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A Sudden Perspective: 1st Day of Summer

Today was the first day of summer vacation. I think I did pretty well on the first semester, at least enough for Dad to notice.

I kinda figured that I would spend the day catching up on my favorite superheroes while Shujinkou played with Sayori. Just one semester and those two are so close that you think that they've known each other their whole lives. I also learned that Sayori kinda gets hurt a lot. Sometimes she trips over something, sometimes she runs headfirst into something. But despite that, she's still pretty cheerful.

But like I said, I thought that I would be spending my day catching up or maybe reading some 2099 stories, but that changed when I was suddenly hoisted into the air. My entire world turned upside down before I was face to face with Gramps. He always knows how to make an exciting entrance. Seeing everything upside down while up in the air was always a fun thing, you know in short intervals.

He put me down before the world started spinning this time just as Granny Hisa and Shujinkou walked into my room. Turns out they came over to check up on us and couldn't help surprising us too. That's when Gramps suggested a trip through the woods.

I was excited to hear that. Gramps always made trips feel like adventures. It was a family thing, but Dad wasn't interested in coming. Shujinkou asked if Sayori could along instead and Granny Hisa started teasing Shujinkou over how close they seemed to be, though it went over his head.

We spent the first part of the trip listening to Gramps past adventures. There was this one time before Mom was born that he and Granny Hisa had an adventure a South American rainforest. There were people trying to kill them because they were all racing for some rare treasure that would have made the bad guys a lot of money. There were several chases too and they also had to split up; Granny Hisa had a chase up in the treetops while Gramps had a boat chase in a river. After they got away, Granny Hisa had to save Gramps from quicksand.

It sounded like your typical Amazonian adventure, but it didn't make hearing it any less exciting. Granny Hisa also told me that she knew the trick that could instantly knock a person out. I wonder how many times she used it before. I hope she can teach me it.

After doing a bunch of walking, we eventually stopped for lunch that Mom prepared. I'm still surprised that she made such a good meal even though she had no idea we'd be going out. Granny Hisa said that it was because she grew up in a lot of "hectic situations". Mom didn't really respond to that, she just chuckled and slowly nodded her head.

I noticed Sayori was eating a lot of what Mom made. I noticed she has more of an appetite than you'd expect from just from looking at her. I also noticed she has a major sweet tooth like Shujinkou; I wonder if they connected over that.

Today was actually the first time I got to talk to her for more than a few minutes. So far I considered her Shujinkou's friend and didn't want to do anything to interfere with that, but I guess looking back, I shouldn't have. Anyway, I did find out that she liked reading Sherlock Holmes, but when she mentioned that he was the world's greatest detective, that's when Shujinkou chimed in.

Though Shujinkou had a weird introduction to Spider-Man, he knew the real Batman pretty well, or at least, the modern Dark Detective version. He's probably freak out if he read the early Batman comics and the kind of adventures he went on.

Anyway, I kinda thought the third wheel was no longer in the conversation until they both asked me who was the better detective. I didn't know how to answer so I gave one of my own: The Question. I got nothing but blank stares and had to explain who it was to them. But even after giving the best summary that anyone without prior knowledge could understand, they still seemed pretty biased on their own viewpoint.

Gramps tried to get in by saying himself and Granny Hisa teased him by saying he's not a detective. Not saying Gramps is done, but I think Granny Hisa would be the brains between the two; like she's the planner and he would be the on the fly thinker.

After that, Sayori mentioned that she noticed I scratched my right cheek like Shujinkou but not as much. I never realized she was paying attention to my cheek-scratching thing too. I mean you can't miss it with Shujinkou and we haven't really spent much time together either so I also learned that she's pretty observant. Anyway, I told her that I was pretty sure it was a genetic thing that we got from Granny Hisa.

Then again, Mom doesn't have scratch her right cheek, though I'm pretty sure she would do it as much as Shujinkou if she did. The rest of the day was more walking and listening to tales. I wish field trips could be as fun as today. You can have teachers and supervisors leading and saying the same things, but it wouldn't be as much fun.

The only thing that could have made today even better was if Dad was with us.