5: Stuck In The City |Part Two|

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Miyuki's POV

Sawamura screeches, stomping around in repetitive circles. Ignoring the even louder alarms the vending machines are sounding off.

"Seido is more than two hours away! By vehicle! Should we go in and tell the front office!?" He screeches, panicking like crazy.

I grab him by his shoulders, "Sawamura-! The alarm is going off, they'll know we're the people that set off the alarn! We'll get a three-hundred dollar fine! Each!" I squawk, shaking him violently by his shoulders.

"Well then let's go!" He replies, as we both take off down one of the exiting pathways. Even after sprinting several hundred metres you can still hear the alarm pounding. With snacks tightly in our grip we manage to exit the school, all puffed and out of breath.

I grab my bag and open it up "Here" I say, extending it out to Sawamura to dump his snacks in. He does, leaving only a packet of sweet and sour kale crisps in his grasp.

"Well, what do we do now? We're all alone hours away from Seido" Sawamura looks down, deep in thought for once. "I guess we could catch a train or something?" He adds.

"Train tickets are expensive, and I don't have that much money on me" I reply, shutting down one of our options.
"Ughh, it's stupid that we weren't able to bring our phones, we could've called someone and told them our situation" Sawamura continues to scowl, fiddling with the bag in his hands.

"We can't go back into the college either" I take a few steps forwards, and deeply inhale. "Someone yelled at us as we were running away, they'll know we're the kids that messed with the vending machine"

"A train ticket is nothing compared a twenty five thousand yen fine" Sawamura mumbles, crouching down out if exhaustion.

"Then again I could just dob you in and let myself run off free" I smirk, pinching my glasses at the bridge, waiting for a reaction out of the younger boy.

"Don't you dare! You... you rat-!" Sawamura yells, immediately piping up. I laugh menacingly and pull him back up by the loose material on his shoulder.
He squelms as I chuckle. "Let's go, I have an idea"

*************
Like twenty minutes later

"So uh, what exactly is your idea?" Sawamura asks, as we walk side by side down a semi-busy street in east Tokyo. 
I pause for second, gathering my thoughts to turn into words. "I considered your idea of getting a train back to seido, and I think it might work, but we only have enough money between us for one ticket." I pause again to look at Sawamura, who's waiting for the rest. "So we have two options then, either one; we buy one ticket for one of us, and that person goes back to Seido and tell someone to come and collect the other person still at Haiheo. Or two; we someone smuggle ourselves on to the train, illegally."

"What? No way! I'm not staying in Haiheo for what could possibly be hours!" Sawamura exclaims, stopping in his tracks to express a mix of anger and fright.
"I was uh, gonna suggest myself when referring to the person staying behind in Haiheo" I clarify, watching Eijun's expression change into one of stun.

"You're not being a sarcastic rat for once" he mumbles quietly, which for once I don't reply to with.. well, sarcasm.

"We could also smuggle ourselves on to the train, but if we get caught then the punishment would be lethal." We both look at eachother, and think the answers through.

"It's gonna rain soon," Sawamura starts, "we could always beg someone for money, and just pretend that we're cold or something, but then again that isn't guaranteed to work, and it's kinda embarrassing as well"

I sigh, fixing the collar on my windbreaker. He's right about the fact that it's gonna rain. You can't see any traces of the blue sky, despite it being past three pm. There's been some occasional thunder as well.

"Or," Sawamura pipes, with a tone that looks like he's put a lot more thought into this plan. "We could buy one ticket, and pretend to be one person." He suggest, looking up at me for approval.
"That could almost work" I smirk, running his plan through his head. "We had to bring our student ID with us right? So let's just merge our names into one and try and look similar"

Sawamura considers my statement. "I guess it could work, we don't have any better ideas." He finishes with a smile.

Cute...

"The nearest train station is ten minutes away, let's go!"

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