Tenshi no Yume wo Egaku

The First Paper

“Good morning!” Someone greeted me from my room’s window.

I turned my head and smiled, but then hurry stopped the dude when he tried to get in to my room. “Wait, wait, wait!! Who told you that you can come in??” I scolded him.

He just showed me that big grin and kept standing outside. “Let’s go to school together!” He said.

“Of course.” I replied and grabbed my school bag, and ready to closed the curtain.

“Wait, wait, wait! Why do you close the curtain??” He asked me again.

“I want to close the windows too, and I’ll come out from my house normally, okay?” I replied.

“Okay then, I’ll wait for you!” He said as he walked to the front door.

A moment later, I’m on his bike, closing my eyes and wrap my hands around his waist tightly as he accelerates his bike very fast.

“Hey, slow down!!” I protested.

But as usually, he just laughed. “It’s been almost a month we do this everyday, you still can’t get used to it??” He asked, half yelling between the sounds of the bike. Even though this is not a motor bike, but still, if it’s accelerated this fast, no one could hear your voice!

“How could I get used to something like this?? Slow down! Kyaa!” I replied, also yelling, even cried when we turn left.

“Come on, Tenshi! We can’t get the fun if we slow down!” He said.

“Fun your head, Hiro! Slow down!!!” I shouted for the third time when he finally reduces the speed. But when I realize, we’re already in front of our school.

I looked to my watch and saw the time. Usually, from my house to school takes around fifteen minutes. But this?? He reduced the time for ten minutes!! In other words, it only takes five minutes to be here by that speed of his incredible bike.

“See? We arrived here faster!” He said.

“Yeah, but you freak me out.” I replied.

He laughed, held my hand, and take me to our—empty—class. I let go my hand and walked to my seat.

“I want to go to the biology lab for a while.” Hiro said as he walked out from the class.

My seat is beside the windows, so it’s really fortunate to see the sky clearly from my seat. Whenever I’m bored, I’ll look out to the sky and that successfully wipe away my boredness. Then I remembered something when looking out at the sky. I grabbed my bag and got my sketch book out of it, and started to draw what’s written in my heart as usually.

Watashi wa, Matsuzawa Tenshi desu. I’m a second grader in high school, and my school name is Hasegawa International High School. This school is pretty great, and only a few students with talent will get into this school. And that’s including me.

I height 168 cm, and weight… should I mention it? I guess not. But I’m kinda skinny, well at least not as skinny as a corpse, it’s actually called slim. I have a wavy black hair, it reaches more than my shoulders. I have black eyes like my father and my mother, also like the two of my older brothers. And… I have a boyfriend named Okada Hiroki.

Hiro is a nice guy, when I arrived here for the first time, he helped me to stand up because I fell and my knee hit the ground hardly until it bleeds. Maybe… that time he felt pity for me and helped me out by carrying me on his back until we reached this school’s infirmary. And what did we get is punishment of coming late for the first day. I couldn’t stop apologizing to him that day, until he gave up and had me to return the favor—that’s what I want, I had to accompany him to some place.

That was pretty confusing, accompany him to some place to return a favor? But this is what happened…

“I’m so sorry, Okada-kun, it’s my fault to have you come late too!” I said.

“It’s okay, you know. The punishment is very easy, isn’t it? Standing outside of the class for the whole day only.” He replied. That was enough to make me feels he’s weird one more time.

“But—“

“Come on, there’s no need to apologize anymore, okay?” He asked.

“But I cannot feel not guilty if you don’t ask me to return the favor!” I protested.

“Eh? Some kind of… payment??” He unsure.

I nodded surely, and when I asked him for around the eleventh time, he gave up.

“Okay then… If you really want me to do that, then… The payment is… Would you like to accompany me to some place? Just for a while.” He said.

“…” I remained silent. “Seriously?” I asked.

“What do you mean by ‘seriously’?” He asked back.

“I mean, isn’t that too light for a payment?” I asked.

“No, I want you to do that, and if you don’t want to, well… I’ll just forget about anything.” He replied.

“Ah, don’t, don’t! Of course, I’ll happily accompany you!” I said.

“Well then, let’s go!”

Then what? He took me to a small hill where we could see the sky, small river, and an ocean at the same time.

Two months later, we officially a couple when Hiro said that he loves me from the first place. I was kinda shock that he has the same feeling as me, but anyway, I accepted him. And now he’s my boyfriend, already for one month long. Another info, we still have a private time to go to the hill together. And everyday he picked me up from my house to drive me to our school. Well yeah that’s it, with his incredibly speed bike.

“Matsuzawa-san!” Someone called me.

I lifted my head from my paper and saw my sensei is standing at the door. I quickly stood up and walked towards him.

“Minoru-sensei, doushita no?” I asked when I finally stood up in front of him. He’s holding some piece of paper.

“Could you please give this to the entire student in this class?” He said.

“Ah, of course.” I replied.

He gave the papers to me and smiled. “Thank you.” He said.

I nodded, also smiling as he left the class. I glanced at the papers and read some of it.

“Aah, so this is it? We have to write what we want to be in the future… I… kinda hate it…” I thought. I don’t know why, but I just don’t feel comfortable to tell everyone, even the teachers about my future. But it can’t be help, I have to give this to all of the students.

Back to Hiro… He has a black not-long-not-short-hair, he’s height 180 cm and weight… around 62 kg I guess, I haven’t asked him again. He’s smart, of course, have dark brown and bright eyes, and everyone says he’s handsome. Well that’s including me too, even though I haven’t said that clearly. He excels in some sports, like basketball or tennis. Ah, me? No, no, I’m bad at sports.

His personality, if we look for the overall, it’s great. He likes to smiles—and let me make you know, his smile is deadly for girls, he’s kind, a gentleman, always makes everyone laugh, likes to help people, plus romantic.

“Tenshi-chan..!” Hiro called me when the school bell rang.

I smiled as he walked to his seat, diagonally right from my seat. I looked to his back with smile, and our teacher started the class.

Oh, and he’s my classmate.

–

“Tenshi-chan, have you decided your future yet??” My friend, Ayane, asked me when we’re outside of the school. I’ve to wait for Hiro again, because he has his club activities while mine is in another day. Or else, I’ll try to return home safely walking by my own, but Hiro never let me to.

I sighed and glance at my paper. “I don’t know.” I replied as I laid my back on the wall beside the bike park.

“You don’t know? You’re a great painter, why don’t you go to an art college?” Ayane asked again.

I licked my eyebrows. “I’m… not interest…” I said.

“Really? That’s too bad…” Ayane replied. “Well then, I have to go now before my parents get mad! See ya later!” She said as she ran and wave her hands. I replied and glance to the paper again.

“Future?” I thought.

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