A/N: I would like to eventually write short stories for a few of the different boys that fell for Fujiharu-san's traps. The previous boys all had varying personalities but Fujiharu-san was able to make all of them fall in love with her. I think there are some pretty interesting stories to be told~

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It was the first day of school when I, Kazuki Afford, was seated next to one of the cutest girls I had ever seen. She had long brown hair, wide emerald eyes and a beautiful smile. Someone like me could never be with her; she was far out of my league.

I'll just ignore her, it'll hurt me later if I end up getting too close.

As I took my books out of my bag, I noticed that she was looking at me. We made eye contact for a split second but I quickly looked away. She really was cute.

"Hey, you're Afford-kun, right?"

I couldn't get any words out of my mouth.

Just don't look at her.

All of a sudden, she poked me in the arm.

"I'm speaking to you, dummy."

Before the start of high school, I decided that I was going to completely remake myself. I was way too naive back in middle school, and as a result, I had my heart broken in the most painful ways. I'm going to act cool, I'll ignore any distractions to myself.

This morning, I spent over twenty minutes trying to make my hair. It's harder than you'd expect if you've never done it before. I think I might have put a little too much gel on it, I couldn't even face my mom when I walked out to the kitchen. Although, I do think that my hair looks pretty good.

Now that I think about it, maybe it's paying off... I'm not the person I used to be, am I really in her league now?

Screw it.

Finally, I turned around and decided to greet her.

"Hey."

"Are you new here?" She asked.

"Yeah, this is my first day at this school."

"Ah, what old school did you go to?"

"I went to Yokusuka College."

"Ooh, I had some friends who used to go there as well, although they came here a few years ago."

Wait, am I good at socialising now?

It's coming so easily to me, I looked over at her—she seemed to be happy as she spoke to me.

"So, um, what's your name?" I asked.

"I'm Fujiharu Sara, you can call me Sara-san."

I couldn't control the muscles on my face.

Such a cute girl was letting me call her by her first name.

Shoot, is my face turning red?

She was still smiling at me.

"O-oh, um, nice to meet you, S-Sara-san."

"Ehe, I hope we can get along."

"Likewise..."

The teacher walked in for the first class of the day.

"Alright everyone, welcome to high school. Just to let you know, this is a big step up from middle school, for example, you'll have homework basically every night, for each individual subject as well."

Ah, studying... I wasn't too bad at it although I wouldn't exactly call myself smart.

After a short introduction, the teacher immediately moved into the first class of the day.

"I hope everyone's organised, bring out your math textbooks and flip to page 3."

The class was filled with the sound of paper ruffling.

As she taught the class, everyone was frantically scribbling down notes. The pace had increased significantly from middle school, I was struggling to keep up with the speed that the teacher was explaining everything. I looked over at Fujiharu-san who was taking down notes in an extremely organised matter, with different coloured pens and everything.

Wow.

Eventually, the class finished and the teacher wrote the homework on the board. As I looked around, I noticed that the boy sitting on the other side of me hadn't taken any notes. His page was still empty.

I wouldn't want to be like him.

He's going to regret it later.

I looked at the name tag on his pencil case, Mizuhara Ayato.

"Alright, I want you guys to complete questions four to twenty on page 16."

With that, the teacher began preparing for the next subject.

"Hey, um, Sara-san..."

"Yes? What is it Kazuki-kun?"

She just called me by my first name.

"O-oh, um, I missed a bit on the completing the square part..."

"Ah! You can have a look at my notes if you want."

"Thank you so much..."

She passed me her workbook and I looked at her caligraphy-like handwriting. I scanned through the contents and quickly copied down what I missed. After a little while, I handed her workbook back to her.

"T-thanks."

"You're welcome!"

Ah, I still wasn't used to that smile.

As the next class began, I looked up at the board and began reading the PowerPoint that the teacher was showing. I didn't want to be left behind, if I just increased my speed a little bit, I'll be able to take clear notes on the entire class.

"Hey, Kazuki-kun."

"Yes?"

"Do you want to have lunch with me today?"

Huh?

Where was this coming from?

No way...

Is this the start of my popular phase?

"Yeah, s-sure."

She smiled at me again.

Well, I can't concentrate on the class anymore.

"...the final phase of Mitosis is telophase, at this point the nuclear membrane reforms, and the chromosomes begin to decondense into their interphase conformations..."

The teacher's words were flowing in and straight out of my head.

At the end of the class, I had hardly taken down any notes.

"Kazuki-kun, you didn't many notes during that class, do you want to copy mine down?"

"O-oh, but it's recess..."

"That's fine, you can just give my workbook back next period~"

She was so nice.

With that, the class was dismissed.

[Continued]