The Purple Hyacinth

Chapter III It's Him Again

Classes this morning are suspended for some general cleaning of the school. Since that college will be having accreditors to make the school a state university. There are plenty of complaints from the students who don't want to clean but they can't do anything about it since there was an attendance sheet and fines could be added. The whole school was generally big so it would be impossible for non-teaching staff to do all the cleaning, since they were a student of such school it was their responsibility to take good care of the place that they were staying for two to four years.

The classrooms are for fifty persons and well ventilated. The seats are newly painted and the board is clean as new. Outside the room was a massive crowd of weeds so they end up pulling weeds in the morning.

"This kind of chores reminds me of my elementary days" Aiko commented

"Me too" their other classmate said

"We used to pull weeds every first day of school. Piling those huge weeds is tiresome"

"We play with those weeds though" laughter echoed their area

"How about you Lily?" their classmate asked her, Aiko was alarmed by the sudden question

"I never had fun pulling out weeds back then but now it's kind of fun maybe because I'm not doing it alone anymore or there were no weeds at my head this time" Lily answered with a smile

"Lily, that's depressing" commented the other

"well, I never got the chance to be close to my classmates, they call me names and such and I don't have the courage to face them but there is someone---I don't remember who, helps me out sometimes"

"When having those kinds of depressing moments people who help you to move on with it, is the most person you shouldn't forget Lily, I'm surprised though I thought you have forgotten all the memories of your youth?" Aiko said

"Yeah, I don't know why I remember that, but the very person I want to remember is vaguely visible in my memories"

"What? What's that? You have amnesia or something Lily?" everybody laughed on that bad joke but Lily doesn't take it to the heart

"Yeah something like that" she answered

After the general cleaning they went to cafeteria to get some snacks. The crowd was piled up and the heat is unbearable above all the noise is too loud especially in the part where there are probably seven women at a table and a one tall man in the middle laughing out loud in their hearts content.

"Ah! It's Noriyama, like what the rumour said he's a womanizer indeed" Aiko said with gritted teeth

"Womanizer?"

"Yeah! Haven't you heard the rumours about him? He's a cheater and plays with their bodies what an awful man, he must be lustful"

"I don't think so"

"Huh? You can clearly see it though"

"That's just what it looks like on the outside"

"You're making non sense Lily, you're just hungry let's go outside the campus there was a good café near the bakery, come on" Aiko said while dragging Lily out

Eating was a very good way to relieved stress. After filling up their stomach they stayed in a lounge area to rest. It's a very good thing the school has. They have a three period vacant, a long time to rest and talk about things they haven't talked about before.