Chapter 2: UGH!

"Darling you're the only thing that's going on in my mind" ~

"It's been how long since then, like 3 days I think" Masamune thought to himself while lying on the floor of his bedroom staring at the ceiling. It had been three days since he encountered this mysterious kohai of his, who he didn't even know his name. Three days, and Masamune is still thinking about him. For some odd reason he couldn't get the boy out of his head. He couldn't stop thinking about the boys innocent face, gentle figure, brilliant green eyes, and most of all, his all too genuine smile.

That was the part that made Masamune uneasy, afraid in a way. Masamune had been exposed to so many fake and deceiving relationships he didn't even know how to react to a seemingly normal person. He had extreme trust issues, so whenever that sweet smile flashed in his mind he would become on edge, not knowing the other's personality or intentions.

"pffft I'm thinking way too much into this. I met the kid once, didn't even learn his name, and now I'm thinking about him as if we've had this crazy ass connection or something. What the hell is wrong with me?"

Masamune scolded himself, laughing at the way he was feeling about all this. In reality, no matter how much he laughed and joked about it, he was genuinely feeling turmoil. He just didn't want to show it. Remember that's Masamune's signature theme, being as blank as a canvas.

"You know what, fuck it I'm goin to bed" he said towards Sorata as he stood up to turn off the light. He crawled under the covers and let his mind go crazy with all the things he was thinking of. You would think, with this much anxiety the kid is probably a freaking insomniac. But no, he slept soundly, enjoying the quiet darkness his room provided.

The next day Masamune rose ever so slowly, dreading every second of it, to go to school. After he was done getting ready he made his way downstairs and started putting on his shoes. The genkan was silent of any joy, any laughter, and any words. There was no one else there besides Masamune, no one to say good bye as he went to school. At this point though Masamune was already used to it, and if it were any other way he would probably think the world was coming to an end. The thought of his parents there in the morning to talk with him and wish him a good day at school was like asking The Kardashian's to stop, it was never going to fucking happen.

At school Masamune felt this sort of, on edge feeling, like everyone was looking at him. Secretly, subconsciously, masamune was hoping he would see his kouhai somewhere. Then he thought about how stupid of an idea that was in the first place because he was on the third floor and the all the younger kids were on the floors below him. He went into his classroom and sat in his seat, ready to get the day over with until he felt a tap on his shoulder

" ~Ohayo saga-kun"

Masamune looked up to see a familiar face. A pretty girl with shoulder length, burgundy hair, dark eyes, and was tall for her age. Ayena Koji, the proclaimed "weird bitch" of all the third year students. She was a bit odd, only liking to be by herself most of the time, with a very crude sense of humor, and blatant disregard for anyone around her. The weird thing was that the only person she ever talks to is Masamune, not even as really close friends or anything, just random little conversations. On top of that the girl would appear out of nowhere like a damn ghost. Masamune had often times before asked her why she talked to him of all people and she simply responded with a smile

"Because you're just as awful as I am"

Ever since then Masamune would just humor her and listen to whatever it was she wanted to talk about. Masamune did dislike pretty much everyone, but he wasn't about to tell her to get lost.

"What's up Koji-san?" Masamune flatly said to the girl. She smiled and sat down in the desk in front of him, sitting down so that she would be facing in his direction. She put her head in her hands and proceeded with her request

"Wanna help me out with something?"

"Like what?"

"My little brother is a first year and he needs two seniors to help him with his assignment"

"What for?"

"It's for his English class; he has to interview at least two seniors to learn their perspective on how it is to be in their last year of high school, about to go to college. I was wondering if you'd like to be our last little piece to our threesome" She said while clapping her hands together and smiling mischievously. Masamune just stared at her, wanting to flat out deny her, but then she spoke up again,

"Besides, my brother has a friend that also wants to use us as his seniors too, because he doesn't know anyone else."

"Why are you so eager to help these kids, Ayena? I thought you hated everyone, so I'm a little shocked at how determined you are to get me to help you?

"Didn't you hear me? I said it was for my brother. I might despise everyone else but not my sweet little brother"

Masamune detected a hint of sarcasm in that statement. He didn't really want to help Ayena with this little project and sure as hell didn't feel like reminiscing about his last year of high school to some kid who didn't even know him. However, Masamune knew that Ayena was persistent and wouldn't stop bugging him unless he complied with whatever it was she wanted. He wanted to just be left alone so he sighed and agreed to go with her.

"OOOOh yay! We'll go during lunch okay?" and with that she skipped over to her original seat and smiled over at Masamune. He could feel himself cringe a little at the thought of talking to some first years. "Why did I agree to do this crap? I don't even have anything nice to say about this school, or my classmates. The only thing I wanna do is get the hell out of here", Masamune ranted to himself in his mind, slouching in his seat. Soon his classes started and he went into auto pilot mode until his dreaded lunch period would begin.

As soon as the bell rang for lunch period, Masamune and Ayena made their way to the first year's floor in search for Ayena's brother and friend. Masamune didn't even know she had any siblings. With the way she acted towards everyone else he truly felt sorry for the kid. They walked aimlessly for a few minutes until he heard Ayena say in an all too enthusiastic tone,

"Brother over here! Your two amazing interviewees are ready to get the show on the road"

Masamune looked in her direction and saw a tall boy with dark brown, short, shaggy hair and a smile on his face. He realized that the siblings looked nothing alike at all, and stared to wonder if the two were even related, partly because the younger boy didn't walk off in fear like most people who encountered Ayena. Masamune then saw a much shorter figure a little behind the younger brother, and Masamune eyes widened with shock to see the familiar bright green eyes and light brown hair.

"Ahhhhhh~ Ri-chan I'm so happy to see you, my little nerd!" Ayena squealed as she pushed pass her brother and hugged the shorter boy tightly against her chest.

Masamune was shocked by two things. One was the fact that he has come face to face with this kid again, and the second was the sight of Ayena hugging and so happy to see someone. H was actually quite curious as to how such a sweet kid could know someone as crazy as Ayena.

"Saga-kun I would like you to meet my daaarling little brother, Takamatsu, and his adorable friend Ritsu Onodera."

The kouhai was finally revealed to be named Ritsu Onodera, first year, 15 years old. Ritsu looked at Masamune and smiled sweetly.

"So we meet again senpai. I didn't know you were friends with Ayena, how come didn't we meet before? Oh I'm sorry, I mean Saga-senpai." He said with a slight giggle at the end. His light brown hair had a golden hue to it when the sun shined on it and his eyes a beautiful shade of emerald. Masamune was speechless, breath taken away by the pure and innocent aura of the young boy. It was definitely something he wasn't used to. The young boy stood there, hands behind his back, with a delicate smile.

"Why did I have to bump into him again? Right when I thought I had gotten him out of mind too."