Here's chapter 3, where Shiho FINALLY teaches Shinichi. Expect kissing sooner or later. Most possibly sooner though. So please READ AND REVIEW!
CHAPTER 3
" What's wrong, Shinichi?" Ran asked, raising her eyebrows at him.
He blinked, turning to her direction. The three of them, him, Ran and Sonoko, were at the school canteen during recess, Shinichi's face was looking outside at the sky, almost totally not at the same table from the other two. " Yeah," Sonoko agreed, chomping her way through the meat bun in her hands. " You've barely said a word for the whole day, and it's almost half over. Are you okay?"
Ran looked at him worriedly. Was it because she had ditched him?
He noticed her gaze, and just grinned at her. " I'm fine." He said. " I'm just feeling kind of tired that's all. No biggie."
That was only half true. He barely slept a wink last night, thoughts of Miss Miyano's agreement, Ran breaking his heart swarming in his mind. He went back to his noodles, popping a slice of fishcake into his mouth. What kind of things would she teach him? He wondered as Ran and Sonoko stopped staring at him and finally went back to their previous conversation.
She had always seemed cold to him from the moment she stepped into the classroom until the very moment. But the way she smiled at him, the way she had wrapped her arms around him in comfort and the way she just stayed there in the classroom, allowing him to pour his guts out just affected him in a way he never thought he would before. He blushed and shook himself.
No.
That couldn't be it.
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" So how's Miss Miyano coping with the environment?"
Mister Maki rubbed his chin, biting his lip. " Well, you wouldn't say that she was hated," he said. " But you also wouldn't say that she was liked either. There are a lot of people who will love to make friends with her, but she just bounces their comments and greetings off like a bowling ball on a trampoline. It's almost as if she didn't want to make friends at all."
" Ah, yes." The principal said, nodding furiously. " That's true. I had the exact impression on her when I met her yesterday on the grass field found just above the soccer pitch."
" Soccer pitch?" Mister Maki asked, puzzled. " What was she doing there?"
The principal bit his lip, frowning. " I think she was looking at the game." He said. " But she asked me for the name of one of the players there. Kudo Shinichi."
Maki's eyes widened.
" Why?"
An unknown smile slid up upon the principal's lips.
" I guess she thought she saw him before." He said.
Maki raised his eyebrows, but no question came out of his lips.
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" Goodbye, Miyano-sensei!"
She nodded, and the class slowly walked out of her classroom. She dropped down to her chair, rubbing her sore temples. Teaching people from different levels certainly was tiring. That was one thing that she noticed that the teachers had a worse time off that the students, and that was that the students could sleep and slack anytime they were tired, whereas the teacher had to stay abrupt and alert, ready to catch anyone who was, ironically, sleeping or restless.
She looked at the clock.
Great.
It was the end of school.
Kudo Shinichi would be coming in the door any minute now. But most likely he forgot about it or was going to come late, so might as well give herself some shuteye before he came. And before she knew it, she had fallen fast asleep.
FLASHBACK
" There's someone I would like you to meet!"
Shiho winced as the light flashed into her eyes, an unknown anger filling her as she started to yell and scream at the top of her lungs, watching the two of them wince at that. Just as her eyes got used to the light, the woman shut the door abruptly, leaving the room once again in total darkness.
The woman shut the door quietly behind her, muttering to herself on how stupid she was. " I'm sorry, little Shiho." She said kindly. " I forgot that you weren't used to bright places. My apologies. But I just wanted you and little Shin-chan to meet each other for the first time."
Used to the darkness, she could see a small figure come out from behind the cheerful woman. He was wearing something somewhat ridiculous, a strange light blue jacket with dark short pants, a white shirt and a bow tie.
" That went out of fashion centuries ago." Shiho said calmly and the cheerful woman stifled a laugh, as the boy seemed to collect what she had just said. His hand reached over to touch over, but she flinched and pushed herself backwards, out of his reach.
" Shin-chan," the mother said, with a somewhat forced smile. " Remember what I told you about Shiho-chan?"
" Oh yeah," the boy said, nodding feverently.
Shiho raised her eyebrows.
The boy turned around to meet her, a grin on his face.
" Nice to meet you, Shiho-san." He said.
END FLASHBACK
" Miyano-sensei?"
She opened her eyes groggily, noticing Shinichi staring right back at her.
" Oh." She said sleepily. " You."
He grinned at her and got to his feet. " Sorry if I kept you waiting." He said sheepishly. " Ran wanted me to follow her to the bookstore just nearby as she had a few assessment papers she wanted to do."
She raised her eyebrows at him.
" Why are you allowing yourself to be treated like her dog?" she asked.
" What?" he asked, hurt by her words.
" She already ditched you," she growled out, snappy all of a sudden. " She already said she didn't love you, so why try so hard to make her like you back?"
" Well excuse me!" he almost yelled. " Isn't that why I'm asking you to help me in the first place?"
" I'm helping a person in love," she said angrily. " Not some lovesick puppy, desperate for some girl who already ditched him to love him back."
He bit his lip.
She sighed and got up to her feet.
" Alright then," she said. " If you are ready for my class, we shall begin."
He blinked.
" How?" he asked.
" The first thing you can do to make Ran go back to your side," she said, ignoring his question almost totally, but answering it at the exact time. " Is to be distant with her. Clinging around her like some stupid little child is not going to make her love you back. Agreed?"
" No." he said defensively.
She rolled her eyes and sighed.
" Okay then." She said. " Who did you fall in love with? Your stupid fan girls or the ONLY girl you knew who didn't like you?"
He opened and shut his mouth before hanging his head.
" I'm glad that you agree." She said. She reached out and took out a blackboard marker, writing ' RAN' on it. " This is your sole focus. It's like shooting a soccer ball into the net. You just simply have to shoot it in, and you don't care if you get hurt on the way. It's the sole reason you're here, so you better be determined about it."
He nodded.
" So what do you want me to do?" he asked.
" Don't eat lunch with her, for once." She said briskly. " Eat with your other friends. That's simple enough, right?"
He grinned.
" Yeah." He said.
" Secondly," she said. " Don't sit with her in classrooms either. It's just wrong when the two of you sit together all the time. And you wonder why they tease that she's your wife. This could cause them to go up to you or her with questions like ' Have you guys been fighting?' or ' What's going on with you two?' This could then cause embarrassment, and she would soon start to try to be your friend as much as possible after that."
He just stared at her.
" How do you know stuff like this?" he asked.
She smirked.
" Wouldn't you like to know." She said. " But that's all you have to do for today. Is that simple enough?"
" Yeah" He said, getting up. " I get it."
" Good." She said. " I guess we could call it a day."
He nodded and walked out of the room with her, waiting for her to lock the doors up before the two of them made their way to the school elevator to the carpark. They stayed in silence for a moment before he raised his eyebrows at her accusingly.
" What?" she asked.
" Why were you so cold to us at the first lesson?" he asked, and she bit her lip, looking slightly offended. " I mean it wasn't like you couldn't be nice," he continued, flustered by her reaction. " You warmed up slightly in the second lesson, why did you let everyone get the bad impression from you straight away?"
She raised her eyebrows at him, obviously pondering on how to answer his question before she sighed, as they stepped into the lift, and she let the doors shut before them. " I was nervous." She said.
His eyes widened.
" NERVOUS?" he asked incredulously. " YOU?"
" Yes." She said, ignoring his over-dramatic reaction. " When I stepped in, I just got something like stage-fright. I almost stoned out, but I carried on."
" You're a really good actress." He said.
" Thank you." She said.
They stood there in the lift in silence for a while before Shinichi's eyes narrowed.
" Is it just me," he said slowly. " Or have we been on the same level for too long a time?"
Suddenly the power shut out and the light faded.
" Darn." Shiho cursed.
END OF CHAPTER 3
All right, here's chapter 3.
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