Chapter 1 Part2 (1/2)

And so, on Sunday, I was forced to visit a girl I didn’t know

The hospital that Watarase Ma shaken around for about thirty minutes inside the train that traveled in the opposite direction from the one I usually took to school, I finally reached the station that was my destination

I headed from the station to the hospital, and then towards the fourth floor via the elevator as I’d been told at the reception desk I walked down the linoleum-covered corridor and reached the door to a hospital room

I went inside to find a shared room The patients inside were all feirl as reading a book She was probably Watarase Ma aze from her book and looked up

I was startled by that single glance

She was indeed a beautiful girl

She was beautiful, but I couldn’t think of anyone that she rese look in her eyes Her deep-black eyes were bordered by naturally long eyelashes and elegant double-edged eyelids,them look more impressive And her skin was unbelievably white Perhaps because of this skin, which didn’t have a single sign of having been touched by the sun, the atirls in our class It was as if she had been born and raised in another country

A beautiful nose-bridge, shapely cheeks and sside each other A slender, extended back and a balanced figure Her glossy hair fell across her chest

There was nothing dishonest-looking about her expression; she seemed very direct

“Watarase-san?” I called out to her timidly

“That’s right,” she said “And you are?”

“Okada Takuya Starting this spring, I’ myself

“I see Nice to meet you, I’ to ask of you,” she said, suddenly calling iven name and call me Mamizu”

I wasn’t used to calling people by their first nae “Why?” I asked

“Because surnae,” she said

Had her parents divorced? But I was hesitant to suddenly touch on this topic

“Then I suppose I’ll call you Mamizu”

“Thank you I like being called bya bashful smile Theout of her mouth I was a little surprised at hohite they were The way she said the word “like” was somehow friendly “So, Takuya-kun, why have you come here today?”

“Ah Apparently, I have soive you, and a joint letter as well Sensei said that you’d probably be happier if one of the students gave it to you,” I said

“I’m happy, I’m happy”

I handed Mamizu an envelope She took the colored joint letter out of the envelope and started gazing at it with interest

“Isn’t your e a bit cold, Takuya-kun?” she asked

I hastily took a peek at the joint letter The e that I’d written was in the corner of the colored paper

I hope your illness gets better soon Okada Takuya

“Is it? No…”

I didn’t think that it was really that terrible a ueness due to it having been written in three seconds was visible And this probably h it

“Maybe it is Sorry” I stopped trying to dodge the issue and apologized earnestly

Mahtly surprised expression “I don’t really think it’s so cold that you need to apologize,” she said

She has a strange way of speaking, I thought