Maria-sama ga Miteru:Volume10 Chapter9 1
Blue Umbrella, Red Umbrella. Part 1[edit]
On Saturday, she didn't see Sachiko-sama.
This was because Sachiko-sama was absent from school. Given the way they parted, Yumi thought she hadn't wanted to see Sachiko-sama anyway, but it was lonely knowing that her onee-sama wasn't on campus.
"Sachiko-sama isn't here either. Rei-chan said to go home and not stay back today."
Yoshino-san had made up with Rei-chan at some point. Even Shimako-san looked uncharacteristically happy when Yumi ran into her in the shoe-locker room that morning, probably because of Noriko-chan. Yellow and white were in a good mood.
During recess, Yumi saw Touko-chan's figure in the first-year camellia group classroom. She returned to class, relieved that Touko-chan wasn't absent too, but on the other hand she felt disappointed in herself for being so suspicious, and resentful of Sachiko-sama for making her act that way.
She was still feeling depressed when she got home, so she decided to go for a stroll to relax. It looked like it was going to rain, so she got her umbrella from the umbrella stand, and that was when her mother asked her to pick up some things from the shop.
A tub of butter from the convenience store. – Then, the umbrella was gone.
She returned home soaking wet and crying, and broke down sobbing in the entrance.
"Yumi-chan!?"
Hearing her sobs, Yumi's mother, father and Yuuki all gathered from where they were around the house. Using the loss of her umbrella as a defense, she didn't hide her tears from her family.
"Don't just take something that doesn't belong to you."
Crouched down on the concrete floor in the entry, Yumi pounded her fist on the wooden door frame over and over.
"Don't take my precious things away from me!"
To Yumi, her missing umbrella was just like Sachiko-sama.
