Old Faces, New Lives


The scorching sun and the shimmering air of summer afternoon are killing all creatures yet to find themselves shelters, at least that's how Yuuki Ashikaga feels, and such sensation drives him into the convenient store attached to the gas station. The store is indeed convenient, for not only selling cold beverages, also for it providing tables and chairs for beverage-consumption — what Yuuki is doing. "Why I decided to leave the air-condition-protected dormitory of my university for a stroll? Stupid! Stupid!" Cooling himself down internally by the beverage just purchased and externally by the blowing cold wind from the air-condition vents, the boy is regretting his actions, almost smashes his head against the floor-to-ceiling windows in front of him — if it's not painful. That' right, Yuuki Ashikaga had graduated from Sakakino Gakuen and enrolled in a university located in another city, and this is his sophomore year. Since the campus is far, far away from his home, naturally Yuuki chose to sleep in the dormitory, saving the trouble of traveling for dozens of miles…as well as submitting to his "abusing" elder sister. Actually he decides to stay in his dorm room during the upcoming summer vacation, and he's confident this is not the worst idea he ever had — video games around-the-clock and sister issues, doesn't need to be a rocket scientist to choose between them.

Outside the thick glass sheets is the array of refueling machines. Cars come and go, drivers hop out to refill gasoline then hop in to drive away, some also visit the convenient store for refilling themselves before leaving. Yuuki has no interests to those passing-by people, just staring idly and thinks about how long the out-door temperature will drop to safety level (after sunset). Then a certain automobile drives in and stops right next to the refueling machine closest to Yuuki's window, only a few meters by straight-line distance. The car itself is nothing special, some genetic model you can see in a large quantity every single day, but when the driver gets off to operate the machine, Yuuki's eyes immediately widen and almost throws himself out of seat.

Kotonoha Katsura, one of Yuuki Ashikaga's…well, not his classmate, but they do know each other as schoolmates, also a person he never expects to meet again. Back to the days of Sakakino Gakuen, Yuuki used to be the assistant manager of the school's library, and Kotonoha was a frequent visitor of the library, so he was allowed many chances to admire her beauty and voluptuousness plus numerous occasions to have conversations with her, subsequently a crush on her was developed. But Yuuki was never brave enough to confess, meanwhile Kotonoha also never viewed him more than an acquaintance. Later, after acknowledging she and Makoto Itou were dating, he gave up his feelings and instead solely concentrated on academics. Then suddenly there was a news that Kotonoha and Makoto both submitted requests of a one-year suspension of schooling and were never heard from again, some rumors said they went to study abroad, even said he married her and moved to a foreign country with her entire family. None of those rumors concerned the boy since he had already chosen to focus on studying, which may have factored into why things hadn't worked out with Roka Kitsuregawa, much to his sister's displeasure. But now, right here, she is in his sight again, is this an arrangement of some overwatching deities?

It seems Kotonoha doesn't discover Yuuki and keeps refueling her vehicle, maybe her mind is so devoted to resume her journey, or maybe the windows are not that transparent from the exterior, either of the two possibilities grants him an opportunity to take a hard look on this beautiful, extremely well-endowed young lady. Obviously she still retains all the properties constituting her magnificence: Flawless skin, dark-purple irises, crotch-length silky and straight hair of blackish violet, slender waist, flat belly, round and firm hip…her legs are hidden in an opaque long skirt, but it's not difficult to picture how curvaceous they are.

Then, of course, the breasts of every male's fantasy. Yuuki had heard many boys in Sakakino Gakuen discussed about those heavenly entities and expressed dirty thoughts, and he couldn't deny he was among these "many", someone called Taisuke Sawanaga even once said he wanted to grope and suckle them so badly that he might resort in raping. Now he can clearly see these most important assets of Kotonoha's had gone even more prominent, grown from melon-sized to watermelon-sized and are straining her shirt to limit.

Having finished refueling, Kotonoha makes for the driver's seat, snapping Yuuki out of his reminiscence. Springing from seat, he has all manner of questions running through his mind, thirsty for answers:

Did she and Makoto Itou marry? And had children?

Did she get enrolled into a university? Or got a job instead?

If she's studying in a university now, is it the same one he's currently in?

…or maybe she had broken up with that Itou guy, open to another relationship?

Too late, by the time of getting out from the convenient store, the voluptuous beauty had already driven away, leaving the boy lamenting his hesitation and bad luck. Defeated, Yuuki can only return to his table, inwardly cursing his slow-reacting and indecision.

"Why didn't I just show myself up directly? Stupid! Stupid!"