Chapter 13 - A Difficult Situation (2/2)
“Yeah. That’s right. What? Do you not remember? It was such shock… that was.”
“Eh, what? Did I do something?”
“It was only two months since we had started dating and you had said, “I’m already tired of this,” didn’t you?”
There’s no way I would say that. After all, during the time I was dating her, I had never once thought I was tired of it.
“That was the reason, I was so shocked I became really depressed… in the end, we ended up breaking up. But, even now I still like you…”
Eheheh, Hiiragi-chan made an embarrassed laugh over the phone.
Aah, as I thought, I really like this person.
“Yeah. Me too…”
It was then.
The scenery in front of me changed completely, turning into the school classroom.
The date was, the one from before I returned to the present time. Strictly speaking, it was the next day, Monday morning.
That’s a relief. I somehow made it back. There should have been no reason for me to say that I was tired of it all. Exactly what happened?
The morning classes were over, and I was heading towards the world history preparation room like normal. As expected, Hiiragi-chan was already there, and she had spread out the bentou out on a sheet so that I can eat quickly.
“Seiji-kun, you probably think that I was definitely acting… don’t you?”
“Eh. Ahh, yeah.”
As usual, I was being given a lap pillow, and fed the bentou (karaage) using chopsticks.
“As I thought, you were definitely tired of me.”
I like karaage, it’s also really good though.
“…”
Hiiragi-chan had completely frozen up, and more and more tears began flowing from her eyes.
“Hmm? What’s wrong? Why are you crying…?”
Hiiragi-chan disregarded me, who was on her lap, and stood up.
“Ugya!?”
“S-Seiji-kun you idioooooooooot.”
She cried like a child, opened the door and ran out. Ah. I just said, that I was tired of it…
T—that’s what it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaas!
“Senseeeeeeeeeei, I was talking about the karaage!”
I panicked and ran out of the preparation room as well. I ran because I thought that she had gone off somewhere, but she was really just sitting against the wall holding her legs.
Hiiragi-chan was sniffling as she cried.
“High schoolers are stupid… probably, some cute girl transferred right…? Fueeeeeeeeh.”
“That’s a misunderstanding! When I said I was tired of it, I was talking about…”
T-this is bad. From an outsider looking down the hall, it would seem like I had made Hiiragi-chan cry.
“A-anyways, let’s head back into the preparation room…”
I grabbed her arm, and went into the preparation room.
“Haruka-san, I was saying that I was tired of karaage. I wasn’t talking about you.”
“… Really?”
Hiiragi-chan, who’s eyes and eyelashes were wet from tears looked up at me. It’s unfair that her crying face was also cute.
“It wasn’t that you just happened to let slip the things that you were thinking about me from day to day?”
“It’s what I thought about the karaage. It isn’t that I felt tired of Haruka-san at all.”
Hiiragi-chan ended up running the two three steps of distance between us and gave me a hug.
“If it’s really true, then give me a kiss.”
“Didn’t I say we weren’t going to do that in school though…”
“Sensei, refuses your refusal to kiss.”
She was completely ready. Her eyes were closed, and her chin lifted slightly upwards. For convenience sake, she had elegantly stuck her lips out a little bit.
Since it couldn’t be helped, I gave her a kiss, but she held my head towards so I couldn’t back off, and it went into a long term battle.
“Probably, I’ll always like Seiji-kun. So, never leave.”
After ten years, it was just as Hiiragi-chan just said, she still liked me.
“Yeah.”
Rubbing our cheeks together, the tips of our noses would sometimes bump into each other awkwardly as we leaned our heads. Her lips were soft and warm. There was some sort of smell whether it was from shampoo or something else that was mixed into Hiiragi-chan’s sweet scent.
After I had cleared up Hiiragi-chan’s misunderstanding, we stayed like this for the rest of lunch break, so I didn’t end up finishing the bentou.