Walking home, I enjoyed the nice warm, but also cool breeze provided by the Japanese upcoming summer winds. They were soft, relaxing, and tranquilling to the mind if you were taking a relaxing walk.
I'd just come from school, and my brother got out of school earlier than I did, so if I got home and he was there, it wouldn't be as surprising compared to him not being there.
I was tired, especially considering that I was just coming back from my club, which usually kept me at school long after it ended.
I was especially walking home by myself because none of my friends were in the same club as I was; and most of those clubs didn't keep their members long after school ended like mine did.
Though I didn't join because I wanted to, I joined because the club mostly had a few kids who were considered outcasts and weren't really accepted by the other students; and the school was pining on them, attempting to shut the club down because they "didn't have enough members".
But everyone knew that was a lie. The club had well-over five students, maybe ten; including me. But because I joined the club, and was favored by almost all of the teachers and students, the principal couldn't shut the club down anymore because it could possibly start something.
I don't know exactly what it would start, because I'm pretty sure it wouldn't; but my friends continue to insist that something would happen because I was an honor student and I was well liked by a lot of the other students.
But I'm personally convinced that nothing would happen because nobody really cares for the club; not even the members themselves because they only started the club for people who didn't want to join one, but were pressured by the school to join one.
So they made a club that practically did nothing, but everything at the same time. Our club activities last a really long time, but I'm not complaining since I get to hang out with some really cool people and have fun.
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"Evan, I'm home." I called out, taking my shoes off at the front door so as to not track dirt into the house. I already had to clean the majority of the house with the little, but useful help I would sometimes get from the middle schooler that I live with.
He cleans the bathroom more than once a month as well as washing every other day.
He knows that both of our parents live in a different house, but they still visit every now and then; just not as often now because their job has been getting relatively busy now more than ever.
"Hey." Evan quickly jogged down the stairs and waved at me; probably not hugging me like he did in fourth grade because then he'd feel like a baby or something, and he calls himself a 'big boy' now, too.
"What's it like outside? Is it nice?" Evan followed me to my room and waited outside my closed bedroom door as I changed.
"Why? You wanna go hang out with your friends?" I asked, throwing on a white, breathable shirt and a random pair of shorts; opening my door to let him in and going over to my window to open it. "As long as you've finished your homework, go ahead. Be back a little after the sun starts setting though."
I looked back at Evan as he looked at me with a large smile on his face. "Okay!"
I sat at my desk, listening to Evan run back down the stairs and out the front door where he only locked the main lock with his keys just so there wasn't so much to unlock when he got back.
The main lock was abnormally loud compared to the one on the knob.
Once I saw him waving at my window and running a little bit more down the street to go to his friend's house.
All the while the peaceful, warm breeze softly blew into my room.