Episode 2

It's morning and I'm going to school again. I feel lazy but there is a little feeling that grows to me and it is what you called excitement. I don't know why but I feel it, it's my first time feel excited to go to school maybe because of the girl that I met yesterday.

"Damn, why am I feeling like this?"

After I eat my breakfast and leave my house I started to go to my school.

I'm already now in my classroom but I think I'm very early so I decided to walk around to my school. I saw an art club and then I go inside the room. There are lots of paintings there that are so beautiful and I feel like I want to join the art club because I like to paint too but my other self telling me that I just want to paint alone and I don't want my paintings to be seen by someone.

After a minute I go back to my room, I sit in my chair and my class started.

"I think she'll be late again," my mind tells me.

It's already lunchtime and I'm going to the rooftop again. I'm going to eat alone again because Rika is absent. When I'm already on the rooftop I saw Rika at the corner of the rooftop. I saw Rika there sitting while her head is on her knees and her hands are hugging her legs. I feel nervous again, I don't know how to start a conversation with her so I sit beside her.

I touch her shoulder and I tell her name...

"R-Rika?"

I heard her breathing deeply and then she looks at me with her eyes that is reddish.

"Hello, Ryu!" Rika said...

I don't know what to tell her but I think that she is crying. I want to talk to her about it and why she did not go to our room earlier but I can't tell her. We eat our lunch together again but this time she is so quiet. After we eat our lunch together she finally starts to talk to me.

"Sorry for earlier if you saw me crying," Rika said...

I replied by nodding my head.

We're sitting there for half an hour she didn't talk to me anymore. I want to talk to her because I'm curious about what happened to her but I can't talk.

A few minutes I saw her eyes became teary again, I move closer to her, I tap her shoulder, and give her my handkerchief. She looks at me and then she gets my handkerchief.

"I broke up with my boyfriend today," Rika said...

I was shocked when I heard the reason for Rika. I don't know how to comfort her, I don't know what words can make her feel better so I decided to put her head on my shoulder and I said...

"Just cry"

After what I said Rika put her head on my shoulder and then she started to cry. After a minute of crying, she became quiet again and when I look at her she already falls asleep on my shoulder. I think our class is starting right now but Rika is still sleeping on my shoulder so I decided to be by her side.

After three hours of sleeping, she finally woke up and then realize that she's been sleeping for a long time she looked at me and said that...

"I'm sorry you did not attend our class because of me"

I answer her by nodding my head again.

She started to talk again but the school janitor sees us.

"Hey! What are you two doing there?!" The school janitor said...

We are reported by the janitor to our guidance office and I and Rika spend our time at the office.

At the end of the day, before we take our path to go to our home Rika talks to me.

"Thank you for earlier, Ryu," Rika said...

And again I answer her by nodding my head.

"You always reply to me by nodding your head," she said while her lips are pouting.

"By the way, I'm going home, thank you again Ryu"

Before she leaves she looks at me while her lips are starting to curve her cheeks.