My last afternoon rendezvous - Chapter 6
"Ahh, isn't it a nice day," I say.
"Yep, the perfect day for a picnic!" Says Misaki cheerfully.
Me and Misa have planned the perfect picnic. We we're in the park right now looking for a place to lay down our picnic blankets.
"How about under that cherry blossom tree?" I suggest.
"Perfect!" She replies, we make our way to the tree before someone else takes it. We set our thing down and dig in. After we talk and gossip, then take in the beautiful scenery.
"Hey, Misa you wanna go on a boat ride, lots of people are doing it?" I ask.
"Uhh, alright let's go." She says. We ride the boat and then leave the park and head back to the black ship. We meet Take on the way coming out. "Hey, you should go with Tak now, considering he's the one your spending the day with today."
"But he may have something to do, I don't want to be a burden and besides you'll have to carry everything by yourself." I say.
"I don't mind carrying everything I'm already carrying the most what difference is one picnic blanket gonna make and as for Take, Are you busy?"
"No," he replies.
"So it's settled." Says Misa snatching the picnic blanket from my hands.
"Bye, have fun!" She says smiling brightly.
Take heads off in another direction and I struggle to keep up. We reach the bath house his family owns and I meet his grandma, Aiko. Then we clean the bath together.
"Scrub faster," he says.
"I'm doing the best I can, It's my first time." I reply. I get up to go to the other side and my foot slips. I close my eyes thinking I'm gonna fall but Take catches me. I never realised how muscular he was till now. Probably because of all that running. He helps me stand before releasing me from his grip.
"You okay."
"Yeah, umm thanks." I say nodding. I keep facing down so he won't see me blushing.
"We're done." He says. We leave the room and see Aiko sitting at the reception desk.
"So, what are you two lovebirds doing now?"
"N-no we're..." Me and Tak say in unison
"We're not together," he's says, my cheeks grow even hotter than before. "She's a friend of Misaki's and just moved here I'm showing her round."
"Oh, that's a shame you two look so cute together." Says Aiko. "So, where are you taking her?"
"I dunno, anywhere she wants to go."
"Where do you want to go?" She asks me.
"Umm, I kind want to see a movie."
"Which one?" Asks Take.
"Well... Ah, never mind you'll find it boring."
"Doesn't matter, what is it."
"I don't know it's name but it based of a comic I read ages ago...it's silly, forget about it."
"I heard of that movie, I wanted to watch it too."
"Really, I bet just saying that to make me feel better."
"No, I seriously wanted to watch it. We can go now there's a showing."
"Really, thanks." I say surprised.
We watch the movie and I love it Tak walks me back so I don't get lost.
"So how did you like the movie."
"It was good,"
"Who was your favourite character?" We ask each other at the same time.
"You first." He says.
"Well, I would go for Smoo, it thought it..or he was adorable. You?"
"Umm, probably Analsa, because she had a really good back story."
"I would have chosen her if her pet hadn't been so cute. She did have a pretty good back story." I say. "So, what kind of stuff are you into, besides reading comics."
"I like to run... And swim sometimes."
"You trying out for the track team then?"
"Yeah, what about you. What kind of stuff do you do, other than swimming."
"How do you know I swim."
"It's pretty obvious the criticism didn't come from Misaki she doesn't know a thing about sports. So I figured considering you know your stuff you probably do it."
"Well you're right I did. I used to run, but I'm not so good anymore so what's the point. And I'm thinking about swimming again but then I need to commit to it. I dance as well but... I guess I just became lazy after coming here." I say.
"I don't know about swimming because you probably know better, but I don't mind training you for running, if you want." He offers.
"I don't want you to waste your time training me, try outs are soon and you should be training yourself if you want to be captain of the track team again."
"How'd you know I was captain."
"Didn't you tell me just now," I say defensively.
"Nope."
"Oh, it was Misaki, when she took me to see the cheerleaders. I dunno how she knows so don't ask." I say.
"I don't mind, training with you might improve my running as well." He says bluntly.
"Okay, I guess I may as well try. So when do we start?"
"Tomorrow, meet me in the park at 8:00." He says.
"8:00 that's really early,"
"You want to be get in don't you?" He says, I nod in response. "Then I'll see you then."
We reach the black ship and Takeshi leaves without saying goodbye, I feel kind of excited to train with Takeshi.
I enter the black ship, and Johji sets a plate down for me.
"Dig in!" He says cheerfully.
"So how was you day,"
"It was good, and I decided to listen to you, and let Takeshi train me for the track team but..." I say piling food onto my plate.
"Ooh, so when do you start?" Asks Misa.
"Tomorrow, we only have a bit of time so..." I say stuffing food into my mouth.
"You're really hungry today."
"Yep, I don't know why." I reply.
We talk a bit but I go to bed early considering I have to wake up early.
