"Oh really, but it's ok that you aren't the best in sports, you're probably better in mental tasks; talking of mental tasks, how is the chess club?"
"I leaved the club already only a few days after, I love playing chess but alone, chess is not a team sport like soccer or basketball."
"Seems reasonable but don't you maybe want to compete at the festival anyways, even if you lose it doesn't matter?!"
"I don't want to blame myself and even if which discipline?"
"Maybe relay race?"
"I don't know, I don't want to blame myself, does everyone needs to run four-hundred meter or only one hundred??"
"I think the small ones where only grades compete against themselves is one-hundred meter and the big one where the best team from every grade competes is four-Hundred meter."
"Would you also compete in some discipline?"
"Also relay run, I think with you it can be funny even when we are losing; last year we even made it in the final big race but one of us was moving in a different country, you could maybe get his place, he was also not the best , how does this sound, ha-ha!"
"Ok let's give it a shot, we could at first just try it if I am even capable for it, can we use the race place from our school also on weekends, there only three weeks left, we should begin already tomorrow, ok?"
"Great and of course we can use the school place on weekends, I will text you later when, I also need to them if they can tomorrow, see you, hey before you go do you mind if I say Julian instead of your after name, you can also call me Kaito if you want?"
"Why is this guy looking at me like me with such dog eyes, like an innocent dog that is a bit shy to ask his owner to play with him, but why should I say no to him, to be honest I like this guy."
"Y-yeah sure why not Kaito?"
"Ha-ha right Julian, I call or write you then if they also can come, bye!"
"To be honest I don't know what I should say to competing at the sports festival, it only brings much if for example an underdog suddenly places first or at least in the big race or placing low could potentially lower my popularity but to compare myself to me at the beginning of the school year I am much more popular, I think beside maybe training for the race I should also do that ranking I was thinking before and it could be that I am maybe already in the top one-thousand-five-hundred of the whole school; this seems like much but the truth is that the most people are not well known outside their class maybe even completely unknown, it makes more sense to make the ranking only the top one-thousand of the most popular people because everyone else is not important!"
"Koharu was telling me after I got kicked out of the chess club telling me about the student council and that this is the most popular group in school, at first I should observe them to make the first places clear, observing them will not only show the dynamics and popularity of the group but also how I am not going to be!"
"I just should sleep and look if the relay race is maybe worth it!"
"Hello Kaito, how are you?"
"Good, and you?"
"Also, looks like were the first ones ha-ha.
"Let's go already to the race place and warm up."
"Huff, huff, I this, huff, fucking warm up, huff, I thought I will die, I am even more unathletic as I thought, huff!"
"Hey Julian, are you okay, you don't seem to?!"
"Huff, huff, I am good, but I am very unathletic as I see now!"
"Ok just make a little pause; oh, there my friends are coming, HELLO, HERE!!!"
"Hey, Okita!"
"Hey, Abeno!"
"Julian these are our teammates!"
"Huff, cool he-he."
"So, Julian this are Okita Shion, and this is Abeno Ibuki
"Okita, Abeno, this is Mercer Julian, the one that make take the place of Kurobane, what do you guys say!"
Both burst out laughing like there was not tomorrow.
"We both observed the warmup back there and from this little he is already exhausted, are you serios, ha-ha!"
"S-such a humiliation, this, this annoys me so bad ghhr, but I need to calm down!"
"Hey Abeno calms down! To be honest yes it was funny, but it is enough now!
"Hey you, your Mercer Julian, the transfer student, right? When was the last time you were doing some kind of sports beside in school; going for a walk doesn't counts!"
"Wait let me think…"
"How the fuck long do you need, you don't need to say an exact date but a bit when?!"
"Never!"
Abeno couldn't longer hold his laugh, he was rolling in the dirt, making his clothes dirty, laughing so much he can't he even couldn't breathe anymore and then Okita stared at Abeno, it was not as Okita was really so serios but Kaito was going to Okita to calm him down and suddenly also Okita began to laugh.
"Hey Kaito, is everything ok with those two." Julian whispered to Kaito.
"You don't need to whisper there are best friends there always like this, keep your head up, you have strong emotions right know, use them and run, I set a timer!"
So, while they laughed, he was going to race.
"One, two, three, GO!"
Suddenly also both were looking at his run with excitement and…
"Julian, your run is under average, your only average for girls!"
"Fuck, this is frustrating, am I really this week???"
"Hey Mercer, just train with us, if you are good enough to compete, good if not, at least you tried!!!"
"Hey, aren't you not laughing anymore, hu?!"
"Should we continue or what, all jokes beside me and Abeno didn't mean this serios."
"You what time do I need to hit for the one-hundred-meter run and which for the four-hundred-meter run, I am to be better than I need to be!"