Honesty has it's price.Volume 5

"Can I please just eat my lunch,too brief as it is,in relative peace?"
I want to say but no.

The ever long fate and curse of being an introvert is you would rather just shut up and hope that you will be left alone and really the idea of confronting anyone is more hassle than it is worth so I just sit here,listening to two friends of mine snag fry after fry away from me knowing full well I am in front of where my teachers come to eat there lunches.

I glare in the most friendly manner at them,my friends smirk so viciously that if I were in any other profession to study in I would have beaten them to a pulp.
Though to be a doctor I have to swear to heal not pummel.

"Hope you are full enough...That laxative powder works wonders for me on bad days."

This is not my first time being harassed by my 'friends'.

"Liar...no way would you put that on food you might accidentally eat.Calling your bluff idiot."

I stand there,enjoying the pre- noon time sun and listening to the freshman climbing up and down the stairs with tangible excitement of whatever future they are dreaming of just about to begin while I am just staring at them.
Enjoying the silence that stretches as they realize I placed that laxative powder perfectly and memorized it just for this purpose.

Jerks calling themselves friends only to steal lunch and grades because I needed the money is become more than enough now that I am about to graduate.
They are bigger and richer but not smarter than me.

"There goes Koshi.How are you feeling Soejin?Any pressure?"

Koshi is gone like the former track star he was in the states while Soejin,he is trying to keep his long face steady and eyes solely on mine until it really kicks in and the girls,the ones I asked the coach to send through here to reach the new sports practice route,are walking by.
Really,really cute girls to that are starting to make wide arcs away as the pressure becomes to much.

"I hate you..."
"Bye my friend..."

I rarely laugh often but this has to be the most I have done in a long time,one more class in an hour.
Fifteen more and one major exam then I can finally start a residency as promised by one of my mentors at his new hospital.


KOKORO

What is he doing?

I ask myself as I watch from my chair waiting for Chimaitsu,I see Kenji-San fighting a smile as one young man that looks like a drama star I used to watch runs like he is in a race holding the bottom of his pants while another seems to be staying put staring at Kenji-San hard but whatever has happened he must smell awful because all the girls in there gym wear are making wide steps away from him,A guy that looks straight out of some samurai manga panel at that who looks so gorgeous but they are avoiding him.

I am laughing as I watch him yell something at Kenji-San,who waves off the young man while smiling gently.

I had no idea that chubby teen boy from back then would turn out so nerd buff kind of hot but he did.
That young woman,Eriika is lucky.

Why on earth would he worry about losing her at all?
If she is smart she should on to him tightly I say.

"Ugh lets hurry and go Ko,what a pity for a hot guy to mess himself like that ew..."

I am laughing at her words,she says it with even more emphasis than required to make the point which is her specialty if her time here will help her be a good pediatric physician someday soon.

"What are you looking at so much?Oooh him?The guy is a droll bore machine with a nice face okay Ko,don't even bother.Guy just broke up with his gf anyway so not even worth it."
"He broke up with his girlfriend?Why?"

I am confused.
I thought that was why he came back to the bakery in the first place.

I was thinking he needed help to woo her and I love sweet gestures like that as much as I love a good fried cream pie.

"I heard that his dad was by the school yesterday late to fill up the snack machines and stock up the caffeteria,like the guy is kinda old and is friends with the man who runs the school helped Ken-kun to get in.Anyway his dad joked about how his boy may never get married because he broke up with a keeper to pursue some lost cause of a girl just by seeing her once."
"Really?Total scumbag..."

I walk arm in arm with Chi headed towards the train station so we can go to Tokyo for the weekend as agreed for her moms wedding but the whole ride was too quiet for my brain to be anything but relaxed at all.

What kind of guy breaks up with his girlfriend so fast?
I thought back then and even up until an hour ago that he was a cute stand up kind of man that was honest and decent.
Take home to Dad type,someone that would open the door and actually pay for your meal unlike a certain jerk who took me out only to ditch me after the meal and to top that he came by house when he thought my dad was asleep to sneak his fingers up my skirt.

Let's just understand that the male anatomy is not made for a woman who has taken karate since she was three and has a punch of a woman who has kneaded bread for just as long.

My dad almost felt bad for how he cried like a little child but when my skirt was a little ripped my Father left him with a black set of eyes and drove him to his police parents.

Long night that night was.

Today might be like that too now that I am starting to just boil on the inside.

"Hey!"

I whisper,annoyed over being suddenly swatted over the head with a magazine but still trying to not wake up Chi.
In front of me turned entirely around in her seat is this kind of tall looking young woman with a shoulder length bob hair cut,a sunflower hairpin with necklace and dress to match.
So pretty with large warm eyes and a cute figure.

She writes in a notepad in big letters then faces it to me.

I CAN SEE WHY NOW.DON'T HATE HIM TOO QUICKLY THAT IS WHAT I SHOULD BE FEELING MORE OF.BY THE WAY.ONE DAY I SHOULD BEAT YOU FOR TAKING MY BF BUT YOU LOOK LIKE YOU WANT TO BEAT HIM FOR BREAKING UP WITH ME.ASK HIM WHY FIRST,THEN WE CAN SETTLE OUR END.BYE.

"Wait!"

I say aloud,waking up Chi who curses me out in English while I stare after the leggy sunflower woman.
Wondering what is happening at all.


LATE,THREE DAYS LATER

"That boy is outside pacing again.I am going home,I got the bat over by the door if he gets any more stupid.Bye."

My Dad comes by,kisses my forehead and leaves while I finish icing the last cakes then I put them in the cooler to store them for the wedding tomorrow.

I startle him mid pace making him slide on the pavement almost falling but I simply marvel and speak my mind.

"What kind of jerk are you to just break up with someone simply over one meeting with some other girl?She was beautiful too and seems super smart so why would you do that?Is some random girl worth the rest of your life possibly regretting losing a princess?Well?Answer me."

He pauses like I punched him so hard.


KENJI

Why are some girls scary like a horror movie when angry and others you want to kiss a lot and everywhere at once when they look so fired up?

"Would it be fair to date a girl with another one on your mind?Would it be fair to kiss her when you are having your lips on another person's in your head?All fire on the thought of someone else and not you.Is any of that fair?"

Wow.
She just kind of pauses mid retort.
She stares at me too,as I just look at her.

"She deserved better,I let her slug me to if that helps you feel better.I believe in being honest.Completely.I did not expect this either."
"Expect what jerk?"

Her fire.
She is intoxicating.

"You,again."

Slugged again too.