Seven Nights

Chapter 1 - The woman warrior dances in the night - Part 2

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Chapter 1 - The woman warrior dances in the night - Part 2

“-yeah, that’s basically what happened in my dream last night… Even now, I kinda think that it might’ve been ‘real’. It seemed so d.a.m.n realistic…”

Teru-san, who was listening to me talk, seemed pretty confused…

On my way to school this morning, I pa.s.sed by my senpai and friend, ‘Teruhiko Hiruma’ (nickname: Teru-san), so I started talking to him about the dream last night. To me, it was a topic that was so extraordinary, yet when I try to put it into words, it’s hard to explain properly… So it ended up making no sense and becoming a very boring topic, but even then, Teru-san listens to me, watching me with his sleepy eyes, hiding behind his gla.s.ses.

“Hmm, that’s sure an interesting story.”

Then, after a minute of silence, he said it as if he remembered just then.

“…Yeah, that’s interesting, especially how it actually… ‘Hurt’ you.”

While scratching his messed up hair, he continues mumbling.

“It’s interesting how it ‘hurt’…?”

When I asked the question, he says “for example…” and stretches his arm towards my face!

“Owowowow!!! Stop!”

Then he suddenly pulled my cheek!

“It hurts! What are you doing!?”

I quickly back away and glare at Teru-san. He doesn’t seem sorry and he just said,

“It hurts, it’s not a dream.”

“…Yes?”

“It hurts, it’s not a dream. Haven’t you ever heard of that quote?”

“I have… In manga and dramas… What about it?”

“It’s a pretty old quote now… But what the quote says is true.”

“Um… And?”

“So, in dreams, there’s no pain.”

While saying that Teru-san starts walking.

“Inside a dream, people can ‘hear’ and ‘see’. Those are the two main senses you use in a dream. Other than those, when you touch something, you use ‘feeling’, and when you eat something you use ‘tasting’ and ‘smelling’.”

“Yeah… You’re right… I do feel a lot of different things when I need to take a p.i.s.s in a dream…”

“The way you feel things is different for everyone. It depends on each person and what is happening. But ‘pain’ is a part of ‘touch’, and in most cases you’re not supposed to feel it…”

“Yeah… You’re right, because I’ve never really had a dream before which ‘hurt’ in the past…” When I think about it, I kind of feel special. The creepy experience I had ends up being a unique experience, which is strange… That’s pretty unfair…

“Also it’s interesting about the time… A watch came out in your dream, and time inside a dream flows with your own thoughts, so it doesn’t count each second and each minute. Maybe the reason the time stayed the same was because of that?”

“That makes sense…”

While I was being impressed with Teru-san, we reach the school gate. All of a sudden, I realize that there were many other students walking around us.

Private School Suijou Academy, the school I go to, is the biggest school in the city.

There’s a medium school and a high school, and the corresponding uniforms have small differences. I in high school first year, while Teru-san is in the second.

“Also Hoshi-kun, was the girl you met in the dream truly someone you don’t know? For example, a relative, cla.s.smate, or even an idol you like?”

“Well, if she was an idol, she was closest to, umm Yun Yuzuki?”

“…Yuzuki… Who?”

“Yun Yuzuki. She’s a recently popular pinup girl.”

She’s even on TV a lot recently, Teru-san’s knowledge is really one sided…”

“She was similar but definitely not the same person. She definitely was someone I don’t know. Why do you want to know anyway?”

“That’s pretty interesting… If you say it simply, dreams are there to tidy up your mind. And the ingredients used to create dreams are your own memories or an over exaggerated imagination of your own. So it’s actually highly likely for the girl to be someone you already know.”

“Is that… so…”

I think about it over again. That girl was… oh yeah, the uniform she was in was the ‘middle school’s uniform. She had twin tails and… Yeah, she looks just like the girl pa.s.sing through the school gate…

“WHA-”

“What?”

I quickly swallow the ‘T’ back in.

“It’s that girl!!! It’s that girl!!! She came out in my dream!!!”

“Hmm? The one with the twin tails?”

I don’t know what he means by ‘twin tails’ but, it’s that girl!!! I leave Teru-san and dash at full speed!

“Hey…!”

My voice was a lot louder than I wanted. The girl and her friend walking next to her got freaked out and turned around and looked at me with puzzled faces.

I gazed the girl. The uniform, the hair, it’s exactly the same. She has the cute and young face. Even though, this is definitely the first time I’ve seen her in real life. I’ve never spoken, seen, or heard of her before.

“…Excuse me, but what do you want?”

Because I was staring at the girl, her eyes changed into a mean look.

“Sorry for suddenly calling you back. But can I have a talk with you?”

“What do you want to talk about with me?”

“Umm… I don’t know what to say, it’s very hard to explain…”

s.h.i.t. I called her back but, how should I put it out? -“We met last night in a dream, didn’t we.”- isn’t gonna work. -“Do you know me?”- What kind of idiot am I? -“Haven’t we met before?”- I’m not asking her out!!!

“……………”

The girl gives me an annoyed stare, and the girl next to her seems excited. I think she"s misunderstanding what I’m thinking… She probably is thinking that I’m gonna ask this girl out or something… Oh man I must look like an idiot.

At the rate this is going, nothing’s gonna move on. It’s just giving them less trust for me by the second.

Stop thinking! Just do what you want to say! I’ll say it right now!

“Haven’t we met before?”

“……What?”

Oh s.h.i.t I said the wrong thing!!!~

“Do you know me?”

“No… I don’t know you…”

Thought so… I don’t know you either! Nooo that’s not what I wanted to say!!!

“We met last night in a dream, didn’t we.”

“… uh!?”

The girl had a surprised look.

“…huh?”

I thought for sure that next thing she would do was to shout at me. Her emotion was stoned, so I didn’t know what to do. Her wide opened eyes, stare at me with surprise.

“…that’s…bullsh*t…”

By her reaction, is it that she also remembers me from the dream? Are you seriously saying that we actually both remember the dream?

My heart pounds faster and faster. Each pound makes me remember the pain I had from being smashed in the head.

“Is it really you…? The one who tried to kill me in the alleyway…”

I took a step closer to her. The girl looked freaked out and suddenly-

“No! Stay away!”

And pushed me with all her might.

“Oh, ohhh, ahhh!”

I fall back and lose balance, and my hands which are wobbling around,

“Wha-?”

Grabbed the girls wrist.

“Wha, wait, kyaaaa!”

The girl couldn’t shake me off, nor push me away, and just came down with me.

“-uh…!” I fell on the ground and hit my back. I managed to not hit my head my head, but now the girl falls down towards me!

I catch her with my arms, and she was a lot lighter than I thought. She proved to be just as elegant as she looks.

“………….”

She was soft and elegant. I felt that as our bodies stacked together. The girl’s hair, which was moving across my face, had a great smell.

“Ou…Ouchh…”

“Are…Are you alright?”

“Uh… Sorry! I’ll get off right away…”

The girl quickly tries to get up, and I try to help out by holding her and-

“………….”

“…………”

We both froze.

She is in a horseback riding position above my waist. And my hand is touching her- The hand which tried to hold her up is on the girl’s breast. The soft lump touching my palm softly bounces a bit with the squishy feeling. Our faces are close together, and if I let go I have the feeling that our lips are going to have contact, so we stared at each other for awhile. People around us were saying unwanted words as they walked past.

In the insecure feeling silence, the girl’s face goes all red, and she started shaking.

“You…Freak…”

“C… Calm down, this was an accident. It wasn’t on purpose, you know that too, right?!”

“You pervert! You freak!”

She flattened her hand and, with a nice, soothing sound, I was slapped.

And I saw fireworks…

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