Just Smile Forever~A Mikaze Ai Fan-Fiction

Path of Rocks

"Whyyyyy?!" I heard Reiji whine. I looked up from the book I was reading (Harry Potter) and saw Reiji talking with Mr. Saotome. Beside me, Camus took off his sunglasses, and sighed dramatically. Ranmaru didn't budge an inch from the grass he was lying on, and Ai was observing the two of them as if they were interesting experiments.

"What is it now?" Ranmaru asked grumpily.

Reiji pouted, turning towards the three of us, "the president is cutting this trip short!! We're leaving tomorrow!!"

"Thank goodness, I don't know if I would be able to last another day in this sunlight," Ranmaru sighed, putting his sunglasses back on.

"Why aren't you sad?!" Reiji demanded.

"That's such a shame, but at least we got to get closer to each other," I tried with a sympathetic smile.

"I guess...." Reiji mumbled, "but I'm still so sad~"

"Why must we leave tomorrow?" Ai spoke up.

"Just ask Mr.Saotome th-" Reiji cut off in the mid-sentence, as he turned to point at the now non-existant Mr. Saotome.

"I swear, he was here just a second ago!" he exclaimed, spinning around.

"What is the reason?" Ai repeated, a little bit more impatiently this time.

"We have a scheduling conflict, apparently. I think we just got scheduled for a radio appearence tomorrow, and it's an important one he doesn't want us to miss," Reiji grumbled.

"But radio shows are fun to do," I tried again to cheer him up.

"Not as fun as staying out in the wild," Reiji frowned.

"If this is what Mr. Saotome has decided, there's no way to convince him to do something else," Ranmaru stated firmly.

"So we might as well make the best of this day!" I finished cheerfully.

Reiji sighed, but a smile was back on his face, "alright then! Let's go to that beach!"

"Beach? We didn't bring anything to swim in," Ai frowned, and for some reason he looked a bit more worried than normal.

"We're not going to there to swim, silly! We're going there to play in the sand~" Reiji sang. He grabbed the bag of sand toys (that I had just spotted), and jumped up and down, "let's get into the car!"

Camus ended up being the one driving. After making sure nothing valuable was left behind, we all piled up in the car. Just 5 minutes later, we had arrived.

"The beach~ I haven't been here since forever," Reiji gushed.

He seemed back to his normal self now.

Reiji turned, and took my wrist, "let's go, Akiko! Let's go play in the sand!"

Surprised, I followed him to where the sand was. He sat down, and started digging, "come on, we have to build the biggest sand castle ever!"

I laughed, but still sat down and started piling sand into one of the buckets. I hadn't played like this in forever, and it felt really good somehow.

"Come on, Ai, Ran-ran, Camus!" Reiji excitedly called out.

The three guys were slowly walking towards us, not nearly looking as excited nor interested as Reiji. But I couldn't help but smile when they still sat down around the sand and started building the castle.

After 10 minutes, my back started feeling sore. I paused to stretch, and looked around. There were still lots of people, but we had picked a place quite far from all of them. I guess it was to avoid getting recognized by fans.