Half-Crazy

"Cherry Blossoms and the man with the Burgundy hair."

Chapter One: "Cherry Blossoms and the man with the Burgundy hair."

"Gah...MAKOTO?! Why do you have to do that?!"

I yelled out to the tall, light brown-olive haired guy, who literally just messed up my art piece, by dropping it into the swimming pool of mine and Haru's college.

"I'm sorry, Aya. I didn't mean to do that! I didn't want Haru to just jump into the pool, while you were drawing and then getting it all wet."

He tugged on my shirt, trying to apologize. I hit him on his shoulder this time.

"Well, nice try saving it! Now, I have to restart it all over again, idiot!" I grumbled, throwing the piece into the garbage.

My friends Makoto Tachibana and Haruka Nanase, were my child-hood friends since elementary school. Those two were into the sports called "Swimming", and I was more into the art world, thanks to Haru for introducing that hobby to me. I practically grew up with them, and now were still together after we graduated from Iwatobi High. Except when Makoto moved to Tokyo for college, but then he is here for a long vacation. Why am I still with these two? Well, they are my only family. My parents passed away when I was little, and I have no brothers or even sisters. I live with Haru for the time being until I move out and get my own place. It wasn't too bad staying over at Haru's. he lives alone anyway, so he is pretty much a brother now, even if I had slight feelings for him, but it went away during high school. I could of lived with Makoto as well but moving to Tokyo with him, would be a huge drag, and also it would strike up some weird rumors. I obviously didn't want that.

I watched as Haru got out of the pool, flipping his bangs from side to side and Makoto handing him a towel.

"You know the water hates you, right?" Haru told me.

I rolled my eyes, not even looking at him. Trying to tell a funny joke,huh? Psh..dude, all you can think about is water and having to eat mackerel every single day. Getting tired of your shit. (laughs)

"No mackerel for dinner, tonight. Especially for that attitude you just gave me."

Looking at Haru's eyes, filled with despair when I mentioned that. I was serious. He loved eating mackerel way too much, so of course, he needed some punishment.

"Okay, sorry," he apologized, while drying his hair.

Makoto watched as me and Haru were having our small quarrel with each other over the most stupidest things. We all sat next to each other, while the sun was halfway down, and the moon was about to rise. Cherry blossom petals, flew with the wind as we sat together. Haru watched as the pool water was swishing from left to right. I looked at Makoto this time, staring at his phone, probably texting Nagisa and Rei, or Gou. Maybe it was Gou. I kind of ship those two together or maybe her with Haru. Who am I kidding? These guys haven't even said anything about a girl they are crushing on. Oh well, I'm Aya Yoshioka, a sophomore in college, who hangs out with these two idiots, who makes the three of us all single.

I see Makoto lay down this time on the concrete, hands behind his head as he looked up at the sky.

"Hey Haru? Have you contacted Rin?" He asked haru.

Who's Rin? I asked myself that in my head. Did Haru had a girlfriend that I don't know of? I mean, they all have girl names but this could be a girl. I looked at Haru who continued to watch over the water.

"He is trying to become a cop, but still trying to live his dream goal in becoming a famous Olympic swimmer at the same time. Lately, he has been pretty busy, from what I heard from Gou, since he is back from Australia for vacation as well."