New Life
Hinata Aoi happily found a new deskmate.
Q: Under what circumstances can everyone in a class with an odd number of students be assigned a deskmate?
Answer: It is not about letting a student sit next to the podium and sit at the same table with the teacher, but about getting a transfer student.
Hinata Aoi adjusted her sitting posture to stretch her stiff bones, and her eyes unconsciously drifted to the middle of the class - the seat of her new classmate.
Naoka Ueno sat in the seat behind the new classmate, and Miki Kawai was the new classmate's deskmate.
They gathered around the new classmate, chatting and laughing, and the other students in the class also either leaned closer or leaned sideways to pay attention to that side.
A sense of déjà vu struck Hinata Aoi's retina. She squinted her eyes and returned her gaze to the extracurricular book in her hand, but her mind was still spinning rapidly.
Oh yes, it’s exactly like the scene when I was surrounded by people at the beginning of the first grade.
The chirping of young birds waiting to be fed surrounds people with endless curiosity and enthusiasm. The oxygen around them seems to be burning out, and fake smiles and awkward conditioned reflexes appear to deal with it.
It’s still different. The new classmates are really happy.
Hinata Aoi couldn't help but laugh when she thought of the special instructions given by her homeroom teacher two days ago.
Isn't this a good start? She doesn't need any help from her, a senior in some sense.
Besides, it is really a bit difficult for her, who doesn't want to sit at the table at all, to teach those who are actively eating how to use chopsticks.
The tip of his index finger slid down the page and easily turned a page, but the entire book was also easily pulled out of his palm.
Eh?
Hinata Aoi looked over in surprise.
"Are you scared by me?" Naoka Ueno glanced at the page number and closed the book and put it aside.
"Are you jealous?" The girl's tone was deliberately funny, but she was also proud.
"My classmates have all gathered around the transfer student, stealing all their attention away from you. Even your only identity as a 'disabled person' has disappeared. Ah, God, please save me and let my friends like me again, oh no, only me~"
Sunflower: "..."
So Naoka Ueno has been hiding her histrionic personality for almost six years?
Regardless of whether other students pay attention to her or not, is the identity of a "disabled person" a good thing worth fighting over?
Sometimes Hinata Aoi really wanted to knock open Ueno Naoka's head to see what the structure inside was.
Kawai Miki, who was standing next to him, held onto the table and laughed until her stomach hurt, but she still wiped her tears and said, "Don't do that, Xiaozhi. How can you apply the lines of the female supporting role in a supernatural movie directly to Xiaokui?"
"And it's okay to joke with Xiao Kui, but isn't saying 'disabled' in front of new classmates a bit too much?"
If you laughed a little softer, it might have been more believable.
These two people definitely dared to speak like this because they were taking advantage of the fact that the new students couldn't hear them.
Having lost her extracurricular books, Hinata Aoi's right hand unconsciously tortured the pen repeatedly, suppressing the urge to give everyone a slap.
Taking hesitant yet determined steps, the flaxen little head half appeared from behind Naoka, unexpectedly meeting Hinata Aoi's eyes, and then half-avoided by turning his face to the side.
Naoka Ueno also noticed it and made half a move, revealing the notebook the girl was holding tightly in front of her.
She obviously didn't expect that she would suddenly become the person facing Hinata Aoi, and hurriedly turned to the page that had already been written -
"Hello, my name is Nishimiya Shoko, can we be friends?"
...Ah, what a long sentence.
Hinata Aoi looked at the upright notebook a little absentmindedly, and began to disassemble the image of the girl opposite in her mind.
Her name is "Nishimiya Glass". Although her hair is flaxen, it looks like a smoky pink at first glance. Her eyes are also the same color. There is a determined light hidden in her shyness and timidity - it is a passionate look that is determined to make friends with everyone.
Every characteristic that was disassembled accurately hit Hinata Aoi's sore spot, and was simply standing on the opposite side of her.
She's the type that absolutely won't become friends... She wouldn't even get involved with Ueno Naoka if she became her close friend—Hinata Aoi judged.
Fortunately, she doesn't want to make friends at all, so the probability of everyone becoming friends is zero, and it doesn't seem that Nishimiya Shoko is so lonely.
But now I have to respond, just pretend to deal with it like before.
Hinata Aoi was annoyed and wanted to press her temples, but gave up because there were too many people watching.
She took out her notebook from her desk, and the click pen in her hand finally came in handy.
"Nice to meet you, Nishimiya-san. My name is Hinata Aoi. Please take care of me from now on~"
It was her usual habit of not answering questions directly, but this was enough to make the other person's cheeks turn a pink with excitement.
"Okay, Hinata-san!"
"Okay, okay, this is already a bit like the 8 o'clock drama where relatives reunite after a long separation." Ueno Naoka, who came to tease Hinata Aoi, felt a little jealous.
She was a little confused as to why these two people who knew sign language were communicating with notebooks, but the awkward feeling in her heart prevented her from pointing it out.
"Class is about to start, let's go back. You can ask me if you have any questions~"
Who is this sentence directed at?
First, rule out Nishimiya Glass.
Kawai Miki watched helplessly as her friend dragged her new deskmate, who kept looking back, back to his seat, and couldn't help but smile in her heart.
If you laugh out loud, you'll definitely get an angry Xiaozhi.
"Be gentle with your new classmates, Xiaozhi~"
Kawai Miki also slowly sat back in her seat.
With the departure of the three, Hinata Aoi's seat was finally no longer the focus of the class.
She secretly breathed a sigh of relief and raised her hand to pick up her extracurricular book again.
"It's page 76."
Ueno, who seemed to have eyes on the back of his head, read out the page number he had just written down.
Kawai Miki in the front seat couldn't hold back her laughter and burst out laughing.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Sorry, sorry, I just thought of a joke."
"Why are you apologizing to me for thinking of a joke?"
Ueno Naoka's anger came late, and she stood up and tickled Kawai.
"Hahaha, I was wrong, Xiaozhi, please forgive me, hahahaha..."
"I told you, don't apologize to me!"
Nishimiya Naoko, who was standing next to them, couldn't help but look at the two people playing with envy.
Can I also make such good friends?
absolute!
——
The speed of time has always been a secret, but it seems to flow especially fast for children.
Hinata Noko always said that Hinata Aoi was growing too fast. She seemed to be getting more mature and taller day by day. She was so scared that she looked at her face in the mirror every day to see if the thief of time had accelerated her aging.
Hinata Aoi didn't feel anything before, but now she felt a little bit of reality.
Time really does flow extra quickly for children. Otherwise, how can we explain why Nishimiya Naoko, who was having a good time with her classmates just two days ago, suddenly felt a little isolated.
"Xiao Kui, can you please write down the steps for this question for me?"
Kawai Miki leaned over Hinata Aoi and asked for advice.
Hinata Aoi has always been the top student in her grade because she has a very high intelligence level and is two years older than her classmates.
Kawai Miki, who has always been the runner-up under her, was somewhat competitive at first, but as six years have passed, she finally chose to reconcile with herself and would come to ask for help whenever she had any questions she couldn't solve.
Asking for advice meant getting a series of detailed problem-solving steps for her to figure out on her own. She wasn't as thick-skinned as Ueno Naoka to ask Hinata Aoi to write down the explanation of each step on paper.
Of course, if Ueno does this and still doesn't understand after Hinata Aoi's detailed explanation, he will be beaten up by Hinata Aoi without mercy - in the physical sense.
"Oh, it's so difficult."
After getting the steps to solve the problem, Kawai Miki did not rush back to her seat. Instead, she occupied the chair in front of Hinata Aoi's desk and lay on Hinata Aoi's desk, worrying secretly.
here we go again.
Hinata Aoi continued writing and drawing in her notebook without changing her expression.
Compared to Ueno Naoka, no, compared to all the classmates, Kawai Miki is the type of person with a deeper mind.
I usually talk and laugh with everyone, and I won’t say it directly if I don’t like something. But when I meet someone who has the same feeling, I can’t help but complain to them. After complaining, I feel internally that I shouldn’t be so “vicious”, and I worry about how to get along with them after being discovered by the person I’m talking to. If I’m exposed, I’ll have a big breakdown. I dare not admit my mistakes, just because I’m afraid of ruining my good image in the eyes of classmates and teachers.
——That’s the type of person.
Having such a delicate mind that had nowhere to vent, Kawai Miki really found an outlet.
——It’s here, Hinata Aoi.
He is gentle yet distant with everyone, never joins any small groups, does not get involved in any disputes, and most importantly, can't speak. He is simply the most ideal tree hole.
As soon as Kawai Miki saw Hinata Aoi, she couldn't hold back her worries anymore. She had to let them out so that she could relax.
When Hinata Aoi encountered such a Kawai before, she just turned a deaf ear to it, but this time it should be related to Nishimiya. The very responsible Hinata Aoi did not forget the instructions of the class teacher and planned to listen carefully to what happened.
"It's really hard to communicate with Nishimiya-san..."
"It's just that when I explain the problem to her, she has to write it down clearly on paper, which is very troublesome. It's just like how you explained the problem to Xiaozhi. Besides, Nishimiya is ten times dumber than Xiaozhi! I was embarrassed to refuse her..."
"...She can't read the air either. We've already laughed at the same joke once, and yet we still have to explain it to her. You know, jokes aren't funny if you explain them, and explaining them to her is a waste of time."
"I'm not the only one who thinks this way! Xiaozhi and the other students in the class also don't like her!"
"You know, we've been working really hard to help her integrate into campus life... She's wearing hearing aids, so why is she bothering others so much and even asking us to learn sign language for her..."
At this point, Kawai Miki glanced at Hinata Aoi. Over the years, no classmate had learned sign language in order to communicate with Hinata Aoi, and the teacher didn't care about it.
"I don't know why her family wants to send her to a normal school. Wouldn't it be better for her to go to a specialized school?"
"The choir competition is about to begin..."
......
It sounds like Nishimiya-san’s “crimes” are too numerous to list.
All in all, it's a story where everyone is hurt.
Now the distress shifted from Kawai Miki's face to Hinata Aoi's face.
It turns out that the best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, and it’s a bit too late to plant one now.
Hinata Aoi struggled to attend classes, struggled to do her homework in class, struggled to leave get out of class, struggled to leave school, focused on changing into her sportswear and playing volleyball alone for a while, focused on going to a nearby training ground to practice parkour for a while, and struggled to start her way home.
Then came the moment that was even more troubling for Hinata Aoi - how to walk through the bakery with all glass doors and windows without being noticed by the staff inside.
Fortunately, in the face of this distress that had to be faced, the things about Nishimiya-san were temporarily forgotten.
Hinata Aoi walked slowly. She had been going through this ordeal every day since the fourth grade.
Basically twice a day. Sometimes I walk with Hinatako and have to wait until she finishes chatting with the store owner...which is even more torturous.
She really didn't like enthusiasm, especially the enthusiasm coming from that bakery.
What is coming will always come. Hinata Aoi walked to the street light closest to the bakery as usual and stopped.
It was already dusk, and even though the lights were on in the store, they could not outshine the dazzling sunset. The two waiters who should have been busy in the store were standing and squatting, talking about something by the door.
Blocked between the two of them was a white-haired boy who was completely invisible from Hinata Aoi's perspective.
"Did he get lost?"
"Should be?"
"Isn't it obvious, idiot!"
"Didn't you ask first? Asking for his home address, anyway?"
"Didn't I just ask? He didn't say anything."
"Then can I ask for the parents' phone number?"
"I told you everything but he won't say anything! Can you please use your rusty ears to listen to what I have to say?"
"Then call the Gojo family directly?"
The tall man standing there finally couldn't help himself and hit the person next to him hard on the head.
"Not all white-haired people are from the Gojo family! And isn't that the only one from the Gojo family who inherited white hair? He's already in his 20s!"
"Don't hit me on the head, it'll make me stupid! And what if it's a bastard?"
The tall man hit him again, "I already said that guy is only in his 20s, how can there be a 10-year-old illegitimate child?"
"Stop it, stop it!" The squatting clerk covered his head. "I'm not talking about that person, I'm talking about the head of the Gojo family, no, that person's father!"
The tall man withdrew his hand, intending to strike again. The head of the Gojo family had long since become that person. If his colleague hadn't quickly corrected himself, he would have definitely slapped him.
"That person's father... isn't that impossible?"
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