50 3.7- Unexpected action and reaction and erection and a correction. (1/2)

Wednesday, 10th May 1995

Approximately around 7:00 am.

I was rudely awakened by a simultaneous ringing of different type of alarms through mobile phones and desktop clocks. I sat up on my bunk bed and touched my face. it was wet and the pillow that I had slept on was slightly damp with my tears.

Well, snot seemed to have managed to cover part of my face when I was crying incessantly as I vividly remember the soft lithe body against me, her warmth slow dissipating through the gaps of my fingers, as I cried and looked up in heavens to tell God that it was unfair and I wanted God to return the soul back in the lifeless body.

I let out a long sigh as I slowly kicked the blanket off around my feet and swing my legs over the side of the bed. I silenced my alarm and briskly prepared myself to freshen up before meeting Akira to school.

The hot showers that sprinkled down from the showerhead comforted me a little as I let the water dripped down from my head right down to my feet. Somehow, the hot shower in the cold and musty morning managed to uplift my spirits as I thought that this Quantum Leap has got nothing to do with emotions.

Even though I felt deep remorse for being unable to avoid the chain of events at the end of the last Leap, I knew that the system that governed the Quantum Leap has got to do with my own destiny and survival. As long as I am alive and had changed history somewhat, I would make the Leap unless I carelessly injure or kill myself. That would spell the end of the Leap, I reckon.

I waited for Akira in front of the dormitory main door and squatted near the fire hydrant. I took out my Docomo phone and sent an SMS to her stating I am already waiting outside her door. A few short moments later, she emerged and greeted me.

”Eeeehhh...Shiro...Why your eyes so puffy like a goldfish...? Are you having some kind of sore eyes coz there's some redness...Ara ma...How you gonna be in school later...?”

”Huh...? My eyes are puffy...? Ohh... Yesterday someone in my dorm was snoring loudly like a broken violin and kept me awake nearly the whole night and morning...And today some shampoo happened to enter my eyes and caused some irritation, that's all. I will go to the Infirmary to get an eye bath...Don't worry Ka...Akira...!”

Damn...! I nearly blurted out Kagome's name and I managed to cover it up soon enough. Akira looked up at me and said the most unanticipated and bombastic answer I had never thought that would come out of her...

”You can call me Kagome, instead of Akira, if you wish, Shiro...”

I NEARLY HAD A HEART ATTACK ON HEARING THESE WORDS...!!!

”Naniiii...!!! Jōdan o iwanaide...!!!”

I held both of Akira's shoulders and spun her around to face me. She was taken aback at what I had done to her because she had never expected and never had been handled in that manner before!! A sudden look of surprise and fear flashed across her face and eyes.

I held out a forefinger and gently touched the soft bags under the eyes and asked what she has to say about the puffy dark eyes circles around both eyes that almost made her look like a panda.

I expertly manoeuvred the words that Akira mentioned on calling her Kagome instead and diverted it into another question of my concern towards her. She avoided my gaze and looked down at her feet that were almost touching mine.