2. a sudden fall
Argh! That Mikagami! Sometimes he can really annoy me so much!!!
She continued to stomp off away from him, but she almost stopped in mid-stride as a thought struck her.
'...Sometimes he can really annoy me so much!!!'
Those exact same lines appeared in the book. They were actually, the exact same thoughts 'Aira' had about 'Ryu' before she got to know him... before they got close... and in the end they...
Ha-ha! She laughed it off. Now she was the one who was being a baka. Like her and Mikagami would ever...
And that was when she tripped on something and fell hard on her face.
"Ow-oww!"
"Don't move so much."
"But it hurts!" an embarrassed Fuuko complains to Tokiya as he carefully places a band-aid across her nose, which of course took most of the impact when she fell face first.
"I've never seen a monkey fall facedown like that before." Mikagami says with a smirk.
"Who are you calling a monkey!!! YOU!!!"
She was about to deliver a swift punch when someone spoke up, "Oh, what a cute couple!"
That froze them both right where they were. It was then that Fuuko noticed how close she and Mikagami were. He had to come up that close in order to put the band-aid on her nose, and the way they were face to face, it did look kinda like... they were... about to... kiss..?
Her face turned so red at the thought but... she did not move away from him.
"Aw, you shouldn't have said anything!" another passerby spoke up, "Those two need their privacy! Can't you see that?"
"Oh! I'm sorry!"
Fuuko's face turned even redder but before she could speak up, Mikagami did so first. Turning quickly to face the speakers, he says "No! No, you're mistaken. We're just... friends..." He was surprised to see that about half a dozen people had gathered already, looking at him and Kirisawa. And then he discovered something about himself then – placed in such a situation, he had absolutely no idea what to do!
"'Just friends', eh" another spoke up. "How many times have we heard that before..? Hehe..."
"Yeah! Look at how much his girlfriend's blushing!"
"Aww... they look so good together! Can I take a picture?"
Mikagami kept expecting Kirisawa to blow up at any second, yelling at all these people to just mind their own business and get away from there. But she didn't. Turning to look at her, he saw that she was, indeed, blushing.
Interesting... He thought. She's acting completely unlike herself...
"Okay, okay! That's enough! Let's just leave these two lovebirds alone, shall we..?"
"Yeah, yeah..."
"Yes, yes. They cannot possibly act the way they want to with so many people looking at them like this..."
Click! "Yes! I got a picture! All right!"
As the people dispersed, Mikagami breathed a sigh of relief. 'Wait! Did somebody... just take a picture?!?' And then he saw that Kirisawa was still blushing.
"That was... a bit... embarrassing, wasn't it?" he speaks to her.
"Yeah..." she says, lowering her head. "That is definitely the MOST embarrassing thing that has ever happened to me..." 'Well, not really...' she thinks to herself. 'It was actually... kind of funny...' She smiled, careful not to let Mikagami see it. She was a bit surprised when suddenly, Mikagami started to laugh...
She quickly looks up. "Hey! Why... are you laughing?"
"I'm not sure... I just... found it all... amusing... in some way..." and then he laughed some more. She smiled again at first, then started to giggle, and finally to laugh herself. That was when she realized... she liked it when all those people thought they were a couple. A cute couple at that...
"Hey... this is the first time I've heard you laugh." She tells him.
"...I guess it's because it's the first time I've ever been in a situation I found so amusing. I just can't believe people would act that way just because they saw a girl and a boy together."
"Yeah." She giggles. "This afternoon certainly has been... interesting."
And then they were laughing together again.