Running away from the past (Year 1)

32- The fortune teller

(Y/N) pov

Summer vacation. That beautiful time that every student is waiting for. We came back to the school a few weeks ago and, since no more special tests were announced, the students were enjoying their time before the second semester started.

Swimming in the pool, eating ice cream, spending time with friends... there were many things you could do.

Me? Well, my summer was... great. Yeah, great.

...

Who am I kidding? Since we came back to the school, I had spent most of the time in my room. But it wasn't that bad, the air conditioner kept my room cool and a nice girl I had met a few days ago lent me some books to read.

I even bought a game console with part of the 500,000 private points I had gotten in the last exam to kill some time.

Bored? No, I wasn't bored at all. In fact, my mobile phone, which was conveniently placed on the nightstand in case someone called, had nothing to do with my boredom.

I laid on my bed as I played with the game console. It was fun at the beginning, but once I spent more than thirty minutes playing, I started to get bored.

I couldn't understand how some people could spend hours playing. But then again, who am I to judge? There were many things that I didn't understand about others.

I was staring at the ceiling lost in thought when my phone rang. I picked it so fast that I didn't even have time to check who it was before I answered it.

(Y/N): "Hello?"

Sudo: "He- Woah, that was fast."

My classmate, Sudo, decided to call me for some reason. Did he want to hang out? I remembered what happened last time I spent time with Ike, Yamauchi and him and felt the urge to hang up.

Sudo: "Hey, what are you doing now?"

(Y/N): "Nothing in particular. Why did you call?"

Sudo: "Ah, right. I wanted to talk about the fortune teller."

(Y/N): "The fortune teller?"

I had heard about it. Apparently, a famous fortune teller had come to the school for the summer. It was a popular conversation topic between the students, but I wasn't really interested in it.

Sudo: "The thing is, it seems that a very accurate fortune teller has come to Keyaki Mall just for this summer. It seems to be trending among the upperclassmen. Let's go together, I'll treat you."

To be honest I couldn't care less about fortune-telling. I thought that the fortune-teller just told the clients what they wanted to hear. It was nothing but a scam to collect money, at least in my opinion.

But still, Sudo was inviting me and even offered to pay? Something was off here.

(Y/N): "What are you plotting?"

Sudo: "Me? Nothing."

(Y/N): "Really? Well then, I'm not really interested in fortune-telling, so-"

As soon as I made a move to end the call, Sudo interrupted me.

Sudo: "W-wait! If you aren't interested, at least ask Suzune if she wants to come."

So that's what Sudo wanted from the beginning. He didn't care whether I came or not, he just wanted me to ask Horikita to come with us.

(Y/N): "I don't think that Horikita is interested in this kind of stuff."