Jealousy

9

Nishikita-Kun and Akari-San had been studying for a few hours, with Nishikita helping her to understand some of the more complicated phrases that they had been learning for their Foreign Language Exams. After 3 hours solid, they decided to take a break and go to the park to let off some of the stress that had been building because of the homework.

As they started to walk, Nishikita heard somebody whispering his name behind him. He turned around in a flash, feeling scared, and got a big fright when Akari-San jumped out at his face. He almost fell over, but this time his reactions were quicker, and he managed to stop himself. She was laughing at him but he wasn't too bothered, as this was the first time she had done such a thing to him, and also partially due to the fact that he had a slight crush on her.

"Haha, Nishikita, your reactions are too funny!" Akari-San spluttered. 

'Wait a second, she forgot to use the honorary, she isn't one to forget simple things like that'. Nishikita stopped walking and suddenly realized that he had a grave look on his face and Akari-San was looking at him with worry in her eyes but happiness in her cheeks. She wasn't sure if it was worth the risk by dropping his honorary but had decide to do it anyway. She suspected that she might have misjudged their relationship based on the look on his face, but was happy when his face turned a very slight shade of red and his famous mischievous smile emerged back onto his face.

"I know, Akari." He replied, emphasizing the lack of honorary on her name. In her mind, Akari was freaking out, because he hadn't even dropped the honorary for Takagi-San, who he had been friends with for years. This represented something deep about their relationship, as dropping somebody's honorary was considered a very intimate thing to do in Japanese, which told Akari that there was something more intimate about her relationship with Nishikita compared to Takagi-San's. 

She hadn't realized that she had stopped walking until Nishikita started to wave in her face. She quickly snapped out of her trance and continued to walk. Nishikita wondered what was up with her, but decided that he wouldn't ask. 

*TIME SKIP*

They had finally arrived at the park, and when they arrived, they saw a group of their friends in one corner, and as Nishikita started to walk that way he suddenly felt the jerking of a somebody holding his hand and pulling him the other way. He realized that Akari was pulling him to the opposite corner of the park. He started to walk with her and didn't even realize that Akari was holding his hand. They had walked a full 20 paces when he realized what Akari was doing and looked down at their joined hands. Akari noticed this but realized that he didn't move his hand despite realizing that they were holding hands. This made her incredibly happy, so happy in fact that she forgot the reason for her to go to the opposite corner of the park to their friends. 

The reason she had originally gone to the other corner had been because she had seen Takagi-San with their friends, but Takagi-San had noticed them, and felt anger building up as she noticed them holding hands.