Healing Beneath The Moonlight

Chapter XVII; Honesty.

Someone's alarm just went off.

05:45AM

"Goodness who's alarm was that.. Why'd you use something as hype as Deadly Drive for alarm.." Yuuto complained and Akari let out a nervous chuckle. "Hehe.. I'm sorry" She rubbed her eyes and yawned as we all got up. "We're still at the rooftop. Thank God it didn't rain. Also, the sun hasn't woke up yet, let's do some stretches and wait for sunrise" Yuuki suggested and we all slowly got up, not wanting our vision to go all black. "Alright, everyone seems up. Let's do simple stretches for today. After the sun has risen, let's go take a bath and meet at Ryu's room. I'm sure we all have the same question towards Kunikida-sensei" Yuuki continued and they all seemed to agree with her. So we did some stretches, watched the sunrise, then we went down to take a bath and we meet up in my room.

"What's this question you wanted to ask me?" Kunikida started the conversation. "It's about your career and your age. You're still 23, did you take teaching classes early?" Kenta asked and Kunikida shook his head, everyone including me confused. "I'm actually a college student" He said and it went silent. "Wait.. You're a college student.. That means you still take classes too?" Yuuto asked and Kunikida shook his head once again. "I dropped out. I went to an Art major but turns out, going to art major is making me question my decisions. So I dropped out. When I dropped out, I got a text from my friend saying that there's going to be an art exhibition near. So I joined and did my best to make the painting"

"I went to the exhibition and I tell you what, there's many famous artist or selebgram there. I saw the girl who painted many things on different objects, I also saw the girl who painted over badly done objects. It was fun. And that is where I met Aikawa-dono. He seemed to be interested in art so I showed my work to him" He stopped to take a deep breath.

"After he saw my work, he said that his school needs a new art teacher since the art teacher before me has retired from old age, this school doesn't have any art teachers. I tried to explain to him that I'm still pretty underaged to teach but he said 'it's okay, just teach anything you learned in college' and so I did, and that's how I got hired here. So I'm never really a proper teacher. I'm just a college student that got hired by the owner of the school. But, teaching from what I've learned is fun. I get to meet people like you guys. And that's probably why he lets me date Ryu" He finished explaining and were all surprised by his story.

"Oh wow.. From a drop out student to a 'not-so-teacher' teacher.. That's so cool!!" Miiko chirped and they all agree. "That is indeed really cool. Do you still have the painting that you brought to the exhibition? I'd love to see it!" Yuri asked and sadly Kunikida didn't keep it. "Sorry but I left it at my hometown.. It was too big so my parents told me to leave it there" He sighed and Yuri nodded. "Where's your hometown?" I asked him and he looked at me. "Kyoto"

..Kyoto, that's where I spent most of my teenager life.

"I.. Shouldn't probably have said that. I'm sorry Ryu" He apologized but I told him it's fine, it's already in the past so why would I keep that memory?

Actually the memory is still there at he very bottom part of my brain.

"Well anyways, don't you guys want to go to the floral cosmetic shop I mentioned yesterday? Let's get ready and wear something warm, it's chilly outside as you've known" I changed the topic and everyone's face lit up. "Okay!!" Miiko and Yuri shouted at the same time. "Great start for the day isn't it, Kunikida?" I nudged his elbow and he nods. He pets my head for awhile and he went back to his room to change.

Alright then, now that's everyone went out of my room, it's time for me to take a bath then change to comfortable pair of clothes. I took out my oversized sweater and took my jeans to the bathroom. I warmed up the water first so I don't need to suffer from the cold water. After a while it finally warmed up and I went in. Feet first, then slowly sink until the water covered my whole body.