Later today, the beautiful blue sky was replaced by a thick group of clouds. Not a minute has passed, the rain has began to flow from the sky. Unfortunately it was the end of the classes when it started the rain to pour. Students were side-by-side waiting for it to stop.
Jay is currently walking through the corridor. As he walks, he didn't notice it at first but he knows that he smelt something good (perfume) from one of the students he passed by through. The moment he realizes it, he stopped immediately and looked back, looking where the scent came from. But unfortunately, he really has no idea on who owns that kind of perfume. It was kind of unique, and...quite addictive for him.
The night came. Jay is preparing for the night, when something hit his mind. "I forgot my thumbler." He let out a sigh of disappointment. The day has been tough since they had P.E and all boys in the class were asked to play basketball. After preparing, he slacked himself onto the bed and burried his face to the pillows and started to doze off.
As he doze off, he smelt a familiar scent around. A little bit shocked, he opened his eyes to find a girl, in a pink shirt with a strawberry print in front of it. He was pretty sure the scent comes from her. He tried to run to the girl, but everything is quite blurred to find his path, and so her face. He reached out his hands almost getting to her, but then, she just vanished with the wind. Soon, he woke up, and turns out it was just a dream.
...
It has been a week of encountering the scent, and a week of having the same dream, everyday. Jay doesn't know what does it mean, nor he knows if it's even true. And actually, he is trying his best to forget about it, but failed as it always lingers in his mind. The urge to find answers makes him eagerly search for the person who owns it.
On the other hand, you are searching everywhere in your room, looking for your favorite shirt. "MOM!! WHERE DID YOU PUT MY SHIRT?" you shouted once again from your room, asking your mother for the same thing for the nth time, pulling out clothes from your exploding drawer.
"It's just there y/n, I never put it anywhere else." your mom plainly said. You messed your hair as you look back at your room with this face (-_-) for it looks like a complete mess. Clothes here, clothes there, clothes eveywhere, that's how your room looks like now.
After a century looking for it, it finally showed up. You quickly wore it together with your perfume, and head out of your room to the kitchen and grabbed a sandwich. "Mom! I'll fix my room after school! Bye!" you told your mom and walked off to the school.
You arrived at school on time. Since it's friday, the campus allows students to dress casually. You went to your locker and fixed stuffs before heading straight to your room. Walking in, you are looking for a specific person in your class, but unfortunately he hasn't arrived yet. You went to your seat and waited wether your teacher gets in first before him.
Minutes has passed and your teacher comes in your class first. '
Oh maybe he's gonna be late' you thought.
You put the thumbler back to your bag. This is the second time he will be forgetting it in school. the first time he forgets it, your locker neighbor Carlo returned it to him. And this time, you got it cause you are one of the cleaners yesterday.
The class has ended and as expected Jay was late. It was lunch time, so you approached him and handed out the thumbler to him with a big genuine smile. But it's taking him a while looking at your shirt and back to your face again. You can see the surprised features of him which confuses you a lot.
"Uhm.. Hello?" you said waving your hands on his face, and he blinked repeatedly, starting to flinch back to reality. He then quickly grabbed his thumbler from your hands, and you smiled at him again, ready to walk away when he stopped you and made you turn yourself to him once again. You looked at him wondering.
After a while staring at each other, Jay leaned towards your level. Your eyes widen, surprised by his behavior. You didn't dare to move, because anxiousness rule around your body. He stayed like that for a while. You got more shocked when he closed his trying to get a little closer to you to smell your scent. But you misunderstood it, and without thinking twice, you pushed him hard enough to make a space between you two, and ran away as fast as you can.
Little did you know, Jay is just trying to confirm something from you. Why? Because you are...
"The pink strawberry girl" he whispered to himself, smiling, wondering why'd you turn away and run. But then he just shrugged the thought once again for...
"She doesn't smell like it anyways." and went out to the cafeteria for lunch. As he arrive, as usual as everyday, a long line is waiting for him. He never wasted anytime and immediately stood next from the last person. When he reached the spot, he smelt the familiar scent he has been looking for so long. He, again, leaned towards the girl in front of him, slowly, not letting her notice it. As he smells the addictive scent, he let out a smile of satisfaction and peace of mind, finally.
"Found you." he whispered and unfortunately the girl heard it, making her flinch and look at him in surprise. He just chuckled at her cuteness, which made the girl's heart to flutter.
"Mind having lunch together?" he offered with a smile on his lips.
"So if it wasn't your perfume, then what did I just smelt from you?" he asked you wondering. You are now currently sitting across each other, eating and at the same time, talking about his encounter of your scent to, him dreaming of you everyday. It made you feel shy and yet flutters your heart.
You admired Jay even before. And knowing he has been dreaming and looking for you desperately makes your heart to jump in happiness.
Back to the present, you also wondered to where does the comes from, when you realized something. "Oh, or maybe...." you took a strand of your hair and smelled it, he also stood up and checked if you're right. Once he confirmed it, he looked back at your face, only inches away, you both locked gazes at each other. You are both in shock, you because of the fact that he is just inches away from you, and him for he found out the thing he had been looking for all this time. You both then realized your positions, you looked away from him in awkwardness and he got back to his seat, chuckling.
"So..." he said to broke the awkward silence between. "turns out it was your shampoo all along" you both laughed with the idea cause you both find it funny.
Starting from that day, you became friends with Jay, and you both knew each other quick. Most of the time you hang out with him. Months have passed of being friends, Jay have started to catch feelings for you.
You and Jay were walking down the bridge in the middle of spring, blossoms around the alley, swaying around with the warm wind.
