Namesake

Moving on's tough!

"Outree"

(Beginning shall be emo)

Me.

EXAMS ARE NEARLY OVERRRR!

Gosh, I'm finally going to be able to practice baking properly once I go home!

HAHAHAHA. I can't stop laughing. I'm just so happy. Only one day left tomorrow for exam torture. After that I'm officially free! Yay.

Hehehe. Ok I'll go laugh again.

"Hey, Tsuna-kun!" I call out once he comes out of the classroom. Haru and Gokudera-kun came out earlier, bickering as always. ("Idiot hag, that move's all wrong. We should do this instead!") Now only Yamamoto-kun's left inside.

He looks up and walks to me. I take out from my pocket the scratch paper I used for the exam earlier.

"What did you answer in the last question?" I ask earnestly. "I kinda have no faith at my solutions. Damn you Physics."

"Oh, question 29? Maybe if you used this formula and derived this equation maybe..."

"Not a chance dude," I point out. "Look, the value's higher if we do this..."

"Why don't you use this then?"

"Can you give me your solution? You're not even a good teacher. I don't even get your shortcuts."

"Physics isn't exactly my strongest point. I didn't get to catch this because I was excused."

"Then you should have taken the test later!"

"Well, your brother told us we should have guts to take the exam as soon as we can. He told us it was important for our concentration."

"What does taking exams you haven't even studied have to do with concentration?"

He shrugs. "I don't know either. Besides, shouldn't you be asking Gokudera-kun instead about your answer? I heard he's a good teacher."

I swallow and then tried to make my face muscles work their charm.

"Ehehe, I don't feel like asking him," I giggle and then fold my scratch paper. Darn, it's been already three days since and my eyes keep stinging whenever I remember. I turn from Sawada and pretend to return my paper on my bag so he won't see my bloodshot eyes.

It's a good thing- earlier that Gokudera-kun had avoided me. It's probably better if our eyes never meet. I try to pound in my mind that Gokudera-kun has a good reason to reject me, whatever that may be or why he left. Honestly, I don't want to know.

Fuck, I don't really get at why I'm going at it like it's the saddest thing that ever happened to me.

"Kyoko-san, what did you answer at Math here?" he now asks as he points to one problem he also wrote. It took me two minutes to decipher the five numbers.

"Oh that..." I secretly wipe my eyes and write my solution. "Tsuna-kun next time you should practice writing legibly. I can't understand whatever you had put in the paper."

And we continue to chat. I ask him more problems and he swaps his answers with mine.

Good thing that Gokudera-kun never bubbled up from our conversation again.

~K27~

"Thanks for walking me home like yesterday," I say to Tsuna-kun. I look at my bag. The knot in my stomach just keeps on tightening.

He just waves his hand casually. I bite my lip as I look at his patched-up face.

"Don't act recklessly for me again like what you did last Saturday," I blurted out. He shrugs.