By the time Mocha-san arrived home.
"I'm home"
She said announcing her safe arrival as she puts away her shoes.
When she reached the living room, her family greeted her.
"Mocha, welcome back... Did you had fun at school today?"
Mocha-san's mother greeted Mocha-san warmly with a slight pause between her sentence.
She seemed surprised for a brief second the moment she saw Mocha-san's face.
"Ah- Y, Yeah."
Mocha-san responds slightly looking away.
She continued walking on her way to her room. But before she does, her mother remind her of diner.
"Dinner's ready. Come down after you get changed."
"O, okay."
She then. continued walking straight to her room to get change as agreed.
After Mocha-san finished changing into her normal clothes. She laid in the bed for a moment, face down and seemingly tired as she burry her face on the pillows.
So much happened today.
She looked back as she recalls everything that happened just on this day.
I did so many things that I couldn't even have hoped to do before.
I made friends, I did my best to respond when someone speaks to me, got invited to play volleyball and...
As she was recalling things she accomplished today, an image of me suddenly popped up inside her mind.
Her face immediately turned to red from suddenly remembering our interactions with each other.
I met someone who's really cool, as if meeting him was straight out of a shojo manga...
She buried her face deeper in her pillows as she hide her embarrassment.
If this was a dream, I don't want to wake up...
Slowly, she fell asleep as she thought how much she liked how todays events turned out.
A lot of things happened today after all so Mocha-san, as she wasn't really used to being this much socially active, it left her fatigued and fell into deep sleep from tiredness.
The door to her room opened and the one who opened it was Mocha-san's mother who was checking on her.
She was about to call for Mocha-san because she wasn't in the table for dinner yet.
"Mocha, lets eat-"
When Mocha's mother opened the door, she saw Mocha-san sleeping peacefully as she hug her pillow between the both of her arms and legs.
"Sigh, I guess I'll put it in the fridge for later in case you get hungry"
Mocha-san's mother backed out of the room and quietly closed it.
"Where's Mocha?"
Papa-Tsukiyo asked.
"She's already past asleep"
"I see. She must be tired after returning from school"
"That's probably it. She looked like she did lots in school today. Fufufu"
"So you also felt it's like that. Huh..."
"Of course. I'm the mother of that child after all. You also noticed it didn't you. Our daugther was smiling after she returned from school which was pretty rare. It was obvious to see she enjoyed herself today from the face she was making”
The face Mocha-san was making when she got home was a smiling one. And the moment MamaTsukiyo talked to her she still couldn't stop smiling.
[Referring to the short pause did you had fun part]"Hm, good for her."
"It was a good choice to relocate after all right Papa. Hmm?"
"It seems so."
As parent, Mocha-san's mother and father was relieved at how Mocha-san seemed to be doing well in adjusting to her new school that they noticed she had trouble doing previously.
Before the new school year started, Mama and Papa Tsukiyo had already sensed Mocha-san’s intention of wanting to change herself when she was about to start high school.
They even sometimes randomly stumbled on from time to time reference books and magazines of what’s new and trending amongst her peers. They had sense that Mocha-san’s desire to get along with other people her age.
Actually, them moving houses was not a coincidence, rather. In truth, it was intentional.
They wanted to give Mocha-san another chance giving her the privilege of starting from scratch so she could finally get the courage, to change her self for the better that Mama and Papa Tsukiyo had notice she was trying to do before high school started.
When Mocha-san woke up. She immediately looked for her phone, check the date, as if trying to confirm something by checking the time and date. She then rushed downstairs.
"Mom, Dad. Do you know what date it is?"
She asked as if trying to confirm her suspision.
"It's the 6th of September and today is Tuesday"
So it wasn't a dream...? I really did go to school!
She recalled everything and suddenly remember our fateful meeting again.
Her face immediately turned to red fro recalling that MamaTsukiyo took notice.
"Why is your face turning red? Did you finally got a boyfriend or something?"
Mamatsukiyo teasingly said to Mocha-san's reason for getting flustered all of a sudden.
"N-No! O-Of course not!"
Mocha-san heavily tried to deny Mamatsukyo's accusations with face still beat red.
Cough* Cough* Cough*
Papatsukiyo in the corner, who's sipping on his tea since earlier almost choked out of surprise seeing Mocha-san's flustered face from MamaTsukiyo's teasing.
"Papa. Are you alright?!"
MamaTsukiyo asked.
"Yeah. I'm, fine. cough* cough*. They sure grow so fast ha. Cough* cough*"
"I know how you feel"
Why are they talking as if I'm already leaving the house. And stop acting like old couples nearing their end. You guy's are only in your late thirties.
Mama and Papa Tsukiyo was proud and glad, at the same time a little saddened seeing their youngest grow so much in such a short period of time.
A/n: Ah, I forgot to mention the phone Mocha was using was a flip phone. It will be relevant later.
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