First Love

Chapter 7

"Good morning sleepy head." I slowly opened my eyes and smiled at Jiro.

"Morning." I mumbled.

It was Sunday. Amanda had this tradition for the whole family to have breakfast together.

"Come on, it's a feast down there. Mom went all out this morning too." Jiro left and I stretched while yawning. It was a sunny day already. My room was so bright.

I stood up and then it hit me. The kiss. I froze in my place. I didn't know how to act around Kei that morning. I didn't think I could face him.

I took a few deep breaths and ventured outside my room. Looking right and left to make sure no one was in the hallway.

I washed up in the bathroom and headed downstairs. The smell was amazing. On the table there was sausage, blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs, hash browns, French toast. I felt like I was in a breakfast wonderland.

Fortunately, Kei wasn't there. But it only took him two minutes to show up. After all, it was a family breakfast, so everyone had to be there. My breath stopped at the sight of him.

"Morning," he said to everyone before he took his seat opposite of me. I studied him. His bed hair, his green eyes, pajamas. Sexy Kei Ichihara was sitting in front of me. He didn't look at me or even notice that I was staring.

We all started digging in. Or at least I wanted to, but my appetite was gone the minute I saw Kei. 'Is he going to pretend that I don't even exist?'

I felt a ball in my throat. Why would he kiss me just to ignore me the next day.

"Sam, you're not eating darling. Are you ok?" Amanda was really sweet. Everyone's eyes moved to me. I felt really awkward, and I couldn't look up. I didn't want to ruin the family breakfast either.

"I don't know where to start." I tried to joke. Thankfully no one noticed my shaky voice. They laughed and I took a bunch of food into my plate and forced myself to swallow it.

It was the longest forty-five minutes of my life. Sitting in front of the guy I had loved for years. The only guy I had ever loved. I felt my heart break every second I sat there.

I was thankful to go shopping with Amanda, after breakfast. It was so much fun going out with her. I totally forgot about what had happened with Kei and his friends, and most importantly, the kiss.

We spent all day out, we also stopped to pick up my school uniform. I had been so excited about my green and blue uniform, but I didn't feel anything when I tried it on then.

When we went back home, Kei was out with his friends, so I got to have a peaceful dinner.

The next morning was my first day in high school, in Japan. I was very thankful that Jiro went to the same school. We took the train together and walked to school. He even walked me to my classroom. Yoko was there, which made me really happy. At least I wasn't going to be all alone. Then, the other creepy girl from Saturday walked in, Minako, followed by Kei.

He looked at me for a second and then looked away. My heart tightened. I just wanted to run out of that room.

We barely talked for the whole week. Then, on Friday, I got a weird text message from him, asking me to go see him during lunch break in the back of the school, next to the baseball team locker room. He said he wanted to talk to me.

At the break, I was so nervous, my hands were sweating so much. I stopped at the bathroom just to make sure my hair wasn't a mess. After that, I walked to the baseball locker room, thanks to Yoko's directions, and started looking for Kei.