It's a circus! She
had heard how bad the classrooms in the left wing could be. Had
experienced it first hand as well. But this was a circus.
The pool was
divided in two halves. Those who wanted to be seen and those who
didn't. Kyoko kept with the latter and so did Nori-chan. And to her
surprise, so did Kuri-chan even if she had walked over to the other
end to gaze along the left wing building. Something, or rather
someone hadn't been there to be seen and she came back.
There was something
downtrodden about her when she returned.
I see. All
that talk about love and heart, but this is what the real you looks
like when you're in love. I wonder what I look like.
Bad,
bad idea. Kyoko could feel the colour in her face. She slid into the
pool and submerged. When she came back up again both Kuri-chan and
Nori-chan were in the water. Nori-chan had apparent problems swimming
and received help from their PE-teacher but Kuri-chan stretched out
in a lazy and eye-catching medley. Most of the boys were whistling
and shouting and even a few of the girls stared in admiration.
Of course
she moves like a goddess in the water as well. She's not human that
girl.
Kuri-chan
wasn't just good-looking. She ate the lengths with a speed that would
have made her an interesting recruit for the swim team.
What
was is she had said? “Two clicks three times per week keeps you in
shape.” Clicks? Kyoko watched Kuri-chan eat
away another 25 metres. Oh, kilometres! Yu-kun had said
something about that when referring to one of his games. She swims
two kilometres at a time? Three times per week? She can have that
body.
Kyoko
climbed out of the pool and sat down beside it. Drying in the sun
felt good but it quickly got hot.
There
was some commotion a bit away. The boys were shouting louder than
usual.
And
there he was the cannonball prince. Water splattered all over the
poolside when he landed and Kyoko had to make a hasty retreat.
Ryu-kun!
Grow up sometime!
She
moved into the shade under the roof. The sun was baking them and it
was uncomfortably hot despite her being so close to the pool. Maybe
she should have let him soak her.
“I'm
the bomb! I'm the bombest of bombs!”
No wonder
Nori-chan calls him her idiot brother. How can someone that childish
be so popular?
Or
maybe it was because he was so childish. He radiated a
carefree lack of worries and for some people maybe that was the very
reason they were attracted to him. Kyoko couldn't tell. She was part
of the gang around Kuri-chan and as such hadn't understood that she
was supposed to have a crush on Ryu-kun.
She
walked poolside and slid into the water. Her eyes sought in vain for
her minds wishes.
Her
interests lay elsewhere and elsewhere wasn't here. He was back in his
classroom in the wing turned circus. 6:1, the second source of
rumours. The monopoly held by 3:1 had been thoroughly broken even if
nowhere close to overtaken. Ryu-kun was still Ryu-kun and Kuri-chan
was still Kuri-chan. Nothing would change that. Not even Urufu-kun.
You
are, she guessed, mostly famous for being Kuri-chan's
unexpected boyfriend. Good! The last remnants of
bullying had ceased when she chose the geek over the prince. Geek,
right! They were perfect for each other from the start.
They just didn't know it.
On
second thought Kyoko suspected that the tall, Japanese looking Swede
had no interest in being the centre of rumours. On third thought she
wasn't all that certain.
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