Chapter 38
Hope
"Only today!" Yohi-sensei slammed the book on the table, seemed frustated.
"But sensei, Takeru isn't present today! How can we play the drama?!" Daisuke almost raised his voice, in an equal annoyment.
"But I need the assignment now!" she demanded, making both Hikari and Daisuke cringed from the high-pitched voice.
"Sensei, we're really sorry but there's no one who offers to replace Takeru's role… even there's one, how can sensei put the score for Takeru when he's not present?" Hikari politely asked, which made the teacher grew frustated more.
"I don't care! Just blame your friend that isn't present today if I write zero for your score!"
"Sensei!" Daisuke stood up, clenching his fist.
"We may be only a disciple, but we do have limit for our patience. How could you say that we MUST do the drama today if Takeru isn't here?! HOW?" anger boiled from Daisuke's head, and Hikari could only poke his shoulder gently to calm him down.
The tense was growing up. Yohi stared sharply right at Daisuke, and the goggle boy returned the glare with no sign of fear. It's nearly impossible to showed her their drama if one of their personel wasn't here.
In a sudden, the door knocked and opened at the same time. Here, stood a familiar figure that made the three of them suddenly melted.
"You're really moooorooon," Daisuke tackled Takeru's head, who had just gotten into the infirmary. Beside him, Hikari was handing him some medicine and soft bread.
They had just finished their drama-play. Because Takeru wasn't in his health, it made his role as the lazy gatekeeper seemed pretty real.
Both Hikari and Daisuke were still astonished about how the blond managed to come to school. Last night, they had messaged each other, reminding each other about their play tomorrow. Unluckily, Takeru caught a severe flu during the night, so he felt very sorry when he said he's absent today.
What they didn't expect, in the high tense and critical moment, he appeared with silly grin while having some paper in his grip, must be a permission from principal teacher for coming late.
"But, thanks…" Daisuke smiled widely, giving the blond a gratitude gesture.
"Takeru… you don't have to come this far when you're still sick…" Hikari gently rubbed Takeru's left arm.
"… but, I'm lying if I said that I didn't hope a miracle will happen before," she giggled, and soon Daisuke and Takeru laughed.
"… me too! I was hoping that teacher goes away and never appear again, and the second mostly impossible hope, I hope you're there!" Daisuke exclaimed, raising his arm on the air. Takeru laughed again, weakly.
"And now I just hope that you can go back to home as soon as possible. This place is kinda disgusting, though," the goggle boy continued, his accent of speaking of such a really honest thing made Hikari giggled and Takeru laughed silently.
"Hey, I thought you'll welcome me here," the blond whined.
"Hahaha," Daisuke laughed sarcastically, rolling his eyes.
"Just please take a good rest until the bell rang," Hikari whispered, and the resumed her words. "… even that I have to agree about Daisuke's statement before…" she, and Takeru laughed lightly.
"Well then, take care!" the duo left Takeru alone in the infirmary, thanks to their lesson time.
Takeru was smiling to himself. As the child of hope, he had always coincidentally appeared in most critical times.
But, when he was stuck in that critical time itself? Who will be his hope?
As he rolled over the uncomfortable bed, he felt that his fever wasn't going down. He sneezed and coughed for a few times, before murmuring something.
"Onii-chan…"
Magically, just after he said that, Yamato went in the infirmary harshly.
"TAKERU!" he yelled. Takeru blinked his eyes, perplexed with what he had seen now.
"Onii-chan?" he tilted his head weakly.
"How could you go to school when you're sick?! You need to have some rest! Come on, let's go home. I'll deal with those bitchy permission," even that Yamato was a bit harsh, he was really care about his younger brother.
A hope in hope. There are so many hopes that it seems never end. That's why we always need a hope inside us to prevent ourselves in a desperation and pesimist.
Pretty sure this one is kinda hilarious. The next isn't Light, because as I've already said, Light has already present on Chapter 10. So, I'll make something a bit different, and maybe weird…
To the last one! Thanks for keep reading!