E.B 20 – Confession & The Trip

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After two months of trying in vain to meet and talk with Rintarou, in the afternoon after class is over when Reiji walked away from the garbage disposal with the trash can after throwing the garbage from his class, he found Rintarou walked and also picking up the trash can.

Reiji didn't waste this opportunity, he ran toward him, stopped in front of him and blocked his path that makes Rintarou surprised.

Rintarou : "Kawamura Senpai?"

Reiji : “I want to talking to you, Tsuga-kun”

Rintarou : “What.., what’s that, Kawamura Senpai?”

Reiji : “I know this time not the perfect time, but I really wanted to talk to you”

Rintarou : (Nods) “Yes and what do you want to talk to me, Senpai?”

Reiji put his trash can and make one step forward.

Reiji : “I like you, Tsuga-kun and I want us to become lover”

Rintarou : “I.., I..”

Reiji : “You don't have to answer now, take your time and think about it, I'll wait patiently for your reply”

Reiji took the trash can and walk away, meanwhile Rintarou still surprised to know that Reiji likes him that make him still stood there and didn’t know what to do.

Ten days passed since Reiji confessed to Rintarou, he really thinking about that all the time and Rintarou still didn’t know how his feelings towards Reiji.

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On the front lawn kusakabe gakuen has parked a few tourist buses and well, today students from 1st grade will take a field trip to a village that is in another city for 10 days and with them there are teachers assigned to watch over them.

Now the homeroom teachers are taking names and dividing them into a small group of seven, after which they all get on their buses and start a trip.

They sang and laughed until they reached the village and the bus stopped in front of the inn, once again they were divided into groups of 3 to 4 people per bedroom.

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“Good morning”

That word came from Hayama who was responsible for all the students today.

All students : “Good morning, Osamu Sensei”

Hayama : “All the leaders come to me, now”

Hayama give them a sheet and he told them after all the leaders back to their group.

Hayama : (Clapping hands) “Okay, now each group has a sheet. I want you all to read the instructions and you have two hours to fulfill all the duties written there”

Hayama looked at the students before he gave his instructions.

Hayama : “The first group, the second and third who first come back and actually fulfilled the duty will be rewarded, but the bottom three who return will be punished. Is that clear?”

All students : “Yes, Osamu Sensei”

Hayama : (Looking at the stopwatch in his hand) “Okay, you may start.., Now!”

All of them walking with their own group including Rintarou, he and his group of friends try to fulfill the assignment written on the paper. They had to locate the whereabouts of each teacher to get a stamp stamp of 10.

Within an hour and a half Rintarou’s group got seven stamps, they had to find three more to get the job done in the next thirty minutes.

In the end their group came to the 11th of the 20 remaining groups.

Konami : (Smiling) “We are the 11th”

She said that when she returned to their group after she had been the group leader handing out the sheets of paper that was their duty to Hayama and Moriyama.

Although his group did not top it, Rintarou and his fellow group were relieved that it would not have to be punished.

Mamiko : “Yokatta, we’ve made it”

Suzuki : (Making a sign with both of his hands) “Save!”

Rintarou : (Smiling) “You’re right, Su-chan, we are save”

When they are still relieved, Ayako came in to their group.

Ayako : “What number are you guys? Mine is 6th”

Rintarou and all his friends in his group grinned, raising and lifting both of their index fingers to mark the number eleven.

Ayako : "Even though we're not at the top, we have to celebrate tonight"

Fuku : “You are absolutely right, Aya-chan”

Noda : (Nodding) “Yeah, I agree”

Konami : “But where? I think we should go to our room after dinner, Sensei will patrol around that time and we can't go out”

Ayako : (Waved her hand) “Don’t worry, we won’t going outside, we just need a room, soft drinks and snacks for that”