We were walking through the garden, heading towards the dormitory. Roy wasn’t in hurry, so I just slowly followed him, while admiring the view. He wasn’t saying anything, so I didn’t say anything either, but I had a few questions for him. Well they weren’t really important, so I just looked at his back, while thinking about a few things.

Things that I needed to do, in order for her to become someone he can count on. Of course, the decision will be mostly hers, but did it to Roy, so I should take responsibility for my actions. This little… play of mine. I didn’t know that he would take it so seriously.

You are good, as long as you have one person you can count on… Is it truly the truth? Can you truly say that, and be sure, that what you are saying is true? People need more than a one person… More than two, or three… And if Roy will continue defending me like this, then he might as well have nothing.

We were now just passing the lake, and I looked at it. As always, there weren’t any people near it, but it still looked nice.

“Hey, Roy. Remember when you told me, that we will go to the lake to have fun? It’s a shame that we never could.” I said those words, and the boy before me stopped.

He stood there for a minute, not saying anything, and I didn’t say anything either. I just looked at him, and finally he turned around, with a small smile on his face.

“Want to go now?” Roy the said, but after that laughed a little “What am I even saying…” he then added, and looked at me.

There was sadness in his eyes, and he seemed to not know, what to do. I was still silent, and I just stared at him. I knew what he might have been thinking about, but I couldn’t make any decisions for him.

If this plan of mine was going to work, then his every next decision, and every next decision of hers, will need to be their own.

Roy once again smiled, but this time there wasn’t any sadness in his smile at all. It was just a big, cheerful smile, of a young boy.

“Let’s go! I don’t care about anything! I just want to swim!” he then shouted, and started undressing himself, while walking towards the lake.

“Okay…” I just replied shortly, and slowly followed him.

Uniform, trousers, boots. He was taking them all off, while walking, and it looked a little comical. I didn’t undress myself, and just looked at the boy, that was now standing before the lake, in only his underwear.

“Hey! Take those things off! We are going to swim!”

“I’m right after you…”

“Well…” Roy replied, and turned around to face the lake “As you wish!” he then shouted, and jumped right into the water.

He had a muscular body. Of course, it wasn’t even near those guys you sometimes see in TV, flexing while being painted like an orange, but he had a body that girls would like. He was thin, with visible muscles, and he was also tall.

“Hey! Now you! It’s warm!”

The sun was still high, and we had some time before we would need to come back to dormitory, but looking at him like that, made a little smile appear on my face.

“You know what? I don’t really feel like swimming… I should probably return to the dormitory.” as I said those words, I slowly started to turn around, and heard his panicked shouts.

“Hey! Hey you! Where do you think you are going! You want only me to look like an idiot! You little…” I heard his voice, and saw as he grabbed some water into his hands.

After that he threw it at me, spraying some of it on my uniform, and trousers.

“H-Hahaha! You look like you wet yourself!” Ryan shouted, and pointed at my crotch. Indeed, weirdly big amount of water landed there, and it made it look pretty bad.

“Hahahaha! Did you wet yourself?! Now, now, let’s go swimming toge… Hey! Wait! Leave my clothes alone!”

“Why should I? Only my clothes are going to be wet?” I asked, while holding his uniform, trousers, and boots.

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Please!” Roy shouted, and after that I put down his clothes.

Then, I slowly started to undress, and he just looked at me while smiling. I thought that it was a little creepy, and maybe Lily wasn’t his objective after all, but I didn’t say anything, and went inside the water.

“Oh… It’s really is warm.” I said, and he laughed.

“Of course it’s warm! Now, you want to swim?”

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“Where to?”

“You see this hut there? Let’s swim there, and who gets there first, wins.” Roy started explaining to me, the rules of his little challenge, but for some reason I felt danger while thinking about swimming to that place.

“I don’t want to get near this place…” I said, and and he looked at me with a weird look.

“Oh, I understand. You are scared, aren’t you? Scared that I might…”

“Yeah, I’m scared, so you win.” I interrupted him, and he looked at me with disappointment.

“It doesn’t make me happy…” he once again grabbed some water into his hands “At all!” and then he threw it at me.

After that he started laughing, and swimming around. I just played with the water like a child. I wasn’t good at swimming in my old world, and this body that I had wasn’t helping at all. I was weak, and not used to long exercise, so I just looked at him, and enjoyed the view.

For me, it was a nice way of spending some of my free time, but also a way to make him relieve his stress. I’m sure that he had many stupid thoughts, while we were walking to the dormitory, and I didn’t want him to have them.

Just looking at him now, playing happily in the water, made me feel good.

“Hey! Come on! Join me!” Roy shouted, and looked at me with a smile.

“No, I’m good.” I just responded, while walking in the low water. It was reaching to my chest, and pleasantly bounced against me.

As I played with the water, that I had in my hands, looking at its reflection, I noticed that the smile on Roy’s face disappeared. He now looked at me, the same way he looked when we were near the university.

His eyes were filled with sadness, and he stared at me for some time.

“Something happened?” I asked, and he smiled briefly.

“I really am an idiot, aren’t I?” Roy then said, and looked at the sky, while slowly floating on his back.

“Yeah, you are.” I replied, and heard a little laughter from him.

“I saw a girl blushing at me, and I went crazy like some kind of stupid monkey…” as he was saying it, he splashed some water with his hands “But everyone is the same, aren’t they? She was also the same… I’m so stupid.”

“Yeah, you are stupid.” I replied, and he once again laughed.

“Shouldn’t you be comforting me right now?”

“Is this what you want?”

“No… It’s not...”

When he said those words, he slowly started swimming towards me. I looked at him, as he approached me, and when he was two meters before me, he stopped. He wasn’t saying anything, and I didn’t say anything either. I just stared at him, and after a moment, he sighed deeply.

“I’m sorry Matthew… Sorry that I’m such an idiot.” Roy then said, and looked at the surface of the water. He was looking at it, until I splashed his face with it.

“H-Hey?! What was that for?!”

“Dunno… Your face was irritating me, so I just did it.” as I said those words, once again he looked at me with sadness, and I splashed him once again.

“Hey! Stop it!” Roy shouted, and this time he splashed me.

We might have looked like two idiots, playing with the water, but I didn’t care about it. I just stayed there, and after that we had a little battle. Two children, splashing their faces, while laughing out loud. That would be a good description of what we were doing, and yet I didn’t care, and he didn’t care either.

“Hahaha! You are all wet! Just look at yourself, there is a snot coming down from your nose!” I looked at Roy, as he started laughing, and pointing at my face.

He was happy, and I was happy too, but this happiness of ours couldn’t last forever. He can’t just stay with me, and defend me whenever someone is talking behind my back. I should be the one taking care of myself.

“You are not an idiot…” I said quietly, but he heard me clearly “You are not an idiot, and you shouldn’t apologise for things, that you didn’t do... “

“What are you talking about? I told you that…”

“Can’t you just listen to me?!” I shouted, and he looked at me surprised “I don’t want you to pity me. I don’t want you to be my friend, only because you pity me.”

“What?! Of course it isn’t the reason… This is what you think? That I pity you?!” he asked, and looked at me with sad eyes. He was disappointed in me, and I knew it.

“Come on Matthew, you know that this isn’t the case. I like you, you are a great person, and we…”

“We should probably go back to the dormitory…” I interrupted him, and looked him into his eyes “Let’s stop going to the school together. I heard that people are talking about you… They call you a dog lover…”

“What?! You think I care!? I don’t give a damn, about what they are saying!” Roy shouted, while looking at me with anger.

“But I do. I should go now…”

“Matthew! Stop! What do you think you are saying!? This is what our friendship is to you?! This is what you think?! This is what you truly think?! That I pity you?!”

“You should swim a little bit longer… I don’t want people to see us walking together.” I just replied, and went for my clothes.

I was still wet, so jumped a few times, to get rid of excess water. After that I grabbed my trousers, and I put them on. As I was getting dressed, I noticed that Roy was looking at me.

“Matthew… Don’t say things like this… Aren’t we friends?” he said, and smiled. After that he splashed some water on me, and laughed “Who cares about them? I don’t give a damn, about what they are saying. I know you don’t mean it.”

I listened to him, and looked him into his eyes. He tried to look happy, but he wasn’t. The things he was talking about, I wanted them too, but I decided. I decided to help the moon, meet the sun.

“Stop it… It’s disgusting.” I replied, and started walking.

He didn’t say anything afterwards, nor did I. I didn’t even look back at him, because if I did, it would defeat the purpose of what I have done.

Lily… She’s too emotional, fake, and she plays dirty, but she is a girl in love. I can’t blame her for wanting to be with him. Well, even the moon can reflect some of the sunlight. I hope I’m not wrong, because there is no logic in what I’m doing.

Yeah, there is no logic in trusting her, and yet I do.

I thought about those things, as I walked towards the dormitory.

Now I needed the moon to befriend the commoner…