April 29th.
"What? A girl left this yesterday? How does she look like?" Koshito Kensuke was surprised at what happened. "You lucky freak! At least a cute girl 'crashed' into you!" "For long I have to contend with that crazy Asakura Kazumi!"
"Haha, very funny," Choo Tin replied at that sarcastically. "Well, it's a long story…"
He proceeds to tell what happened to his new roommate who he has been staying with for the past 2 days, in their room after they has returned from school.
"Well, based on your description, if I'm not mistaken, that girl must be Sasaki Makie, one of the middle high's gymnast. The other girl must be Izumi Ako, one of the school nurse and the boy's footie team manager, also from the girls' middle high," Kensuke says. "By the way, Makie's 14."
"How in the world you know all that?" "And what's with the 'footie'?" Choo Tin asks Kensuke, surprised at the word he used.
"Based on my knowledge, it seems that most people in your home country are crazy about football, especially the English Premier League."
"Yes, I was once crazy about Liverpool FC," Choo Tin answers. "Hey, don't change the subject. How the heck you know all this?"
"Oh, on that. This is what you get from someone that works as one of the reporters for the school newspaper." "Oh, by the way, there are some boxes that is sent here under your name yesterday. Don't know what's inside," Kensuke remarked to Choo Tin, pointing to some boxes at the side.
"Oh, thanks for informing me on that." "By the way, is there anymore network connection in this room to plug the computer into the school's network?" he asks.
"There should be another one…right here," Kensuke says, as he points to a network connection on the wall.
"Good," Choo Tin replied, as he opens up the boxes. In a few minutes time, a computer is set up, with the network connection completed. He begins to update on several things, which he has not checked on since he moved to Japan.
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A girl cries on her bed in her room, as her friend goes to comfort her.
"Makie, what happened?" the girl with short light-blue hair asks her friend, Makie.
Sobs "Ako, my ribbon is missing since yesterday…" the girl with the pink-tan hair replied, while still teary-eyed.
"You can always get another one," Ako continued.
"It's my favourite one…" Makie closes her face with her hands as she continued crying. "I thought I will be able to use it in the summer competition, but…"
"Don't worry, Makie. We'll find the ribbon for you."
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"Crap, wonder how am I going to return this thing?" Choo Tin looks on to the ribbon, which he had hidden away from Kensuke. "Looks like I has to take a big gamble."
He takes out his hand phone, and dials a number. A voice is heard on the phone, and they discussed something for some time.
"But, if you want it this way, I'll help. But you must know that it will be quite a risk," the voice said.
"Yes, I know, but this is the only way I can do it," Choo Tin replied.
"Well, if you feel that is the only way…" "OK, I'll guide you to class 3-A in the middle high tomorrow morning. But make it quick."
"I know. Thanks for your help man."
"I'll be glad to help. Hopefully there will be no trouble tomorrow from anyone, especially from the girls. Not that we aren't allowed there." "See you tomorrow morning then. Be early."
The line is cut. Choo Tin went to lie on his bed, as he was making plans to execute the plan for tomorrow.
"Kyo, I got some things to do with Choo Tin," Shun says to Kyo, as he closes the door of the Chaser, which he got back yesterday. Short to say it was different from the time before it was sent into the workshop. "Emergency."
"Well, if it's something important, I'll go off now," Kyo says, as he walks off to class.
Shun pushes up his spectacles, as a familiar Proton Perdana pulls into the parking lot next to the Chaser, and Choo Tin alight from the Perdana quickly, carrying a small plastic bag.
"Looks like I'm the one waiting for you," Shun says to Choo Tin.
"Got to send off that Kensuke first, that's why." "OK, let go now, we don't want to be late for our class too."
"Alright," Shun says. "Onto this way," Shun tells his friend, as they walk to another building nearby the boy's high school building.
As they arrive inside the building, stares are noticed everywhere from the female students, as it was unusual for boys to appear in the building, although it was allowed. "Never mind the stares. We are allowed here anyway," Shun cooly tells Choo Tin as they moved on.
After a few minutes, going through the hordes of female students was never easy. For Shun, either Kyo or Saniro may enjoy it, but now, it was not for fun for both Shun and Choo Tin. As they walked on to another floor which signifies 3rd year students, they saw a board written '3-A' hanging from a wall beside a door.
"Hey, this is it. Now make it quick, as the class haven't start yet," Shun tells his companion.
Choo Tin proceeds to knock the door, but no one notices it. He looks through the glass on the door, and noticed there are a lot of girls making noise inside. He tries to think what he should do, but he knew it would be wasting time thinking. There is only one thing he can do in desperation, and he quickly opened the door, to Shun's horror, and stepped inside. Shun decided to step inside too, to see how his colleague, Lingshen's class looked like.
The class became quiet after the 2 boys stepped in. All of the girls stared at the 2 boys blankly, except for some, thinking it was their teacher that came in; instead it was 2 boys from the senior high. Fear struck the 2 boys as both of them have a big sweat drop on their heads, but they have to go through it. Choo Tin knows that he has to do something. But as he about to say something…
"Who the heck are you to come here?" a blonde-haired girl speaks.
"No one says that we can't come here, class representative of 3-A, Yukihiro Ayaka," Shun says to the blonde girl. "We are very urgent right now, so just shut up."
"What did you just tell me, you idiot?" the class representative becomes angry.
"Do I need to repeat myself?" it is now Shun's turn to be annoyed.
"Erm…er…is there anyone here by the name of…Sasaki Makie?" Choo Tin quickly asks the whole class of 30 girls, before the argument threatens to turn into a fight. "I got something that I want to pass on to her quick."
"That's me," Makie raises her hand up while speaking in a sad tone, and slowly walks to the obviously taller boy, being afraid of him since he ticked her off the other day.
"Well, this is something that belongs to you, right? Found it near Starbooks after you crashed onto me," he says as passes the package to her. She takes it and holds it tightly. "And be careful not to lose it again. I know this is something precious for you," he whispered to Makie in the ear, and winked to her.
"Thank you very much, senpai. I will not lose it again…" Makie says to Choo Tin in a very shy tone.
In all that, Shun was making hand signals to Lingshen, stating that he was not in the mood for jokes from her. In all that too someone has her eyes fixated on him. It was Sakurako, who has been looking at Shun all the time when he was in the class. Her expression changed quickly when he was there, keeping quiet all the time, instead of being her usual noisy self before that. Shun knew that a girl was looking at him, and pretending not to know anything, instead continued on his 'battle' with Lingshen.
As the 2 boys left, the class became noisy again, noisier than before they appeared. Makie proceeds to open the package, seeing it was her missing ribbon! She was very overjoyed to see that, and goes to her friends, Yuuna, Ako and another girl, Akira Okouchi, who all breathed a sigh of relief that their friend has finally got her ribbon back. Except for a few, including Sakurako, sitting alone on her seat, the rest are very excited to see that 2 apparently good-looking seniors appear in their classroom, and a lot of them has went behind the class and gathered around Haruna Saotome, the gossip queen of the class, or perhaps the school.
"Did you notice, that Chinese-looking guy seem to look at Makie in 'that' way. Who knows that he could be interested in her?" the bespectacled girl said. "I wonder how he's going to tackle her, since she is known to be one of the 'hardcore' girls over Negi-sensei, alongside Incho-san." "Wait, did he say 'crash'?" "And Lingshen, come over here. Got something to ask you."
Lingshen wondered why Haruna called her, but knew it would be for nothing except gossip.
"Hey Lingshen, is the other guy your colleague from the Engineering Department that you told us about? Since he fits the description given by you, Misa and Madoka."
"Yes, he is the one," Lingshen replied. "Don't worry about his serious appearance. He is someone you can really mess with."
"Misa? Madoka?" Haruna asked Sakurako's close friends.
"Hmmm ya, we have checked with people we know. At least my boyfriend helped me this time in finding out," Misa said.
"Hmmm. So, this is how 'that' guy looked like…hehehe…" Haruna says, as she pushes up her glasses.
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"Huh, that was close," Choo Tin remarked to Shun in class. "Wonder how she'll react when she sees it."
"I only see nothing except trouble," Shun replied.
"Why is that so? Is it because…I know, you like someone from that class! Is it the Chinese girl that you has been making hand signals with just now?"
"To hell with that one." "More like someone else was interested in me instead of her."
"Oh wait…let's see…there was this girl sitting on the front row with red-orange hair. All the time I was there I notice that she was looking at you, but you pretended to do something else." "Is she the one?"
"Shut up, Choo Tin. Not a word about…"
"Haha, don't pretend. Who knows, maybe you'll fall for her one day," Choo Tin making a snide remark at Shun.
"Don't try to be funny. Who was the one that got me into all this?" "Plus, I can see you are quite interested in that gymnastics girl."
"Who said? Since when I do so?"
"Your face says so."
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In this chapter, we some some guys do some crazy things (yes, more Makie screentime, but Sakurako did get some here too). About complaints that Sakurako have not been given enough screentime, I'm sorry about that, but then there is some other things that wil happen too. About the Chaser? Well, the next chapter we'll see something interesting.
About character behaviour, I'm modelling the 4 guys after Saiyuki characters, attitude-wise. Shun Sanzo, Kyo Goku, Choo Tin Hakkai, Saniro Gojyo. So if some of the guys speech patterns change a little, that is be expected.
