My First Time

Sometimes I wonder if life loves to play jokes on me. Maybe it hates me at times too? Well, if it does, that would explain a lot. Otherwise, how do you explain this current situation I’m in? This isn’t something that happens to just anyone and isn’t a normal occurrence at that. Especially on a day like this.

“Are you stalking me?”

A girl turned around and said to me. Suddenly staring straight into my eyes, slightly leaning forward.

“Huh!?”

I said in confusion. Who was this girl and why me? I was just walking on the sidewalk and all of a sudden, I’m meet with a random girl accusing me of stalking! It makes no sense!

“I don’t know who you are, but I think your mistaken? I haven’t met you before at all and I’m definitely not stalking you.”

Saying this with the most confused looked on my face, I tried to respond normally. I mean, come on now. This has to be a mix up. Hurry and say it’s a mix up! People are starting to stare at me.

“You can say that if you want, but I know for a fact you have been following me all day.”

What does she mean? I’m following her? This is only confusing me even more. How does walking suddenly become stalking!?

“Your misunderstanding…I think. There’s no way that’s possible. First off, I was just heading to this shop in front of you.”

“See see!? Didn’t I tell you Haruka? Maybe you really were wrong?”

From behind her appeared another girl. A cheerful girl with a smile on her face. I guess these two are friends, judging by how friendly they are to each other. So her name is Haruka huh?

“That can’t be Shizuku. Hey you, I know you were definitely following me. I’ve seen you behind me the whole day. Everywhere I went, you were there. Even now, you were following behind me.”

This isn’t good, she seemed very adamant that I was following her. In fact, that’s one scary look she has. What should I do? This can’t be right. If what she said is even remotely true, how did I not notice her at all? There is no way I’m that oblivious…am I?

“See? Look at his face. There’s no way he could be following you intentionally, it must be a coincidence or something. Maybe your being paranoid?”

Shizuku proclaimed and let out a slight laughter.

Wait, my face? Hmm? Is there something wrong with my face?

“I guess that’s true?”

Hold on, why is she suddenly agreeing? Is there something seriously wrong with my face!? I start feeling it up with both my hands in a panic.

“Still, why were you pretty much everywhere I was? In fact, who are you? I’m even more curious now.”

She tilts her head with a bit of a confused look as I previously had.

I wish to ask you same thing honestly, I thought to myself. I don’t know how to feel at all right now. Just as quickly as I was accused, I was also cleared. I guess I should at least be happy about that silver lining. I guess one person having good common sense makes these situations easier to clear up. Smiling awkwardly, I replied.

“I’m Yuuki. Again, I wasn’t following you. At least not that I was aware of. If I was by some weird chance, it was purely coincidental. So? Who are you? I’m just as curious to know the person making false claims. I mean, you pretty much called me a stalker. Actually, you DID call me one.”

After finally getting into some sense of understanding, all eyes that had been on me from the start slowly vanish. Ah~ Finally this misunderstanding is being cleared up. If there is one thing anyone could agree to hate, it’s standing out in such a bad way such as that.

“Sorry about the misunderstanding.”

She bows slightly and apologize to me.

“My name is Haruka. It’s just that you were always there when I looked around. Before I noticed it, I thought I was being stalked. You just had a way of appearing in my view so many times that I couldn’t help but think such a thing.”

No matter how you word it, that really is strange. Even I would start to think I was starting to be stalked after something like that. However, why did she notice and I didn’t? If it’s been going on for that long, wouldn’t I have seen her at least once as well? The more I think about it, the more I just don’t understand.

“It must be the work of fate!”

Shizuku said in an excited voice.

Fate huh? I hate to say this, but I guess it’s always a possibility. While I can’t say I don’t believe in it, I wouldn’t just go around saying it is fate. The world does work in mysterious ways though. If not, I probably would have already died a few times in the past. For better or worse, I can say strange things do tend to happen to me from time to time.

“Your right, maybe it could be.” I said with a smile

“Hold on now, I don’t think you should say that after I had just accused you.” Haruka said.

Maybe she’s right, but this really was an unexpected thing to have happen to me today of all days.

“Why not? Isn’t it better he has a positive outlook on this?”

Shizuku acclaimed as she grabbed onto Haruka’s arm.

“AHHH~!”

Appearing as if she had been caught off guard by something, Haruka screamed aloud suddenly.

“We need to go Shizuku”

“Ehhhh~? Why now? Things were just starting to get entertaining.”

Haruka pulls Shizuku along and begins to run.

“Sorry again! I’ll be sure to make it up to you next time we meet!”

She waved back at me as she said this. Both of them going in the same direction they were originally walking.

Next time huh? I guess that’s true. If we happen to have passed by each other so much that she thought I was stalking her, I’m sure we will meet again. It only makes sense. For now, I should do what I came by to do. I walk into the store in front of me and enter.

That was my awkward first encounter with her. A girl I would eventually learn was more than she appeared and the beginning of the start of everything.