A Past To Remember

Ugh, just when I was trying to finish the research. Toma just looked at me with a friendly face. "Why didn't you do anything to get out of here?" I asked.

"Oh, I actually did. I yelled for help, tried to make a lot of noise, and even put a note underneath the door so someone can help me… but none of those works." So the stupid note earlier was his doing.

I sighed feeling helpless. "Tsk, what to do, what to do…" then I suddenly thought of my phone. I searched it in my pocket, only to realize that I left it back at the classroom. Damn it.

"Toma!"

"!… yeah?" He spoke while maintaining that smile of his. Ugh, his face right now looks annoying.

"Do you got your phone with you?"

"Ahh… I've thought about that too but uhm, I left it with Cami."

"What!?"

"Yeah, she asked to look at it. She's checking out the pictures we've taken together."

"Tsk. Nevermind."

"What about you?"

"I left it at the classroom."

"Oh…"

"…tsk, let's just wait until someone comes to get us."

"Okay."

"…"

"Heh… somehow, this feel like deja vu." He suddenly brought up.

"How so?"

"Remember the time when we were kids? We were playing at school and got ourselves locked at the library." Remembering that made me laugh a little. I do remember it, it was just like this… we were stuck together for hours then the school guard found us.

"It was fun." I said, smiling for myself.

"I know right? While stuck, we'd tell each other scary stories, play made up games, and talk some more."

"Yeah." Those were some good times, but… I doubt something like that can happen now that we're grown ups. There's so much work to do and getting stuck here for hours is wasting time for something far better and productive.

While thinking to myself, I haven't realized that Toma already got so close to me. "So Yuji, do you mind if I ask you about Xia?"

Since there was nothing else to do, I entertained his questions. "Sure."

"When did you meet her?"

"I used to see her at some classes since we were freshmens, and I just got acquainted with her at the start of the school year."

"Then how did you guys started dating?"

"Uhm, she confessed to me. Then I decided to go out with her."

"What!?" It surprised him to know that.

"Is there a problem?"

"It's surprising that a girl confessed to you. Most girls that pestered me about you when we were in highschool doesn't have the guts to confess to you. They kept saying you were scary and that you might reject them."

This was a new discovery, I couldn't believe what I heard. "What!?" I just spouted the same reaction he just did.

"Girls were pestering you because of me!? I thought all those girls were after you." I didn't know I was quite popular back then.

"Yeah! Though I didn't bother helping any of those girls because you always say they're annoying and that you didn't want to date anyone after you broke up with your first girlfriend." He chuckled.

So it was the same for both of us, I used to get pestered by girls as well just because they like Toma. I'm just shock to know that some girls liked someone like me. "Well, some still do pester me 'til now..." he admitted.

"Likewise." I told him as well.

"Better tell them to stop asking about you since you got a girlfriend now."

"Mhmm." Then he rests his head on my lap all of a sudden, followed by a yawn. "The heck Toma!?"

"Mm, all that talk made me sleepy, let me borrow your lap for a while."

"Looks like you don't give a shit about getting out of here."

He grins while his eyes were closed. "We'll get out of here eventually. Plus I don't mind spending a long time here if I'm trapped with you." Those were his last ridiculous words before he sleeps.

I didn't know how to respond to that, but all I felt that moment was my face getting a little hot.