Terridus

Chp5: "Smack!"

I walked along the sidewalk with Akiko holding my hand whilst maintaining her calm yet sweet face.

I don't really like being touched by people, but if it's Akiko, I guess.. It's kind of ok?
(I still don't know why I didn't feel like passing out like usual by someone touching me)

We both slowly approached the entrance of the school.
Some students walked by and seemed to be talking about something.

I could hear their whispers saying “some girl that's one of the seniors went missing yesterday”
My interest had piqued.

What could've happened to that girl?
I quickly got closer to Akiko and whispered in her ear while walking.

“Hey..Akiko. Did you hear what the others are saying”

Akiko turned to face me and began whispering to me,  as we were closer to entering the school building.

“I heard she's in the class next to ours.. should we investigate?”

I quickly nodded no and even put up my hands in an X as a double no.

“No.. we should probably let the police do their thing. Plus, it could be dangerous.”

She quickly slapped my back so hard I yelped, and she would put her face against mine while grinning as if I gave her something cool.

I quickly began sweating, seeming extremely nervous.

“C'mon Yokotaa!! It'd be super fun! We'd be like Detective Conan!”

“Did you know that.. usually, people who try to find whoever goes missing usually fail or worse get missing along with them. now.. GET OFF MY FACE.”

She quickly retracted and would then smack herself straight on, against the wall due to her not seeing where she was walking to.

She slid down to the floor slowly and would sit down and contemplate on how embarrassing that was.

Some people gathered around and chuckled whilst whispering to themselves.
While myself just slid in between the group of people, making a mockery of her and walking away to class.

My school was very small for an average japanese school in Morioh.
With at least one floor only with 10 classrooms.

A small courtyard that seemed like a playground for kids.
(Well, it indeed was just a public space, but our school used it as a “courtyard”)

We had to even eat inside class or even get ourselves our own food instead of having a cafeteria in the school.

Usually, they'd let us go out during lunchtime for the people who didn't bring their own food to get themselves at least a sandwich from the local bakery.

I seriously hate it here, I wished I could go to that other school across town that was ginormous with even two floors and a big ass courtyard!

But anyways as I'm walking to my classroom..
(Which is literally one room across the entrance hallway)

I suddenly hear someone running towards me as I brace myself for the worst.
Who could it be? Those stupid popular girls? OR WORSE.. Kiyoshi.

My thoughts scrambled all over the place as I began to panic.

What if it was my old teacher.. or what if it was one of those stupid delinquents in the 6th grade class!

I could see the person running up to me with no intention of stopping, squinting my eyes to get a better view of where they were gonna fall.

Could this be my end! The thought of someone bumping into me would be my death! My utmost embarrassment!

I mean.. could you even imagine the rumors about me!
(They're already worse with Akiko now)