Our Story

Chapter 17: The Starry Sky That Night

I've known her ever since I was four. It was just a simple trip to the playground. My parents had wanted me to go to there. I was a kid back then so I never really asked why.

In fact, I felt that I really shouldn't have.

I saw her there. She was there all alone standing beneath a tree observing me. I never really knew that she was observing me back then. I thought she was merely spacing out.

While I had been playing around all by myself, I had met another girl. Airi. We had first fought against each other to be the ruler of the swing.

It was very childish. Of course we were children after all.

But, I really wanted to use the swings. Not because I like playing with the swings like Airi. I wanted to be closer to the skies.

When I play with the swings, I will jump from it as soon as I felt that I was high enough. Doing so, I felt that I could reach the skies with it.

Back to the topic, fighting against Airi, I guess that was where we first became friends.

Airi had a wild personality, she was the exact opposite of me. I don't feel like playing with anything but things that could let me reach the skies.

But she wouldn't take no for an answer so she ended up dragging me along in her adventures around the playground.

This had been happening for days, even months. All the while 'she' had been there. Standing beneath the tree,  looking at us with a plain face.

I had wanted to approach her, talk to her and become friends with her but everytime I tried to do it, I get extremely nervous. I was never good with people in the first place anyway.

That was when Airi decided to take the lead and introduced ourselves to her.

Haruhi Ishida.

When I learned that name, I felt it right away. When I heard her name, I felt that she had a really beautiful name. Her voice was cute and nice for the ears.

Even Airi agreed that Haruhi was a cute person. She had bright pink hair and deep blue eyes. A perfect combination of colours.

The only 'drawback' to it was that she had a hard time expressing herself. Plus she doesn't really understand emotions. She even admitted that she merely came to the playground only because her parents had ordered her to anf not because she wanted to play. She was also observing us because she was curious of us.

Basically, as rude as it was, she was like a robot. A robot that was curious of many things.

But I also learned that she hated being called a robot. She never really showed it when I accidently called her that but she looked different when she heard that and somehow, after a while, she had a rather violent attitude towards me.

If it weren't for Airi, we would not have had dissolved this little dispute. I was thankful to her for that.

Somehow for some reason, I felt that out of anyone in this world, I really don't want Haruhi to be mad at me. I don't want her to hate me.

I had not known what I had felt back then but I was very sure that Haruhi was someome very important to me.

One day, while in grade school, Airi had decided to help Haruhi with her 'problems'. It was by luck that we were placed in the same class nonetheless going to the same school.

Airi and me had saw how Haruhi had been isolated from the others due to her 'problems'. I never really understood how Haruhi had felt about this but seeing her all alone broke my heart.