Our Dreams Are Connected

Prologue

"Ready..."

A girl with black hair with a length that reaches on her waist tied in a ponytail hairstyle, with a beautiful face that made one wonder if she was made carefully by God himself, and with a lovely pale skin that compliments her beauty.

Wearing high school gym clothes attire for the running event.

She got into a ready-to-sprint position and would immediately go on once the referee blows his whistle.

'I will succeed this time.'

She muttered as the contestants near her didn't hear it.

'I must not trip.'

She muttered continuously that sentence as if she was in a trance.

'I must succeed my parent expectation this time.'

As she thinks of that, she looks to her right as her parents are there standing in the place where the audiences are at, as if they're looking at her to see if she's gonna failed their expectations once more.

"You can do it!"
"GO GO GO FUJIMURA!"
"YOU BETTER NOT LOSE FOR THE WHOLE CLASS
TACHIBANA-SAN!!!

All kinds of cheering are heard as the contestants are more determined than before to meet their teammate's expectations.

And yet there was no one to cheer for her, even her parents are just there to observe her just to make sure she doesn't blemish their reputation.

She naturally anticipated this outcome as she got used to it already.

"Gets set..."

All the contestants are ready to burst in a sprint at any seconds.

Then a loud whistle sound is made.

STOMP

They all made the same step and the similar timing together as if they planned this before.

Which resulted in a loud noise was heard even for the audience.

An exciting impact happens for both the contestants and the audience.

Despite they started at the same time, She has managed to get the lead before her competitors by a large mile.

And yet there was no one to cheer for her.

Even her teammates didn't cheer for her as she basically handled this perfectly as she always has been.

Despite this fact she didn't care, as long as she meets that person's expectation then it is alright for her classmates and her parents to not cheer for her.

It was also because...

'That guy promise me that he would let me do anything I wanted for a week. Even bullying him! If I managed to overcome this and surpassing my parent's expectation of me!'

But...

'What if I trip this in this important race?'

A trauma from the past came back to haunt her.

'I would betray everyone's expectations of me...'

Shuddered in fear as she focuses heavily on each of her every step to the tiniest details in which drains her concentration fast.

'Stopped thinking about it! This isn't your usual cool-headed thinking!'

Despite saying this sentence, the negative thoughts are still whispering in hopelessness.

Removing the negative of such things... is always been a difficult trial to do...

Her competitors are catching up slowly as she started to slow down bit by bit in a similar tempo when the negative thoughts started to whisper.