Classmate

6

Exams were just around the corner. about two weeks from now. They called it Quarterly Scholastic Advancement Testing. Another words for progress reports for all of the parents in the flow of school.

We were all in full study mode, as the first quarter semester marks were going to be determined by on how we would do on them, and how far they were going to press us from know on, and just where University suggestions would be made. I just found it to be another platform for stress... I digress fully now, my brain is on mental meltdown right at this very exact point of time.

With all of the hoopla, Yumi and I had been together only one other time, spending a entire weekend together in the lap of lustiness for one whooping good time. She now was seeing another boy name Toyo.

Yumi seemed very happy and relatively contented, but every once in a while, I caught her flashing a smile towards me a time or two, as her and her boyfriend would pass me. I was happy for her, and still had subtle feelings for her - but her happiness was the only final thing I worried about. I hoped that her outward mood was indicative of her happiness on the inside, rather than put on for looks purpose.

I found myself sitting in the school’s library one night, bleary eyed from reading the small print in text books. The study area of the library was nearly empty, as closing time was fast approaching. I looked at the time on the clock nearest me, and began to pack up my books for the short walk back home.

A noise behind me made me turn. Remi stood their, her eyes half closed her face showing the extent of exhaustion she felt.
“ Did you get a lot of studying done today?” She asked, her voice sounding tired too.
“ If I have to look at one more algebraic formula, I will scream!” I said, Playfully growling at my statement. “ It boils my brain.”
“ Boy, do I know that feeling.” She said with a giggle of her own. “ Exams are just a pain in my ass I could do without.”
“ This is even harder for me, we never did our test schedule like this back in Canada.” I pointed out, sighing loudly as I did. “ This just might kill me, or at least put me in the mental ward for frying my brain.”
“ Look on the bright side, we all get four days off to recuperate after that.” She piped up. “ That is what we all look forward to, all the those weeks that built up to the three days of hell.”
“ Can you go home for those days.” I asked, my voice did get sort of flat as I thought of home. “ Any one at all?”
“ Most of us do...” Remi said happily, then her face showed shock as she realized that I was quite far from my home. You could tell that she was picking just what to say. “ What would you do during that time....”

I stopped to think for a second or two, trying to actually think of something I could do, but opted for what I had planned. It was not much of a thought, I had to admit, but it did appeal to me.
“ Probably I’ll just stay at the boarding house over the break...” I began, cracking a smiling.. “ My Mom and Dad are on site for a movie shoot somewhere in the deepest part of Africa, and I can’t even get a hold of them on the telephone to chat even if I wanted too.” I just sat back, arms clasped behind my head. “ So I will just hang around and get some of my sleep back that getting ready for exams will take away.”
“ Ah, OK.” She said, her voice wavering ever so slightly. “ Sounds interesting.” She hesitantly commented.
“ I will find many things to do... As long as it would be quiet around here at the same time.” I added.

Remi became oddly silent. I hope that it was not because of what I had said. I did not want, nor asked for any sympathy just because I had to stay at the boarding house over our exam break, I actually was looking forward to a little tranquil time with myself and a couple of good books too. I was all right with it all.

In this city, privacy was at a huge premium, and I knew people would kill for a chance like mine, so I was content with it all. Just pick it up and run with it, I said to my self using a football analogy even though I was more of a baseball fan than anything... hockey here was not well known anyway.

She smiled and just started to talk for the moment. She did just skip over the sympathy thing, I was glad because I never felt sorry for myself anyway. She smiled. She did not have a speck of sympathy what’s so ever for me, but still I could tell she was worried in some degree, about me.

A voice came over the intercom of the library, announcing that it was closing in five minutes. We both looked at one another through our blood shot eyes.
“ Do you want to grab a coffee before we head home to study out brains out?” She asked, her face showing great weariness. “We do have over two and a half hours until we need to be in our rooms.”
“ Why not?" I decided, gathering up my text books as fast as I could. “ We do need to keep awake for all of this studying crap, and We deserve a break right now..” I said, knowing very well that I needed that blast of coffee just to stay awake right now. “ You can’t study with your eyes slammed shut.”
“ I don’t want to be awake right now, though that is the problem.” She said, her sexy lips pouting in a impish whin, the she smiled. “ But I think I have to be awake to study anyway.” She let a sigh out. “ Lets get that coffee.”

We just left the school grounds, and headed to the Western coffee house for a cup of wake up, as the library staff shooed us out even though we were exiting the building as fast as we could. ‘Efficiently rude’, was the term Remi used for the library staff, I laughed at her hand at politically corrected statement.

Laughing together, we hurried off to the coffee shop to hopefully get our favorite booth before others had scoffed it from us.

The coffee was great, as we lounged in the booth that was under the front window of the shop. Remi sat across from me, hand and arm under her head. She kept seemingly to be dozing off after a few minutes of being there, then blinking her eyes open only to have them shut again, finally succumbing to it for a few minutes.

I thought she was very cute, how her arm held her head up, her perfect face relaxed as she snoozed away with the steam from her coffee wafting up in front of her face, framing it in all of it beauty.

I could see her sportcoat was open, and I saw her wonderful breasts pressing against her shirt material in all of their rounded glory. I watched for a few minutes, as her boobs moved up and down with each breath she took, the nipples were as erect as I had saw them that day not too long ago. One does not forget such a awesome sight as that too often, nor do we ever want to forget.

I just smiled at myself, and forced myself not to look. She blinked opened her eyes, and they locked with mine.
“ Staring at my chest again?” She said, in a playful tone, adding in a whisper as I blushed at her question. “ If you want to see them again, you’ll just have to wait and be patient and it will not be in public either, I’m not into that.” She giggled again, and gave a wink. Her impishness made her beam, which was part of her charm.. It also helped her wake up too , it seemed. “ I did promise awhile back you could see them in more detail... perhaps I could show you a lot more.”

I chuckled at her statement in surprise, but I could feel the sweat beading on my brow as thought about that possibility drove me nuts. In the back of my head, I did want to see them again, and all of her in general too, so I hoped she was serious, but i supposed that she was just kidding with me.

The topic got changed, and we sat for awhile longer as we bitched about the workload given to us almost every day by the teachers. I gotta tell you, that is fun to do, especially with someone who understands- and is very gorgeous too. She seemed to get right in to it too, as she got animated on the topic quite fast

We soon were heading back to the house, just taking our time to soak in the warmth of the Tokyo night. We had plenty of time before we were suppose to be in, so we took a unhurried approach to getting back.
“ Your going to stay up for awhile longer to study?” Remi asked, shifting her book bag to sit better on the shoulder..
“ For a couple of hours or so... I was planning on doing more just to be on the safe side.” I thought aloud to her, making that plan to myself in the process. “ I just want to make sure of my algebra, along with the chemistry texts too.”
“ Me too” She sighed, rolling her eyes. “ But it’s going to be all on Japanese literature for me. I can speak it, obviously, but this stuff gives me wild nightmares all night long.” She said, shaking her head. She looked at her books with a lot of contempt in those brown eyes. She just looked and pouted in my direction. “ I hate these examinations.”
“ Hopefully you like examinations, if your naked.” I said, with a spilt ass grin, loosening the tone of the conversation, even though the thought if made me horny. I just had to be a pest.

She punched me in the arm playfully, yet quite solidly as she giggled.
“ Your so bad...” She laughed, hauling off and knocking my arm another surprisingly hard punch. “ So bad!!”
“ Guess I am!” I said right back, playfully knocking my shoulder into hers, as we entered the house. “ The spot was just there for me, and I let my self in.”
“ You sure did at that.” She giggled. “ I like that, you know!!”
“ Really...” I said, making a funny face.
“ Yes!” Was here only answer, her eyes locking with mine once more. I just smiled and looked back too. I could feel that sweat starting to collect on my brow again as we locked gazes.

She just looked at me as we headed for the stairs that were located not too far inside the lobby area, then a soft smile flowed over her face. One of either playfulness or vampishness, I did not know.
“ I do like being examined in that way... but only with someone I like.” She said with a sensuous tone. “ Especially when it is somebody I like!” She put a exclamation on her last sentence. She smiled as she flitted up the stairs like she had never said anything to me. “ Good night, Hal.”

I did not know whether her statement was directed at me, or was it just a playful flirting back at me. I just laughed at it, to be on the safe side. We headed to our respective floors, to begin another night with our school work.

I just put her words out of my mind and quickly headed to my room to start the studying once again. No rest for the weary, especially me. Tonight was definitely going to be a long, drawn out exercise.

I did not see anyone after that night, not even Remi when I took a small break from my room. That is what you would call, was weird, as we had hung together since I came. I never understood that, but I must have offended her or something- and I did not have the foggiest idea of just what i had offended her with.

The next two weeks I spent studying, going to school and then studying once again. It was like a record stuck in a skip.
My regiment was horribly simple and quite predictable leading up to all of this. My days consisted of studying, eating and sleep... and taking the occasional a shower to keep myself from smelling too ripe in the process of cramming my brain full, while still keeping up with the other school work that was handed out.
A rut was needed for all of this study time, yes, but a necessary one at that. Made me think over just why I had agreed to come to this school in the first place. I sighed and stopped bitching to myself and just buckled down for the duration of this learning nightmare and there calumniate end the exams
All in all, I thought, this was life in the Japanese educational system. Welcome to it, Hal, ol’ boy. I was starting to think whether it was a smart thing... or the dumbest thing. The jury was out on that one, and just might be for years to come.