CHAPTER 5
They continued their walk along the corridors, as Kogure found him self taking Ayisha to her next room. Ayisha nodded silently, listening to Kogure's words, filled with worry, fear, excitement, and .well, desperation.
" You, well, Natalia, has to help me." Kogure finally ended.
Before Ayisha could reply, the school bell sounded and the students of Shohoku High flooded the hallway with chatter, and hurrying footsteps.
Ayisha stopped walking ang looked at him straight in the eye. " I'll try to help you, ok? I'll also try to ask help from Natalia, but.I'm not the sure guarantee to all your problems, Kogure. In the end, you'll have to fix it by yourself. And you know what I mean. Time will come when you'll have to confront Ryota about it."
Kogure nodded in reply, fearing the truth in Ayisha's words.
-*-
" Well, here's my room, I guess you better walk to where you're headed. Thanks for accompanying me, and bringing my stuff." Ayisha said, as she stopped just outside of room 408. Kogure smiled in return as he carefully gave Ayisha the tons of books and paper work she was carrying. When she was finally able to carry everything, she smiled in return and headed straight for the door. But just as she was about to step in, something in her peripheral vision caught her attention. She looked towards her right. Peering through the crowded hallway, she noticed a very familiar face.
She shook her head, brushing her thoughts away, making sure that it wasn't just her imagination. She looked again, this time the person that seemed familiar to her, standing 18 feet away, was staring back at her.
Her heart pounded incessantly inside her, fearing the very answer that has been echoing in her mind. ' There's no way that it's him.why would he be here, anyway? Is it because of the game?'
Her thoughts where interrupted when her professor called her attention, ordering her to come inside. She nodded in reply, and took a quick look to where the mysterious yet familiar person used to stand.
Because of the students running to and fro, trying to beat the bell, she could only see the back of the person, walking away, with his right arm around the shoulder of a girl.who was walking with him.
' He has a girlfriend,.already.here in highschool?' Ayisha thought to herself as she slowly walked inside.
-*-
He walked in deep thought, recalling the image of the girl he once.rather still loved in his mind. She was with a guy? Someone new, perhaps? Or someone courting her, trying to win her heart? He winced as these painful questions banged in his head. He can't believe he had to be here. ' Of course, you want to see her.' A voice in the back of his mind said to him.
" Aaaaaaarggggghhhh! I can't believe I brought you here! Now you're back again into that dazed state!" His cousin, Irene said, letting out her exasperation.
" Huh? I'm sorry.I just can't believe that.How could she..Why would she.." Fujima replied.
" Kenji-san! I can't understand a word you're saying! You just saw her and wham! You're back into the state where I can't even recognize my cousin anymore!."
" Who was that guy? Didn't you see her? He was with a guy! I shouldn't have come here! If I only knew that she already has a boyfriend! Why didn't you tell me, Irene?!" Fujima said trying to control his own temper.
" What are you talking about? Ayisha doesn't have a boyfriend! I didn't see any guy with her! "
" She doesn't? How do you know? You're mistaken, Irene-san. I could see above the crowd.the guy was as tall as I am.a basketball member probably..." Fujima said, trailing the last part of his sentence, caught up in his own thoughts.
" Well, gee, Kenji, maybe because my height is just of the average person unlike you! Besides, Ayisha-san doesn't have at least a decent friend in the basketball team! Well maybe, Fujima but she just met him this week, so I don't think they've come that far to being more than a friend! Stop worrying.."
" Wait. What did you say again?" Fujima said, stopping his cousin's blabbering.
Irene only replied with a questioning look, unable to comprehend what Fujima was driving at.
" Who's Ayisha's friend in the Shohoku team? You mentioned someone."
" Kogure?"
" I see." Fujima replied. Inside, his heart was slowly bleeding. If he was indeed the guy that took his place, he wouldn't forgive him for it.
-*-
She hugged herself tightly, her own book reports and papers, pressing her chest. It was already 8 o'clock, and the moon was glowing lightly above her, lighting the path ahead of her. It was a good thing that she was able to call her parents, saying that she'd be late for dinner, or else they'd have the police searching for her now.
A gust of wind blew from behind her. Her long brown hair flowed with the wind, as she walked in a slow pace. She was in deep thought since she left school. Trying to figure out the answers to everyone's problems wasn't such an easy task to take everyday. She'd have to read a variety of self- help books, some she'd borrow, and some she'd buy for herself. After all, she too needed some help.
Her arms were aching by now, with 4 books on the other hand, and a garbage bag full of letters in the other. She let out a sigh as she placed her things down on the pavement and leaned her back on the lamppost near it.
' So it was Irene that he was with awhile ago.' Ayisha thought to herself, remembering what her bestfriend told her a while ago, after confronting her about Fujima.
Her heart cringed at the paining thought of the guy that she used to love. ' It was Kenji Fujima, alright. That was him standing in the whole way.more than ten feet away from me.'
Remembering him standing there, she wanted to drop all of her things and hug him again. She was confused by the mixed emotions filling up inside her. She was happy at the same time she felt like crying with anger and pain.
She tried to dismiss away the pain by deciding to resume her walking. She bent down and slowly gathered her things. But then an icy chill ran down her spine, as a deep black shadow loomed over her.
Trying to ignore the pain inside her, she slowly looked up towards the thing that was blocking the moon's comforting light.
" Kenji-san.." Ayisha gasped.
They continued their walk along the corridors, as Kogure found him self taking Ayisha to her next room. Ayisha nodded silently, listening to Kogure's words, filled with worry, fear, excitement, and .well, desperation.
" You, well, Natalia, has to help me." Kogure finally ended.
Before Ayisha could reply, the school bell sounded and the students of Shohoku High flooded the hallway with chatter, and hurrying footsteps.
Ayisha stopped walking ang looked at him straight in the eye. " I'll try to help you, ok? I'll also try to ask help from Natalia, but.I'm not the sure guarantee to all your problems, Kogure. In the end, you'll have to fix it by yourself. And you know what I mean. Time will come when you'll have to confront Ryota about it."
Kogure nodded in reply, fearing the truth in Ayisha's words.
-*-
" Well, here's my room, I guess you better walk to where you're headed. Thanks for accompanying me, and bringing my stuff." Ayisha said, as she stopped just outside of room 408. Kogure smiled in return as he carefully gave Ayisha the tons of books and paper work she was carrying. When she was finally able to carry everything, she smiled in return and headed straight for the door. But just as she was about to step in, something in her peripheral vision caught her attention. She looked towards her right. Peering through the crowded hallway, she noticed a very familiar face.
She shook her head, brushing her thoughts away, making sure that it wasn't just her imagination. She looked again, this time the person that seemed familiar to her, standing 18 feet away, was staring back at her.
Her heart pounded incessantly inside her, fearing the very answer that has been echoing in her mind. ' There's no way that it's him.why would he be here, anyway? Is it because of the game?'
Her thoughts where interrupted when her professor called her attention, ordering her to come inside. She nodded in reply, and took a quick look to where the mysterious yet familiar person used to stand.
Because of the students running to and fro, trying to beat the bell, she could only see the back of the person, walking away, with his right arm around the shoulder of a girl.who was walking with him.
' He has a girlfriend,.already.here in highschool?' Ayisha thought to herself as she slowly walked inside.
-*-
He walked in deep thought, recalling the image of the girl he once.rather still loved in his mind. She was with a guy? Someone new, perhaps? Or someone courting her, trying to win her heart? He winced as these painful questions banged in his head. He can't believe he had to be here. ' Of course, you want to see her.' A voice in the back of his mind said to him.
" Aaaaaaarggggghhhh! I can't believe I brought you here! Now you're back again into that dazed state!" His cousin, Irene said, letting out her exasperation.
" Huh? I'm sorry.I just can't believe that.How could she..Why would she.." Fujima replied.
" Kenji-san! I can't understand a word you're saying! You just saw her and wham! You're back into the state where I can't even recognize my cousin anymore!."
" Who was that guy? Didn't you see her? He was with a guy! I shouldn't have come here! If I only knew that she already has a boyfriend! Why didn't you tell me, Irene?!" Fujima said trying to control his own temper.
" What are you talking about? Ayisha doesn't have a boyfriend! I didn't see any guy with her! "
" She doesn't? How do you know? You're mistaken, Irene-san. I could see above the crowd.the guy was as tall as I am.a basketball member probably..." Fujima said, trailing the last part of his sentence, caught up in his own thoughts.
" Well, gee, Kenji, maybe because my height is just of the average person unlike you! Besides, Ayisha-san doesn't have at least a decent friend in the basketball team! Well maybe, Fujima but she just met him this week, so I don't think they've come that far to being more than a friend! Stop worrying.."
" Wait. What did you say again?" Fujima said, stopping his cousin's blabbering.
Irene only replied with a questioning look, unable to comprehend what Fujima was driving at.
" Who's Ayisha's friend in the Shohoku team? You mentioned someone."
" Kogure?"
" I see." Fujima replied. Inside, his heart was slowly bleeding. If he was indeed the guy that took his place, he wouldn't forgive him for it.
-*-
She hugged herself tightly, her own book reports and papers, pressing her chest. It was already 8 o'clock, and the moon was glowing lightly above her, lighting the path ahead of her. It was a good thing that she was able to call her parents, saying that she'd be late for dinner, or else they'd have the police searching for her now.
A gust of wind blew from behind her. Her long brown hair flowed with the wind, as she walked in a slow pace. She was in deep thought since she left school. Trying to figure out the answers to everyone's problems wasn't such an easy task to take everyday. She'd have to read a variety of self- help books, some she'd borrow, and some she'd buy for herself. After all, she too needed some help.
Her arms were aching by now, with 4 books on the other hand, and a garbage bag full of letters in the other. She let out a sigh as she placed her things down on the pavement and leaned her back on the lamppost near it.
' So it was Irene that he was with awhile ago.' Ayisha thought to herself, remembering what her bestfriend told her a while ago, after confronting her about Fujima.
Her heart cringed at the paining thought of the guy that she used to love. ' It was Kenji Fujima, alright. That was him standing in the whole way.more than ten feet away from me.'
Remembering him standing there, she wanted to drop all of her things and hug him again. She was confused by the mixed emotions filling up inside her. She was happy at the same time she felt like crying with anger and pain.
She tried to dismiss away the pain by deciding to resume her walking. She bent down and slowly gathered her things. But then an icy chill ran down her spine, as a deep black shadow loomed over her.
Trying to ignore the pain inside her, she slowly looked up towards the thing that was blocking the moon's comforting light.
" Kenji-san.." Ayisha gasped.