When I wake up, Ritsu has already left my lap and is in the process of opening the now open door.
Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
H: ‘morning.
R: I was wondering when you’d wake up, I didn’t knew you were such a heavy sleeper.
H: I didn’t know either.
R: well you missed when the janitor guy came and unlocked, and I had to explain why we had been locked up here all night. He didn't actually seem mad, but I guess it's his job to punish us somehow
H: you could have woken me up.
R: nah, you’re cute when you’re sleeping, and you’d also see me with my bangs down, and then I would have to kill you.
H: I take that as a challenge, one day your secret will be revealed.
R: Heh, maybe.
It’s strange how easygoing Ritsu have gotten on dropping hints of interest, compared even to yesterday.
Like the conversation last night changed something between us.
If you compare how she just now almost called me cute to how flustered she got from an off-hand remark from me yesterday.
Or maybe she just dislikes being on the receiving end of affection.
Would be a shame.
 
I think I’m developing a crush on her.
Not the “star crossed lovers at first sight” thing that I’d occasionally feel with Iwanako, just a fun high school crush.
Iwanako.
I wonder how she’s doing these days.
How everyone’s doing.
It feels like the world outside Yamaku has stopped, waiting just for me to get back in there and pick up where I left.
I should probably have said something to her, anything at all, during the long sessions where she’d just sit by my side while I as lying in bed with my newfound…
Arrhytmia…
It still feels weird to even think it.
The realization that I haven’t taken my pills today, and probably wont be able to before at least lunch strikes me.
I hope that legless runner girl isn’t finally going to hit me today, I’ve only barely avoided her hallway running routine on several earlier occasions.
And today it would probably been fatal.
Heh, it feels horrible joking about these things, even if it’s just in my thoughts.
 
Guess I’m not as over all this as I like to think when just the realization that I have a crush manages to make me sad.
H: How long until class starts?
R: 5 minutes maybe, what about it?
H: I should take my meds this morning, but I don’t think I’ll reach the dorms and back before class starts, especially not with my shitty endurance.
R: That reminds me, I don’t really know what’s wrong with you yet, aside from the phantom brain.
H: that’s a low blow.
H: and I’m gonna tell you later, just not right now okay?
Not with all my bitterness suddenly weiling up again.
R: sure, I don’t really care that much about you so you don’t have to stress it for my sake.
Ritsu is sending me so many mixed signals now that I don’t really have a grasp on what she feels about me.
Is there a word for this sort of behavior? I think it is, but I can’t quite catch it.
 
R: Let’s go to class, if we’re fast we won’t be late.
Ritsu hurries off and I end up chasing her for about twenty meters before I have to stop to catch my breath.
I don’t think today is the best day for testing the limits of my arrhythmia, or any day for that matter.
Ritsu is kind enough to wait at the end of the hallway, and we end up walking together into the classroom.
The first thing I notice is that Mutou isn’t here yet, even though class technically started a few minutes ago.
The second thing is the semi-regular welcoming committee consisting of Misha and Shizune, who’s looking even more malicious than usual today.
M: Good morning Hicchan, Tainaka!
M: Or should I say Romeo and Juliet, wahaha!
M: Schicchan says that Tainaka is more fitting to be Romeo than you Hicchan, but I don’t know if she wanted me to say that…
M: I think she just is a little sore that you’re sleeping over at school with Tainaka and barely talking to her, wahahaha!
H: Wait, how do you know about the sleepover thing?
M: The student council has ears everywhere? That sounds so stalkerish, I’m not saying that!
M: Guess I already did, wahahaha!
M: We heard about it from a Janitor, he wanted to give you detention, but Schicchan said you should just be let go with a warning.
M: So you should be grateful to her Hicchan!
M: and please refrain from doing such illegal activites at another time, it’s not sure you’ll get the student councils backing if you keep pushing our kindness, wahahaha!
I didn’t even ask for her to save us, she’s putting it like we’re continuously abusing their help.
Although it was nice of Shizune to do it for us, especially with the dislike she seems to hold for Ritsu.
H: Erm, sure, say thanks to Shizune for me.
Misha is almost done translating even before I’m done talking.
In response, Shizune gets a smug look on her face and adjusts her glasses, before sending me a gentle smile.
M: No problem!
 
Our conversation is cut short by Mutou entering the classroom.
As I make my way to my desk, I notice that Ritsu already had slipped out of the conversation a while ago.
Seems like Shizune’s dislike for Ritsu is mutual.