Tightening the Bonds of Friendship(Kumori)

The light of the spring time sun filtered through the windows of the office of the Ritsuko Miyamae, falling over the desk facing the window. Everything on the desk, in the entire office was in its place. Not a sheet of paper, nor a pencil was out of place. Even the chair was neatly tucked into the desk. The office contained a desk, with a chair tucked into it, and two filing cabinets on the left wall, to the left of the door. Two book shelves stood to the right of the desk, facing the door. All the books were in sorted in three different ways. Genre, author, then alphabetical or numerical order. But even those were sorted out alphabetically. A small settee was against the wall facing the window, Ritsu's bag sitting on the ground on one side of the settee, her shoes on the other.

The door opened and in stepped Ritsu. Her hair was tied up, and she still wore her outfit from class.  She quickly went through a pattern of checking the paperwork on her desk, filing away what she had finished, then sorting out what needed doing next, before she picked up her bag and shoes and left. She headed back to the gymnasium and, after a quick wash, changed into her suit, before she headed back to the main building.

She entered the teachers lounge and walked over to her desk. It was just as neat and ordered as her entire office had been. Unlike some of the desks of some of her workmates. She placed her bag next to her desk and carefully sat on her chair, tucking herself into the desk. She sorted out what paperwork she had to sort out, then looked at the clock, before she glanced at the door as it opened and smiled.

Work could be so incredibly, tediously boring sometimes! Science was a field with plenty of potential to be fascinating - absolutely limitless possibilities as its laws were written and rewritten. Teenage girls sometimes failed to show any interest in what fascinated Kumori Kojima though, at least when rumors went around about who was dating who. Honestly she was glad that at least she was teaching dance as well since that seemed to get the girls' attention a bit more on those days. They hadn't appreciated her jokes about Neils Bohr today, so Kumori was in a bit of a funk as she headed back to her office.

That is, until she noticed that the door to a coworker's office had been left open for her to investigate. Ritsuko Miyamae was the entrancing gymnastics teacher at Fukui whom had a past with Kumori from a few years back. Just after Kumori had left Fukui as a student. She had been in touch regularly since then and they'd met up for a few stress relieving breathers in the following time. Now that they worked in the same school she had the opportunity to touch base more regularly. Today being how it'd been she needed to blow off some steam. Without a knock she just opened the door and slipped inside with a smile gracing her face. Always stylish, Ritsuko sat there in a suit which flattered her shapes quite nicely.

"Miyamae-sensei, how nice to find you in your office," Kumori spoke to her before sitting down on the edge of Ritsuko's desk, "Today has been especially frustrating for me.. but seeing you brightens my day on its own. How are you?"