Great Detective of Love (Wattpad Prize 2014)

Chapter4

Everything that I thought a week ago in the train was true. Now we have a new student in our class. Reiko, Reiko Kurosawa. Moreover, yesterday I also have thought in my room that she will sit somewhere between me and Kaito. And guess what? It’s true. “Yappari…” I said to myself, looking at her, just like the other students in the class. Reiko was looking around the class, and looked down, shy. But then she looked up and smile at me. 

She bowed at me, and handing out her hand to me and I shook her hand. “I’m sure you’re the girl that Kaito has been talking about a few days ago, right?” I was confused, and looked at Kaito.

“Ah yes. She is. Her name is Ayako Kiiroi. Ayako, I’m sure you know Reiko right?” asked Kaito, looking at me, which made the whole class to be quiet. I was looking around the class, and rolled my eyes.

“Guys, don’t start it. I know you guys want me to deduce something,” I said. All my classmates were astonished and shocked. Because this moment were happened already, when we have a new teacher and some few new students who move in a few months ago. I deduced their lives and personalities, and something else, which made my classmates acts like this.

“Do it Ayako. We want to know what you think of her,” one of my classmates asked. With a sigh, I started to look for every inch of things that Reiko have with her.

“Sorry Reiko, they insisted me.”

“It’s okay. Actually I want to know your deduction skills,” said Reiko, excited.

“Okay… You come from a rich family, which have a big house. You’re a social-type person, the ones who always go shopping in big malls. You’re moving here because your father, which is a Police Inspector, was transferred to here. And by looking at your shoes, your house now is located somewhere here, which is-” I stopped as I realized that, “next to Kaito’s.” At the moment I finished it, the class including Reiko and Kaito were clapping their hands. But my eyes were locked to Kaito only, giving him a shot of disappointment look at him because he never tells me about the new family that had moved next to his house.

“You’re way so cool, Ayako!!! Every detail you just gave about me was all right!! You’re indeed the best detective we have in Japan,” said Reiko, clapping her hands loudly, which made me, stopped from looking at Kaito, as he stopped smiling when he realized that I was watching at him.

“One more last detail that I haven’t tell you, you’re a childhood friend of Kaito when both of you were still in Hokkaido.” The whole class suddenly gasping and stopped clapping and this was placed with class murmuring. What can I heard from some students, they were saying that there’s going to be a love triangle between me, Kaito and Reiko? To snap this murmurs, I clapped my hands as loudly as I can, so that the students would stop and remembered that Reiko was new and still blank. So the students stopped and were clapping their hands, pretending that nothing will happen.

“That’s the most important thing, and it’s true again Ayako!” said Reiko, clapping her hands along the clapping of my classmates. “Well, how did you know that?” Reiko asked.

“Umm… Kaito told me before.”  That lunchtime was the most awful moment for me even though I gave everyone in the school my smile. 

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“Sumimasen people, but I’m in hurry!” I said, as I ran through the crowded corridor. Quickly I ran to my locker, unlocked it, got my shoes out, got my slippers in, locked the locker and ran to the school yard. Today I have to go to Tokyo to prepare for my orientation with Moshi for our trip to London. But as I passed the gate, someone was pulling me. It was Kaito, with Reiko on his side. “Sorry Kaito, but today please go home with Reiko, because I have to hurry!” I said, trying to pass him, but he grabbed my left arm.