Disclaimer: Suki Dakara Suki is by Clamp.
When you grow up
By Miyamoto Yui
Chapter 3 - Good luck charms.
Ring, ring.
"Hello?" I answered as I picked up the phone from the receiver while yawning. "Excuse me."
"It's me," the familiar voice said.
"Oh HI, Asou-sensei!"
"Did I wake you up?"
"No." I blew my nose as I shook my head knowing full well he couldn't see me at that moment doing so.
He then asked in hesitation, "Have you been crying? What's wrong?"
"You and your note..." I laughed as I began to push back the happy tears on my face. "That's what's wrong."
"Oh..." he trailed off.
Silence.
It was so obvious how nervous we were at that moment.
"Ano..." he had started to say and I could almost feel the embarrassment in his tone of voice.
"Yes, Asou-sensei?"
"Hina, you can call me Shirou." He said to me. "I'm not your teacher anymore."
"But it feels weird," I blurted out.
He sighed. "Fine, fine."
I smiled into the telephone. With my eyes closed, I sincerely said, "Thanks for the note and thanks for calling."
"No problem..." he trailed off again unable to handle the trueness of my tone. "I was just calling to see how you were."
"I'm fine," I replied.
"Good." Then, he sighed into the phone.
Silence.
"If there's anything you need, just call, okay?"
I answered readily, "Okay."
"Don't hesitate," he firmly said in his monotonous voice.
"I won't," I answered while nodding to the phone.
"Well, okay, I guess I'll see you later."
"I love you, Asou-sensei." I said to the receiver. Without making a noise, I kissed the telephone as I blushed at what I had just done.
"Goodbye," I finally said.
There was a brief pause. I kind of understood now if he didn't tell me anything. And that was fine with me.
The note in my hand explained everything as I embraced it with much distress as to how not to crumple it.
"Take care, Hina. Bye."
Click.
I looked at the phone with a bit disappointment. But, I tried my best not to frown. There was still the note in my hand and that was enough to put a bright smile on my face.
I laid the precious piece of paper over my stand and drew the curtains to my room while singing, "Someone gave me a note today...No, now it is yesterday. He told me he liked me ba~ack!"
Still in a daze, I floated on cloud nine for a long while. There wasn't anything that could keep down. Nothing at all!
After taking a shower, I put on my uniform and ate breakfast with Tono and Waka. "He gave me a letter," I sang to them as I poked their noses. "I love notes. Especially those from Asou-sensei."
I was still blushing at the thought.
Putting on my shoes, I tried to say his name. "Shirou."
It only made me giggle and light-hearted inside.
It was a feeling I missed so much.
I hadn't felt this good since...
Since...
"Ever since Mother gave you two to me..." I suddenly realized while pondering aloud. That's when I knelt and hugged my two precious bears.
My two family members...
Their eyes looked at me and I looked back at them for a moment.
As I walked to school, I couldn't help but sigh inside. Whenever I thought of my Mother, I had wondered how she thought of me right now?
Would she be proud of me or would she laugh with that half smile she always gave me?
When I think of mom, I always see her in a bed knitting something or other. Those memories never erase from my mind because it was as if they were burned.
Like the time I touched an iron on the wrong side when I was three and cried my heart out. My mother scolded me for touching it in the first place, but then she taught me how to hold it properly later on.
And it always ended in an "I love you" from my mother. She smiled despite everything. I think that's where I learned to smile so much.
"Make people happy with that little gesture..." she had said to me.
I didn't know it would mean so much later on in my life.
"Don't take things forgranted," she had said to me as she patted my head while resuming her stitching of my bears. "But tears are useless if you don't know how to smile, Hina-chan."
Then, she stopped again to cup her hands on my face to say, "That's why you have to treasure all the little things you've gotten. One day, they will be your lucky charms."
As I entered the school gates, I took one last glance at the note and hugged it to my chest. "My lucky charm...Asou-sensei's letter is my charm which gives me lots of luck."
To be continued.
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Author's note: Okay, I'm out of practice right now, but I'll try my best! ^_^ I have my whole plot outlined...I just wish I knew where I put it! Aiya...
When you grow up
By Miyamoto Yui
Chapter 3 - Good luck charms.
Ring, ring.
"Hello?" I answered as I picked up the phone from the receiver while yawning. "Excuse me."
"It's me," the familiar voice said.
"Oh HI, Asou-sensei!"
"Did I wake you up?"
"No." I blew my nose as I shook my head knowing full well he couldn't see me at that moment doing so.
He then asked in hesitation, "Have you been crying? What's wrong?"
"You and your note..." I laughed as I began to push back the happy tears on my face. "That's what's wrong."
"Oh..." he trailed off.
Silence.
It was so obvious how nervous we were at that moment.
"Ano..." he had started to say and I could almost feel the embarrassment in his tone of voice.
"Yes, Asou-sensei?"
"Hina, you can call me Shirou." He said to me. "I'm not your teacher anymore."
"But it feels weird," I blurted out.
He sighed. "Fine, fine."
I smiled into the telephone. With my eyes closed, I sincerely said, "Thanks for the note and thanks for calling."
"No problem..." he trailed off again unable to handle the trueness of my tone. "I was just calling to see how you were."
"I'm fine," I replied.
"Good." Then, he sighed into the phone.
Silence.
"If there's anything you need, just call, okay?"
I answered readily, "Okay."
"Don't hesitate," he firmly said in his monotonous voice.
"I won't," I answered while nodding to the phone.
"Well, okay, I guess I'll see you later."
"I love you, Asou-sensei." I said to the receiver. Without making a noise, I kissed the telephone as I blushed at what I had just done.
"Goodbye," I finally said.
There was a brief pause. I kind of understood now if he didn't tell me anything. And that was fine with me.
The note in my hand explained everything as I embraced it with much distress as to how not to crumple it.
"Take care, Hina. Bye."
Click.
I looked at the phone with a bit disappointment. But, I tried my best not to frown. There was still the note in my hand and that was enough to put a bright smile on my face.
I laid the precious piece of paper over my stand and drew the curtains to my room while singing, "Someone gave me a note today...No, now it is yesterday. He told me he liked me ba~ack!"
Still in a daze, I floated on cloud nine for a long while. There wasn't anything that could keep down. Nothing at all!
After taking a shower, I put on my uniform and ate breakfast with Tono and Waka. "He gave me a letter," I sang to them as I poked their noses. "I love notes. Especially those from Asou-sensei."
I was still blushing at the thought.
Putting on my shoes, I tried to say his name. "Shirou."
It only made me giggle and light-hearted inside.
It was a feeling I missed so much.
I hadn't felt this good since...
Since...
"Ever since Mother gave you two to me..." I suddenly realized while pondering aloud. That's when I knelt and hugged my two precious bears.
My two family members...
Their eyes looked at me and I looked back at them for a moment.
As I walked to school, I couldn't help but sigh inside. Whenever I thought of my Mother, I had wondered how she thought of me right now?
Would she be proud of me or would she laugh with that half smile she always gave me?
When I think of mom, I always see her in a bed knitting something or other. Those memories never erase from my mind because it was as if they were burned.
Like the time I touched an iron on the wrong side when I was three and cried my heart out. My mother scolded me for touching it in the first place, but then she taught me how to hold it properly later on.
And it always ended in an "I love you" from my mother. She smiled despite everything. I think that's where I learned to smile so much.
"Make people happy with that little gesture..." she had said to me.
I didn't know it would mean so much later on in my life.
"Don't take things forgranted," she had said to me as she patted my head while resuming her stitching of my bears. "But tears are useless if you don't know how to smile, Hina-chan."
Then, she stopped again to cup her hands on my face to say, "That's why you have to treasure all the little things you've gotten. One day, they will be your lucky charms."
As I entered the school gates, I took one last glance at the note and hugged it to my chest. "My lucky charm...Asou-sensei's letter is my charm which gives me lots of luck."
To be continued.
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Author's note: Okay, I'm out of practice right now, but I'll try my best! ^_^ I have my whole plot outlined...I just wish I knew where I put it! Aiya...