Monday, April 14.

The two-day weekend has passed, and Tetsufumi Hirakawa once again experienced the feeling of being woken up by an alarm clock.

Trying to open your slightly dry eyes and welcome the dimly lit bedroom.

Lying on the pillow for a few seconds, I thought about it before I realized that I had to go to work today.

yawned, his dry eyes were moistened a little, he barely lifted his spirit, sat up with his hands propped up, and the alarm from his mobile phone was still ringing in his ears, and the sound was getting stronger.

So I fumbled under the pillow with my hand for a while, found my phone, turned it off, and the bedroom fell into a dark silence again.

“……”

“……”

“……”

As usual, in a daze, this early morning silence is always immersive, with only a little birdsong coming from the window, and the world is quiet for the time being.

But don't stay on for too long.

Lifting the warm quilt and leaving his hometown where he had stayed for a long night, Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who sighed, finally dispelled the idea of "or quit his job" as a weekly routine.

I think there must be a lot of students who are wondering, "Should I feel unwell today?" or "It's normal to catch a cold, right?"

Monday mornings are always full of such wayward thoughts, I can't help it.

Grabbing his messy hair from the morning, Tetsufumi Hirakawa opened the bedroom door in his pajamas and slippers, but when he was about to go out, he caught a glimpse of a white unidentified object on the ground.

When I looked closely, I realized that it was a cat.

It poked its round head, its ears pricked up, and its gaze passed under his feet, constantly surveying the bedroom.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa crouched down and met its presumably puzzled look.

"Good morning."

Rubbed its head, it felt so good.

"Did you wake up from the alarm clock too?"

What I got was a "meow" answer.

Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who has a full level of cat affinity, thinks that it says "yes", and it doesn't matter if it doesn't.

He got up and walked down the stairs, and the cat behind him followed him down. And after seeing Tetsufumi Hirakawa enter the bathroom, he squatted at the door and looked at him.

“……”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa had to close the door to the bathroom.

The cat's curiosity seems to have been a little too high. It is inevitable, after all, this is a new environment for it, not to mention that curiosity kills cats.

In short, after "draining the fluid produced by metabolism in the body" and washing up as usual in the morning, Tetsufumi Hirakawa walked out of the bathroom.

For breakfast, it's porridge with a little pickles and an egg. The porridge was cooked at the same time set by the rice cooker last night, the pickles were given by my parents when I returned to my hometown during spring break, and the eggs were freshly boiled in water.

A very simple breakfast, just finished under the quiet gaze of the cat.

It's time to go to work.

I went back to my room to change into my teacher's uniform, went downstairs again, changed my shoes in the hallway, and prepared to go out.

When he looked back, the white cat was sitting on the steps of the entryway, looking at him, his amber eyes as clear and bright as jewels no matter how he looked at it.

"I'll go first, remember not to run around."

After changing his shoes, he got up, and his hand was already on the handle of the door, but he stopped just as he was about to open the door.

It's annoying.

Sighing and putting down the hand that was about to open the door, he turned around and took off his shoes, put on his slippers again, and rubbed the cat's head again, and in its dissatisfied cry, Tetsufumi Hirakawa crossed the entrance again.

I went up to the second floor, checked the windows and the door to the balcony, and closed them all. Go to the ground floor and do the same.

In this way, I came to the entrance again with peace of mind, and said goodbye to the white cat that was still squatting there.

"I'm really leaving, see you tonight."

"Meow."

At the sound of the cat behind him, Tetsufumi Hirakawa pressed the handle and pushed the door open.

The cold air in April, the clear chirping of birds, and the blue, clear sky in the morning.

The body is wrapped in such an environment, and the spirit is also lifted.

Now I really have to go to work.

——

By the time Tetsufumi Hirakawa arrived at the school gate, less than twenty minutes had passed.

At this time, the golden morning light has appeared, and the campus is bathed in sunlight, and the words "Private Moriya Girls' High School" are shining brightly.

On both sides of the school gate, the cherry blossoms have almost withered away over the weekend, and the shadows of the cherry blossoms are hard to see on the trees, and the ground is covered with pink petals that have not been cleaned in time.

A group of high school girls in checkered skirts stepped on cherry blossom petals and walked onto the campus, and stockings were lined up.

How to say it, being a teacher in a women's high school may seem to others...... Quite subtle.

However, Tetsufumi Hirakawa himself knows that just like a patient in the eyes of a doctor, no one else dares to guarantee that, at least for Tetsufumi Hirakawa, female students are just students.

What's more, there are female students in normal schools.

Thinking about it this way, it's just that the proportion of girls is a little larger, and there is nothing subtle about it.

However, mixed in a group of female high school students, Tetsufumi Hirakawa, a young teacher, is still quite conspicuous.

And the young and handsome young male teacher will definitely attract attention. Just like when I used to go to school, boys always liked young and beautiful female teachers more.

"I will never miss the teacher's class, even if I have a broken leg, I have to crawl to the school to listen." - I can't forget the declaration of a boy when I was in school.

So, it's not a big deal, the occasional high school girl who meets him and exclaims "so handsome" is just a normal emotional outpouring - and most students who can say that will forget about him when they see other handsome boys.

In this way, I walked into the school gate plainly, and in the sound of energetic conversations, the shout of "youth" from the playground gradually sounded in my ears.

The students of these physical education clubs are really hard to exercise.

With such emotion in my heart, the sound of a certain musical instrument appeared in my ears, floating melodiously.

“……”

If you heard it right, this should be the instrument of the wind club.

After listening carefully for several seconds, a certain instructor of the wind club finally came to the above conclusion.

I have to say that as an instructor, I am a little too incompetent. Even Tetsufumi Hirakawa felt a little ashamed at this moment.

Are you going to go to the wind club today?

Well...... Forget it now, it's quite busy...... I don't know what I'm busy with, but I'm going to be busy, so I'll go back in the afternoon.

Well, such a decision was made as a matter of course.

Then, a greeting suddenly came from behind him.

"Hirakawa-sensei."

At this moment, Tetsufumi Hirakawa thought that Shiori Shinohara was coming, and he was ready to catch ...... I'm going to invite him to the bandhouse. As a result, I carefully distinguish that it was actually Amamiya's voice.

With a weak sigh of relief, he turned around, it was indeed the night of the rain palace.

"Amamiya-san, good morning."

Amamiya Yaya, who looked well-behaved and cute in uniform, bowed.

"Good morning, teacher."

"Hmm. Is there anything going on with Amamiya-san? ”

"Teacher, the cat is now at the teacher's house, right?"

"yes."

"I want to know, did the teacher take care of them?"

"This ...... Of course. ”

Tetsufumi Hirakawa, who recalled this weekend, showed a look of affirmation.

"Of course there is."

Except for some secret that can never be spoken.