Daily Lie of Megumi [JJK Fanfic]

Lie 4: Best Friends Forever

Megumi's Point of View

The lunch break bell rings exactly as I arrived inside the school building. Classroom doors on my left and right are immediately widely ajar as students flock out of the rooms and start stuffing in the corridor. All the noises and conversations fill the air. I barely even remember what I was doing here until a tall man almost bump into me. We are both startled and I immediately look up to see who it is. Unfortunately for me, he greets me with his dazzling smile that's too bright for my dark soul to bear.

"Oh, hi, Megumi!" he says casually as if we are good old friends—which, we're not, actually. I just had the unfortunate luck to know him longer than the rest of the students. "Long time no see. How was your summer?"

I roll my eyes at the man—Gojo Satoru, the Physic teacher who also used to be my violin tutor back in the day. I thought that my days of putting up with his ridiculous behaviors has ended as I suddenly lost any interest in the violin. But what do I know? I met him again here. "Hi, Sensei. It was good. How was yours?"

"Oh, glad you ask, cause you know, I've been visiting—"

I turn my head to the open classroom behind him and immediately shout for Nobara when I see him still tidying up his desk. "Bye, Sensei," I say to Satoru before scurrying away into the classroom. The white-haired man with black sunglasses just mumbles, "Huh," as if it's the first time I ever ignored him. He just shrugs it off and walks away, though.

I reach Nobara's desk in time as he picks up his Prada leather bag. He shakes his head melancholically in a troubled expression, and says, "I swear, Gumi, that man couldn't be even more annoying."

I chuckle. We walk together to the door. "What was it today?"

"A pop quiz right on the first day? Who does that?" I could hear the desperation in his voice. But then he shoves me a piece of paper. I look at it and realize that it's his quiz sheet.

"Ara, you get 100." I narrowed my eyes.

He just shrugs. "Yeah, so? Hating on the teacher doesn't mean hating on the subject."

I look at him funny before just shrug it off.

We walk down the corridor along with the other students. Only when we pass a girl with a pink backpack that it suddenly dawns on me about something that I have forgotten because of Satoru. "Right! Where's Yuuji?" I turn my head to Nobara.

The orange-haired boy just looks at me back in scepticism. "I thought she was with you?"

"No, we're not. Don't you remember that I—"

"Yeah, you hate P.E. My bad." He shrugs with an exasperated face. "Well, you know what they say, 'follow the trail of men then you shall find her'."

I furrow my eyebrows. "Who said that?"

"It doesn't matter, Gumi. You're looking for Yuuji, right? Look." He points in the direction of a group of boys that crowding at the end of the corridor. They are hovering and talking over each other like they are desperate to show off. Some of them are the captains of the sports clubs in the school, like that one tall and bulky dude named Todo Aoi who is the captain of the Judo club, the golden-ash mullet hair guy named Jean Kirstein who is the captain of the soccer team, the short but rowdy looking guy named Porco Galliard who is the captain of the volleyball team, and many, many others.

They stand in a circle forming a wall of protection around something, or someone. But instead of protecting, it's more like they are gatekeeping whoever is poor enough to be surrounded by them from leaving. And that poor girl is Yuuji. It was hard to be sure at first because the tall figures of the boys really shielded her from the outside few. But after a couple of seconds of standing on my toes—and for the record, I'm already wearing high-platform leather boots—I could be sure that the pink-haired girl that looks troubled is indeed Yuuji.