After I gave my number to sudou, ike and yamauchi, I left the gym because in the end no club caught my attention. I was walking straight to the dorm when I felt a pair of arms go around my neck and hug me tight.

???: Where do you think you're going, young man?!

I recognized that voice right away.

Ryusei: Nee-san

I look at her smiling nervously and see that she looks upset.

Maki: Why did you ignore me waving at you?!

Ryusei: Really? I did not even see.

I quickly try to pretend I don't understand.

Maki: One of her colleagues saw me and apparently tried to warn her about me waving at you.

Ryusei: Err... so... it's just...

Shit, I'm too nervous to even try to come up with an excuse.

Maki: This time I'll let it go.

phew, I think I got rid of her annoyance.

Ryusei: So what were you doing back in the gym?

I was the whole time wondering why she was there after all it was just for the first years and the leaders of the clubs to be there.

she smiles and says

Maki: I was there to support my club leader.

Ryusei: And what club are you in?

Maki: Athletics!

"Well I'm not surprised after all she's always been into that stuff."

Maki: And you lazy brat, you had the opportunity to join a club and you didn't end up joining one.

"Now I was offended."

Ryusei: Why would I join a club if it doesn't interest me.

Maki: It might be, but it would be good for you to at least exercise!

Ryusei: I already do that...at least before I come here but I'm going to have to do some exercises in the morning before school because if I lose touch and get relaxed, yomo-san will end up killing me.

Hearing this, she smiles.

Maki: Well, at least I don't have to worry about that!

I notice two people behind her and apparently they've been listening to our conversation from the beginning.

Ryusei: Nee-san who are they? are your classmates?

Maki: Oh yeah, let me introduce them!

She turns and points to one of them.

Maki: This is my classmate and athletic club leader, Leona Miyamura.

Miyamura? Does...

Miyamura: Nice to meet you nogami-kun.

Soon she presents the next one.

Maki: And she's a member of the athletics club, Sasha Braus.

sasha: Hello!!, I'm sasha from 3rd grade class C

She happily greets me.

Ryusei: Nice to meet you miyamura-senpai, braus-senpai.

To clear up a doubt that comes to my mind, I decide to ask miyamura-senpai a question.

Ryusei: Miyamura-senpai could I ask you a question?

She smiles and says

Miyamura: Of course.

Ryusei: You happen to have a brother named Toranosuke.

She looks at me curiously with that question.

Miyamura: Do you know Toranosuke?

I smile and say.

Ryusei: Yes, I know him, he's my friend we were in the same class last year.

She smiles and I decide to ask a question.

Miyamura: I'm happy to meet one of toranosuke's friends! And how is he?

Ryusei: Still the same old toranosuke.

Miyamura: I see, I can't wait to see you again.

I laughed at what she said.

Ryusei: It's a shame, I'd really like to see the face he'll make as soon as he sees you senpai!

Maki: Then Little Brother, let's let you go to your dorm.

Ryusei: Alright then, see you another day bye.

Maki: Bye Ryusei.

Miyamura: see you later nogami-kun, it was nice meeting you.

Sasha: see you later kouhai.

I say goodbye to them and go straight to my dorm.

After talking with his sister and her friends Ryusei went back to her dorm and spent the rest of the day there.

timeskip to a few days later*

Ryusei Pov

"Good morning Yamauchi!"

"Good morning Ike!"

I was sitting at my table watching these two talking, with ike calling out to yamauchi with a smile on his face.

It's quite unusual for these two to be in the room at this hour, usually they're one of the last to arrive.

Ike: Wow, I was looking forward to this class so much that I couldn't sleep last night!

Yamauchi: Yes, this school is the best, swimming will start soon! I say swim, but the girls are the important part! And by girls I mean your bathing suits!

Ah so why are they excited, I should know after all these two since they met they can't stop talking about girls, every topic they talk about involves girls.

I was going to ignore what they were saying but suddenly they said something that caught my attention.

Ike: Professor, can you record wearing the bathing suits?

What!!! Are they really serious about recording the girls with this teacher who actually must be sotomura's nickname, now why he is called that, I don't know.

Sotomura: Leave it to me. I'll pretend I'm sick and skip class to watch them.

"Recording what are you planning?"

Ayanokouji asked them what they were doing and by the look on his face he has no idea what they are talking about.

Yamauchi: The teacher will grade the girls' breast sizes. If there is a chance he will try to take pictures.

Just when I think I'm not going to hear anything more stupid, they go and outdo themselves, They're really going to take this plan of theirs, seriously what's in their brains for them to want to measure girls' breast size, for sure girls will start to hate them.

" Pathetic "

I hear someone say, and I look up to see that it was horikita who had just arrived.

Ayanokouji: Were you here too Horikita?

Horikita' I just arrived. I walked in while you were looking at those boys. If you want to be their friend, why not just talk to them?

Horikita asks ayanokouji.

Well she's not wrong, if ayanokouji wants to make friends he should try to talk to them more but also not everyone manages to take the first step to achieve something.

Ayanokouji: Shut up and leave me alone, if I could do that, I wouldn't be agonizing over this.

Ryusei: Well I don't see that you have a problem talking to other people, the problem is your lack of being able to carry on a conversation because you can't find something to talk about with people and that ends up causing problems for you to talk to others .

I spoke while the two just listened.

Horikita: Nogami-kun is right, and I don't think you have a communication disorder.

Ayanokouji: I have circumstances so far, you and nogami are the only ones who can hold a conversation.

Really apart from me and horikita he can't talk to our colleague.

Horikita: Hey...I already told you not to include me in your friends list right?

Ryusei: Fufufuf

I give a light laugh and in that horikita ends up looking in my direction.

Horikita: What's funny nogami-kun?

Horikita asks me.

Ryusei: Well, it's just that ayanokouji never said that he considers you his friend, he just said that you and I are the only ones he can talk to, now anyone who talks to you considers you a horikita friend?

I smile and continue

Ryusei: Or maybe you really want to make some friends but won't admit it, if that's really it, you're not really an ice queen like I thought horikita was.

The moment I look away a bit, I almost get a karate horikita strike from horikita ma I manage to avoid holding her wrist and I didn't squeeze her wrist I just used enough force to hold her blow.

smiling told her

Ryusei: Calm down horikita, I thought I said violence doesn't solve everything.

As I smile she continues to look at me with a straight face.

Horikita: Nogami-kun I'm not in the mood to joke, plus I haven't forgotten what you did a few days ago.

Ryusei: Are you still upset about this? it was just a flick besides I did that because you weren't responding to me or ayanokouji.

I let go of her wrist and instead of trying again, she just stays still at her desk.

Horikita: It doesn't matter the reason!

Ryusei: It seems like you're the type to hold a grudge for a long time.

After I say that Horikita turns her attention back to her stuff.

Ike: Hey, ayanokouji

Smiling Ike called the ayanokouji.

Ayanokouji: What, what is it?

Ayanokouji said as he walked towards ike

Ike: To tell you the truth, we're taking bets on girls' breast sizes.

Sotomura: We even have some probabilities.

Just when I think it can't get any worse, they go and get over it, in their minds that's all because I don't believe they think about girls 24/7 and yeah I know I'm talking like I'm not interested in girls but I am yes, I even think many girls in our class are pretty, horikita is an example. I think she's very pretty despite her cold personality.

By the way, are these idiots aware that girls are listening to all the things they are saying. And with that said I looked around the room and indeed they were listening to everything and staring at the boys with expressions.

Ike: Come too nogami, don't you want to join?

Ryusei: I'll pass.

I quickly denied wanting to participate in this.

Mini timeskip*

Ike: Wow, look at that pool!

While the boys and I were going to the locker room, they took a look at the pool, which was big.

When we got to the locker rooms everyone changed, of course with lots of boys excited to see the girls.

Ike: This school is the best! this pool is way better than the one in town!

Ike said excited to see the pool of probably 50 meters.

The water was so clean it looked like crystal, of course it was in a covered area but that doesn't take away from the great job they do keeping it clean.

Ike: Where are the girls? are they still not here?

Ike quickly refocused on what he really wanted.

Ryusei: You should know that girls take longer than boys to change.

Ayanokouji: He's right, they're probably not ready.

Ike: Hey, what would happen if I suddenly jumped in the girls' locker room?

Ryusei: In addition to them beating and hating you until graduation, you could also get kicked out of school.

Ike: Don't spoil my fantasies with such a real answer.

Ayanokouji: If you look at girls' swimsuits too much, they'll probably hate you.

Ike: Are there any boys who wouldn't do that?... what will I do if I get turned on?

Ryusei: Hold those hormones there buddy.

I speak already getting irritated because I don't believe he had the courage to say that at least only me and ayanokouji heard him say that.

"Wow, this pool doesn't even compare to my high school."

After a few minutes of the boys arriving, everyone could hear a girl's voice.

Ike: They finally came!

Ike said getting excited with the arrival of the girls.

I honestly wasn't paying much attention to that, because last year I already went with my old class to the beach, so I already saw the girls in my class in bikinis, so it could be said that I already have experience seeing girls in beachwear bath.

However the boys started to get disappointed as there was a turnaround in their expectations.

Ike: Professor, a-behind you!

Sotomura: Wwww-what?

Ike pointed in amazement at what he just saw.

There were many girls from our class in the stands, probably they decided not to participate in the class because of the boys who were planning to take pictures of them.

Ike: I thought I'd get to see big boobs!

Ike yelled in disappointment.

And I could only put my hand in mine shaking my head in disappointment at his attitude.

Yamauchi and ike joined in and continued to complain about how much they wanted to see the girls' breasts.

"What are you two doing? sounds like fun."

As if she had perfect timing, kushida appeared in her bathing suit, quickly drawing the attention of all the boys, who looked like they were drooling just looking at her.

"Why are you having a weird expression?"

It was horikita who had just arrived

Ryusei: It's not a big deal, I'm just watching ike and the other boys get embarrassed.

I looked at horikita in her bathing suit and I must say that both she and kushida looked good in them and if she didn't have too much control over me she would be staring at them.

And for some reason horikita was looking up and down my body.

Ryusei: Why do you look at me so much?

Horikita: Nogami-kun do you exercise? she asked me

Ah, I understand, she saw how my body is and decided to ask, well I have a lot of muscles, I would have a defined body as they say.

Ryusei: Yes, I exercise even though I'm too lazy to want to, my mom always says it's good to exercise to stay healthy.

Horikita: Your mother is right to tell you that. And do you ayanokouji-kun also exercise?

She asked ayanokouji who was coming towards us.

Ayanokouji: No, not particularly. I'm not proud of it but I was part of the go home club.

Horikita: You say that...but clearly you exercise the muscles in your arms and back.

It's true maybe he works out I've never met anyone who has muscles but doesn't work out.

Ayanokouji: Maybe I inherited good genes.

Well, it's a possibility.

Horikita: I don't think that's the case.

Ayanokouji: What? Do you have a muscle fetish? that is true? and that?

Don't say that ayanokouji! you don't want to take another hit from her again, horikita was already prepared to hit him again but a guardian angel arrives to save him.

"Horikita-san, are you good at swimming?"

Kushida drew horikita's attention, which ayanokouji must be mentally thanking for that.

Horikita was confused by kushida's sudden question but soon answered it

Horikita: I'm not particularly good or bad.

Kushida: In elementary school, I was really bad at swimming. I practiced a lot, and now I'm better!

Horikita: I see.

Horikita let out a disinterested reply and walked away from kushida. This girl really doesn't like to communicate with others even feeling sorry for the failed attempt to interact with the horikita.

"Alright, everybody line up!"

The teacher caught everyone's attention.

" 16 people, I see. I expected more people but that's ok ".

Well there were people skipping class but the teacher doesn't seem to care and like it or not it's starting to bother me because it's not just in this class a lot of students have been doing things like messing with their cell phones or talking or sleeping during class and the teachers don't even try to call the attention.

"It's a little sudden, but I'll examine your skills after you've finished warming up. You're going to swim."

"Hm sensei, I don't know how to swim".

A boy raised his hand.

"As a teacher, I'll make sure you learn to swim by summer. Don't worry."

"No need to learn to swim... we can't go to the beach anyway."

"It doesn't matter if you're bad at swimming right now, but I'll make sure everyone learns. Learning to swim will definitely come in handy. I guarantee that."

He's not wrong knowing how to swim will be very useful in certain situations but why does he insist that everyone learn to swim?

Everyone started the warm-up exercises, then we were instructed to start the 50 meter swim. Students who didn't know how to swim could touch the bottom of the pool with their feet.

I got into the pools to get used to the water temperature and it wasn't as cold as I thought it would be and I started swimming.

After swimming the 50 meters I waited for the other students to finish.

Ike: Hehehe, a complete victory. You see? My swimming skills?

What is this fool celebrating? his swimming performance was normal, nothing impressive.

"Anyway, it looks like most everyone can swim."

Ike: Of course sensei. In elementary school I was called the flying fish you know.

" I see. Then you can immediately compete against each other. 50 meters freestyle, separate by gender.

Ike: C-compete! Are you serious?

" I will give the first place a bonus: 5,000 points. On the other hand, the last place will receive extra classes so get ready "

Well, who was good at swimming was happy about it, now those who weren't weren't very excited about it.

" Since there are not many girls, I will divide you into two groups of 5 and give the fastest time in the overall victory. For the boys, I place in the top 5 times and then do a final round."

Then the school gives award points. if it's a way to punish those who skip class, that's a good plan.

The girls were the first to go.

Ike: Kushida-chan kushida-chan kushida-chan kushida-chan kushid-ouch!

I couldn't stand it and I punched Ike in the head to see if he would shut up because this is already making me angry.

Ike: Why did you do that?

Ike asked as he rubbed his head from the blow.

Ryusei: shut up ike, can't you see you might end up embarrassing kushida! and also don't you realize that people might start to think you're insane?

Although most must already think or rather are already sure that he is an idiot.

Ike: I have no problem keeping an eye on the girl you like.

Ryusei: ( Sigh ) That's not the problem but be quiet anyway and pay attention to the girls' running.

Soon the whistle blew and the 5 girls started to swim. Horikota is in lane 2 and she already started in the lead and she kept it away from the others until she got to the first place.

"Wow horikita"

She was very fast, her time was 28 seconds and she did it without getting tired at all, and she slowly got out of the pool and I ended up holding my eyes on her and come on, even though she has a difficult personality, with all certainty you can consider horikita one of if not the most beautiful girl in our class in terms of appearance.

And unlike the other boys who are looking at her body, I'm looking at her face.

The second race was one-sided as the girl called onodera won the race scoring 26 seconds, while kushida scored 31 seconds, which is a good time but she only managed to take fourth place.

I went to horikita to talk to her...at least if she doesn't try to ignore me.

Ryusei: You came close, second place is pretty good

Ayanokouji: Well there was nothing to do, after all the members of the swimming club are very fast

ayanokouji said as he walked towards us

Horikita: I don't care if I won or lost. Just talk about me. Are you confident in yourself ayanokouji-kun?

Ayanokouji: Obviously. I don't want to finish last.

Horikita: That's not something you should be proud of. and I thought boys would care more about winning and losing.

Ryusei: She's right. Where's your competitive spirit? Won't you tell me you're not interested in earning the 5,000 points?

Ayanokouji: I really don't like competing with others. After all, I avoid problems.

I could only shake my head in disappointment at his answer.

Horikita: And you nogami-kun are confident?

Ryusei: Well, as much as I'm sure I'm faster running than swimming, I'll work hard to earn those 5,000 points.

In the first group that was about to start there was sudou, ayanokouji and a few other boys, ayanokouji is in track 2 while sudou is in track 1.

And when sensei whistled to start, it surprises me seeing sudou's speed taking the lead quickly the others didn't even have a chance to catch up and when he finished the stretch he got out of the pool.

Ike: You were amazing sudou, you finished in 25 seconds!

Ike together with yamauchi celebrated sudou's victory.

As it was my turn, I already went to the starting line and there I was also stiff with other boys.

Kya!

a joyful female scream came from the girls who were admiring hirata's physique.

We got into position and as soon as sensei blew the whistle I jumped into the water and started swimming just focusing in front of me as I increased my speed and ignoring the girls' screams of encouragement to the hirata.

As soon as I completed the 50m stretch, I noticed that I was the first to arrive, followed by the hirata.

Hirata: Congratulations nogami-kun, you were very fast.

he says smiling

Ryusei: You did really well too, you were fast.

I reply with a smile too.

He ends up laughing nervously and says

Hirata: But not like you.

Ryusei: Sensei what time was it?

" Hirata did 26.13 seconds and you nogami did 24.40 seconds "

Hell, I have to admit, I didn't think it was that fast.

"You were very fast there nogami, your timing was better than sudou's"

Ayanokouji says this as he walks towards me.

Ryusei: Well, I wanted to win, so I worked hard.

Horikita: very different from you ayanokouji-kun who prefers to settle for not losing than trying to win.

Horikita took the opportunity to pin ayanokouji and I laughed at that. Then I looked and saw the next ones and... why the hell is koenji only wearing swim trunks?

Koenji was the center of attention because his physique was better than sudou's, the boys looked with admiration at koenji's physique including sudou.

At the sound of the whistle, koenji and the other boys jumped into the pool.

" Wow"

Everyone, including me, was surprised by koenji's aggressive swimming. his speed is really impressive. he was much faster than sudou, after recording the time the teacher looked at the stopwatch.

"Your time is...23.22 seconds"

Koenji: As always, my abdominal muscles, back and psoas seem to be in good shape. it wasn't a bad performance.

Koenji will certainly be difficult to beat but even so, I don't get discouraged and go to my post.

Sudou: I'm excited!!!

Sudou shouted competitively.

I sudou and koenji were prepared and as soon as sensei apirou I quickly jumped into the water and swam faster than I could and the dispute was fierce between me and koenji but unfortunately koenji arrived first and I arrived soon after.

" Wow"

everyone was speechless with that last race, koenji and I had a five meter lead and when he arrived he was grumbling because of the defeat he had.

Well then we finished class and everyone went to the locker rooms to change and what can I say? the class was so much fun!

Two week timeskip*

Ike: Kikyo-chan, do you want to stop at a cafe on our way to the dorms?

Kushida: Of course, let's go! Ah, but wait a minute. I want to invite one more person.

It's been two weeks since the pool class and I constantly see ike trying to make some progress with kushida, ja ayanokouji and horikita are still in the same situation but at least ayanokouji is trying to make more interactions, ja horikita... doesn't have the slightest interest in anything but classes.

I wonder what she's doing after school, is she just buried in her books all the time? oh and also the staff still didn't change their attitudes they continued with the same actions.

Kushida: Horikita-san. I'm going to coffee with my friends if you want would you like to come with us?

Horikita: I'm not interested.

Horikita quickly declined kushida's invitation...this girl she thinks is so bad interacting with others?

Kushida: I see...well I'll invite you some other time.

kushida said with a smile.

Horikita: Wait a moment, kushida-san.

horikita called kushida to say something.

Horikita: Please don't ask me again. It's a nuisance.

What an ice queen, doesn't mince words to say something to a person.

However kushida was unaffected and kept smiling.

Kushida: I invite you another time.

Honestly I don't know who is more stubborn, kushida trying to invite horikita all the time even with the constant rejections or horikita who is stubborn in trying to interact with other people.

"Kikyo-chan, please stop inviting horikita-san I hate her"

I heard one of the girls say .

It was just that I needed why the hell does she hate horikita? just why doesn't she talk to anyone? I honestly don't see any harm in her wanting to be alone, even more so considering that she didn't do anything to be hated.

And even with this horikita personality I still think she's very normal to talk to when she wants to. unlike some girls in our class who are boring as fuck.

I finish packing my things and leave the classroom and while I was messing with my cell phone as I walked down the hall something caught my eye.

"Ryu-chan".

When I hear that word I get paralyzed, there were only three people who call me that, my mother and my sister

although she only calls me that only at home they never use that nickname in public, as the third always called me that even in public when I turn around to make sure the person called that name, my eyes widened.

Ryusei: You're...

End