The next day, I settled breakfast as usual, arrived at school, and after finding my seat in the fourth row by the window, I put my school bag on my chair and began to put my textbooks and stationery on my desk one by one. At this time, his eyes suddenly fell on the drawer—

There seemed to be a sticky note there, and I was a little confused and took it out. When it was unfolded, it was written in somewhat scribbled handwriting: "Thank you for yesterday." After reading it, Chihiro was even more puzzled, but he immediately thought of the sloppy adjacent table that he met yesterday with his headphones dropped. —Although the two of them are next to each other, they haven't really talked to each other yet.

Thinking of this, Chihiro's expression gradually became relaxed, and the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose slightly. — Immediately after, I flipped the note in my hand to the back, wrote "You're welcome" with a pen, and put it back in her drawer.

At this time, the adjacent table that walked into the classroom happened to see it.

She tilted her head, and a question mark seemed to slowly pop up on her head, but she didn't say anything. Didn't stop me either, but came to my seat and sat down as usual. At that moment, she also found the note, and immediately looked up at me who was smiling at her in a panic, and quickly lowered her head after a while......

Then, in the palm of his hand, he slowly unfolded the note and flipped it to the back, and then smiled very happily. After that, I was about to say something more, but I was interrupted by the class bell - the teacher walked in unhurriedly while holding the textbook.

So, I had no choice but to give up and obediently sit back in my seat.

Izumi, who was in the third row in the middle, was sitting intently taking notes at the moment, but I couldn't listen to it at all. Even, on the way, there were several times when I wondered if I had learned these things when I was a student. "At that time, I was able to make it to graduation!"

Chihiro couldn't help but praise herself so much from the bottom of her heart.

Then let his thoughts drift to somewhere that didn't belong here—and finally, he fell asleep on his desk again. This made Izumi, who happened to turn his head to witness this scene, cry and laugh, "Chihiro, you are so bold—"

After class, she ran up to me and teased me with a wicked smile. "No way, I really don't understand!" I shrugged my shoulders and said with a somewhat helpless smile. "I don't know if you're not learning your lesson or if you're trying to fool me—"

Izumi was skeptical of my answer, "But even if it's really perfunctory, it's nothing." "I didn't know how to pick up the stubble, so I could only laugh out loud in embarrassment." Speaking of which, it looks like someone was called out of the table next to you just now. ”

"Really?"

I replied to her in a casual tone. "But it seems like a bit of a long time—" Izumi continued, his expression a little serious. "What do you mean?" At this time, I was a little confused, and I didn't know what she meant. "To be honest, I'm a little worried."

Izumi whispered close to me.

"Worried? Could it be that he was just called by a friend? I shook my head lightly and told her what I thought. But the people who came to her were all boys, and their tones were fierce. ”

"If it's a friend, it can't be this tone no matter how you say it, right?"

When she said this, I also sensed that something was wrong, so I asked, "So you think they're here to get in trouble?" Izumi nodded thoughtfully, "So I want to ask you to find her." It was just my instinct, but maybe she was in trouble. ”

"Got it. Since you've said so, I'm going to find out, shall I? ”

With that, Chihiro's gaze fell on the empty seat next to her. "Thank you—" Izumi said with a smile as he patted me on the shoulder. As a result, until the lunch break, the adjacent table still did not return. "That's pretty much certain, right?"

With this somewhat apprehensive thought, I ran straight up to the third floor. "The people who came to her seem to be in the third grade." Thanks to Izumi's reminder, I didn't have to take a long detour—and in the end, I found her around the corner of the corridor on the third floor.

"What are you doing here?"

I crouched down and patted her on the shoulder and asked. She shrank back sharply after noticing me, and her eyes were full of fear and horror, or some more complex emotion that came from their mixing.

"Have you ever cried?"

That's when I noticed that her eyes were red and there were tear stains. "What's going on?" Chihiro's tone was much softer as she noticed the anomalies. But she couldn't express it well anyway.

"Don't worry, speak slowly."

At first, he thought it was because of the emotional ups and downs of the moment, which is why it was like this. However, it immediately became apparent that this was not the case. She was anxious to tell me something, but I couldn't understand what it meant. ”

That's it in a nutshell.

Eventually, she retrieved the notebook from her overturned bag and wrote something on it with a pen. I waited patiently until the moment she showed me what was written on it—"They snatched my hearing aids, the headphones you picked up for me last night!" ”

That was the first time I learned her secret.

"Do you mean the third-year people who came to you?" She nodded quickly and stood up a little. "Can you please help me get back?" Then, he lowered his head and wrote this line in his notebook. "Good!"

After that, I told her to go back to the classroom and wait. Then I was thinking about going to Izumi—her status as class leader might be able to help, and multiple people were more sure. — "Hey, Izumi! Can you do me a favor? Later, I happened to meet her in the corridor on the second floor, and she was about to go to the teacher's office.

"What's wrong?" I caught up with her from behind and said briefly, "Is that so?" It's no wonder that she introduced herself by writing her name directly in a notebook for us at that time, and I thought she was just afraid of life. Didn't expect ......"

"How? Can you help? ”

"No problem!"

She didn't hesitate to agree. After the two of us gave the teachers the mountains of textbooks in our hands, we found the culprits as quickly as we could—hearing aids! Without even thinking about it, Izumi chased after them and blocked them in front of them—"Can you give us back those hearing aids?" ”

Then, glaring at them mercilessly, he said.

Even I couldn't help but admire her courage, "Is this yours?" No, if you want to take it back, let her ask us for it herself! The big man in front of him looked at the two companions beside him and said jokingly.

"Really? Then there's no need to go on, because you're just deliberately finding fault! "The moment the words fell, the surrounding atmosphere instantly became tense!" What did you say?! ”

In the end, it turned out to be the worst!

Among them, the fist of the guy who looks like the big brother is about to fall on Hequan's face! —He threw his punches very quickly, and he was much taller than Izumi. So, even if she can react, she can't hide from it! Thinking of this, I jerked from behind and saw Izumi who was about to be hit—

Blocked the punch for her! I was beaten to the ground and rolled several times before I stopped. "That's it?" How long did it take to hear Izumi's voice again? To be honest, I don't know. But when she woke up, she was enjoying her lap pillow.

"What about those people?"

"Now the teacher is dealing with them, don't worry—" She didn't hesitate to push me back as she tried to get up. "Okay, I know what you're trying to say, I'm honestly pretty shy too." As she spoke, she seemed to be really embarrassed.

"But you're going to take this as a thank you for saving me just now, right?"

Immediately afterward, she said with her hand gently covering my eyes. "Thank you. Thanks to you, I was saved, and her hearing aids were coming back. "Izumi naturally spoke in a voice that only the two of us could hear." So rest assured. It's over......"

"Also, although you were beaten badly, I think you were very handsome when you saved me."

After saying that, Izumi quietly raised the corners of his mouth and smiled at me as if he were relieved. "She also said she wanted to thank you, so maybe she'll be a little jealous now, right?" Then, he added this sentence with a wicked smile. "Where is she now?"

"I was called to the office by the teacher, maybe I want to ask about the specific situation, right?"

"That's right."

After saying that, she took her hand away and proposed, "Why don't you call her when you go to the cafeteria later?" How about having lunch together? I think she'd be more than happy. Chihiro smiled and nodded, "I think that's going to be the case too." ”

As a result, it was really exactly what Izumi said, she really came, and she was the first to arrive. —"Izumi will give you back the hearing aids—" Izumi smiled happily as she took the hearing aid from her uniform pocket and handed it to her. "Thank you!"

Then, he quickly wrote down a big excessive "thank you" in his notebook. "It's nothing, besides, it's not my fault alone!" As he spoke, Izumi's eyes fell on me with a wicked smile. "Thank you too, Chihiro! Anyway, does it still hurt? ”

Looking at the questions she wrote in her notebook and her somewhat panicked expression, I couldn't help but touch the right side of my face, which was still with a band-aid, "It's okay, it's just a minor injury." "But in fact, it was very painful – even though it had been a week, there was no sign of healing at all.

There was also a swelling around. Then, she faced me and bowed her head deeply—"I've caused you trouble, and I've hurt you." I'm so sorry! Then, write this sentence in a notebook. I am very self-reproachful and ashamed.

"It's okay, you really don't have to care!"

In the face of her attitude, I was embarrassed to become my side. Then, Izumi had an idea and said, "Lola, if you really care about it, you can invite this lunch, right?" ”

Unexpectedly, she immediately agreed.

The moment Izumi said that name, I became aware of the fact that my wish had indeed been granted, but only in the form of transferring misfortune to others. It turned out that she also replied to that text message?

As I stared at her face, we both looked at each other. Her expression was a little confused, and I immediately looked away. After that, I heard that Izumi might have to be tested. "Oops, I'm completely unprepared!?"

The moment I heard the word, I completely wilted. "No, it's just a relay run, why are you panicking?" As a result, she was ridiculed in a disgusted tone. "Chihiro, you're not going to tell me you're not even good at this, are you?"

The two of us were talking and getting ready.

However, Lola was nowhere to be seen. - "Won't you get into any more trouble?" Izumi couldn't help but whisper to me, "I'll look for it!" With that, I turned around and ran towards the school building......