Genei-jin

I was 13 and this was middle school. I had to take karate class because it was a form of exercise for me. There was this brown-belt girl there. At first glance, I had no feelings towards her whatsoever. As we get to spar more and more over time, she really grew on me and I fell in love with her. I had a feeling she also liked me as we would flock to each other after class. One day I proceed to ask her out but chicken out mid-sentence. That was the turning point. For some stupid reason, I still thought that I don't want to do karate even though I've been there for about a year and that my first love was there and I told my parents I had too schoolwork to keep doing karate. Before I left and after I asked her out, we went on this field trip to the dojo's founding location. It was a very beautiful and scenic location just like you would see in a romance show. We really hit it off too but I never asked her out again.