Chapter 2 of Eternal Feather

Chapter 2

The breeze blew softly as Hirono lay on the roof of the school; the town was stretched out in front of him. Even as a child when he had come up here to be alone the door had always been unlocked. “Miyako will get mad at me for skipping class” he muttered into the wind. Ever since he had been little Miyako had always been trying to take care of him, “I wonder why? She never really had a reason.” Shutting his eyes Hirono laid down letting the sun warm his body comfortable on the hard roof.

“Ding, ding, ding, ding”, it was not the sound of the bell that awoke Hirono, but the rain beginning to fall from the clouds. “Crap I missed all my classes, Miyako will be pissed.” Stretching his arms Hirono got to his feet and headed down to the courtyard where he was supposed to meet Miyako after school. When he reached the tree in the center of the court yard the rain had started to pour, Miyako was sitting down on the bench surrounding the tree waiting, annoyed. Getting up Miyako strowed over to Hirono as stabbed him in his chest with her finger.
“Where were you today?”
“Uh… In class?”
“Not from what I heard from Nodoka, It was your first day of school Hirono and you skipped! If you make this like Junior High you will fail all your classes again and get held back this time!”
“I’m sorry, I won’t do it again, cut me some slack this time Miyako, please?”
“Fine, but you have to come to my basketball practice tomorrow as punishment. Where is your umbrella?”
“I…uh left it at home”
“Geez to I have to hold your hand through High School as well, if you continue like this you won’t even get a job anywhere, here take mine I have an extra.”
“Ah, thank you, are you coming with me?”
“No I have some shopping to do on the way home, I will see you later bye.”
Popping up the umbrella Hirono strowed out into the rain and disappeared amongst it, peering out from under the tree Miyako looked to the sky, the rain continued to pour down drenching everything. Pulling her book bag over her head Miyako began running under the rain towards home with rain already dampening the binder.