SKETCHPAD
2004
Akira was an ordinary guy who never expects to fall in love with an extraordinary girl.
It was the opening of the school year when he met this girl, a boyish gal but charming in her looks. On Akira's first day of school he had a difficult time locating the school buildings and his classroom, luckily he found this girl alone in the corridor. And without a doubt, he asked her where to find his rooms and of course the girl helped him. They found his rooms easily since the girls seem to be more familiar in every corner of the university. After locating his class rooms, Akira rushed to his room because he was late and totally forgot about the girl.
After his class, he remembered the girl and felt mad of himself, for he didn’t even thanked her for his goodness. So the following day, he went to school early expecting he could find that girl again, but he failed.
On his lunch break, he came to passed by the gymnasium and noticed the cute girls wearing karate uniform. Then a friend saw him and invited him to watch. He went by his friend since he has no class in the afternoon, and then found amazed with the club, which is exclusively for the girls, specifically high school girls.
A moment later, he noticed one of the girls in the club, it was the girl who helped him, so he waited for her. After their session, he waves his hand to the girl, and the girl smiled at him and came to him. Akira invited her at the cafeteria.
At the cafeteria, he asks for apology to the girl and thanked him, and he was glad that the girl wasn’t mad at him. Then he asked her name.
"I’m Yuri, 3rd year"
"I’m Akira, and I can’t believed that your a high school, because you weren’t wearing your uniform yesterday."
"Yeah, it was our first day of class, so we don’t need to wear uniforms. And I guess your an architecture student"
"laughs- yah its pretty obvious with my samurai, I mean my drawing instruments"
After those acquaintances, Akira came to the Karate club to watch her during his spare times, and sometimes ask her out. He also asked her number, and then they became great friends. (Yeah friends... shut up spoilers... laugh)
Sometimes Yuri visits him in their department, watch him draw, well mostly made fun of his works. She was really a bubbly cute girl for Akira.
Yuri always bring her camera on her side, that makes her take pictures of Akira often and mostly during Akira's work mode or drawing time. She always teased him and sometimes asked him to draw or paint herself. But Akira refused to, because he felt embarrassed of his works.
Most of the time, they were like brother and sister.
then one day, when Akira decided to visit Yuri in high school department, which he never been to, since he was in the university, he saw the bulletin board. Then there he found out that Yuri was a real Famous, she a gold medalist, a singer, a dancer, and a top notched. Not just that she, was tennis player, the leader of the soft ball team and the president of the camera club.
Akira felt weird; Yuri seems to be so stranger to him, when he found all those things. and he became downhearted. He feels so small, and terrible, he was so ordinary compared to Yuri. Since then he keep a distance to Yuri until he never showed himself again.
A few months later, he felt so troubled, and had so many sleepless nights. He can’t stopped thinking about her, and always found himself painting or sketching Yuri face. his sketch pad was filled with Yuri’s faces until he realized that it was not just missing her, he was loving her!
So he decided seeing her again, bringing her sketch pad he went to her department. but wait, it was a bad day for him, because he saw her with a different guy, a suitor. He concluded that it was her suitor because that guy was bringing flowers and chocolates and for sure it was for her. And being so irrational, he went away and looses his hope.
He said to himself
I have nothing to do about it, I know that Yuri was truly beautiful despite of her being boyish, she really special, she could make every guy's heart melt.
When he got home, he noticed that he lost his sketch pad, so the following day he went out and looked for it but he can’t find it anywhere. So he thought, his sketch pad was been put into trashed.
After that incident, he buried himself on studies and projects even on his Christmas vacation. He locked himself to his room and draw and draw. But of course he went down with his family on Christmas eve and new years eve!
The next year, his first day of school of that year, he rushed off again, and as usual he was, bringing all his drawings. As he was running along the pathway, he accidentally bump with another guy and all his drawing flew over the path walk.
"Hey! watch where you're going!"
"I’m sorry, I was in a hurry" he bowed his head over and over again but the guy just passed him and left him. So he hurriedly picked up all his things again. Then someone help him picking his things.
"Why are so careless, you’ve done a great mess here"
"I’m sorry ma'am" he replied without even looking her."
"Its alright, next time you should wake up early so you wont be always in hurry - laughs"
Akira froze when he looked on her laughing
"YU...Yuri"
"Why so surprised?"
The next he realized he was sitting on the bench beside Yuri. he was absent on hi first class because he cant turn down a girl like Yuri.
Yuri asked Akira why she didn’t show up for a very long time. Akira lied to her, and told her that he just so busy.
"hmmm. I found this with your things, did you draw this?"
"uhmm. Yes, but its not yet finished."
"Nice. it seems that you really missed me a lot!"
"Huh?"
"A.. uhm,.. Oh you’re already late! I think we should see each other next time" she changed the topic and hurriedly ran away from him. but before Akira stood, she returned and quickly handed an envelope to him and again back on her way.
Akira shook his head, and opened the envelope, it was an invitation...
To my escort
be my date on my prom
The date and place was written below.
Akira was surprised and nervous. He doesn’t know what to do. But at the end we went to the prom to surprise her. But instead he was the one who was surprised on Yuri's looks. She was so beautiful! Akira then escorted her to hall, after a few moments Yuri dragged him outside.
"I know this is so silly but I would like to asked if you something for me tonight"
Akira was stopped on what he heard!
"Yah-I’m sorry I acted weird" Yuri in a sad toned voice.
"uhmm. yu.. Yuri, I... I do have, ba...but I’ll give it to later"
"Really?! Guess i should return this to you." she handed a sketch to pad to him.
"How.. How did you find this?" it was Akira's sketch pad that was a few months ago.
"At the field... uhmmm..."
"Yuri...I have something to tell you...uhmm... this..." he handed a painting of Yuri.
Yuri's tears started to fall as she read the note at the back of the painting, and hugged Alexander.
YURI,
I loved you since the time we've met.
Akira
DEDICATION:
I dedicate this to Shaharuka --coz, my friend in "tropang watty", a FB group
love niya si sakura
and MAGALING DIN YANG MAGDRAWING