I live my life in Tokyo

Higuchi Madoka and Sakurajima Mai were standing by the window in the corridor. From time to time, one or two classmates and teachers passed by. On the playground outside the window, students were taking physical education classes. It was a thriving scene at the beginning of the school year.

She sensitively noticed that Sakurajima Mai's gaze was always looking towards the classroom, so she also looked towards the classroom.

There weren't many students left in the classroom. The next class was home economics, so everyone left early.

Higuchi Madoka's gaze moved past the laughing girls and stopped at the boy who was sleeping on his Chinese textbook.

"Eh?"

Sakurajima Mai hesitated for a moment, then a familiar smile appeared on her face. "He is my childhood sweetheart, but we haven't seen each other for several years, so our relationship has become a little estranged."

"Dong-chan, can you give me some advice? How can I make him notice me?"

Mai Sakurajima pulled up her skirt and turned around, her thighs wrapped in black stockings vaguely visible under her skirt.

"Well... Actually, I'm not good at this kind of thing..."

Higuchi Yuanka scratched her cheek, looking a little conflicted.

Higashi Ruri, played by Higuchi Madoka, is the class study committee member. She is very serious about people and things, but is not good at emotional matters. She and Kashima Yu are class committee members, but the two often quarrel because Higuchi Madoka can't stand Kashima Yu's leisurely attitude towards work.

"I think we can start with the basics, um... like going home together or something like that?" As she thought about it, Higuchi Yuanxiang's face turned red. She didn't know what unhealthy topic she was thinking about, and her tone became stuttering. "No, no, no, that would develop too fast, no!"

"Donghae, wake up."

Sakurajima Mai shook Higuchi Madoka's shoulders, and the two girls smiled and hugged each other in the afternoon sun. They whispered to each other and walked down the stairs together.

Kaede Sakakibara was tidying up his school uniform. He was originally quite nervous, but when he saw Uehara beside him biting his fingers and reading the manuscript over and over again, he relaxed for some reason.

Next is a bullying scene, which is also the first appearance of the third male character. In this scene, Kitahara Hiroshi, played by Sakakibara Kaede, is extorted for money by the scoundrels in the class, and a fight breaks out in the toilet among only a few people.

"What's wrong?" Noticing Uehara's gaze, Sakakibara Kaede asked from the side.

"No, I don't think you're nervous at all, Sakakibara."

Sakakibara shook his head. "I just look relaxed. It's probably a matter of my mentality."

"You're really suitable to be an actor with this mentality." Uehara said, resting his chin on his hand. At the end, he added, "To create a realistic fighting effect, to be honest, I really want to create such a scene, but it's unlikely. I'll try not to use heavy hands for a while, and then it'll depend on how you react to the situation, Sakakibara-kun."

Sakakibara Kaede nodded silently. In his life, he had never been bullied, nor had he bullied others. He was not very noticeable in the crowd. In an ordinary drama, he might have played the role of classmate A.

He has already figured out how to act out Kitahara Hiroshi's coldness, but it is a bit difficult to play a boy who fights back when being bullied.

He has already dived to the coral layer and has reached a certain level of understanding of Kitahara Hiroshi. If he dives deeper, it will become an emotional performance.

Kitahara Hiroshi's habitual movements are not written in the manuscript, so what kind of performance will make the character of Kitahara Hiroshi memorable?

"This is our rivalry, although it's not the first time we've worked together."

Uehara grinned, revealing his big white teeth, "I am no longer the same person I was that day. I won't be caught off guard again this time."

"That's what I want to say too."

The two men shook hands and shook their hands in the air a few times.

Assistant Director Nakagawa, who was standing by, saw that the two were ready, whispered a message into the communicator, and then nodded slightly to them.

"let's start."

The two looked at each other, and with the assistant director's instructions, the camera focused again.

——At the same time, in the classroom.

"stand up!"

"what?"

Kaede Sakakibara's precious sleep time was rudely interrupted. He frowned and opened his eyes with indelible fatigue in his eyes. He looked at the classmate who disturbed his sleep with confusion.

"who are you?"

"Zaiyuan, Zaiyuan, can't you even remember your classmates' names?" Uehara narrowed his eyes, with an indelible hostility in his eyes, and his tone was mixed with coldness. The thugs No. 1 and No. 2 beside him lifted Sakakibara Kaede up and pushed her against the wall.

Sakakibara Kaede covered his throat and couldn't stop coughing. His glasses fell to the ground and were stepped on by Uehara who was walking slowly towards him, breaking them into two halves, with the frame breaking in the middle.

"Ah... my glasses."

The boy lay on the ground, rescuing the life-threatening belongings from Uehara's feet. He moved quickly and gathered the remains in his arms in a few moves. . . The frame was broken, but the lens was not.

This is a blessing, as he doesn’t have the money to buy a new pair of glasses now.

"Hey!"

Uehara made a "pooh" sound, and a light gray footprint was immediately printed on Sakakibara Kaede's school uniform.

"You...what are you going to do?"

"Haha, what? What do you think?" The malice on the face of the gangster No. 1 could no longer be hidden, "My brothers are short of pocket money, so I want to borrow some from you."

Thug No. 2 asked humbly, "Brother Zaiyuan, why don't we go to the men's room? People passing by outside might see us."

Uehara sneered, grabbed Sakakibara Kaede by the collar, and led him through the corridor surrounded by his two younger brothers.

Sakakibara Kaede struggled, using both his hands and feet, but he had no chance to resist the trio. His tie was crooked, his school uniform was dirty from friction, but he never let go of his glasses.

"Bah!"

The boy was roughly pushed into the toilet, stumbled back a few steps, and collapsed beside the sink.

"Beiyuan, I said, did you hear me?"

Referring to the boy's tie again, Uehara's face darkened as he repeated what he had just said, "We are classmates, why bother?"

"You...what do you want?" The boy clenched his teeth, his voice trembling, his knees shaking, and stared at Uehara.

"...I hate the look in your eyes."

He turned sideways to take the basin of water and poured it over Sakakibara Kaede's head mercilessly.

Her black hair fell softly on her temples and her blue eyes looked empty.

The two hooligans behind him laughed so hard that they held their bellies. Zaiyuan let go of Sakakibara Kaede's collar with some disgust and wiped their wet hands on his shirt.

He kicked the boy to the ground, took out the wallet from his trouser pocket and started to rummage through it roughly.

"Tsk, poor bastard."

Zaiyuan waved the thirty thousand yen in his hand and rebuked him mercilessly: "He looks like a decent person, but I didn't expect him to be a poor bastard."

"Ahahaha, who is this photo with? It's mom."

He took out the photo from his wallet and laughed unabashedly under the toilet light, "At this age, you're still taking a photo with your mother. Isn't that insane?"

"That's right, are you still drinking milk and wetting the bed?"

"What high school student? An elementary school student, I guess."

The young man who had lost his power a moment ago suddenly jumped up. He grabbed Zaiyuan's hand, anger burning in his blue eyes, "Give it back... Give it back to me!"

His frail body was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot in front of Yuan.

"Haha, this is fun!"

Zaihara punched Sakakibara Kaede in the chest, and the latter fell to the ground again in pain. He tried to support the ground with his hands, his teeth gritting, and he hugged Zaihara's legs. In extreme anger, he turned into a beast that would devour anyone it wanted, and bit Zaihara's calf tightly.

"Hiss, get out of here!" Zai Yuan took a breath of cold air, and was so angry at the bite that he rolled up his sleeves and punched the boy in the back. The thugs nearby took the opportunity to add insult to injury and kicked him a few times.

In the middle of the beating, which was as intense as a rainstorm, the school bell rang.

Seeing the boy still holding his pants tightly, Zaiyuan snorted, "It's just a photo, so boring."

He threw the photo on the ground, kicked Sakakibara Kaede hard, and called his two younger brothers to walk out of the toilet.

The water flowed quietly, and the boy's broken body was still shaking. He didn't know where he got the strength from, but he grabbed the falling photo and held it tightly in his hand.

The photo shows a family of three. The father and son are standing in front of a hospital bed, and the mother is lying on the bed. Although her face is pale, her smile is as bright as starlight.

To him, this is the most precious treasure.

He held back his tears because he had made an agreement with his father that men should not cry.

His blue eyes looked ahead blankly. Perhaps, this would be what he would look like in the next three years.

. . .

"What's wrong, Nishida-san?"

Higuchi Madoka saw that Sakurajima Mai looked anxious, as if she was looking for something in the classroom, "Are you looking for your childhood sweetheart?"

“Yeah…” Sakurajima Mai bit her finger. This scene instantly became synonymous with cuteness in the eyes of others. The girls immediately came up and asked Nishida if they needed any help. The boys from the periphery looked at Nishida Orange and Azuma Ruri who were surrounded like princesses, and they all felt eager to do something.

"Sorry, please ask the teacher for leave. I'll be back soon."

In the end, uneasiness overcame the decency she had maintained. Sakurajima Mai's heart was pounding. The unknown situation made her bite her lower lip, and she ran wildly in the corridor after leaving the classroom.

From a distance, she heard the sound of the faucet being turned off in the bathroom. She gradually slowed down her pace and approached the men's room, holding her chest.

"Hiro-chan, are you in there... Is class starting?"

The childhood sweetheart said this as he carefully popped his head out.

The young man knelt on the ground, sorting his wallet expressionlessly. Most of his clothes were wet and there was a faint trace of blood at the corner of his mouth.

"Hiro-chan!"

The girl's forward steps were stopped by the boy's gruff voice.

"do not come!"

"Hong, Hong-chan, what happened? I'll take you to the health room right now!"

"Don't call me sauce!"

The boy rudely shook off the girl's hand, put the broken glasses into his trouser pocket, and stood up with trembling knees.

His breathing was rapid, and he took one step after another, resolutely walking past Sakurajima Mai.

"If you want to be popular, don't talk to people like me."

A silent voice means a thick barrier.

From the very beginning, Kitahara Hiroshi and Nishida Orange were not the same kind of people.

The young man walked with one step light and the other heavy. After walking for a while, he held his chest and leaned against the wall to rest for a while. After a while, he gradually walked down the stairs.

From the beginning, he was alone.

"Eh..."

"why..."

Sakurajima Mai knelt on the ground, a tear appeared in her eye socket, dripped down her smooth cheek, and merged with the water on the ground.

"Hiro...Hiro-chan."

She hugged herself, covered her face with her hands, and cried softly.

. . .

"CUT!"

Qingshan Yang looked at the camera and squinted his eyes comfortably.

As expected of Mai Sakurajima, she has an amazing talent. Has she made progress in such a short time?

Chapter 4: Life is full of ups and downs (k)

"Thanks for your hard work."

After director Aoyama shouted CUT, Mai Sakurajima quickly ran out of the bathroom. She put the towel in her hand on Kaede Sakakibara's wet head and rubbed it like she was rubbing a dog until her black hair was completely clean.

The staff nearby was amused and continued to film the scene.

"Well... okay, thank you very much."

Kaede Sakakibara took off the towel and forced a smile at Mai Sakurajima.

"Hey, Sakakibara-kun, are you okay?"

The perpetrator Uehara and two of his gangsters quickly came to the stairwell. Uehara, who had grown his blond hair back for this role, ran the fastest.

His big hands rubbed Sakakibara Kaede's chest unceremoniously, and he looked anxious, fearing that this kick would cause an accident.

He was focused when acting, and had some control over the weight of his attacks, so his first few kicks were light and did not cause any effective damage.