'It seems that my one and only girlfriend who I had dated during middle school, Tachibana Hinata, is dead... Not just her... Alongside her... my older sister... my only sister... Hanagaki Meiko... Mei has died as well...'
Hanagaki Takemichi lost mor...
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Author: (Looks around) Okay so I lied, but I blame these gremlins (gestures to the M&M's ie Mikey Meiko) for basically filling my head with. Okay but you still gotta try and build up the romance, even if it's a bit early... And also I wanted to give Mikey more happy times before shit starts. THE BOY SUFFERS ENOUGH AS IS WITH CURRENT EVENTS IN THE MANGA!
July 17, 2005 Meiko
"That you were special."
Those words left Meiko's mind spiraling in shock, her stomach in knots, and her cheeks aflame. Especially with the smile he sent her, Meiko counted her blessings when Baji and Chifuyu temporarily passed them, as Mikey's attention was stolen away. Thus she was left alone, and their conversation dropped. Though Meiko's mind didn't really drop the subject even as the group continued to race towards the beach.
'Special... What the hell does he mean by special?' Meiko quietly wondered, 'He's probably the first guy to have ever called me special... He's definitely the first guy to call me cute so frequently without ulterior motive.' She thought, tightening her grip on Mikey's waist as she hid her face in his back. '...Why am I feeling like this?' She thought confused, unaccustomed to this form of attention, let alone the way it made her feel at times. Though she was playful and perhaps even aloof at times when it came to the opposite gender, Meiko was not unfamiliar with having boys' attention on her, nor was she blind to what that usually meant.
"Please go out with me." She stared as a slightly older boy by the name of Kondo– or something like that– tried asking her out, her stomach twisting with disgust though as she recalled the way she'd overheard him talking to his friends.
"I'm telling you she's pretty developed." The brown-haired male laughed with his friends a few feet away from the gym. "Like the girls in my class got nothing on that Hanagaki chick."
"You know she is sorta pretty for a four eyes."
"Yeah, but once she loses the glasses she definitely goes up in the looks department. Like– damn!"
"Um... but guys... isn't she like twelve?"
"Thirteen, I heard she had a birthday recently. I think I saw sensei giving her some gloves or something when it happened. " The guy defensively cut in before arrogantly saying, "And besides that just means she's an easy pick, girls like her, their itching to get on the dating scene." The guy laughed, "It'll be easy to win her."
"No thanks." Meiko bluntly replied after recalling the boy's words, shocking the teen. "I'm not interested in dating or anything like that." She boredly yet honestly replied, her gaze not even focused on the boy as she turned to continue doing her sets.
"Wha– Oh, come on." The guy began to nervously say, "Can't you give me a chance, I really do like you." He laughed, making Meiko frown.
"Like me...?" She quietly asked, before turning to bore into the teen with a cold stare. "Have we ever even talked before this?"
