Freedom – new girls’ rules part 2
There were several girls from both 2nd-grade and 3rd-grade. On one side of the room, the 3rd-grade girls sat in line. 2nd-grade girls sat facing them on the other side. […]
Uprising – new rules part 1
As the 2nd-graders, we were no longer at the bottom of the hierarchy. I still wished for the equal relationship among all the girls, but there wasn’t much I could […]
Yuko
In the 2nd year of junior high school, Izumi and Kei were in the same class, and I in the other. Girls around me had already formed circles, but I […]
Crush
The 1st year of junior high school was coming to an end. Even though most of the 3rd-grade girls were downright oppressive, I only had warm feelings for them as […]
More theatre club
We did another play in February for the farewell party for the 3rd-grade. Upon the success of Cinderella, I suggested we did another fairytale turned into a comedy. I was […]
Theatre club
Besides the sports teams, students had to join a cultural club, which was not taken as seriously as the sports program and was only active before the cultural festival in […]
End of the world
I started pondering the idea of death. No one around me was dead yet, but it was that I couldn’t think there was such thing as “meanings” in life. Softball […]
Library
I spent long recesses at the library. Upgraded from the elementary school, the junior high school library truly excited me. The librarian was my second cousin’s mother, who recommended me […]
Apple and Orange
Schoolwork was easy. English was added to the curriculum, and arithmetic was upgraded to mathematics. I had started learning English at the church two years before, so the English class […]
Girls’ rules – bathroom
The girls’ rules even seeped into the bathroom. The 3rd-grade girls spent a lot of their time in the bathroom doing their hair because only they had freedom of hair-doing. […]