Another day was beginning at the great prestigious school Moraes de Ednan. Since there are no cherry blossom trees at the school, we can only see the mango trees, with their green and orange leaves swaying with the wind. A wonder...
That was the beginning of the day for our warriors Anano Peleno and Yory Madeira, who for some reason and coincidence sat on the same side, very close to the window. They were desk neighbors!!
Yory's eraser falls to the floor, bouncing directly under Anano's chair. He takes a deep breath and turns to ask Anano to pick up his eraser that had fallen.
— Peleno, please, do a fa-
"WAITTTTT!!! IF I ASK FOR MY ERASER LIKE THIS, SHE'S GOING TO THINK I DID IT ON PURPOSE!!!"
YES! Yory was desperate after almost committing a classic mistake of teenage romances!
In a hysterical tone, Yory talks to himself, thinking about all the hypotheses that existed in his mind about what to do there.
— "This is already classic in every comedy of movies and animes! The boy drops his eraser and asks the girl to pick it up for him, then she realizes he loves her and gives him a datiiiiing!!! I need to think of something that makes her pick up my eraser without me asking! That way I would be avoiding that she thinks I like her, also turning the game in my favor and making the story reverse itself, so that she becomes the one in love with the protagoniiiiist!!!"
This is the magnificent plan of Yory, a cunning young man who thinks millimetrically about what he will do before doing it. But there was one thing he didn't think about...
Anano already knew everything!!!
Anano makes a laughing expression in her mind and speaks in a sarcastic tone:
— "The class representative really thinks I didn't notice that he was going to ask me to pick up his eraser. In fact, I set everything up. When he sat down, I left his eraser at the edge of the desk so it would fall and he would ask me! Just like it happens in every romance story and anime that exists all over the world!"
She starts getting even more excited in her thoughts and continues challenging him.
— "Come on... come on... ask! Ask for the eraser and accept that you're totally fallen for me!"
The impasse between those two was bordering on madness. One was thinking about how to make a girl pick up his eraser, and the other had staged the entire play so he would ask for the blessed eraser!
Yory begins to sweat coldly. Seeing that he had no way out, he looks at Anano's shoe and then has a brilliant idea.
Placing his elbow on the desk and resting his face on his arm with superiority, he says:
— Anano, by any chance did you remember to tie your shoes today?
THE TIED SHOES GAME!
In this game, the person to whom you want to transfer attention asks if they already tied their shoes that day. The human being is a lazy animal, but follows their instinct of safety. From the moment someone says that your shoelace is untied, you feel a crazy urge to check and tie it to avoid accidents!
Anano swallows dry and starts thinking while rubbing her shoes against each other under the desk.
— "Damn! Now that I noticed they aren't tight enough! I need to tie them!"
Projecting in her mind a face of absolute anger while biting her nail, she starts murmuring angrily:
— "If I tie my shoes, I'll see the eraser on the floor and I'll be forced to pick it up without him asking! I can't allow that! Think... think... what do I do?!"
Anano was going crazy trying to reverse her situation, and Yory was only bragging in his mind.
— "I won, damn it! She's going to pick up the eraser!!"
Anano then lets out a low laugh and says quietly to herself:
— Then... I'll have to use my trump card...
She turns to Yory with a cute expression, lifts her right leg and shows her shoes.
— Can you tighten it for me?!
"SO CUTE!!! IT'S GOING TO KILL ME!!!"
Yory screams in his mind, his heart almost jumping out of his mouth. He couldn't refuse a request from such a cute girl like that. So he chooses to tie her shoelace.
But then he thinks.
— "Wait... if I kneel it will be impossible not to notice that I dropped my eraser! Since the eraser is very far under her desk, I can't go there because she's wearing a skirt! If I go there I'll be accused of being a pervert, having to ask her for the eraser!!"
Yory enters into conflict in his mind, and Anano only laughs in her thoughts, declaring her victory.
But then he does something unusual.
PAH!
Yory places Anano's leg on top of his and begins tying her shoe.
She blushes immediately and starts complaining to him.
— Put my leg on the floor!
In her mind she was desperate.
— "I'M WEARING A SKIRT! YOU'RE GOING TO END UP SEEING SOMETHING!!!"
Yory lets out a laugh in his mind.
— "Hahahaha! This way I don't need to kneel and tie her shoes! This is pretty bold, but it's my only option! In war every trump card must be used!!!"
No... that guy also thought that that way he might accidentally see her panties and use her request as an excuse. Anyway... Yory.
He puts her leg back on the floor and keeps waiting for her to notice his eraser on the ground.
Then he turns to his notebook and sees an immoral drawing in his notebook.
All that came out of his mouth was:
— What...?
But then Yory realizes.
The teacher was approaching the desks and inspecting whether the students were doing their tasks.
It was at that moment that he panics seeing the inappropriate drawing.
— "DAMN! MY ASSIGNMENT! IF THE TEACHER SEES THIS I'M GOING TO GET IN TROUBLE! AND WORSE, IT CAN RUIN MY REPUTATION! I NEED THE ERASERRRR!!!"
If you think it was the work of Anano Peleno, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!
That sneaky girl paid one of her classmates to draw that immoral drawing in his notebook without him noticing! A dirty move so he would beg her to pick up his eraser that had fallen to the floor!!!
She laughed in her thoughts while complaining about Yory's plans.
— "Give up, representative! I already won this one! Just ask for the eraser and confess to me! That will solve all our problems!!"
The teacher was approaching Yory's desk.
Everything moved in slow motion for the young man, who saw his entire reputation going down the drain because of his gigantic ego in asking for an eraser from his crush.
But then, in Yory's eyes, a guardian angel appears. Shining with angel wings and an angelic look.
He picks up the eraser that was on the floor and says:
— You dropped your eraser, Yory...
He watches everything in slow motion.
Then he snatches the eraser from his friend's hands and quickly erases the drawing that was in his notebook.
— HEY!!! Aren't you even going to thank me?!
The boy turns around feeling a murderous aura on his back and sees Anano staring at him while the veins on her forehead pulsed in gigantic anger.
He turns to the teacher and says in fear:
— Teacher... I pooped myself... I'm going home... okay...?
— Uh... okay...
The teacher replies.
Then Yory sits down and continues following the class as if nothing had happened.
LIE!
HE WAS SO HAPPY HE COULD TAKE OFF HIS SHIRT AND CELEBRATE SCREAMING TO ANANO THAT HE WON!!
— "SUCK ITTTTTT!!!!!"
The lunch break bell rings, and all the students begin leaving the classroom. Yory was packing his materials when suddenly someone's shoes surprise him. He looks up.
Anano was standing in front of him.
He looks at her and asks:
— What is it?
She runs her hand through her hair, throwing it into the air with charm, and asks in a bossy tone:
— Are you still going to that boring study club after lunch?
Yory stands up and, with a tone of superiority, calmly says:
— It's not a boring club. It's a place where knowledge is gold!
— How boring...
Says Anano with a disappointed face.
She takes a deep breath and thinks to herself:
— "He spends all his time studying, and even in club he keeps studying. If only he took some time off it would be good for him..."
LIE!
THAT SNAKE WOULD NEVER HAVE COMPASSION FOR SOMEONE WITHOUT GETTING SOMETHING IN RETURN!
In her mind, Anano was angry, almost pulling her hair out.
— "DAMN! IF HE WERE IN MY CLUB I COULD PUT INTO ACTION THE 127,020 PLANS I CREATED TO USE IN A CLUB!"
At the cafeteria, Yory was in line waiting to get his lunch. But at that moment someone steps in front of him, cutting the line. He places his hands on that boy's shoulder and says in a low tone:
— Uh... excuse me, I think you can't cut the line like that...
The boy, who was a bit bigger than him and had large muscles, turns to him with a deadly stare and says in an arrogant tone:
— Huh?... What did you say? I didn't hear you. Do you happen to have some problem with th-
— "HE IS GIANTTTTTTT!!!"
Yory screams in his mind.
Then it dawns on the buff guy that he was standing face to face with Yory Madeira, one of the coolest guys with the most deadly stare in the school.
— FORGIVE ME, MASTERRR!!
The boy screams, kneeling down and begging mercy from Yory before running to the end of the line.
Yory doesn't understand absolutely anything and keeps thinking to himself with a low gaze:
— "It's always like this... Everyone in this school... HAS A DEEP HATRED FOR ME FOR SOME REASON!!"
Yes! Young Yory was super famous at his school, and in everyone's mind he was a cool and perfect person. But unfortunately Yory had absolutely no idea of that because of the interactions he receives from people. So he consequently thinks everyone hates him and ignores him because he is scary and poor in a school where only the elite of society can enter!
Yory grabs his meal tray and observes all the tables full of people eating with their friends. So he simply decides to eat his lunch standing.
He leaves his tray, takes a deep breath, disappointed, and heads toward the room of his club. When he gets there, he was going to open the door, but then he waits a little with his hand on the doorknob. He moves to the side of the wall and opens the door.
VUAAH!
A person falls face-first on the floor, and Yory just watches.
— Agh! Why did you open it far from the door like that?!
— I OPENED IT LIKE THAT BECAUSE YOU HAVE THIS HABIT OF GRABBING ME WHEN I OPEN THE CLUB DOOR!
That girl was Momoni Gigi.
No.
THAT GUY WAS MOMONI GIGI!
A BOY WHOSE SEX IS NOT DEFINED AND ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOYS IN THE SCHOOL!
With his style of dressing like a girl, blue hair and blue eyes, he stands out among the boys for having curves and a super sensual girl-like face!
— Geez, Yory... you really don't like my warm welcomes, huh?... Or are you embarrassed?...
Says Gigi with a naughty face looking at Yory, who immediately blushes and answers hysterically:
— WHAT?! GET AWAY!! Stop with these jokes, Momoni, and let's go to the club!
— O-KAAAY!
He replies, disappointed.
Entering the club room, Yory places his bag on the table and greets his president.
— Good morning, president.
— Good morning, Yory.
Patti Watari, a young second-year high school girl, seventeen years old! She is the daughter of one of the state's governors and a student with exemplary grades who always gets excellent scores, in addition to having beauty beyond the ordinary!
With almost narrowed purple eyes and her long straight dark purple hair, she was one of the most sought-after beauties in the entire school!
Yory sits down and sees his president focused on her studies while thinking:
— "Ah... look how focused she is on her studies. Even among all the second-year classes, she is the smartest. Probably in her head there are only serious and necessary things... our president!"
That is the vision Yory has of his president...
WHAT A SHAME!
Because Watari was desperate in her mind wondering why Yory was looking at her so much from afar all of a sudden. She is an extremely shy person who cannot deal with people's gaze for very long!
— "WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY IS HE LOOKING AT ME SO MUCH?! DO I HAVE DIRT IN MY HAIR? IS MY FACE DIRTY WITH PAINT?? OR DOES HE JUST HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO TELL ME??! WHY IS HE LOOKING AT ME SO MUCH??!!"
She was panicking in her mind, trembling as if there were no tomorrow.
— President, Yory made me fall face-first on the floor when I tried to hug him!
— "THAT'S IT! I'LL USE MOMONI TO ESCAPE THIS SITUATION AND FIND OUT WHY HE WAS LOOKING AT ME!"
She turns to Yory and scolds him for his action.
— Yory, you shouldn't hurt your classmates like that. Apologize!
Yory is left with his mouth open, unable to believe what he just heard.
— What??? He was the one who started it, standing behind the door waiting for me every time I enter the club room!
She closes her eyes and argues:
— But you knew he was behind the door and still opened it in a way that made him fall and get hurt. So apologize!
Yory looks sideways at Gigi, who was smiling and sticking his tongue out at him in a mocking way.
Then he apologizes in the least convincing way possible:
— Sorry...
— WHAT A TRASH APOLOGY!
He gets angry and raises his voice too:
— THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE, YOU KNOW??!!
— HUH?! WHAT DID YOU SAY??! AT LEAST IN MY HOUSE I DON'T USE A CLOTH TO SEPARATE MY LIVING ROOM FROM THE KITCHEN!
The two begin arguing like two children, while Patti only watches laughing at all of it, thinking:
— "These two are really children..."
Suddenly the teacher passes by the hallway and notices the fight. Then she opens the club door brutally and shouts for them to stop immediately.
— STOP THIS MESS RIGHT NOW!
— Yes, ma'am!
— Yes, ma'am!
Both shout, sitting down immediately.
After the long fight, the two of them were now quiet, only listening to the teacher's scolding.
Meanwhile, a beautiful young woman was making the portrait of a young man in a frame. With clean and perfect strokes, she was painting a man while keeping a serious gaze on the painting.
A beautiful young woman with brown hair praises her master with the firm posture of a maid standing beside her.
— A beautiful work, Miss Peleno. You create magnificent art with just a brush in your hands.
— I know that very well, Moy.
Anano answers while still painting her work.
Moyaso Tomayama, a young maid who immigrated from Japan to serve the Peleno family, which long ago made great agreements with the Tomayama family during their times of glory and fame. She is the personal maid of young Anano Peleno, acting as both maid and bodyguard!
And of course...
She knew very well about her relationship with Yory Madeira!
And she was the one who benefited the most from that relationship, because she loves romantic comedy manga and anime!
— My lady... the person you are drawing...
She looks with a sharp and curious gaze.
— Would it be Mister Yory?...
Anano drops the brush from her hand.
But she quickly regains her posture and answers contradicting:
— Of course not! I would never draw that poor book-obsessed boy! This is just a random character that came to my mind and nothing more!
Moyaso is not the type of person who gives up easily.
So she keeps pressing:
— But, my lady, you are drawing a tall man with long hair and green eyes, just like Yory. Is it just a coincidence?... Or are you drawing him... or maybe... you have some repressed feelings...
Anano is cornered, but answers arrogantly:
— Hmph! As if I, a super popular girl of Moraes de Ednan school, the most talented and smartest of all, would have any feelings for that book-obsessed guy! A tall and handsome guy with that hair and those eyes with dark circles that give him charm...
— "IT'S SO OBVIOUS!"
Moyaso shouts in her mind.
Then she thinks a little more and asks:
— Why don't you invite him to join the art club? We've been lacking members lately, leaving the room quite empty.
Anano keeps painting her work and answers roughly:
— As if I would invite that stupid book-eater to join my club! Besides, he already has one.
A lie...
It was obvious that she wanted him to join the club.
But he absolutely didn't want to join because of Anano, since that would mean admitting that he wanted to spend time with her, which would indirectly reveal that he loved her!
And also... Anano couldn't invite him, because that would mean she was asking him to spend his time with her, thus admitting that she loved him!
— "Agh... it's so obvious..."
Moyaso answers, giving up for that day.
The sun revealed the afternoon appearing. The sky was turning orange, so the last bell of the day rings and everyone begins to pack their backpacks to go home.
— See you tomorrow, everyone! Bye!says the teacher as she leaves the classroom.
— Ugh, it's finally over...— Tell me about it, there are days when the hours simply don't pass...
some girls said while packing their things to go home.
Yory was organizing his things so he could leave, but then someone approaches him and places several papers on his desk.
Paff!
— The class tutor told me to deliver this to you...
— "WHERE DO THEY GET SO MUCH PAPER FROM OUT OF NOWHERE?!"
Yory replies in disbelief. At that moment, his classmate suggests while looking at the vice class representative.
— The tutor also said it's a lot of work, because it includes the organization of events for these 3 months for our class, so... she suggested that you ask Miss Peleno for help... that's it, now I'm going home.
She says goodbye and leaves.
Everyone leaves the classroom, and only Anano and Yory remain. Anano was desperately trying to look for something in her backpack while grumbling.
— Damn it!! I lost that thing, I can't be late going home!!!
BUT OF COURSE SHE WAS LYING!
She was stalling because she heard the girl's conversation with Yory about having to ask her for help with those tasks!
— "Come on Yory, call me so we can do this together! That way you would be admitting that you are weak and need someone extremely competent like me to help you with this! And then... you admit that you have feelings for me!!"
— Ho... I can't find it at all... what should I do?!
Meanwhile Yory...
— "Da— Damn! If I invite her like this to help me, right when everyone already left, it would basically be just like those romantic comedy manga!"
THE AFTER-SCHOOL REQUEST!
This technique suggests that everyone needs to leave the classroom so that only the two destined people remain. Then the two get together to do things together, giving the impression that both want to stay alone together!
This is very common in romance manga when a boy and a girl plan to go home together or just want to study alone without people watching them!
Yory leans toward the papers and answers sweating cold while shouting in his mind desperately.
— "No... I can't admit such weakness... I'll do all of this alone and it will be fine... I can do it! It's just reports for 38 students with 50 lines each... it's easy!"
No, it isn't easy.
Yory starts doing the first report with a relaxed smile while saying quietly.
— Ah, this is nothing... I'll finish each one before I need to go home!
— "NO, I CAN'T!!! I'M GOING TO SPEND THE WHOLE NIGHT DOING THIS!"
Anano was watching while still pretending to search for something, but she remained silent.
It was obvious that she couldn't offer help to him, and he couldn't ask for her help either. Both were in a stalemate: one must ask or the other must offer!!!
— "If this continues I'll have to leave... because it might get strange if I keep searching for something that doesn't exist here with him for several minutes..."
she said while still looking into her backpack. Then she makes a wish.
— "Please... someone come through that door and do something!"
Then the classroom door opens with a loud bang.
— Hey, Y-O-R-Y!
— Momoni! — Yory says out loud, but in his mind he thanks like crazy."MY SAVIOOOOR!!!"
Anano looks at him with genuine anger and thinks loudly while breaking her pencil.
— "ANYONE BUT YOU!!"
Gigi approaches Yory's desk and asks about those papers.
— Wow... looks like you're pretty buried in work, Yory...
Yory responds with his head down.
— Yeah... that's right. Couldn't you lend a hand here?
— Not even dead!
Yory is surprised by how fast she refused.
— That was fast!
Momoni then observes Anano and Yory for a moment, lets out a small laugh and says:
— Hmm... I think there is a way I can help with something...
She walks near Anano and stands beside her. Anano doesn't understand anything, then Momoni gives her a grin and pushes Anano's chair closer to Yory and shouts:
— HERE IS YOUR HELP!!
— What?!
Anano is in shock and Yory argues with Gigi.
— Do you have dust in your head or something?!
— It's better to have dust in my head than dust on my plate! Oops... I accidentally talked badly about your food... hahaha!
Yory gets irritated and stands up.
— Hey, you!!!
— Haaah!!! The wind eater wants to catch meee! Byeee!!!
Gigi runs out of the room shouting.
Yory sits down and sees Anano sitting beside him. He blushes and turns his face to the opposite side. Then, after a long time, she speaks in an arrogant tone.
— Hmph... it seems you really are a stupid book-eater! I'll be a good person and let this pass and help you with this, you idiot!
— Well, if you're going to insult me like that it's better not to even try to help, right?!
The two look at each other and then avert their eyes.
Soon after, she takes a paper from the pile of papers and begins writing her report. Yory does the same and starts writing his report while blushing.
Without noticing, Anano shows a faint smile.
— "This idiot..."