Day 1 Novelember

 

Summer is over and another year of school is starting tomorrow. Thankfully it will my last year.

I go to bed early tonight since I have to wake up awfully early tomorrow. As I lay in bed naturally I can’t fall asleep since I’ve sleeping so late all of summer vacation. I’m staring at the dark ceiling depressed by the thought of another boring and uneventful year, it hasn’t even started and I’m already wishing it was over.

I wake up at seven in the morning with the excessively loud sound of my alarm clock, that’s another thing I didn’t miss. I get up half an hour later even though I told myself I’d get up in five minutes. I’ll be late if don’t hurry up so I quickly brush my teeth, put on my uniform, eat breakfast and off I go to my first day as a highschool senior.

I’m walking on my way to school still feeling drowsy (I wonder when I fell asleep last night) and still depressed as I walk this path I walked so many times before I’m reminded that this will be my routine every day for a whole year.

It takes me a while to get to school but I finally arrive. I see lots of new faces around, I guess there’s a lot of new students this year. I enter the school building and start going to my classroom, when I reach the second floor I catch a glimpse of two long strings of hair as they turn around the corner of the hallway. These catch my attention since aren’t the usual hair colour but instead they looked like a very dark blue. I might have seen wrong maybe they were just black, but I have some time before classes so I decide to follow what I assume was a girl.

I quickly go to the corner and lean to see what I all of that was about, and I’m mesmerized as see the most beautiful girl standing in the middle of the hallway. The strings of hair were her long twintails, and I can now confirm that her hair is indeed blue, and oddly enough it seems like it’s her natural colour. While I’m still staring and probably looking like a creepy stalker, my attention turns now to her face and it’s the cutest face I have ever seen. She has big blue eyes, a cute little nose, her cheeks are a little blushed as she smiles to the other girl she’s talking to.

Still hypnotized by her slim figure I am abruptly interrupted.

“What are you doing?”

I almost fell down from the scare.

“I-I’m not stalking her or anything!”

Why did I say that? It just made it much more obvious.

“Oh so you were looking at Aya?” said the tall red-headed girl.

“N-n-no I was just…”

“It’s alright I won’t tell her anything.” she said in a teasing tone “I’m Yoko by the way.”

I’m just standing there embarrassed not knowing what to say.

“I’m Anon”

“Ok Anon you should try talking to her sometime” she says while walking towards the girl I’ve been staring at. Looks like they’re friends.

Still embarrassed about the whole thing the bell rings and I make my way to the class room. Looks like I’ll be starting the year with math. Everyone sits down and the teacher arrives. Even the teacher is depressed at the prospect of another dull year of the same old, same old.

The teacher is already writing some complicated equations on the board even though it’s still the first day. I can’t be arsed right now for any of that, so I find myself thinking of that girl, Aya was her name. Damn she was cute, maybe I should follow that girl’s advice and try talking to her. Knowing me I’ll probably be too shy to approach her or even if I do I’ll start stuttering making myself Incomprehensible. I wonder why I’m so interested in this girl, sure she was beautiful but why do I get this strange feeling in my stomach just by thinking about her? I only saw her once and haven’t even spoken to her yet. It’s probably best not to think much into it.

I’ve been so absorbed in my thoughts time just flew by and the class is over. I hate class breaks, it’s just doing nothing until the next class starts so I usually spend them roaming the hallways. Aya still hasn’t left my mind. I want to talk to her but I don’t even know how to start. It would be weird to just introduce myself out of nowhere, maybe I’m just overthinking it. I let out a long sigh as I continue my walk through the hallways until the bell rings again for the next class.

The rest of classes go by uneventful and it’s time to return home. Sadly I haven’t seen the twintailed girl since my first encounter, well not physically at least, she’s been on my mind the whole day. The rest of the day is as boring as school and I decide to go to bed early.

I go through the morning routine and go to school. Looks like I arrived earlier than yesterday, probably because I woke up on time. I’m still on my way to the school building when a little blond child comes to me.

“Excuse me, do you know a girl named Shino?” she asked

“Sorry, I’m afraid I don’t”

“She looks a lot like this!” she says as she pulls out a traditional kokeshi doll.

“Uh … sorry I haven’t seen anyone like that.”

She seems a little disappointed with my answer and goes inside the school. But why is she going inside, is she a student? I could have sworn she isn’t older than twelve, but she did have a uniform. Anyways I do the same and go inside. I’m going to the my first class hoping for twintails like last time but sadly there weren’t any.

First class goes by very slowly but it finally comes to and end after what feels like several eternities. It’s time for my daily hallway roaming and I see the little girl again, she’s talking to another girl. I pass by them and she says hello, and I greet her back.

“Hello there.”

“This is Shino I was looking for” she points at the girl standing next to her.

Shino smiles at me with a little wave. I’m looking at her as I’m reminded of that kokeshi doll. Oh God It can’t be unseen now, the resemblance is uncanny. And wait a second, I’ve seen this girl before. This is the girl that was talking to Aya yesterday.

Immediately after that thought I see Aya coming our way. I’d say speak of the devil but that would be very unfitting, she’s much closer to a goddess. She joins our conversation and my heart skips a beat and starts racing. She’s even more beautiful from up close. By her side is that girl Yoko, I guess I was right, they seem like good friends. Yoko sees me, probably noticing I’m nervous and gives me a thumbs up, which surprisingly enough it’s not very encouraging, in fact it only made me more nervous.

Aya must have noticed that thumb and she asks

“Do you know each other?”

Is this what an angel sounds like? Even her voice is perfect, my heart is about to explode.

Yoko answers her

“Yeah we met in the hallway yesterday.” She winks at me after saying that.

Can’t this girl be discreet? And Aya is looking at me now. What do I say? What do I do? I’m trying to say something but no words come out. Luckily she breaks the ice.

“H-hi I’m Aya.”

She sounds shy as she says that. It makes me a little more comfortable and I’m finally able to speak.

“I-I’m Anon n-nice to meet you.”

I keep looking at her after saying that and it makes her blush a little as she looks down trying to avoiding eye contact. She’s very shy it seems, which just adds to her cuteness. I feel like I should say something more about myself at this point.

“I’m in classroom 3-C, are you new here?”

“Yes, this is our first year in highschool, so I guess you’re our senpai.”

I must admit I like the sound of that. Don’t worry though, I already noticed you. Is what I wanted to say but chose not to and instead went with something more modest.

“Eheh, I guess I am” I say that with a nervous chuckle while scratching the back of my head.

With that she gives me a little smile. As I’m busy trying to keep my heart from melting the girls start talking with the little blond girl. Apparently she came all the way from England. I think I heard one of the girls calling her Alice. I’m not sure if I should say something since I’m not really part of this group so I don’t. I keep looking at Aya trying not to look like a creep.

After a while that dreadful bell rings again and it’s time for class again.

“Alright see you” I said as I’m ready to go to class

The girls all reply in some sort of “Bye” or “See you” but I only noticed what Aya said.

“See you later, I hope we can talk again soon.”

This time I’m the one that replies with a smile.

I’m so unusually happy I feel like skipping on the way to the classroom. I restrain myself from doing so and just settle for walking. I spend the rest of the day daydreaming and thinking about her. Thinking what is this feeling, why do I feel this way around her. And her words stuck with me. “I hope we can talk again soon”. Yeah I hope so too.