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It was safe to say that Midori wasn't expecting the girl to grind her bike to a halt so suddenly, and now all of a sudden she was afeared that she might've startled the poor girl into bolting the other direction. If that were to happen, then there was no [i]way[/i] she could catch up. Realizing that she'd have to run after all, Midori took off after the brown-haired girl, only to be forced into stopping just as abruptly, lest she run straight into another boy. Thankfully the collision didn't actually come to pass, but still...

[color=00a651]"Hey, watch where you're...!"[/color] Midori turned to face the boy, only to find that he'd already walked all the way around her, and most likely into the store, without much of a second thought, [color=00a651][i]'Jackass.'[/i][/color]

Now that she thought about it, that boy was wearing a very similar uniform to Midori's, and he looked to be about the same age. No doubt this meant the two of them would in the same school, which wasn't surprising since there was only one high school Kurosuoba even [i]had[/i]. But it was also very possible that the two of them would be in the same class as well, much to Midori's dismay. 

In any case, catching up to the boy so she could have a few choice [i]words[/i] with him wouldn't be a difficult task for Midori at all, but for now she turned her head back around and kept going, managing to finally catch up to the brown-haired girl just as she turned her bike around. She fell to her knees and was wheezing heavily by the end of her run, and had been clutching her chest as though she'd already suffered from a heart attack. Midori looked towards the girl with eyes wide open, as if to portray that she was in agony.

[color=00a651]"You need to not... make me run down... this entire way... ever again... for [i]one[/i] thing..."[/color] Midori said through her panting, desperately trying to get a deep enough inhale before feeling the need to exhale again.

...

Eventually, Midori was able to stabilize her breathing, and found the strength to stand up again. Her knees may have looked to have taken a hit from her sudden collapse, but the injuries to them were minor at worst. The only real way Midori could've been hurt was out of embarrassment, for the fact that she couldn't even run a single length of footpath without her legs caving in like that, but even then, this girl had never given the slightest hint that she was of the judgmental type... well, at least not as far as Midori recalled.

[color=00a651]"Oh my god, why would people [i]torture[/i] themselves like this?"[/color] Midori asked, almost forgetting for a second that the girl she was trying to talk to was right there, [color=00a651]"Actually, before you answer that, I wanna ask you something else. My dad's coming over to visit us for a few days, and my older brother and I are trying to find somewhere for him to stay. Do you think there'd be a room free in that ryokan that you and your mom work in? I'd greatly appreciate it, miss... uh... Kinuye, I wanna say? Kaede? Kazue? Something else along those lines that I'm sure I'm missing...?"[/color]

Midori snapped her fingernails a few times, trying to come with more names that she could spitball in hopes that they'd match the face. She knew that the girl's first name had three syllables in it and that it started with a K. But it was evident that Midori was drawing a blank...