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Petals of cherry blossoms gracefully fell to the ground, swayed by the gentle breeze. My long chestnut brown hair flew beautifully behind me. It was such a great decision of mine to not tie my hair up to a ponytail that would have flowed as elegantly. I had a feeling that today would be different. No reason whatsoever.
Feeling exhilarated by the thought of an eventful day, my footsteps transformed from normal and light to quick, excited skips. Ignoring the weird stares on me, I happily skipped, my light schoolbag bouncing to every step that I took and marched to school like a devoted soldier ready to protect the nation.
Seeing some of my friends on the way, I excitedly greeted them, slightly startling them but they were as ecstatic to see me nonetheless. The reason why we were giggling and sharing plenty of jokes was because today was the first day of school so we had a lot to catch on. Everyone of us knew that our happiness would be short-lived once the seriousness of examinations kicked in but we would like to savour our limited freedom as much as we could.
After we said our goodbyes, we headed to our respective classrooms. Entering mine while chatting with my best friend, I stopped in my tracks when I saw him. Short, brown hair, wide doe eyes, sharp nose and plump lips. The epitome of the perfect boy was sitting at his seat near the window, staring outside with an unreadable expression on his face. I must have been really deep in my daydream because my best friend shook me really hard to snap out of it.
"Are you okay, Midori-chan?" I nodded my head, a little too vigorously in my opinion. It was rather conspicuous too because I must attracted attention because when I turned my head back, I saw him staring at me, tilting his head in confusion as if trying to figure out the commotion. I felt my face flush so I quickly averted my gaze and headed straight to my seat.
"Midori-chan, you're acting really weird!" I wish I could just smack my best friend on the head because she seriously was irritating me. Instead, I faked a smile at her and proceeded to take out my notebook. Rather surreptitiously, I tried to sneak glances at him while I tried to draw his form to the best of my ability. Never am I going to taint his perfection with ugly strokes so I put a great deal of effort into it. After completing the general sketch, I focused my attention to darken the lines and adding more details. Finally I was done and I smiled at my masterpiece.
"Is that me?" I shrieked and I quickly tried to cover my drawing. I must have blushed really hard because I felt my cheeks turning hot.
"Woah...are you okay? Do you have a fever?" He paused to feel my forehead with his hand. "Hmm...you are feeling quite warm. You should take care of yourself more, Midori-san. Being sick on the first day isn't good."
Not even letting me to explain, he simply smiled at me before heading to his seat to continue staring outside.
Hearing a loud snicker behind, I glared at my best friend who witnessed everything. I guess now I could cross out one of my New Year resolutions which was to have the object of my desire acknowledging me on the first day. I smiled to myself. I was right after all.
Today is turning out to be a great day.
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