I love you! Satoshi-Kun! [May 2019]

My name is Nanami Satoshi, and I'm.. basically an average Highschooler.

I don't like talking about myself like I am an average, but.. I guess that's technically what I am.

I don't really pay much attention in class to be perfectly honest. I've never really liked School, ever since I was young.

My parents used to have to force me to go, and even now, it's.. kind of boring to be frank.

Highschool is rarely ever what you think of in Games, Movies, Tv Shows, and etc. Most of the actors portraying me aren't even my age.

When I was younger, I guess I always thought that Highschool would be, when people really realize themselves. Become stronger and grow up, but.. I'm really just the background character at the back of the class.

I've always hated when characters say "I'm just an average high schooler". It always comes off as fake and pretentious; like they were trying to find some kind of quick way to just, pretend their hero even had a backstory.

Like, the guy who has a Harem of 20 Women is trying to tell me he's normal? Like he's just like me, only he has magic powers, dead parents, and a childhood friend who made a promise to marry?

Even making fun of this trope is overdone.

In the future, I imagine people will call the Main Character slipping on a banana peel and accidentally seeing the girl's panties as subversive.

I never really understood how in those low brow Harem anime, Women would just be attracted to the first brown haired, black eyed, glasses wearing protagonist they see.

There always has to be some reason people are attracted to each other. Though, I guess being attracted to someone because you want to be married fast is a valid one.

You know, some people when they're introducing themselves, say they have no friends. I've probably said the same myself a few times.

When most people say that, they do actually have some people who are friends, but they're so small in the scheme of things, some people can only think of negatives, and block those friends out.

I'd like to say I'm different, but, I've done it before many times. Thinking only of certain people as my real friends, while cutting others out of the label and isolating myself.

I would say I don't have any friends at School, but, I guess I have interacted with some people enough that I have positive interactions occasionally.

Though, I guess I'm just flying through Highschool at this point. If I can at least get my Exams finished, that'd be a bonus.

Maybe then, I can just get a normal job somewhere, enough to live off, so I can do what I'm really interested in..

I guess, I like to draw.

Well, I'm not much of an artist. I mostly draw cute girls.

I'd have to work hard if I wanted a job in any kind of art related field, but.. right now, I'm just going to enjoy my hobby.

I could become a Manga Artist, but I don't think I'd be good at pumping out work. I've heard quite a lot of horror stories, and I don't think my ADHD could handle it.

Day in, day out, drawing for weeks on end. I don't know how anyone could even survive like that.

I can feel someone's eyes piercing through me., knocking me out of my trance.

I look up from my desk. There's a girl I've never met before staring at me.

She curls her hair around a finger, unblinking, a large smile on her lips.

"Satoshi, don't you remember me?" She lets out a pout.

"..Have we met before?"

She smiles.

"Come on. Aren't you forgetting something? Something important?"

I don't think I have.

My eyes hurt,

The cold air is making them dry and irritable.

I blink hard for a moment,

She's gone.

Is it morning already? It still looks dark out, but the clock says 8:02.

I stare at it sleepily, my blanket practically curled around my body.

I have to practically shake myself in order to be somewhat awake, sleep dust littering my eyes.

"Good morning darling!" A girlish shout echos in my ear, rupturing them on impact.

"Aghk! Wh-who are you!?" I pull my covers up defensively at the strange woman.

"Don't you remember? I'm Ai-Chan! Your childhood friend!" She replies, doing a little dance.

".. Ai-chan?"

I have to search my memory for a while, but I feel like I remember an Ai-Chan from somewhere..

"Ichi Ai!" She pointed at herself proudly.

".. Why are you in my bedroom then?"

"I'm your childhood friend! All friends wake up their homies!"

That sounds very unlikely.

"Come on Satoshi-Kun! You're late for school! You'll be shot to death by our elite firing squad!"

"Yeah, great.."