"Haruka.." she supplied as I began to feel desperate searching for her
name. After four years of my miserable high school life..who would have
thought or even considered that I will find her here..facing me. I never
had the opportunity to know her better because I started to get acquainted
to her before the end of the school year on our old school Greenfield
Academy..and now here in Redwood...
She laughed..I have noticed that her hair was shorter than before..and she is now taller..almost towering me a bit. She seems more intimidating..but when she flashed me her warm-hearted smile...what am I thinking? Here I am..Michiru..the perfect straight A student fawning over an old acquaintance. I must be loosing my sanity. Rio..my co-editor was flashing his mischievous sparkly white teeth. I think that he has some mischief brewing up again that will increase havoc in the otherwise peaceful and serene educational atmosphere.
"We're here because of the coming student council elections..and I want you to run as my vice president." Rio stated matter-of-factly.
"Oh..you know that I am not interested in that kind of thing. Who in the world gave you the idea that I may be interested in this one, huh? Besides..I have a little problem with new school policies and budgets regarding the paper." I said a little annoyed.
"Well...Miss Jo..who happens to be your English teacher was the one who gave the recommendation..you being an excellent student of hers advised me to get you." Rio said persuasively.
My ego is getting bloated over by such flattery. How could I resist? Even if politics is not my cup of tea, I obliged and accepted the invitation. Me and my big head.
As I grinned like a Cheshire cat, I began to notice some few companions with Haruka. Rio, noticing my attention diverted to our companions began to cut his discussions short and started to introduce them. A tall girl with shoulder length chestnut brown hair was Aiza and the shorter girl with red short and curly hair was Rumi.
"Yo." Rumi greeted me. "I know who you are! Do you happen to know Madame Gierdre??I adore her so much..I know that she's your French teacher, I've heard." As Aiza said these..Haruka tried to stifle her laughter. "Umm..yes..I know her." "Would you mind if I ask you a little favor?" Aiza asked me. "What's that? Okay shoot." "I'll give you my cam..would you shoot her with it? Just don't tell her that it's for me. "Suure" I said a little baffled by her request as if her life depended on it. "Okay..my teacher's coming in for our Chemistry class..I'll be on the meeting, I promise." "that's good. See yah there" Rio winked.
In the afternoon...
"Hey.. I'm here." I said as I entered the room. Rio, Rumi and Haruka are discussing something and their conversation was cut short by my sudden appearance. My hair was in disarray and I'm sweaty by the stifling heat and the miserable chemistry class before. We began to take seats along the brown mahogany table.
"As I've said earlier, I have invited you here to discuss how we will form the party. As I've said earlier, I would be running as the president..Michi would run as our vice president, Rumi as our P.R.O. and Aiza, who is not around, would run as secretary..." As Rio droned on trying to be serious and intense, I was beginning to stifle a yawn when Suzumi an annoying girl from the other pilot class appeared. She was tall, loud and intimidating, and she happens to be the company commander for Alpha company, our company in our citizen's army training-C.A.T. for short. With her was another annoying person in the name of Aiko, a girl with straight raven black hair. also a high ranking officer so I've heard. These girls annoy me a lot. They are so loud and arrogant and they feel that they are more superior than our section. They feel that they are smart too, but in reality, it is quite the contrary.
Rumi and I began to engage in a conversation which thus of course began from the innocent topics to the more mischievous ones. She told me that she is a you-know-what and I said that I myself had my share of "those" amorous adventures that went to total disaster. For now, all I wanted was to get over this school year, get a college diploma afterwards and land in a cozy job of some sort.
Rumi told me about her type. It doesn't seem as if she's the type of girl that would desire women by the looks of her but she does. I am beginning to get comfortable with her when I noticed Haruka grinning silently as if she's listening to our chat.
I began to turn to her.
"Oi. Never expected to see you here again. Never had the idea that you're just around the place. This school is sure big that we didn't meet." I said playfully.
"Maybe your nose is just so upturned that you can't see lesser mortals around, much more remember that you have ignored them for years." She snapped good-naturedly.
"...I was merely loitered in the place. Have you not noticed me at the halls and at the quadrangle during C.A.T?" she asked.
"No...I am usually annoyed by those days..obviously I have to wad through swarms of humanity just to pass towards my business which is in the PRESS ROOM of our school paper. Maybe my eyes aren't that observant. But I am sure regretful that we did not make much of the years." I said thoughtfully as if I wanted to add "the years would have been more bearable if I had a friend like you to turn to" but I hesitated. I do not desire to embarrass myself and divulge my feelings of sadness to a person I barely knew.
There was a bit of silence when I asked "How come you didn't even say goodbye when you decided to leave us in our first school?" the pangs of hurt for her inconsideration during those times was renewed.
"Well..I guess I just thought that people wouldn't care anyway so I chose not to. The only person that I confided it with was with Sayumi and who would have thought that we had the same idea of transferring."
"I only had the chance to talk to you once or twice. You could have been my friend." I said wistfully.
She stared at me and in silence she understood.
She laughed..I have noticed that her hair was shorter than before..and she is now taller..almost towering me a bit. She seems more intimidating..but when she flashed me her warm-hearted smile...what am I thinking? Here I am..Michiru..the perfect straight A student fawning over an old acquaintance. I must be loosing my sanity. Rio..my co-editor was flashing his mischievous sparkly white teeth. I think that he has some mischief brewing up again that will increase havoc in the otherwise peaceful and serene educational atmosphere.
"We're here because of the coming student council elections..and I want you to run as my vice president." Rio stated matter-of-factly.
"Oh..you know that I am not interested in that kind of thing. Who in the world gave you the idea that I may be interested in this one, huh? Besides..I have a little problem with new school policies and budgets regarding the paper." I said a little annoyed.
"Well...Miss Jo..who happens to be your English teacher was the one who gave the recommendation..you being an excellent student of hers advised me to get you." Rio said persuasively.
My ego is getting bloated over by such flattery. How could I resist? Even if politics is not my cup of tea, I obliged and accepted the invitation. Me and my big head.
As I grinned like a Cheshire cat, I began to notice some few companions with Haruka. Rio, noticing my attention diverted to our companions began to cut his discussions short and started to introduce them. A tall girl with shoulder length chestnut brown hair was Aiza and the shorter girl with red short and curly hair was Rumi.
"Yo." Rumi greeted me. "I know who you are! Do you happen to know Madame Gierdre??I adore her so much..I know that she's your French teacher, I've heard." As Aiza said these..Haruka tried to stifle her laughter. "Umm..yes..I know her." "Would you mind if I ask you a little favor?" Aiza asked me. "What's that? Okay shoot." "I'll give you my cam..would you shoot her with it? Just don't tell her that it's for me. "Suure" I said a little baffled by her request as if her life depended on it. "Okay..my teacher's coming in for our Chemistry class..I'll be on the meeting, I promise." "that's good. See yah there" Rio winked.
In the afternoon...
"Hey.. I'm here." I said as I entered the room. Rio, Rumi and Haruka are discussing something and their conversation was cut short by my sudden appearance. My hair was in disarray and I'm sweaty by the stifling heat and the miserable chemistry class before. We began to take seats along the brown mahogany table.
"As I've said earlier, I have invited you here to discuss how we will form the party. As I've said earlier, I would be running as the president..Michi would run as our vice president, Rumi as our P.R.O. and Aiza, who is not around, would run as secretary..." As Rio droned on trying to be serious and intense, I was beginning to stifle a yawn when Suzumi an annoying girl from the other pilot class appeared. She was tall, loud and intimidating, and she happens to be the company commander for Alpha company, our company in our citizen's army training-C.A.T. for short. With her was another annoying person in the name of Aiko, a girl with straight raven black hair. also a high ranking officer so I've heard. These girls annoy me a lot. They are so loud and arrogant and they feel that they are more superior than our section. They feel that they are smart too, but in reality, it is quite the contrary.
Rumi and I began to engage in a conversation which thus of course began from the innocent topics to the more mischievous ones. She told me that she is a you-know-what and I said that I myself had my share of "those" amorous adventures that went to total disaster. For now, all I wanted was to get over this school year, get a college diploma afterwards and land in a cozy job of some sort.
Rumi told me about her type. It doesn't seem as if she's the type of girl that would desire women by the looks of her but she does. I am beginning to get comfortable with her when I noticed Haruka grinning silently as if she's listening to our chat.
I began to turn to her.
"Oi. Never expected to see you here again. Never had the idea that you're just around the place. This school is sure big that we didn't meet." I said playfully.
"Maybe your nose is just so upturned that you can't see lesser mortals around, much more remember that you have ignored them for years." She snapped good-naturedly.
"...I was merely loitered in the place. Have you not noticed me at the halls and at the quadrangle during C.A.T?" she asked.
"No...I am usually annoyed by those days..obviously I have to wad through swarms of humanity just to pass towards my business which is in the PRESS ROOM of our school paper. Maybe my eyes aren't that observant. But I am sure regretful that we did not make much of the years." I said thoughtfully as if I wanted to add "the years would have been more bearable if I had a friend like you to turn to" but I hesitated. I do not desire to embarrass myself and divulge my feelings of sadness to a person I barely knew.
There was a bit of silence when I asked "How come you didn't even say goodbye when you decided to leave us in our first school?" the pangs of hurt for her inconsideration during those times was renewed.
"Well..I guess I just thought that people wouldn't care anyway so I chose not to. The only person that I confided it with was with Sayumi and who would have thought that we had the same idea of transferring."
"I only had the chance to talk to you once or twice. You could have been my friend." I said wistfully.
She stared at me and in silence she understood.