"Michi…" Haruka started but soon saw that Michiru looked a little faint and soon found herself holding Michiru in her arms as she fainted from the coldness.
When Michiru awoke in the middle of the night, she found herself in her room and the memory of the night finally came back to her as to how close she was with Haruka and realised she must've been colder than she had thought and fainted. "Baka! I was so close!"
The next day arrived and everyone was discussing about the dance last night. Haruka walked by not interested into what everybody were saying, her mind still on Michiru, and what could've happened that night. Being so close to her and yet – "Haruka!" she turned around recognising the voice immediately. Michiru ran towards her smiling. Haruka felt her stomach doing flip-flops as she saw her friend coming up to her. "How you feeling?" "I'm fine, thanks. By the way, thanks for bringing me back to my dorm room, last night." Flashback "Baka! I was so close!" "Wait. How did I get here?" she lay in bed, next to her nightstand she found a note. She turned on her lamp and recognised the writing immediately. 'Hope you feel better in the morning, Michi. Thanks for keeping me company last night. –Ruka.' End Flashback "It was nothing, no worries." Blushed Haruka. As they walked to class together. The day went by very slowly for Haruka; she gazed out the window thinking about that close moment again… "Ms. Tenoh!" Haruka snapped out of her daydream and looked up at the mad teacher. "What was so important, that you had to look out the window, and ignoring the review I'm giving you before your test tomorrow! Please, do the question that I have on the board, Now!" Luckily for Haruka, a wiz in math answered it like it was a problem for a 3-yr. old. Before class ended the teacher announced to the class of the upcoming 7-day survival/camping trip occurring next week. Everyone in the class was excited. Even Haruka, until the teacher announced that Mr. Yamashiko and his class will also be joining them. Michiru's class. Oh great.
The next day, afterschool, the teachers held a meeting for the two classes to discuss the rooming situations. Almost everyone had somebody to be in the same room with. But Haruka could only glance at Michiru and all there other friends surrounding them. Haruka's teacher announced that since they had a lot of people, each room with be 4 per person per cabin. Since the teachers will be together, and parents will be situated equally into there rooms, for some "uknown reason" there was an extra spare cabin left, with only one bed (authors note: go figure, eh?). "So class, since there's so many of us, it'll be first come-first serve on whoever wan-" "I will!" Haruka suddenly shot up her hand. The whole class looked at her awkwardly. "But Haruka…" Usagi whispered, "There's enough of us for 4 people in each room." "Yah, but I like having my own space" replied Haruka, not looking at the other sets of eyes on hers. The teacher cleared her throat, "A-alright then. Now everyone get a good night's rest the day BEFORE we leave, we'll have a long hike ahead of us before we reach our cabins." The class was too overexcited to even hear the teacher as they all scrambled out the door, as they all chatted among themselves of the upcoming trip.
To Be Continued…