Vacation ( Part I )

A Story by TheUnknownOne

In that cold Winter morning, two birds met and their life changed.

It's been a long year at school. I was exhausted. Was waiting for a vacation and the Winter Vacation came. I got excited and along with my friends we decided to go hiking. Winter vacation started. As planned, we went hiking and decided to stay there for 3-5 days. But who knew, that trip had a surprise for me.

We went to the place of hiking and enjoyed a lot. The beauty of the nature really made us feel ease after a long studious year. The incident happened on 3rd day. We were hiking and saw a girl gang hiking in the same spot. It happened suddenly we met and start talking. So, we actually were in the same class but in different schools. They also came to spend their vacation. In that group, there was a girl. She took my eyes away. I couldn't take my eyes of her. We started hiking together and shared each other's name. She told her name Sawabe Kaori. We decided to extend our trip to 2 more days and we all together had fun. On the day of our leaving, we opened a LINE group so that we all can keep contact. That was the first time I knew her LINE ID.

School started again. I really wanted to talk to Sawabe but if I chatted on LINE group it would be awkward. So one day, gaining a lot of courage, I texted on her LINE ID, "Hi". She didn't reply. But after 2 days, I got a message while studying. It said, "Sorry. I checked my chatbox today. Hello:)". And that's when our story started.

We usually chatted a lot. Almost every night we spent hours talking with each other on various topics. We discussed about our studies, favourite things like movies, animes, food etc. Slowly but steadily I was getting to know her properly by those conversations. But I couldn't confess what I felt about her. But I liked how the things were going.

Our exams over and also high school life. It was time to get admitted in a university. One day, I asked her in which university she was going to try. She replied, " I'm going to Joei University. How about you?" I told a lie. I told her that I was still choosing and still didn't decide. I told this lie as I wanted to give her a surprise by getting admitted in Joei. I was determined that if I would able to get admitted in Joei, I would tell her why I choose this University and confess my feelings for her. Exams came near and I tried my best in it.