Hello (Makoto Tachibana)

Chapter 4

" FUMI!" I yell. While I push through the crowded hallway. I see her trying to run and I dash towards her and punch her arm.

" Ow. What was that for?" She rubs her arm with a pout.

" Umm, I don't know...Oh yeah, remember this?" I pull out the letter she gave me on Friday. Its ink smudged and paper crumpled.

" Hahaha- I remember!" She laughs. She walks ahead and I trail behind.

" Asshole." I mutter to myself.

We both walk down the hall and to our class. I have some what grown use to my uniform, but not quite yet. Everything is going okay and I have learned some new stuff. We walk in our class and I take a seat in the second row. I used to sit near the back, but the teacher moved me. I don't know why, though. I mean, I'm a good student. Right? I only got yelled at a couple of times. I quickly copy down the stuff and the board and direct my attention to the teacher.

"NAGISA!" The teacher yells. His voice echoes throughout the silence classroom

I throw my pencil in shock. The whole class turns around and looks at Nagisa. His mouth is stuffed with food and there are crumbs all over his desk. His eyes wide in shock and frozen with his hand holding a chip. The teacher walks up to him and attempts to take his food away. They both fight and tug for a couple of minutes before Nagisa hands his snack to the teacher. He looks like he's about to cry. I snicker. He just dug his own grave. 

"REN!" 

"Sorry." I whisper and I pick my pencil up, which I threw somewhere in the front. As I return to my seat I noticed the teacher assigned him to the desk next to me. This is a bad idea. We will probably get yelled at 24/7. I twirl my pencil as the teacher continues with the lessons. I look over and see Nagisa staring at me. I turn away and grimace. There are still crumbs on his face. Fucking disgusting. I look away for once second, I glance back at the board and I almost fell off my chair. The board is filled with the teacher's chicken-scratch. One second makes a difference. Note to self: never take your eyes off the board. I try to copy down all the notes and try questions while squinting and crying. All these history notes and I'm dying. 

"We're going to do a mini-project." The teacher says whilst writing on the board. His back still turned to the class.

"Why?" I blurt out and quickly cover my mouth.

"If you speak out again, you're going to get detention for the WHOLE WEEK!" He yells. He straightens out his suit and clears his throat. "I put the people with high grades together and the people with low grades together so the work can be shared." 

I'm gonna be with the smart people. No sweat. I'll just relax and let them do a majority of the work. I can barely read Japanese too. I sit quietly and await for my name to be called with the smarter kids. I hope that one kid that always answers the questions will be in my group.

"Ren and Nagisa, you guys are partners." He says calmly and continues reading off the list.

"WHAT!" My voice cracks. "I. Have. An. 87." I raise my hand up and wave it. "This is absurd! " I say in English.

"Just be sympathetic and help him,okay?" He gives me a death glare. "Japanese, please."

I turn to Nagisa and nudge him. "What's your average?" 

"I don't know. I think around 70%." He says with a smile.

70 is not that bad, but can we manage?

~

I stare out the window as I lie in the dark. The wind blows the curtains back and forth while neighbours chat the night away. I put the covers up and curl up in a ball. I miss my family. I thought living alone would be fun and wild, but I'm just a loner. The only thing wild I do in this house is running around with no pants on. Right now is one of those moment. Yup. So wild. I toss and turn in my bed. The sound of my neighbours is too much to bare. I hear yelling, laughing, and some screaming. I look at my clock. 12:15. I groan and roll out of my bed. I stare at the window and groan. They're having a "party" again. The Backstroke Boys. Probably writing songs for their upcoming album. I chuckle. I'm too funny. I put on a pair of pants and and walk downstairs. I'm gonna kill them. I put on a sweater and my $1 flip-flops. I put on my hood on to hide my bed-head. I walk for about 20 seconds. I stand infront of their door thinking about how I should yell at them. To knock or to not to knock? I raise my hand up and pound the door. I literally waited 5 minutes outside. I knock again ,but louder. I ring the door bell repeatively until the door opens.

"Yes?" Makoto opens the door with a smile.

"You guys are too loud. Some people actually like to sleep at this hour." I say bluntly.

"Sorry.." He whispers quietly. Distance yelling can be heard from behind him.

I turn away and run back home. I rip my sweater and pants off and jump on my bed. Finally, I can sleep in peace. I close my eyes and begin to doze off.

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

I scream in frustration. I squirm around in my bed kicking my covers around. I pull on some shorts and I run downstair to open the door. I fling the door open like a madwoman.

"WHAT?" I yell.

"I was just wondering if you have any soy sauce?" Nagisa stands infront of my door with a sheepish grin.

I run to the kitchen and rip my fridge door open. The sound of bottles clinking to together makes a loud noise. I grab the cold soy sauce bottle and dash back to the door. "If I give you this, will you guys be quiet?" I keep a firm grip on the glass bottle.

"Maybe..." He whispers quietly.

"Then no." I say in english. I turn around and walk to the kitchen.

"PLEASE!" I hear him yell at the doorway.

"Close the door on your way out, please." I say loud enough for him to hear. I hear his footsteps pitter patter down the hall and into the kitchen. "I told you t-"

He grabbed my wrist and pulled me forwards. I almost dropped the soy sauce bottle and tripped over my feet. I try to pull away, but we're running to fast. He pulls me out the door and it closes with a bang. Into the next door house and down the hall. "Let go!" I rip my hand out of his grip. I straighten my shirt and tuck my hair out of my face. I keep a firm grip on the bottle. I lift my head up and gasp. Shit. He actually managed to drag me out my house. All this trouble just for soy sauce. I look them with a blank expression. They stare back. I extend my hand out and hand them the bottle. No one takes it and Nagisa takes a seat at the table. The pot of boiling water in the middle of the table has many different food in it. I place the bottle on the table and take a seat awkwardly. I stare at them. This awkward silence. I take a random pair of chopsticks and pick up some food. I eye them all and put the food in my mouth.

"YAH!" Nagisa yells and I immediately stand up and run out the house. I forgot my soy sauce and ran back into the room. I see the bottle and run away with it. "COME BACK!" I don't look back and run out the house. I chew the crab meat in my mouth carefully. I open my door and lock it quickly before Nagisa could catch up. I swallow the crab meat.

"Damn, that tasted good."

A/N:

I finally updated. It has been so long and I am very sorry. Thank you all for reading this book. And thank you guys for 1000+ reads. It means alot to me. I don't really have a plot for this book tbh. I had one then I got lazy and gave up. Once again i'm sorry for not updating. I rushed this chapter and there might be alot of grammatical errors. See you next update. Hopefully.