^ Of course she would... soon. LOL
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Watching Over You
- 01 – Niigaki Risa
Niigaki Risa walked out of the infirmary with a smug look. She walked down the empty hallways since everyone was currently in class, and turned right to a corner out into the courtyard.
“Hey.” A female with short, shoulder length hair greeted her. She was wearing a black pencil skirt, a white inner blouse, and a labcoat over it with the name plate ‘Ishikawa’ sewn on the left chest part of the clothing. “How was it?”
Risa sat down on the bench under a large historical cherry blossom tree and looked up at the blue sky.
“Bad?” School Nurse Ishikawa Rika asked as she sat beside the student, looking up the sky as well.
“I...” Risa looked straight, then immediately cupped her face with her hands as she leaned down to her legs. “I kissed her.”
Ishikawa-sensei furrowed her eyebrows into a bad poker face... but wasn’t able to hold it in much longer and bursted out laughing as if she had just heard the best joke in ten years. Risa lifted her head from her hands stared at her teacher.
“You? Worried about kissing her?!” Rika laughed loudly with good ‘ha ha ha!’ intervals. “I thought you were smarter than that!”
“This and that and her are different!” Risa pouted at the teacher, curving her lips upward into a cute duck-like expression. “And you’re supposed to be a teacher, guardian, whatever, and here you are, laughing at me.”
“It’s just amusing.” Rika sighed deeply to stop herself from laughing. “To see THE GREAT NIIGAKI, being all nervous, worrywart-y, and stressed out because of a girl.” She used hand gestures to emphasize ‘The Great Niigaki.’
“I told you whatever or whoever ‘The Great Niigaki’ is is not true. That’s just something Konkon and Mako-chan made in middle school and now it’s everywhere.” Risa sighed as she stood up and stretched her arms. “I’m not sure whether or not I should be glad they’re not here or be sad cause they’re not here.”
“Be a good kid.” Ishikawa Rika told her with a genuine smile.
“Yeah, yeah. I’m leaving for class. You have some consoling to do to this Takahashi Ai.” Risa left her sensei as she went back from the direction she came from and start attending classes.
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Niigaki Risa walked past her classroom after noticing a figure run past here. She followed the direction of the figure and reached her hand inside a corner, dragging a girl by the back of her collar near her.
“Junjun. Are you chasing Tanakacchi around again?” She looked up at the tall, black haired female while pushing her hand in her pocket. “Where is she anyway?”
“I’m not following Tanaka-san.” Junjun answered. “Yet. And she’s in class.” The Chinese female, Li Chun, third year student, tilted her head to one side and looked at Risa.
“... Don’t cause too much trouble, alright?” The chocolate haired female patted the much taller girl on the shoulder and left for her classroom.
She walked past classrom 2-B and looked to see if the person she had ‘officially assaulted’ was in yet and felt a pang of guilt hit her after seeing her chair empty.
Niigaki Risa walked towards her classroom and looked inside the classroom to find a math class discussion. Instead of going in, she walked passed 2-A and went straight to the stairs to get to the covered rooftop and rest.
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Takahashi Ai shook her head, hands still covering her mouth. “I...” She looked around, all her senses on alert. “I forgot her name...”
The door suddenly opened to reveal the school nurse as Ai-chan looked at her with wide eyes.
“Are you alright? You look like you saw a ghost,” Ishikawa Rika asked her. She walked slowly towards the female and placed a palm on Ai’s forehead. “You’re temperature is high. Are you feeling alright?”
“I was blushing?” Ai vigorously nodded her head, removing her hands from her mouth. “I -I’m fine, Ishikawa-sensei.” She quickly removed the blanket over her and put on her shoes.
“Where are you going?”
“I need to go to class,” Ai said, grabbing her bag and walking towards the door. “Thank you, Ishikawa-sensei, and sorry for borrowing a bed without permission.” She bowed at the teacher and left.
Rika sat down on her chair and smiled. “You really outdid yourself in this one, Gaki-chan.”
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The next day, Takahashi Ai walked towards school, clutching her head with one hand, her bag and a bunch of papers in the other. In first year highschool, since she got the highest score in the entrance exam, she had delivered a speech during the freshmen orientation and had been elected as Class President of section 2-B.
Because she was late to yesterday’s first class with English Professor Fujimoto Miki, she was asked to photocopy today’s lesson from the book.
“I ended up getting less sleep...” She thought to herself as she walked, looking down at her feet. “I ended up thinking about that kiss... trying to remember her name...”
Another step further and she had bumped towards a man about a foot and a half taller than her, sending the papers from her hand flying all over the place.
“Bitch! Watch where you’re going!” The man glared down at the poor female who was busy picking up the papers.
“I’m sorry, I wasn’t looking!” Ai apologized in a high pitched voice as she picked up papers. “I’m really sorry!”
“You better be careful more you piece of—“ The man who seemed to be a yankee was about to throw down his fist on the poor girl when a shadow wearing a long, dark colored jacket with a hoodie on shrugged his hand away, standing in between a certain Takahashi Ai and the yankee. “Wh—“
“I suggest you help her pick these papers up,” the person wearing the dark jacket said in a low and husky voice, pushing away the yankee using her fist. “You should be taking care of women instead of mistreating them,” the person explained as the wind blew, taking the hoodie off her head.
“You...!” Takahashi Ai thought as she looked at the back side of the slightly taller female. She looked around, noticing everybody looking at them as if it was a shoot for a movie. “Umm...”
“Hm...?” The yankee stared at the smug looking, jacket-wearing-female..
“I never knew you yankees liked this much attention and would hit a girl for bumping into them, no less.” The female put both her hands on her waist and shifted her weight to one leg. “Are you gonna hit me too now?” She removed her hands from her waist into a ‘whatever motion’ and smirked at the yankee.
“You’re--!” In a lightbulb moment, the yankee scrambled to the ground, picked up the papers behind him, and handed them to Ai. “I’m really sorry!” He said and ran away.
The audience who had been watching them clapped their hands, but the female with a jacket on shooed them away as they continued to walk to school.
The girl turned around to face Takahashi Ai and handed her some papers she picked up while the other female was still a bit dazed.
“You should be more careful.” The female patted Ai’s head gently and walked away before the other girl could throw a word in.
“Ai-chan!” Sayumi and Eri ran towards the dazed female, who just looked at the retreating back of her savior. “Are you okay? We heard you bumped into a yankee. Are you hurt anywhere?”
Ai shook her head.
“Who was that?” Eri said as she pointed at the direction Ai was looking at.
“Pointing is bad.” Sayu immediately tapped Eri’s hand, who just looked at her, and changed her protruding index finger, into all fingers, palm up.
“Umm… Niigaki Risa…” Takahashi Ai let the name slip from her mouth as events of yesterday flooded her mind again.
“Niigaki Risa, Ms. Forever Second.”
Clutching her book and papers closer to her chest, Ai immediately grabbed a small dictionary and threw it at the retreating female wearing a jacket, “Don’t call me Forever Second!” she shouted in cute voice.
As if on cue, the book immediately hit Risa on the head, sending her squatting onto the ground. “I~ttaaaiiii~” Her hands immediately made way to clutch at the back of her head. She turned to look at the book on the ground, picked it up, and then looked at the direction it came from.
Ai just stared at her with her mouth open. ‘Please close your mouth or I might fill it up with something to my preference.’ She immediately closed it, blushed up to her ears, and stomped away.
“Ehhhh?” Niigaki Risa practically told no one as she watched the girl cutely stomp away with a pout. “She’s mad about that?!” She looked at the book again as her other hand mended her throbbing head.
“Hahahaha! NIIGAKI-SAN THAT WAS AWESOME!” A loud voice rang into Risa’s ears as a short girl with fringed bangs laughed. “GETTING HIT BY A BOOK FROM THE GIRL YOU–“
“LINLIN, SHHHH!” Risa immediately covered the girl’s mouth as everyone walking by them looked at the young girl. “Come with me.” Risa took the book with her and walked off into the direction of the rooftop.
Again, by the courtyard, a tall black haired female was seen chasing a short brunette.
Chapter 1 END.
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