The Story of You and Me - Book 1

Lesson1: Transfer Student (prt4)

"Thanks for the food" - the two male starts eating their meal.

Keisuke can't help but to remember the scars covering the other's almost entire body "H-hey, I just noticed, you have lots of scars"

"So you were looking at my body" – Hideya said in a perverted tone "Did I somehow change your preference?" - he added as he smirks.

"Shut up! It's just my first time to meet someone with that many scars!"

"I had them when I was in middle school, I used to get into fights"

"What did your parents say about it?"

"Because of family issues, I'm not living with my parents since I was 10 years old"

"I see"

"But that's all right, it only means that I have my freedom!" – he said with a feigned smile.

"So you live here by yourself?"

"Yes, since last year"

"Last year?"

"Before, I have my big brother with me" – Hideya showed a picture from his wallet, it's a picture of him and his big brother.

"Where is he now?"

"He's dead" – Hideya's tone changes.

"I'm sorry to hear that" – Keisuke said in a sympathetic tone.

"It's alright, it happened before I got expelled from my previous school" – Hideya said.

"I see" – Keisuke remembers that there were stories that Hideya was involved with a fight that causes him to be hospitalized.

"I'm lucky that I was able to find a school that accepts me even after all that with the condition that I'm not be involve in any trouble again" – Hideya "With that said I don't want to disappoint those people who still believe in me, I want to change"

"Those people who believe in you?"

"My previous school agreed not to disclose much about what happened"

"I don't know the whole story and I won't ask you to tell me but as your tutor" – before he was able to finish his statement.

"Hahahaha! I told you it's alright, you don't have to be so sympathetic to me!" – Hideya laughs.

Keisuke stares at Hideya's laughing yet sad face "Is he forcing himself to laugh?" – he whispered"Wait, what do I care?" - he quickly said to himself.

"Hey, why are you staring at me like that?" – Hideya asked making the same face of mockery again.

"Nothing!"

Hideya let Keisuke sleep in his room while he set another futon inside the cabinet.

"I can't sleep" – Keisuke whispered as he stares at the unfamiliar ceiling of Hideya's room, "He said that he wants to change, I'm assuming that those people who attacked him are from the rival gang or something from his past, it will make sense judging by the way he asked those goons, yeah that must be it and the reason why he doesn't want to go to the hospital is he is afraid that it will be reported to our school"

Keisuke sits down and with the light from the moon passing through the window, he can see the room's emptiness.

"This room doesn't have anything but this futon and that wall cabinet where that perverted idiot is sleeping in" – he said.

He notices at the dim corner of the room a stack of what seems to be wooden frames.

"What is that?" – Keisuke quietly gets out of the futon and crawls towards the corner of the room, there he realizes that the frame is actually a canvas for painting.