Predicament

I decided to go through the easier route and not talk about it the entire journey through to the school. If you think about it, it is just calm like this, you know?

And in about ten minutes or so, we finally reached our destination. Mirai High School. I'mma be honest here when I say that this was a bit of an overwhelming experience for me. Like, this is essentially me returning to high school, albeit it being in someone else's body. Just think about it. How many people you think gets a chance like this? No one! Well, I might be wrong about that, now that I think about it. I mean, the navigator people from before definitely sent more people back to the human world just like I was, right? So, that would mean that I might not be the only person who had the opportunity to do something like this.

Even so, this was indeed something I wanted to do for the longest time. High school. That's definitely the peak of someone's life. I mean, you are closer to being an adult in age, but you don't have to take responsibilities like every functioning adult in the human society does. So, this is basically the ideal situation to be in.

Back in my previous life, I disregarded my high school life completely, if I'm being honest. I never understood how valuable it was. All I had in my mind back then was to become an adult and finally live on my own terms. But while praying for something like that, I forgot about the fact that there is a massive boulder called college right in front of me, and that hit me like thunder. While high school is the ideal time to be in, college is definitely the worst to be in, especially if your family is poor, you are in debt and the course you have applied for is incredibly expensive. The trifecta of misfortunes really killed me back then.

It was at that point that I realized the true worth of high school life. No one really expected much of me back then. I had the liberty of spending time with my friends and more importantly, spend money without considering the expenditure of the said week. Now that I think about it, I hated being an adult, I guess. But then again, it is not something that I can avoid being in this life as well. However, I believe I should be better prepared this time around. I should think about the future, but more importantly, I should make it so that I am able to enjoy the present.

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Or so I thought. But apparently I'm not that lucky to be able to enjoy the ideal high school life that everyone else enjoys. For some reason, everyone looks at me as if they hate me or something.  I try greeting someone, they turn their head away; I try moving towards some place, everyone isolates that place. I had no idea what was going on, but it seems like this Sakamoto kid did something before, and this isn't gonna help me lead my ideal high school life.

However, I was thankful that there was at least one person in my life that I could talk to. And I decided to head towards her to get some answers.

"Hey, Airi. Can we talk about this?" I asked, as I glanced at the people staring at me.

"Talk about what?" She looked incredibly confused as she asked that question.

"Well, about why I'm supposedly universally hated." I replied.

"Wha-" It looks as if I had managed to raise her suspicions once again. I mean, the blame lies on me in this one. I should have tried to go through some other stream to get my information rather than asking the one person that trusts me right now. I mean, if I was planning to do this to begin with, I should've just went with the second option and told her that I have amnesia or something. This was incredibly stupid of me.

But before she could get a word out, someone else interrupted. "Airi-chan! What are you doing over there?" A group of girls ran towards us—or more specifically, towards Airi and started dragging her away from me.

"Wait a minute, guys!" She tried her best to not let take her away, but the strength in numbers outclassed her, and she just had to comply. "You! We need to talk!" She glared at me as she spoke while she got dragged away.

Apparently, her saying this triggered a lot of people. One of her girlfriends walked towards me and stared darts into my eyes. "You! Stay away from Airi-chan, you get me?" She asked.

"..." Before I could even formulate a reply, the girl had already walked away from me and was by Airi's side.

Anyhow, this makes things clear. Airi is most definitely the popular girl of this class. And for some reason, this popular girl has befriended me—someone that the entire class hates for reasons that I have no idea of.

Now, there are more questions than answers in my head right now. But the most important question that I had was the reason why everyone hated me. And I thought of finding the answer to that question by myself, without Airi's help, that is.

However, that proved to be incredibly difficult because no one seemed to want to talk with me or anything. Like, it's not that I didn't try, but the people I tried talking to, didn't want to talk to me back. Nah, worse than that, they looked like they despised talking to me. Which meant that there was no way that I could get any information from anyone. And with what happened today, I don't think I would be friends with Airi any longer as well. She will spot me for the fake that I am and decide to leave as well. This was truly a predicament, if you were to ask me.

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