Rain Academy

R.A. - Chapter 1 - Introductions

        "Such a boring trip," I sighed as I lied upon the roof of the captain's den.

        "Whatever, guess I'll just use my Neuro," I said to myself. Adjusting my glasses, I pressed a button on the side as images appeared through them. Rolling around so that my head was hanging off the side of the roof, I opened my email, only to see that I had a few new messages, each one being sent by the same person.

        "What does Eri want this time?" I wondered. Opening them up, I saw that they were all relatively the same; somewhere along the lines of, "Kyuu, where are you?" As I was reading them though, I received yet another. "Nevermind, I see you," it read. Looking further down, I activated a magnification app and saw her standing near the ship’s railing.  She was quite a bit shorter than me, while her brown hair was the same as her eyes.

        Something that quickly caught my eyes though, was a boy that was slightly taller than her, who happened to pass in front of her; a plate piled dangerously high with food in his hands. He had short brown hair, and wore a pair of black framed glasses, similar to my own.

“I'll be down in a second,” I said to Eri as I checked around the landing below me to make sure that no one would see me. Confirming that I was alone, I jumped down and made my way down a few flights of stairs.

        "Woah! Sorry man!" a boy with medium long black hair shouted as he almost ran into me. Though I couldn't make out any other details, as I only got a glance of him as he ran up the stairs.

As I made my way out of the cabins and onto the deck, I saw Eri waving to me as the boy from earlier went past with another plate of food. 'Déjà vu?' I thought.

        "Hey! Why'd you disappear like that? I've been looking for you for forever!" she shouted at me, pouting all the while.

        "Why'd you want me?" I sighed, raising an eyebrow as she went to sit down at a table.

        "Bring me some food," she ordered, only for my eyebrow to start twitching in response.

      "Are you serious? You had me come down here... to bring you food? When you could've just walked three meters... and gotten some by yourself?" I asked, noticing the boy from before on his way back to a table with another plate in hand. The plates at the table were being stacked unbelievably high.

        "I'm completely serious," she said, looking me dead in the eyes. Staring at each other for the next minute, I finally backed down, closing my eyes.

        "Sigh, fine, I'll go get you some. What do you want?" I asked.

       "Dessert," I said in unison with her. "Why'd I even asked?" I wondered as I made my way to the buffet, grabbing various pieces of cake and other sweets before I walked back. "Here," I said, setting it down next to her as I sat down across the table. Quickly taking a fork and eating her cake, a smile planted itself on her face, bringing one of my own. Looking up from her cake, her eyes lit up.

        "Haru!" she shouted, waving over a girl who was walking past the gluttonous boy from before.

        'Oh my god! The food here is so good!' I thought as I grabbed another slice of pumpkin pie and slowly ate it, enjoying all the textures and flavors. As I kept eating my pie, I noticed that people kept looking at me. I heard a few whispers of people who were talking about me.

        "Look at how much he ate?" someone said.

        "Yeah, he must have a Godzilla stomach," another replied jokingly.