I am a girl after all [WINDBREAKER - Umemiya Hajime]

Chapter 2

Chapter 2:

And the one thing I was trying to avoid came true.

Every girl in the school was cornering me because of Umemiya Hajime.

"Can you introduce me to him?" No way in hell.

"Can you give me his number?" I'll give you Hiragi's if you want.

"Let's hang out! You should ask Umemiya-san to join us! Does he like karaoke?" He'd rather spend the day with his plants than go out with you,

"What kind of food does he like? I want to bring him some of my cooking," He only likes Kotoha-nee's omurice. You can never compete with her.

"I want to date him, would you help me?"

I was caught off guard with the last one. I quickly turned to the girl who asked such an absurd question, who does she think she is to ask something like that?

There stood the prettiest girl I've seen to date. She had long beautiful hair and was dressed so sophisticatedly, the girliest girl you could imagine. She walked with so much grace and poise, that every girl was in awe of how pretty she was.

"Sugawara-san, right?" She asked with a sweet smile, "Seto Kaori, pleased to meet you," even her name is pretty. She extended her hand out for me to shake and I hesitantly did so, "I'll ask again, I want Umemiya-san to be my boyfriend, would you help me?"

"W-what?" I stuttered in disbelief, I was still not comprehending what she was trying to say, "Why?" was all I could say at that moment,

"Who wouldn't want to date him, he's cute," She smirked, "The strongest guy in Furin, and perhaps in Makochi, I would love to have someone like him around me," What is he like an accessory? The audacity, "So will you do it? Will you help me?"

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be involved with Ume," Boy was I not thinking straight, I can't believe I called Umemiya by his nickname!

"Ume, huh? So you are close with him," She said, she was getting quite aggressive with how she approached me. I may be a delinquent but one thing I'd never do is physically hurt girls, so I can't do anything to her even if I hated how she spoke to me, "So are you like his 'bro' or something?" She mocked as she eyed me up and down, I was the only student in the school wearing pants as a school uniform so a few students snickered when she implied I was Ume's 'bro'.

"I don't want to be involved with Umemiya-san," I repeated, this time using formalities but it was pretty much useless at this point. 

"Oh, are you scared because I would actually stand a chance with him?" She mocked yet again. "Like he'd go for one of his bros instead of someone like me," All her manners and sophisticated demeanor quickly flew out the window,

"I don't care if he dates you, I just didn't want to be associated with Bofurin," I lied. Well, it is true that I don't want to be involved with Bofurin, that's not exactly the reason why I didn't want to set her up with Ume, but what's the harm of introducing her, right? She is in no way Ume's type, she'd get rejected the moment she'd make a move on him "If you want to date him be my guest, I'd even introduce you to him, but that's it," 

"That's all I need," She smirked triumphantly before walking out with her minions following behind her,

The day went on and nothing out of the ordinary happened after that encounter with Seto-san, but there were some other girls bothering me to introduce them to Ume but they weren't as pushy as Seto-san,

"How unpleasant," I groaned to myself as I headed home to the cafe,

I was in a really foul mood and couldn't be bothered. I didn't want to talk to anyone and even if I was confident Ume wouldn't date Seto-san, I was still fuming with jealousy.

At the end of the day she was right, Ume wouldn't date a bro like me. 

Going to an all-girls school didn't really help,

Maybe if I dressed a little bit more feminine? Will he look at me differently if I did?

"Yuzuru!" Kotoha-nee scolded the moment I opened the door to the cafe, I could feel my eyebrow twitch in anger. I was in no mood to listen to whatever she had to say, "What did you do to Ume?"

What the hell did I do?!

"Me?" I scoffed, "Maybe you should ask him what he did!" I didn't mean to yell at Kotoha but I was so angry I was painted as the bad guy here,

"Hiragi said Ume left your school pretty upset, what did you do? He was just trying to see how you were doing," Kotoha asked as she crossed her arms over her chest and glared at me, 

"I am not a kid!" I spat back, "Because of him, I can't make friends at that stupid school anymore! Everyone is asking me about Umemiya Hajime, they're only talking to me because I know him!"

"That's not a reason to say mean things to Ume, he's just--" Kotoha rebutted, I couldn't help but scoff at what she said,

"Mean? I was being mean? Oh~ Everything I do is always wrong, I can't compete with you, can I? Because you're the mature one who always looks out for everyone and I'm the black sheep in that stupid orphanage," I didn't know what the fuck I was saying, everything was just pouring out "I don't want to hear this lecture from Ume's favorite, you can do no wrong, right? Kotoha-nee-san?" I sarcastically told Kotoha before heading to my room and slamming the door behind me,

Everyone has been ridiculing me today and I'm sick of it. 

I just want people to leave me alone at this point,

I just want to have the upper hand against Ume, because maybe if I did, people would respect me or fear me.

After about an hour of just laying in bed, I heard a familiar voice enter the cafe.

"Kotoha! You look pretty as usual!" I heard Ume say,

I quickly got up from my bed and headed out to face him. The moment I burst through the door, I yelled out his name,

"Umemiya Hajime!" I called out to Ume who looked quite shocked at my sudden outburst, "Fight me! right here, right now!"