The first thing I noticed when I woke up in the morning was that I was full of energy. As I opened the windows, I listened to skylarks chirping and swallows twittering. The sound seemed to come from a beautiful cherry tree near my house, and was only interrupted by the sound of departing geese flying above me, probably in a V formation. It sure is spring.
I was in a good mood and had absolutely nothing to do at home, so I decided to leave earlier than usual and take a nice walk to school.
Filled with spring orchids and cherry trees I failed to notice yesterday, the path seemed to be trying really hard to make sure I didn't forgot the season was spring. I don't mind; I love spring. In fact, I love it so much I could spend the whole spring somewhere and when the summer decided to come, I would travel the world just to meet spring somewhere else.
Now that I think about it, I have done such a thing. It wasn't that interesting or romantic, especially because I was being chased by mobsters. And aliens. And even a spy squirrel. No, really, a spy squirrel. This is so ridiculous I can't believe how someone would take me for a liar. I mean, if I were to lie about being hunted by something, it would certainly not be something like a squirrel. Even a serial liar would have some dignity.
It's interesting to see how different people react to the same thing. In this same situation (walking alone to school along this beautiful path, not being chased by a squirrel with a license to kill), I guess Ryo would be happily looking at them like a kid seeing the circus for the first time. Wait, I must stop doing that! It’s not the first time I compare her to a small kid in my thoughts. What if I ended up saying something like that out loud? She probably wouldn't be happy about this.
I kept walking through the streets that seemed to be a maze inside an endless urban garden.
What about Kouma? What would she think while surrounded by flowers? Well, she doesn't look like someone who likes spring very much. I can totally relate her to winter in my mind. However, it seems to me that while she tries to keep a facade of coldness and apathy towards anyone but Ryo, she hides her sweet side deep inside herself. Her occasional bursts of feelings and the way she is concerned about Ryo made me think that there is a nice but tormented girl inside that apparently empty but incredibly well-dressed shell.
Maybe she is a little bit like Reikoku-sensei. Oh, I'm missing the point, here. I think that in the midst of this perfect, textbook example of spring, Kouma would probably spend more time thinking about the biological classification of the flowers than about the beauty of the scene, but deep down she would eventually think "cute!” I might be wrong, but that's what I believe.
I prefer not to ponder about sensei's reaction to this situation. Despite being a nice person (even if only to me), her taste for anything other than jazz is the kind of thing you don't want to imagine this early in the morning. Especially if you had breakfast. She is really into horror and it seems like she fits right into the "gore film aficionado" category.
Actually, I kind of like horror movies and I don't have anything against the old ones, but a certain scene from one of those movies is making me feel slightly uncomfortable about this walk. It shocked me, big time. Since then, I can't help but feel awkward when alone and surrounded by trees. I might still have the daylight, but the trees have their vines.
With that in mind, I decided to walk a little bit faster.
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