The Heroine's Sidekick

Past

I started to remember everything that happened. How I made mistakes, and how I'm trying to live with it now. I've never expected that it would be like this. Especially when I thought that time, that my life was perfect.

It's my first year in high school. I attended a school far away from home so no one will recognize me from my middle school. I tucked my hair in my right ear. 

"New life, here I come.." 

I have doubts about everything. I clenched my fists and started to march inside the school, my head low and looking at the ground.

I winced in pain when I bumped in to something. I rubbed my head and looked at the person I bumped in to. My eyes widened, the boy is really handsome. He looks a little rough but maybe because he has a bed head.

Then I heard someone clapped hands. I almost jumped from surprise. 

"Hey! You still alive?" 

The boy is already staring at me, making my cheeks hot. I didn't even noticed I was staring at him. I bowed awkwardly. 

"I-I'm sorry! I wasn't looking where I was going." 

I didn't looked up again because I know I would blush again if I see his face. 

I just heard a silent "Hn.", then he walked passed me.

The entrance ceremony got me flustered, I was on top of the freshmen, I got a perfect score in the entrance exam. It was really bothersome to have a speech and then be automatically part of the student council. The speech was bad enough, I just stuttered all the way. I'm even glad that no one laughed at me, they just watched with a face either bored or amazed. Well, I guess it was mostly the first one. Being part of the student council is a different matter, it seems unnecessary to add me in without any agreement. I guess it can't be helped.

I walked to my classroom just to see a lot of students doing random things. I sat in the back in the middle row. I can't be bothered to talk to anyone when a girl sat beside me, choosing the chair next to the window. 

"Hello there miss Saito." 

A cute girl looked at me with a closed eye smile and head tilted cutely. She looks a little shy, but I guess she's working on that. I raised an eyebrow. How did she know my name?

The girl understood my questioning eyes and answered. 

"I knew your name from the entrance ceremony. Sorry, I haven't even told my name yet. I'm Jenny, Jenny Kunieda." 

She gave me again that closed eyes smile and I returned it with a timid smile. I'm not really good around people. 

"Why did you seat beside me?" 

I swear I saw a sweat dropped from her forehead. 

"Uhh.. I'm not really good at studying. So.. I hope you can help me if we seat next to each other." 

I tried hard so she can't see me roll my eyes. My eyes are really hidden when I bow my head even slightly. 

"I see. Okay then."

I heard her say a silent "yes". Well, it's better to have a friend even if she clearly just wants something from me than to have no one at all.

The first day of classes obviously just started with introductions. The handsome guy I met a while ago appears to be our classmate. His name is Jake Kuroi, he's a half, that explains the very foreign first name. Not that any of us doesn't have foreign names, his just stood out a little. When he noticed me, I got flusttered, but he just diverted his eyes to someone else. Well, atleast I knew he remembered me somehow.