Chapter 3: Meeting him for the Second Time!

"Gosh! Why does the path to school have to be a hill!? I'm going to be late for first day of school!" I panicked while I rushed to get to school on time. I was holding a lot of textbooks for the first day to put inside my locker so the weight of those books made it a little harder for me to hurry up a very steep road. So it was a lot of work. I panted while I actually and finally reached the top of the hill! Now I just have to go down and turn left to get to the school. I scurried down the slippery hill since it rained quite hard last night. Afraid I was going to slip, I settled down and just started to walk. A fast walk, yeah. After half way through the hill, I heard something behind me. It was like a bike screeching down a hill trying to hit the breaks. Wait! I am in a hill! Then there must be. As soon as I looked behind me.. *BOOM! THUMP!* I knew it! There was a bike! The last words I heard when I was still conscious was, "Hey! Are you okay!?" Then the voice faded and it all became a blur to me. I fell down unconscious, I guessed since I felt the great impact of the bike in my body. It hurts. A LOT. The guy who hit me panicked. Yes, it was Hihara! He panicked because he didn't know what to do with an unconscious girl in the middle of the wet road. "Dang! What am I going to do now! I hit a girl and I'm also late for class! Dang!" Just the thought of himself hitting a person with an uncontrolled bike in a slippery road and the mere fact he was going to be late for the first day of classes? It surely did not calm him down nor settled him. Finally, he thought of an idea. He snapped and thought to himself, "Aha! I got it! She is dead so I'll just have to burry her in the middle on nowhere, move to another town and change my name. Kahara Hizuki. Yeah, that's right!" he giggled to himself on the thought of the girl being dead and changing his name. His funny thoughts suddenly stopped when finally, he recognized the girl he hit. "Hino Kahoko.." A flashback on his mind started. He was in the mall and suddenly bumped a girl and the clothes went flying and all. The first thought that came to his mind was to be ashamed of himself. The mere fact of just meeting a person yesterday and hitting her with a bike on the next day is not very pleasing for him. "Hino Kahoko! It's her! Dang! I've got to get her to a hospital or something! Or better.. our school clinic! That way, I can be on time and save her. Nice thinking, Hihara!" So, Hihara carried the soaked, unconscious girl on his back and left his bike on the side of the road, hoping that it will still be there when he gets back. But he doubts it. He put Kahoko on his back and set out for school.

--7:13 am, Seisou University.

Finally, the dead, tired guy reached his destination, Seisou University. He inhaled and exhaled very quickly trying to catch a breath from the long and tiring trip he had form the hill, down to his school. And as he expected, he wasn't late at all! Classes were to start in about 30 minutes (7:45 am) the thought of meeting his old friends and meeting his soon-to-be music student friends sounded good to him. But then again, he needs to help poor Kahoko for it was his fault that she was unconscious. So, after the tiring walk he had, he lifted Kahoko again and went to the Nurse's Office. The Nurse's Office was in the third floor. Luckily, the janitor happened to pass by in about the middle of the second floor and offered to help Hihara to carry Kahoko to the Nurse's Office. Suddenly, Hihara felt I nudge from his shoulder. Next thing he knew, Kahoko was clinging to his polo uniform. "Oh! She's regained consciousness, maybe? I hope so." He thought in his head while he gazed once in a while if Kahoko was opening her eyes. Sadly, he had no luck. But Kahoko's grip of his polo uniform never loosened until they got to the Nurse's Office. At the Nurse's Office, he settled Kahoko down in the bed. He made a very sad look on his face. He felt very stupid because by the looks of the bruises on Kahoko's right leg and the big wound on her other leg. The bruise on her leg made it look like as if her whole leg was swelling. He was very worried. Because the blood stains on her skirt kept on getting larger and larger. He would've done covered her wound with a bandage. But no, he couldn't. The wound was too near to Kahoko's skirt and therefore, he couldn't do anything but wait for the nurse to come in. he slapped his head for he felt failure on helping her. After mindlessly thinking about what he had done. Kahoko, neatly placed in her bed twitched her hand. Hihara saw it then tried to wake her up. "Hey. Hino-chan. Are you awake? Hey. I'm really sorry about hitting you. It's that I couldn't st---." He was stopped because Hino talked. "It's okay. You don't need to apologize at all. I'm okay." Hino said we a very gentle and understanding voice. Her eyes were still closed for it meant that she wants to rest for a bit. "But, Hino-chan.." Hiahara said not understanding why Kahoko had forgiven him. "I hurt you a lot. And see what I have done to you. I couldn't stop because of the wet road.. I'm really sorry." He apologized and apologized until Kahoko finally returned to her deep slumber. As a sorry for his doing, Hihara ripped off a piece of his polo shirt and tied it on Kahoko's wound while of course, not looking. He was very much upset with himself `cause there was nothing else he could do but this. He thought that it would be useless for Kahoko since it was a big wound. It didn't have any medicine, painkiller or whatsoever. Jut plain cloth ripped out from a uniform of an ordinary boy. But there was something more to this cloth that he didn't actually know that would happen. That something more changed his whole being after Kahoko woke up..

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