orange juice | watanabe haruto

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➶ chapter 003

"we'll be helping the elementary tomorrow." the professor's announced, "we'll help clean their ground."

everyone in the classroom groaned out of annoyance, including yuki. she even let out a heavy sigh before tapping her fingers on her desk.

'i hate cleaning.' she thought.

yukinara dislikes cleaning public places. aside from getting dirty because of soil, anyone would be toasted under the golden sun.

the only place yuki's willing to clean is their house, especially her bedroom.

"can't the elementary do that?" one of her classmates complained.

"they can, but they're always busy cleaning the hallways and classrooms." the professor said, "not enough time to clear the grounds."

another batch of groans can be heard throughout the classroom. nobody in highschool would be willing to clean an area they're not using. nobody.

'we're picking up dead leaves again.' yuki sighed and thought that nothing is more boring than picking up trash.

the professor kept on giving reminders about tomorrow's activity, including the time when they should start cleaning.

they were told that this is only an activity and they will only do this once, but yuki kept on thinking about how she's gonna ditch it.

"i almost forgot." the prof raised her index finger up, "you will be grouped into two and you will be graded as pairs."

as soon as yuki heard those words coming out of her prof's mouth, she shut her eyes closed and hoped that there'll be no mor–

"you have the freedom to choose your partner." the prof smiled before opening her notebook, "i'll collect the names after 2 minutes."

yuki leaned on her chair. this is what she hates about activities.

unfortunately, nobody in her class wants to pair up with her ever since she doesn't know. nobody even approaches her if unecessary. in general, she doesn't have any friends in their class.

the only person she hangs out with is yoshi and she's thankful for that. because of her cousin, she met mashiho and the others.

she met haruto.

too bad, yoshi is older than her. they're not in the same class.

anyways, yuki shares some features with her cousin making her look 'intimidating' as what others say. both we're even called kanemoto tigers; fierce.

it's not that they bite or something though. they just look like tigers, scaring people away.

it's always like this, so it's not new to her anymore.

yukinara was about to raise her hand and tell the professor that she's doing the activity individually when she saw someone dragging a chair beside her desk.

the guy stopped, sat down comfortably and plopped his elbows on yuki's desk.

"you're not doing this individually again." haruto opened his notebook and wrote down all the reminders written on the board.

yuki was beyond shocked.

she even had to look at him properly to make sure she wasn't imagining things or daydreaming.

"h-haruto?"

"yes, kanemoto?" he paused from writing and looked at her.

yuki started hyperventilating and blushing for the nth time today. she can't believe that haruto is actually interacting with her.

she shook her head and started writing the reminders on her notebook despite how much her ears is heating up.

'maybe cleaning isn't really bad at all.' she smiled to herself.