Augh, why am I thinking of all these things now? Wait, why is the infirmary so far away from the gymnasium!? That makes no sense!
Mumble mumble
What's this noise? Is it uh… what's the name the teacher said again?
"Your name is Chie right?"
She nods
"Sorry Chie I wasn't listening, what did you say?"
"I'm so-sorry for all the trouble I caused you." she says in a low tone looking down. I think she was looking at all the expressions I was making before.
"Don't worry about it Chie, it's not the first time I gave someone a piggyback ride and you are very light. Everything's A-Okay." I say to her with a much friendlier expression.
Chie doesn't react any differently and still has a very low expression. I need to do something about this, think Seiko, think!
"Hey Chie, uh… how was your day?" WHAT!? HOW WAS YOUR DAY!? THAT'S THE BEST YOU COULD DO SEIKO??
"You are not doing so good thinking about it now hehe…" I give an awkward laugh to move on.
Chie lowers her head more. I made things even worse. Come on, think brain!
"Hey, look at this wonderful weather we are having…" I say while directing my attention to the windows of the hallway. Only for dread to set in seeing the very cloudy I forgot about. I can't back down now, I'm too far deep in the sentence!
"O-o-of a lot of dark clo-clouds and with a high chance of rain! Guess the sun was too lazy to show up for work today huh?"
An very awkward silence sets in, this was a complete disaster. 'Mission Cheer up Chie was a complete failure' I thought to myself while lowering my head.
Chuckle
Hm? I hear something. Looking back I see her chuckling from this disaster of attempts. The mission wasn't a failure!
You got it Seiko, now think of something else to continue.
"Hey Chie, do you play video games?" I say as her expression starts to light up. "I played this game called Phoenix Quest a few days ago."
"Yo-you played Phoenix Quest too!? What did you think of it!?" She says speaking then I ever heard speaking anticipating my next answer.
Silence was broken with success!
With the infirmary just a few steps away I say:
"I'll tell you once we get to our destination, brave magician of the west." I say referencing one of the quotes from the game.
"Forward Knight of Fire! We shall visit his lair!" Chie quotes.