Study...study...study...
Is there more to life than studying?
Yeah. Friends, the people you love.
I'm Hora Chiharu, a 16 year old girl. 3rd year of highschool, tired of studying.
School is everything, that's what they all say, but it's not for me. My friends are everything, Date Yuka, my best friend since highschool started, she is in the same grade as me, last year, we met the new student, Okura Satoshi, ever since then, the three of us became inseparable.
We would always hang out, even outside of school, we are always together.
To me, they were everything. My family was basically nothing to me, they don't even care about me.
Everything is about my sisters.
But what about me?
Why would they ignore me?
Its as if I didn't exist to them.
But Yuka and Satoshi...they care about me.
I love them, I really do, I'll do anything for them. Equally.
Being with them makes me really happy, I never thought I would say this but... Life isn't so bad after all.
Playing around, screaming while chasing eachother, playing instruments and going to karaokes, it makes me feel loved, they don't treat me like an object unlike the other friends I had before, they would always exclude me and only talk to me to help them for exams and homework.
I'm glad I met them.
What would have been of me if I didn't met them?
The answer is pretty complicated, the first year I would have been stressed over studies, with zero support. The second year...I would probably be dead.
Yuka and Satoshi really did change my thoughts about life, thanks to them, life is beautiful.
I wish we will always be happy, I will always be there for them, they mean so much, i repeat, so much for me.
Yuka is pretty outgoing, very extroverted, her hair drops to her hips, its beautiful and very healthy, she is taller than me even, pfft, she always says she's the tallest one between the three of us, but Satoshi wins by 6 centimeters. There's some things I noticed about her, whenever she feels upset, she still keeps smiling, definitely to hide it, but what gives it away is the way her lips quiver while she speaks, as if going to cry at any moment.
Satoshi is rather 50/50, introverted and extroverted, honestly, pfft I don't even remember what it was called when someone is both, but whatever, he kinda has like a hime cut, but not really, he has short hair and then the front is the "hime cut" looking part, he is kinda like me, went through the same pain as me, getting used by his friends. Whenever he is upset, he just starts zoning out and scratching his skin, especially his arm. It's as if, he wanted to hurt himself deeply.
It's not difficult for me to study people, especially if I care about them, I just... don't want them to suffer.
Satoshi especially, he hurts himself and always tries to hide it, to me, its obvious, others don't even realize he did such thing.
About Yuka's pain... She is such a joyful person, I don't want her to stop smiling, she was hurt recently, not physically but emotionally.
She was dating a guy she didn't even like, because people pressured her to date him, she doesn't want to be in a relationship, but people kept telling her and bothering her to say yes to that guy.
That person... We hate him, me and Satoshi heard about him from Yuka.
He kissed her without her consent, isn't that basically like sexual assault?
He broke up with her and told her many hurtful things, that day, she called us while crying, she was hurt by the things he said.
It was hard for her to go back to school normally, she was often 'happy'.
But that wasn't true, she was hurting in the inside, full of pain. But then she started to forget, the more time she spent with us, the more she forgot about that situation.
I'm glad she forgot but she still suffers.
I hope this year goes smoothly, with zero problems.
I don't want the people that I love to suffer, I'll do anything it takes for them to be happy. I hope I can, even if it's something dangerous, I'll do whatever it takes to protect them.