Momoshiro Takeshi//the key to my lock\\11

Recap: "That's it." I affirmed. "Let's go then." I grabbed his hand and we climbed down the tree, with Momo turning red again.

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He lead me to his house. Oh, did I say 'lead'? Hell, he walked so SLOWLY I constantly had to turn around and wait for him.

"Is that how fast you normally walk?" I asked incredulously.

"Hey! You walk fast!" He panted. I noticed he had to jog to keep up with me. And I wasn't even walking my fastest.

"I do?"

"YEAH!!"

"It's not my fastest speed."

"NANI?! IT'S NOT?!"

"Nope."

"Then what is?"

"Wanna race to find out?"

"Fine. Race you to that tree." He pointed to some random tree some 50m++ from where we stood.

"On. 1..." I readied myself.

"2..."

"3!!!" We both shouted and sprinted off. My feet pounded on the ground as I pulled my bag closer to my body to reduce air resistance. Oh shit. I forgot to put down my bag.

"First!!" I hit the tree and turned around. No one. I turned behind me. And can you believe it? Momo was still running. He touched about 3 seconds later.

"You can really run man. And with that bag." He goggled at me, panting. "Hey! Ypu're not even panting! How good are you?"

"But I wasn't even sprinting. That's why I'm not panting." I argued.

"Gosh how d'you train?" His eyes were bigger than saucers.

"Swimming and running 5km each per morning. Then there's morning swimming practice at school. And finally at night when I coach my neighbour's children I also swim myself." I counted off my fingers.

"With all that you still have time to do homework and housework? Mind, you train more than Mamushi- and he trains a lot."

"Yeah, why not? Homework's easy. And housework's not that bad either."

"Wow you must be really smart or something to say that homework's easy."

"Isn't it?" I asked in disbelief.

"Of course not!" He cried out.

"Well, it is for me."

"You're a genius, know that? How much did you score for the last math test?" Momo inquired.

"100%."