Chapter 4: The Boring Day At The Engineering Department…Not!
April 16th.
"OK, class, you're dismissed," a male teacher said, as he stood up to left the class. Everyone stood up to greet the teacher before he left. After the teacher left, everyone begins to talk about anything and everything to each other, from the latest in sports to the latest animes.
"Hey, Shun, are you OK? You seems to be quite bothered at something," Kyo said to Shun, as he reaches Shun who laid his head on the table. "Is it love problems or something like that?"
"Love problems? No way…I has more like being bullied by girls these days, unlike you." "To cut a long story short, it was something else. Well, that day as I was on the way back to the dorms…ah well, it's something very complicated," Shun replied, much to Kyo's disappointment. "Plus I really need more horsepower, but I don't think it will come soon." "Well, will be helping out the Engineering Department for today. Don't want to be AWOL from their meetings after all these while."
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"So, decided to come here after going AWOL for some time?" of the persons in the lab coat said, as Shun stepped in into the room in the building of the Technical Department, which shares its grounds with the Engineering Department, as they are part of the Technical Department.
"Well, I has been busy with work these days, plus I has been searching for somewhere to do up my new car these days," Shun replied to the question.
"Oh, so you got yourself another car heh? Thought the coupe will suit someone like you?"
"Well…sold the coupe off to make way for the sedan. And…"
"There you are! I has been looking for you these days!" suddenly a girl with black hair, which is tied into 2 buns and having a pair of rosy cheeks shouted. She appeared to be younger than everyone else in the room. "What is the colour of your car? Since you're the one that drives a car pretty much around here."
"Err…erm…what do you mean by that? I drive a blue-coloured car, but I don't get it," Shun replied in a shocked tone.
"So it's you!" the girl added.
"What the…?" Shun was a bit surprised at that.
"Hmmm, looks like I has found the guy that Haruna claimed that someone in the class had a crush with. Didn't expect it to be you," the girl said.
"What did you just said!" Shun exclaimed, as his mouth was left opened big.
"Well, you already admitted that you drive a blue-coloured car."
"No wait, there is another guy that drives a blue-coloured car in the boys' senior high. You must have caught the wrong guy."
"Wait, I got more. According to the rest, the car apparently has 4 doors and…"
"OK, enough of that. I don't want to be going AWOL again because of things like these, so remember that, Miss Chao Lingshen. I know you are the smartest person around here, and…"
"At least let me has some fun here, Mister Akimoto Shun, as I'll be going away to a class trip to Kyoto in a few days," the girl called Chao Lingshen interrupts him.
"What? Class trip? That is so not fair! And I has to be stuck here…" Shun, changing his tone to that of someone that will suffer boredom, and continued with sarcasm, "Enjoy it then, I will be in peace and quiet here…ahahaha."
"After I return, I will find out is it really you!" the girl said as she left the room, and Shun breathed a sigh of relief that the girl has finally left him alone for a few days.
"What a mad scientist, like that Hakase Satomi. Masa, what do you think of that crazy fella?"
"Don't know. Hey Shun, you should be lucky that Lingshen always wants to mess around with you. She's pretty much busy with either her stall or those science stuff at other times, and does not even to say a word or two to most of us every time she sees us," the person called Masa said. "Maybe she's interested with you or something. Think of it, she looks quite OK in my opinion"
"She? Over my dead body! Even the that girl was better."
"Ooo, 'that' girl? So, it's true after all…"
"Oh crap, it's not like that..." "Better get going with the aeroplane, Masa, otherwise we has problems testing them," Shun changes the subject as he goes to work on a pushrod-based piston engine belonging to an aeroplane. It is there that he learned a thing or two about fixing hardware, especially those having to do with engines and such. Although he knows how to fix these things, he dares not to mess with the engines of the cars he has until now, as he felt that it is something delicate, especially the ECU. He has plans to buy an aftermarket ECU and learn to programme it, before installing it to the Chaser, but he has a dilemma over which one to choose from.
"OK, it's done now. The pushrods are set to the right timing now. Hope this can help out a lot," Shun remarked after he has done with the engine. "Show the aviation guys what we are made of in the festival this year!"
"Erm, we has not even prepared the frame of the planes," Masa, making a statement.
"Ouch. Hope the frames are good. Oh, you're in charge of those…almost forgot…"
"Well, Shun, you're good when it comes to engines. It sure suits you to know a lot about those, since you're into cars and all." "When will it be finished?"
"Wait, my Chaser still has a long way to go before it becomes 'one of the coolest cars in school'. Plus, a teacher from the girls' middle high drives a 2nd-gen Viper. No way I could match up to that."
"You will one day. It's only a matter of time." "We want to see your car after it's done."
"OK, got to go now. Plenty of homework waiting for me at the dorms," Shun said, as he takes some files, and leaves the room.
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As he lies awake on his bed at night, with Kyo sleeping snugly below him, he thinks back about what Lingshen has told him earlier in the day. He was utterly shocked at that, plus that he does not know the girl well. He then sits up, and closes his eyes. He prays to hope that he will be guided through the shock. He hopes that it is not true, for that he know that he will disappoint girls most of the time. He then lies back on his bed, and closes his eyes.
