Tomorrow's Song (2)

Next morning….

Seiba Junior High School, after the class, is over.

"Hey Kota, let's go home together!"

Takeshi comes to my class to pick me up and go home together as usual. I only can look at him with a gloomy face

"Huh? What's up?"

"I'm dead Takeshi….starting from today, I must attend extra class"

I stand up and walk out from the class

"I'm leaving first Takeshi"

I leave Takeshi who still stands there with a surprised face. Maybe in his head, he's thinking 'why that usually lazy Kota has the awareness to study'…oh well, it's not I have that kind of awareness thou, if not my mom scold and lecturing me all night yesterday, I will not go to this extra class.

After leaving the school, I walk to the place where I should attend the extra class

"Marushin Study Course, where is this place"

That's the brochure of the place of the extra class which I should attend, I read that brochure in my hand while walking there because there is the directional mark on that brochure.

Actually, I feel reluctant to go there but if I'm not going, my mom will scold me again like last night. Because I walk while reading that brochure, I didn't realize there's a person who runs from the edge of the corner of the street, and that person bump at me

*WHACK*

"Ouch!"

"Kyaaa"

"What the hell…."

"Please forgive me….I'm really sorry for that…are you alright?"

The person who just bump at me is a girl….moreover it's a girl that I always see at the train station!

This girl…is this what called fateful encounters?

The girl bowing to me and apologize once more before continuing her walk.

The funny thing is…every ten meters she always bumps into someone who walks from the opposite direction. I see her bump into two different people, apologizing to them before she finally enters a building.

"Ah….so it's like that"

My feeling that already joyful for such fateful encounters suddenly vanished. This isn't a fateful encounter since she has a habit to bump into someone when she walks. Wait, why I don't ask her name? stupid me, I should ask her name before she leaves.

I go to her direction since the direction of my extra class place also in that way. When I see the building that she just enters, there's a big plaque on the door 'Marushin Study Course'. When I enter the building and get into the class…..she's also there!

The joyful feeling that ever vanished before, start to light up again in my heart. During the class lesson, my heart is throbbing faster, I often steal a glance at her. I decide after the class is over I must take this chance to talk to her, at least I should know her name.

So, when the clock shows 8.30 p.m. the class is over, I gather my courage to talk with her. I approaching her who still arranged her books on her table

"Hallo…."

"Ah?.... Who are you?"

"Huh?"

She don't remember me? Although she just bumps at me before she enters this building, but at least I able to ask her to have dinner together in a nearby fast food restaurant.

"Please forgive me…I'm really clumsy…every day, I always bump into someone…and hardly remember their faces"

"Ha ha…"

"But I remember you…you are Kashiwaya Kota…I remember now"

What an interesting girl….that what I thought after hearing what she said

"My name is Sasaki Shiho…nice to meet you"

"Ah…me too"

Finally, I able to know her name…

"Kota…which High School you want to enter next?"

"Hmm, I haven't decided yet, how about you?"

"Me?"

"You wearing Yurine junior High School uniform, are you going to Yurine High School?"

"Ah? …how do you know I study at Yurine?"

"Ugh!"

How should I answer that? I can't say I always look at her at the train station right? She stares at me closely…waiting for my answer, before suddenly she jolting

"Ah!...that badge!...you're from Seiba junior high school right?"

She's pointing the badge on my uniform collar.

"Seiba has a great softball team"

"Oohh…you like softball, don't you?"

"No, I don't like softball…I just knew"

This girl…is quite unpredictable….

"So Sasaki…."

"Just call me Shiho"

"Okay, Shiho…which High School you want to enter?"

"I only choose Touka High School"

"Touka?... I have a friend that will study there"

"Really?"

"He's really cool, confident, and also smart"

"I can imagine that…"

The way she talks with that glimmering eyes…make my heart beating faster

"We also have to fight to reach our future, right Kota?"

"Ah…yes…that's right"

Next day, Seiba junior high school, counseling room.

"Kashiwaya Kota, today you resubmit the form of your choice for next school, right?"

The counseling teacher, Mr. Takada shows me a form.

"This one, right?"

In that form, there's my name on the form and also what I choose for my High School. What written in that form is:

First choice : Touka High School

Second choice : Only Touka High School!

Third choice : Nothing else but Touka High School!

"Yes, that's the form that I submit, sir"

"Hmm…so you choose to enter Touka High School"

"Yes sir, I choose Touka High School"

'Wahahahahahaha!'

We both laugh in such a friendly manner.

No, that's not a friendly manner at all, it's just a calm before the storm because when his laugh end, Mr. Takada smack that form in front of my face and then scolding me again

"Dreamer!"

"Sir! Why can't I choose Touka!"

"You should see yourself. Touka is the most favorite school in town. Only smart people can be accepted in there….by looking at your score…"

"Relax sir, there're still two more months before the exam"

"Only two months left! Fools!"

"..."

"Isn't better for you to think this again, Kota?"

"No Sir, I already decided. I want to enter Touka High School!"

Kashiwaya Kota, 15 years old in this falls season, my future is still unclear.

There's should be a reason to walk toward the future, and for me, that reason is…LOVE!