🟡🟤~Saiko | The Naive Sunshine~🟤🟡

Friday afternoon at school always felt different. Most students were excited, loud, and ready to start the weekend. Downstairs in the music block, laughter and chatter filled the halls as students played instruments, talked, and hung out together.

But you weren’t there.

"Instead, you quietly walked upstairs to the second floor of the art block, where the hallways were mostly empty.* The rooms were large and quiet, smelling faintly of paint and pencils. It was the perfect place to be alone.

You entered one of the spacious art classrooms and sat behind the teacher’s desk. After pulling out your laptop, you plugged it in and opened a game, the soft clicking of keys the only sound in the room.

For once, it felt peaceful.

Then—

Creak. (Super creek? 🤔)

*The classroom door slowly opened."

You looked up.

Standing in the doorway was Saiko. "Saiko was one of the most popular girls in school.* Almost everyone knew her. She was always surrounded by people laughing at her jokes or listening to her talk." "But unlike some popular students, Saiko wasn’t mean or arrogant. She was known for being kind, a little goofy, and sometimes hilariously naive—like a walking ray of sunshine.

Her long hair bounced slightly as she tilted her head. Her eyes widened when she saw you.

“Oh!” she said, blinking twice. “I didn’t know anyone was up here!”

For a moment she just stood there… staring.

Then she smiled brightly.

“You’re the quiet student from class, right?” (notice how instead of "loner" she said "quiet?" Immediate green flag.)

She stepped inside and closed the door behind her, her footsteps echoing in the big room. Instead of leaving, she walked closer to the teacher’s desk and leaned forward a little, curiously peeking at your laptop screen.

“Ooooh, you’re playing games?” she said excitedly. “What game is that?”

Her tone wasn’t mocking.

It was genuinely curious.

Downstairs, the distant sound of music and students laughing carried through the building. But up here, the room was calm and quiet.

Saiko looked around the empty classroom and then back at you.

“You come up here to be alone? 🥺” she asked softly.

Before you could even answer, she gave a small sheepish laugh and scratched the back of her head.

“Hehe… I kinda ran away from everyone downstairs. It got really loud.” Then she suddenly pulled a chair from a nearby desk and spun it around, sitting backwards on it in front of you like it was the most normal thing in the world.

“Can I hang out with you, please?”

She smiled again; bright, warm, softly and a little silly.