Chapter 16 Only when the rain does not stop can I take you home
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Izumi Toru knocked on the door of the painting department.
After a while, Xiao Zenan opened the door from inside.
She was stunned for a moment when she saw Izumi Tetsu standing outside the door.
"Huh? You, you are that, that..."
"Izumi Tetsu." Izumi Tetsu reminded.
"Ah, yes, yes! It's the one that Shiratori draws on the drawing board every day!"
The girl who accidentally told the truth hurriedly covered her mouth.
Izumi Toru, who had already heard the important point, raised his eyebrows.
Draw every day?
He said politely: "I'm looking for Shiratori-san."
"Please, please come in!" Ozawa quickly gave way.
Izumi Toru walked into the painting department. When Kenta Morninga, the head of the painting department, saw Izumi Toru, he sat up and stretched out his hand to say hello.
"Hey! Long time no see, junior."
"Senior, please get up and greet me. You'd better lie down."
"Oh..." Kenta lay down again in the morning.
"Don't sleep! Get up, get up!" Ozawa immediately jumped to the sofa and shook him vigorously.
"Stop shaking, you're going to die... Tell me, what's the matter?" Kenta sat up in the morning and asked feebly.
Ozawa glanced at Izumi Toru, who was walking towards Shiratori Kyoko with low footsteps, and asked in a low voice: "You... know this guy...?"
"yes."
"When? Why didn't I know?"
"Last year at the sports day, I pretended to be injured and went to sleep in the health room. I happened to meet him sleeping in the health room. We had similar interests and we got to know each other."
"Huh? Why didn't you tell me that there was such a thing?"
"Don't you hate him? Why should I tell you this?" Kenta asked in the morning.
"I……"
Ozawa was suddenly speechless.
At this moment, Shiratori Kyoko, who was engrossed in painting, didn't even notice the arrival of Izumi Toru.
In the drawing board in front of her, a man and a woman are holding umbrellas and walking in the rain.
The girl clung to the boy tightly, hugged his arm, and rested her head on his shoulder.
Kyoko Shiratori is using an eraser to erase the gray sky painted with pencil on the drawing board. In this way, she can create an image that although it is raining, the sun has broken through the dark clouds.
Izumi Toru stretched out his hand and pinched the piece of rubber.
Only then did Kyoko Shiratori come out of the painting state.
Turning her face sideways and seeing Izumi Toru, she stood up in a hurry.
"Hehehehehe Izumi-san! You, why are you here?"
Izumi Toru put the rubber back into her hand and said, "I'm afraid the rain will stop later, so I'm going to take you home now."
"Huh?!" Shiratori Kyoko was stunned for a while and said blankly: "There's no need to send it off when the rain stops."
"Because of this, I have to take advantage of the rain to get you home, right?"
The girl understood his words immediately.
The sunlight in the painting seemed to suddenly penetrate into her heart.
The whole world has become brighter because of this.
"Oh...oh...I know, I know..."
She responded hesitantly and began to pack her things.
Afterwards, the two walked out of the painting department, went to the shoe cabinet to change shoes, and then came to the door.
A curtain of rain like a waterfall hung in front of me, and the sound of crashing sounded in my ears.
Izumi Toru opened his umbrella, looked at Kyoko Shiratori beside him, and said, "It's raining heavily and you'll get wet, so you have to get closer."
Kyoko Shiratori nodded slightly.
She hesitated for a moment and hugged his arm.
So, what is the difference between them and couples?
It’s like this because it’s raining. There’s nothing we can do about it! They’re not a couple!
She asked and answered herself in her heart.
"Let's go."
"Um."
Snap! Snap! Snap!
Raindrops hit the umbrella heavily.
The figures of the two gradually merged into the rain curtain, became vague, and finally disappeared.
Suddenly, Izumi Toru stopped.
"Shiratori-san."
"What's wrong?"
"The painting you just made...is very beautiful."
Kyoko Shiratori's face suddenly turned red.
Because that was the picture in her imagination.
A scene with Toru Izumi walking to school in the rain holding an umbrella.
She said a little shyly: "Yes, really? That's good."
"Now is the right time and place, do you want to give it a try?"
Try it?
try what?
Shiratori Kyoko thought for a while before she understood what he meant.
Do you want me to look like the one in the painting...
She couldn't believe what she was hearing.
So, she swallowed her saliva and asked nervously: "Do you want to try it?"
My heart seemed to be waiting for his response, but suddenly it didn't dare to beat.
Izumi Toru did not answer immediately, but said to himself: "If it could be like a painting, with the rain curtain falling down together with the sunshine, it would be beautiful."
Shiratori Kyoko looked at his side face and murmured: "Yes, it's beautiful."
Izumi Toru turned his face and looked at the girl holding his arm beside him.
"So, I want to give it a try. While the rain has not stopped and no one can see or discover it."
"No one can see it, no one can find it."
Kyoko Shiratori repeated it, her eyes gradually brightening.
"Then, just give it a try?"
"Um."
Upon hearing his affirmative response, Shiratori Kyoko slowly moved her head to his shoulder and leaned lightly on it.
She closed her eyes.
The rain hasn't stopped yet, it's so nice...
It will cover up all traces of what happened.
Moreover, I just wanted to try to see if the scene in the painting could be realized.
While thinking of various reasons in her mind, Shiratori Kyoko could clearly feel his shoulders from her face.
I feel more at ease than I imagined.
After a while, she heard Izumi Toru sigh.
"Sure enough, there is no sunshine. Painting is just painting."
"Yes, it is a painting after all." The girl with her eyes closed agreed.
Didn't look up.
The sun is around you, not above the dark clouds.
Izumi-san, you are so stupid, you don’t even know this.
"But if you think about it carefully, even if there is no sunshine, it is quite beautiful to hold an umbrella together on a rainy day, right?"
"Um……"
The girl's voice became softer and softer.
She was afraid that if her voice was louder, she would break this dream and return to reality.
This must be a dream, otherwise, how could something like a dream happen?
"Shiratori-san."
"Um."
"That day on the tram, I actually didn't fall asleep."
The slight words hit Shiratori Kyoko's heart like a heavy hammer, making her mentally dazed for a while.
After a long time, she stood up straight, lowered her head and said, "Oh..."
was discovered.
How to explain it!
There is no way to explain it...
Fortunately, Izumi Toru did not continue this topic, but urged: "Let's go quickly. Otherwise, the rain will stop and we will not be able to catch the train..."
"oh……"
Although there were still an unknown number of trains, Shiratori Kyoko felt that what Izumi Toru said made sense.
Indeed, if the rain stops, we will not be able to catch the tram.
You have to walk faster.
She held his arm harder.
As if he wanted to vent his shyness and shock when the person he liked discovered his feelings.