The young girl in a school uniform quickly runs over to the guy with her arms out, ready for an embrace as she yells "Broki-chan" repeatedly whilst grinning ear to ear. Her blue eyes were sparkling, almost making her smile look even more cute as her brown hair frolicked in the wind. However, as she got closer and closer to Broki-chan, her voice began to sound different and more annoyed than before. The girl was just about to hug Broki-chan before Broki-chan woke up and opened his eyes to see a girl in the same uniform as the girl in Broki-chan's dream. Her green eyes were piercing into Broki-chan's soul as snow fell on both of them and Broki-chan realised that he was lying in the freezing snow.

Broki-chan slowly gets up as the girl yells out "Wake up, you lazy lump! What were you thinking sleeping in the snow, you could have gotten sick". Broki-chan looks at the girl who has her arms crossed before replying in an apologetic tone "Ah, sorry about that Sakura, I couldn't resist closing my eyes for a moment. Can't blame me for it, after all, I was working all night". Sakura grits her teeth and grumbles "Don't think your excuses will work on me. I was also working all night and unlike you, I'm not slacking off so that's not an excuse".

Broki-chan sighs as begins stretching and says "I know, I know. My bad. I promise I'll be more attentive-". Broki-chan pauses, noticing Sakura's short dirty blonde hair beaming in the snow, making him get slightly side-tracked as he says "By the way, your hair looks really nice today. I mean, it always looks nice... but today it's... um, especially nice."

Sakura is taken aback and blushes but attempts to maintain her composure as she says "Oh... um, thanks, I guess. Didn't expect you to notice. I-". Broki-chan cuts her off, completely unaware that she was blushing as he says "Yeah I know. Task at hand, no distractions. Your hair just caught my attention, that's all". Sakura goes red as she says in a flustered tone "Well, I- um- thank you but ugh- stop trying to change the subject Broki''.

Broki-chan, who's paying no attention to her expression, says in an apologetic tone "Ah right sorry, I just gotta remember to focus, absolutely no distractions". Sakura's gaze softens and she stares at Broki-chan and mutters "Yeah distractions... like his beautiful blue eyes- urgh. Focus, Sakura, focus". Broki-chan looked back at Sakura and asked in a confused tone "Hm? Did you say something Sakura?"

Sakura goes to say something, but she's cut off by the loud sound of a warning siren. Sakura sighs as she says, "Great now I gotta go to class, bye Broki, I'll see you at lunch". Before Broki-chan could finish saying "Oh okay", Sakura has already run away to class. Broki-chan is left to himself so he walks around the building he woke up nearby. It was a stereotypical, 2 stories tall high school, its windows having snow built up on them and ice crystals hanging on the roof as it looks like the snow is about to fall off at any second. As Broki-chan was walking around the school, he noticed a small desolate shed that looked like it hadn't been touched for years but another thing he noticed is that he had a really bad feeling. At first, Broki-chan tried to shake this feeling but no matter how much he tried to ignore or get rid of this feeling, he just couldn't get rid of it.

He just couldn't get rid of the feeling that he was being watched.

Broki-chan quickly decided that to get rid of this feeling he should just quickly turn around, which he does. When he turned, he quickly saw something vanish out of his view. It was a bit of short black hair on someone's head that just as quickly vanished as Broki-chan turned. Broki-chan was shocked that someone was watching him but before he could ponder who, the lunch bell rang making him groan as that meant that he was back on the job.

In only a matter of mere minutes, a swarm of girls were surrounding him asking him for a picture. He was expecting this of course, he was their school's winter mascot who only came out during the school day after all, no wonder they wanted to take a couple of photos of him. After the photos were all said and done, he began to look around for Sakura however before he could take one more step, a short girl with short black hair jumped on him from the bushes, hugging him as she loudly exclaimed "Broki-chan!". Broki-chan sighs as he picks up the girl and gently places her down as he says in a slightly annoyed tone "Hello Miyoko".

"So how are you, Broki-chan," said Miyoko enthusiastically.

"I'm doing fine, were you waiting in the bushes to try and scare me?"

"Okay I admit I was, did I scare you?" said Miyoko with her grey eyes widening.

"no," said Broki-chan in a monotone voice.

Miyoko's smile slightly fades as she sighs before her smile comes back and she quickly says, "So I guess I'll have to try better so how has your day been?"

Miyoko takes a step forward closer to Broki-chan who pretends not to notice it as he says, "Oh my day has been pretty uneventful, how has your day been, Miyoko?"

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"oh, my day has been pretty busy so far but that's just because I'm one of the art students and we have one of our big assignments due".

"Oh, that reminds me Broki-chan, I drew a new design for the winter school mascot, hold on let me just look for it" said Miyoko as he grabbed a sketchbook from the bushes and quickly skims through it before landing on a page and showing it to Broki-chan. It was a sketch of a snowman in a girl's school uniform with a human-like face and arms. "So, uh well it- so are the arms a part of the costume or?" said Broki-chan, conflicted about the design.

"Oh yeah it is, the hair isn't supposed to be a part of the costume as well you already have the haircut and you're our winter school mascot after all so what do you think of the design?" said Miyoko, grinning at him.

"Oh- well- it's- uh- it's nice, I like uh... it but I usually like what you normally do" said Broki-chan trying not to say that he dislikes the design. Miyoko stops grinning and gives Broki-chan a caught-off-guard look like her pupils dilate and she blushes. She doesn't say anything for a few seconds as she stares at him before asking "You... you like what I normally do?" Before Broki-chan could reply their conversation was interrupted by a loud "Broki" causing both of their heads to turn in its direction. It was Sakura who ran up to them while holding two lunch boxes. Before Broki-chan could say anything, Sakura interrupts him, yelling "Broki where were you? I've been looking everywhere".

Miyoko, still flustered, attempts to make a hasty retreat by meekly saying "I can see you guys are having a moment or something so I'm just gonna g-". "No, you stay here" said Sakura, glaring at her before looking back at Broki-chan and asking while pointing to Miyoko "And who's this and what is she doing with you, are you really trying to skip out on me?". Before Broki-chan or Miyoko could reply, Miyoko finally sees her escape, her friend group as they yell out her name. Quickly she says "Oh that's my friend group, I gotta go bye" before she quickly rushes over to them. Both Broki-chan and Sakura heard Miyoko's friend group joke about the situation, however when Broki-chan was looking over at them, he noticed something, or someone per-say.

It was the girl from his dream, side-eying both of them before their group went around the corner.

Broki-chan didn't have that much time to think about it as Sakura was still annoyed about the situation but she didn't say anything as she quickly pulled Broki-chan over to a table and they both sat down and Broki-chan began eating whilst Sakura twirled her fork around. Whilst Broki-chan was eating, Sakura asked him "So how was your day, what did you do today?"

"Oh, nothing special, I just walked around, had some photos taken, basically just the usual, what about you, what did you do today?" said Broki-chan looking at her, making her quickly stop twirling her fork and look away.

She quickly says, "Oh uh- nothing- nothing in particular, why would- did you ask that?"

"Oh well because you asked me what I did today, so I just asked you."

"oh right... So what did you do yesterday?"

"same I did today, walked around the building, had some photos taken and had lunch with you, that's basically what it's like every day except for the weekends".

"oh right... so... who was that girl you were talking to, Broki?"

"Oh her? that was Miyoko she's just an acquaintance and I don't see her as anything else if that's what you're thinking but yeah and-"

Broki-chan is cut off by a loud 'ahem' which makes him turn around to see Miyoko and a girl with brown hair and around the same height as Sakura along with the rest of their friend group in the background. "Hi guys, I'm Tamiko in case you didn't know and sorry to interrupt your lunch but as the class rep, I need to have a little talk with Sakura and Miyoko about the situation which happened before, you don't mind do you? It'll only take a few minutes," said Tamiko as she sweetly smiles. Sakura doesn't say anything as she quietly gets up and walks away into the school with Tamiko and Miyoko, leaving the friend group there.

Almost immediately after Sakura, Miyoko and Tamiko left, they began talking amongst themselves. "So, what do you think that was about?" said one of the girls.

"Let's be real, it's probably something Miyoko said, she always loves stirring up drama with Sakura because her best friend is class-rep so she's basically untouchable unless you want to get into serious trouble with the school" said one of the other girls.

The other girl who hasn't spoken yet continues to say nothing as the two girls just ignore her as she stares at Broki-chan with a look almost like she's trying to recognise Broki-chan but can't. "Do you think they'll attack her?" said one of the girls.

"Noa!" exclaimed one of the girls.

"What? It's not like it's out of character for them to do some questionable things to get the upper hand" said Noa.

"I mean you're not wrong, but you can't say things like that, it's just rude besides what makes you think Miyoko would attack anyone, she doesn't have a single violent bone in her body, most she'd do is probably scream if Sakura gets too violent after all didn't, she scratch someone's face with her nail like a year or so ago?"

"Oh yeah true, I completely forgot Miyoko and Tamiko told us that happened, oh that's bad but at least Tamiko and Miyoko know how she acts, oh it must be so scaring being around someone like that but thank goodness, our class representative is on it, wait Miyoko was with Sakura and Broki-chan, oh Miyoko must be so brave to be with someone like that, maybe that's why she looked so upset"

"Oh yeah true for all we know Sakura could have threatened both her and Broki-chan's lives or threatened their families, I feel bad for Broki-chan to have to hang out with her. Broki-chan gives them a look of 'Hey guys I'm right here I can hear you' but they ignore him and continue gossiping about Sakura and what happened earlier. After a few minutes of loud chatter, the girl who was staring at him asks the other girls "Hey guys maybe we should bring Broki-chan into the conversation. I mean he was there, he would have seen what happened".