again….." Shizuka said as she sat down behind Nobita.
"Y-yeah agree." Nobita said.
"How dare you, Non-chan! Destroying the best moment in my life!" Shizuka angerly said inside her heart. "But, did Nobita also enjoyed this moment? Nah, he wouldn't enjoy it…. Besides he didn't have a crush on me…"
While on the opposite side, Nobita was also having a similar thought.
"By the way, what does Nonko said?"
"Oh, she said that we should gather in the lobby around 10 PM to stargaze."
"Ah okay…."
They continued doing things, but the atmosphere got a little awkward for the two. They were hesitant to even look at each face.
Long story short, It was now 10 PM. Nobita and Shizuka were ready to go down to meet their friends. They have prepared their notebooks and pen. They also grabbed their phones, just in case.
Then they walked towards the lobby. The two was still somewhat looked awkward. It was quickly Noticed by Nonko and Suzume.
"Oh hey, Nobita-kun and Shizuka-san." Nonko greeted.
"You two looked awkward, did something happened between you two?" Suzume goaded them.
Shizuka face turned a bright red and answered her immediately "No! Nothing!"
"Hmmm….." Suzume said…. Grimaced as she does so.
"I-I promise…" Shizuka said.
"Okay okay, I'm not going to goad you…" Suzume said.
"Let's go guys, let's go to the top of the Ski Resort…. I hope the sky was crystal clear tonight.." Suneo said as he exited the lobby and headed towards the ski course.
The ski course was tremendously wide. Its stretches from the height of the mountain to the Resort itself. The gondola was there, but it wasn't on operational period.
"Dad's friend said that the top of the course reaches the height of almost 2000 Meters above sea level." Suneo said, showing some sort of proudness, even though it wasn't his dad.
"Wow, sugoi!" Shizuka said.
"Hoi, how we are going to reach the top?" Gian said "It's pitch black there, we wouldn't walk there right?"
"Nope, we will use the golf cart…." Suneo said as he pointed towards the lined up golf carts.
"Ski Resorts have golf carts? I didn't know that…" Nobita said.
"yes they do, they usually used it on other seasons, to accommodate people that will use the Ski Course on any other seasons." Suneo explained.
"Let's get to it already…." Nobita said as he approached the cart.
"Okay, we need to use 2 carts though, because 1 cart can only be used by 4 peoples"
"The girl will be using the other cart…" Suneo added.
"Ehhh, o-okay.." Suzume agreed. "Non-chan… You drive."
"Hm, okay then." Nonko said as she entered the driver seat.
"Nobita, you drive on our cart!" Gian said.
"Huh, okay then if that's what you wish…"
Then they drove towards the top of the resort. The weather that night is pretty chilly and the sky is just as they're hoping. The stars started popping up as they got further and further from the resort. As they approached the top of the hill, they exited their vehicles and stared towards the sky. With awe, they were looking at the majestic Milky Way Galaxy, amongst the sea of stars.
The moon wasn't in sight of the sky, which was pretty good time for a stargaze. Moonlight causes small light pollution.
Then they started to sat down on the grass. The grass wasn't too thick in the area they sat down in. However, the ground wasn't dry though. Frankly, Suneo had carried some carpet with him.
Then they did some stargaze. With the help of their phone's flashlights, they wrote everything they saw and drew it on their Notebooks, as instructed by their teacher. Nobita has enough knowledge on the stars in the sky (Despite his science and math skill is very low to none). Most knowledge he got, mainly came from Sci-fi manga he read.
Shizuka had some difficulty in spotting some major stars at that time.
"Oi, Nobita-san…. Where is the Orion Constellation." Shizuka asked.
"Oh, it's right there…." Nobita marqueed over an area in the sky.
"Where?" Shizuka asked again.
"Hmm… Here…" Nobita said as he held Shizuka's far shoulder and pulled her close to his body.
Shizuka got heated up, her cheek turned red (yet again) as she cannot focus on what Nobita said.
"You see that constellation right there….." Nobita said to Shizuka. But Shizuka could not understand what he said, mainly because she can't concentrate on it.
"Ehhh, what is he doing? ….. Wait, he is just telling me where the constellation is…. But why is he wasn't hesitant to do it?... Did he has a crush on me?" Shizuka said before being snapped by Nobita.
"You got it, Shizuka-chan?" He said finishing his explanation.
Of course Shizuka was blank this entire time. She just nodded at Nobita and she continued working on her notebook, ostensibly drawing something. Even though in reality, she was writing nothing. "T-thanks, Nobita-san…."
"Okie!" Nobita said, giving her a 'nice' gesture.
After 30 minutes of star gazing, they finally finished their assignment. Their Notebooks were full of Constellation drawings and explanations.
"I think that's it….." Suneo said.
"Pheeew…. It's finally done, We have done the first and only summer assignment!" Nonko said stretching her hands.
"Yeah, it sure feels great" Shizuka added.
"Anyways, let's return to the Resort shall we? It's getting a bit chilly here…" Nobita said, crossing his arms.
"You're weak Nobita!" Gian said smacking Nobita's back.
"Yeah, I wanted to return to the Resort already, I'm tired as hell…" Suzume said, as she yawns.
"Yeah, I agree with her." Nonko said.
"Okay then let's return to the resort." Nobita said as he came back at the Golf cart, while Suneo and Gian was tidying up the carpets.
"By the way, what are you planning to do tonight, Suneo-san?" Nobita asked as he drove back down the course.
"How about we took a dip in the Resort's Hot Spring?" Suneo offered.
"Great idea!" Nobita exclaimed.
"But we shouldn't be there for too long, otherwise we would catch cold." Gian said.
"Yeah"