Chapter 50
I finally filled out the registration form, handed it to the teacher, and joined the training class.
Next, Fuji-san and I both had a very busy period. Because the Kanto Tournament was approaching, his training became more frequent, sometimes even weekends in the training camp.
I was busy running back and forth between the classroom and the training room. Since the training was in preparation for the subsequent high school English debate competition, there were almost no written tests. Instead, it was more focused on on-the-spot performance and oral expression skills, so everyone seemed a little struggling at the beginning.
Although I had lived in the United States for a period of time, I didn't speak English much for a long time after returning to Japan, and there was no such language environment, so it was a bit difficult for me to adapt at the beginning.
But slowly I got back into shape and things started to get better.
So when I came to my senses and saw the text message from Senior Fuji asking me to meet him on the rooftop of the teaching building at noon, I suddenly realized that although Senior Fuji and I were in the same school, we hadn't seen each other for a week!
A whole! A whole! Week!
Is the school so big?
It's so big that the two of them haven't even run into each other once... Damn! It must be the school's fault for being so big...
In short, feeling a mixture of guilt and anticipation, I waited for the bell to ring and rushed to the rooftop with my lunch. But as soon as I opened the door, the back of Fuji-san came into view.
At this moment, he was standing on the edge of the rooftop protection net, as if stopping to look at the distant scenery. The midday sun shone on him, and the whole person seemed to be covered with a hazy light. The breeze blew the corners of his clothes, and the outline of his waist was faintly visible under the loose white shirt.
It gives people a feeling of being inaccessible.
Suddenly, he turned around, met my eyes, smiled faintly, and waved at me.
There's a subtle sense of 'the gods have come down to earth for me'...
I immediately trotted over to him and asked, "Zhou Zhu, how did you get here so quickly?"
The third grade teaching building is quite far away from the first grade building...
"Maybe it's because I wanted to see Nana so badly...I almost ran here!"
“!!”
My face flushed red, and I hesitated for a long time before I said,
"...I, I was just jogging up to see Zhou Zhu!"
"Oh, really?"
He stared at my face with his narrowed eyes, which made my heart beat fast. But he changed the subject the next second, looked at me with some resentment, and said,
"I thought Nana was so busy that she forgot about me... If I hadn't sent her a text message, Nana wouldn't have thought of seeing me..."
Ah, this... don't make it sound like we've completely lost contact!
We chat on the phone every day...
However, Fuji-senpai looks like a lonely puppy who can't help but run out to find his owner when his owner is not at home...
So cute!
Just try to coax him a little...
He originally just wanted to tease her, but seeing the girl standing in front of him, stammering one second and daydreaming the next, Fuji Shusuke felt a little depressed and helpless.
He always knew that girls had unconventional ideas, but he didn't know which planet this little girl had jumped to this time.
If I take the opportunity to make some strange requests now, the daydreaming girl will probably agree without hesitation.
Tsk, being so defenseless and distracted in front of a man is not a good thing. Maybe she really needs to learn a lesson...
Fuji Shusuke was thinking evil thoughts, and the next second, the girl hugged his waist and buried her face in his chest.
His whole body froze for a moment, and he looked down. The girl's black head was leaning against his chest obediently, and even the whorl of her hair was clear and cute in his eyes. She rubbed against him gently like a kitten, whispering softly,
"I miss Zhou Zhuo so much too...I was the first one to rush out of the classroom when the bell rang..."
He just felt as if his heart was gently scratched by a cat's claws.
"So, Zhou Zhu, don't be angry!"
His hands, restless with nervousness, finally gently grasped the girl, slowly tightening their grip. Feeling the once light and airy person in his arms finally become tangible, he slowly spoke:
"How could that be? I would never be angry with Nana."
However, it really looks like a cat, except that it almost has two furry cat ears.
Fuji Shusuke stared at the top of her head and thought with a hint of regret.
*
Senior Fuji spread his coat on the ground, and we sat down against the wall of the rooftop to eat lunch together. My lunch was a handmade rice ball made by Aunt Hayami, and Senior Fuji, I secretly looked at his lunch box -
Tamagoyaki cut into rolls, green broccoli, sausages and carrots carefully cut into small flower shapes, and shrimps that look very tempting...even the white rice is carefully sprinkled with a layer of shredded seaweed and sesame seeds. The combination of meat and vegetables looks nutritious and delicious.
In comparison, my lunch box suddenly became bland...
"Shousuke's bento is always so luxurious... What kind of family can afford such a bento..."
As I unpacked my rice ball, I stared at his bento, muttering to myself,
"It's okay, I have the rice balls that Aunt Hayami made for me. For a child from a family like ours, it's already great to be able to eat rice balls like this!"
Senior Fuji was amused by me, then he picked up a big shrimp with chopsticks and fed it to my mouth.
I opened my mouth almost without hesitation, and was fed, with a satisfied expression of having understood the plan.
“Delicious! Super delicious!”
"It was done by Meizi-san. She happened to be free today."
"I declare that Sister Yumiko is the YYDs in my heart. Even the sausage flowers are cut so beautifully!"
He fed me another sausage flower and said, "As for the vegetables, I cut them all myself. Just think of it as Nana praising me..."
Ah, did Senior Fuji get up this morning to help Sister Yumiko cut vegetables?
"So, does Zhou Zhu also wear an apron when he cuts vegetables?"
Fuji Shusuke: “…Yes.”
Why is she suddenly paying attention to this?
Ah, Senior Fuji who got up early in the morning wearing an apron and cutting vegetables!
This picture is inexplicably virtuous, what's going on?!
After chatting with Senior Fuji, we quickly finished our lunch. I then took out my manuscript and began to recite it.
Because the one-month training period is about to end, I will also face the final assessment to determine whether I can officially join the school team.
The assessment is divided into two parts: one is a fixed-topic speech, and the other is an impromptu speech on a randomly selected topic.
Impromptu speaking tests your ability to perform on the spot, and I couldn't make too much preparation in advance, so I focused my preparation on the fixed-topic speech. The topic had been given to me a few days ago.
The manuscript is finished, but I still feel like it's not quite there yet...
Oh right, isn't Senior Fuji here too?!
"Zhou Zhu, can you please do me a favor?"
I clasped my hands together and spoke sincerely.
"What's up?"
"Could you please take a look at this manuscript for me and see if there are any problems from Zhou Zhu's perspective? I really need different opinions."
Upon hearing this, Fuji Shusuke secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
It turns out it was just this favor.
For a moment, he was actually afraid that the girl would ask him to wear an apron for her to see.
He took the manuscript and began to read, but after a while, he felt his shoulders slump. Surprised, he turned around and saw that the girl had closed her eyes and fallen asleep with her head resting on his shoulder.
She must have fallen asleep a long time ago. If you look closely, there is a faint bluish-black circle under the girl's eyelids. She must have stayed up late for many nights recently.
Seeing this, he felt both distressed and proud.
Although Koizumi Na always said that she had no strengths, in his eyes, Koizumi Na, who worked so hard for something, was shining even if she was clumsy.
It’s like the stars at night. Although they are not as dazzling as the sun, just being able to look at them directly is enough to make you feel very beautiful.
*
When I woke up, I was still sitting in the same position, but the senior student Fuji next to me had turned into a stool. It looked like I had fallen asleep on the stool at some point, and there was no one else around except me.
It seems that Fuji-senpai has left.
I must have stayed up too late yesterday revising the manuscript, so I accidentally fell asleep.
I yawned and stretched, then looked down at the time and saw that class was still in two minutes!
Oh no! We need to hurry or we'll be late!
Thinking of this, I grabbed the manuscript paper on the stool without thinking, ran down the stairs like a hurricane, and finally returned to my seat panting before the bell rang.
At that moment, Kitajima Airi faintly woke up from her seat and looked at me with sleepy eyes, "Hey? Nana, are you okay?"
"It's okay, I almost didn't make it back before class..."
As I said this, I loosened my grip on the manuscript paper.
Because I was running so fast, I had already squeezed several deep creases into the thin pages. As someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder, I immediately opened the draft paper and tried to find something heavy to press the creases. But when I opened it, I was stunned by the contents inside.
I saw that my text was surrounded by some annotations and revisions made by others. They not only helped me correct some colloquialisms and informal slang, but also gave me a lot of suggestions on structure and presentation.
Moreover, these signatures are drawn in pencil and can be erased with an eraser at any time.
I immediately remembered it - before I fell asleep, I asked Senior Fuji to help me look at the manuscript and give some advice.
Although, his suggestions were really thoughtful. It was as if he had analyzed the entire manuscript word by word in just a few minutes...
My heart started pounding.
I flipped through the pages absentmindedly and came to the last page. There was only a small paragraph of text on this page, and the rest was a large blank space.
What caught my attention was the sentence in the blank space -
“No matter how busy you are, you must get enough rest and sleep. Although Nana’s panda eyes are cute, I still prefer a healthy Nana.
Fuji Shusuke stays."
He even drew a little bear head with stick figures at the end.
After I finished reading it, I immediately flipped the page over on the table with a "pop" sound, and my breathing became a little rapid.
Help, my boyfriend is so cute!
"Hey hey hey? Nana, what's wrong with you?!"
Airi looked at me, then turned her gaze to the paper on the table that I had covered, and said in shock,
"Could it be that that thick stack of paper is a love letter?!"
I immediately retorted, "Of course not! It's just my English manuscript!"
I was afraid she wouldn't believe me, so I turned to the first page and showed it to her. Sure enough, after seeing the densely packed English text, Airi suddenly became listless and uninterested, like a deflated ball.
"Oh~ It's not a love letter, it's in English, then it's okay..."
I breathed a sigh of relief.
but,
--Although Nana's panda eyes are also very cute, I still prefer the healthy Nana~
Damn, what's with this feeling of déjà vu of a love letter?!
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