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Chapter 16: The Sky That Afternoon

"Calm down, Sora. Calm yourself down."

Breathing in and out, I somehow managed to calm myself down by a bit. But my heart was still pulsing like crazy.

Haruhi.. Ishida.

When I heard that name. I can't help but feel like running away from there. But then it was Kyouhei that was asking that question.

How could I possibly do that? He was asking such an innocent question. I should have not reacted like that at all.

What if he leaves me because of that? What if he thinks that I am a weird guy and leaves me? Ah! I don't want him to leave me!

If he leaves me, then Mei would as well! Ah! I don't want to be alone! I don't want them to leave me-

"Oh please calm down, Sora! Calm down!"

Why am I being so insecure about our bonds so much? Kyouhei would never leave me! Mei as well! We are the Literature Club members. Mei is member no.1, Kyouhei is member no.2 while I am member no.3!

The three of us are inseperable! So calm down!

But who said we were inseperable?

"Ah! I'm getting nowhere with this!"

Looking at the clock above, I realised that it was going to be the time that the teacher comes in. I should get going.

Luckily, I was able to calm myself by the time the teacher came in so I was able to concentrate on the lessons. My grades had dropped terribly last semester that I had gotten a three hours long worth of lecture from my mom because of it. To be honest, I don't want to go through that again.

And once more when I glanced to the back, I saw Kyouhei being asleep. It had been considered normal to see Kyouhei asleep during lessons. The teacher doesn't even mind.

Sure the teachers of this school are mostly lax but they don't mind Kyouhei's action because he is a genius. That and he had never done anything wrong before.

Sure is nice being a genius. Though I've never seen how good Kyouhei really is since he had just transferred here not too long ago. The midterm is quite near, so I guess I'll be able to see just how good he really is by then, huh?

And this genius is my friend. My very first friend. Hehe.

"..Hikari..."

There he mumbled that name again. At first, I had never been able to distinguish what Kyouhei had been saying in his sleep but after being at his front and paying close attention to him for three months, I figured out that the most frequent word, no, name that he had mumbled was..

'Hikari'.

I had always wondered who this Hikari person was quite a lot but I have no idea as of yet. All I could think of was that this Hikari person must have mean a lot to him.

Of course, never had I once talked about this to Kyouhei. I have a feeling that I shouldn't even think about it at all. It's like the Kyouhei that I know now would be broken just by uttering her name...

That was most probably an exagerration. I mean, how could a name be able to break a person?

....I'm not one to talk...

Class had ended and I had told Kyouhei that both me and Mei would be heading to the clubroom.

"You guys go on ahead. I'm going to the vending machine to buy some drinks."

"Okay."

So it was just me and Mei left alone in the clubroom. Well it was practically like this the other day and I'm pretty close with Mei so I was okay with it being like this.