<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/a/ac/Taro03.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Taro Ikeda (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=257738.msg12730054#msg12730054)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Track & Field<br/><strong>Time:</strong>Flashback - a few days before school starts, very early morning<br/><strong>With:</strong>Shizuma<br/><hr/>Taro slowly withdrew his hand from Shizuma's arm. It was a rather intimate gesture, he realized, now that their conversation was turning to less personal topics. "Oh, I have time. My big plan for this morning was to wait till the cafeteria opens, have breakfast, and just hang around a bit, see if I might run into someone I know from last year."<br/><br/>He, too, cast an eye at the scoreboard clock. There was still a good bit of time till the cafeteria opened at 7. He didn't mind getting to know Shizuma better, but there were practical matters to consider, aside from their respective schedules.<br/><br/>"Why don't you join me there later? We can have breakfast together, if you like? It's still a little while till they open, but that gives me time to hit the showers and get changed. And perhaps you would like to get changed too? Some teachers may find that your outfit..." Taro tried to put on a serious face and managed with some difficulty, before he continued in an imitation of a deeper, older voice "lacks the proper decorum Denai Academy expects from its students."<br/><br/>A wide smile, almost a grin, split his face. Now that Shizuma had decided to drop the – in his mind very unnecessary - sama when addressing him, he figured he could allow himself a small joke.