Chapter 15: That one week
The time goes back to that day when Hiiragi-san confessed to me.
“Eh? Eh?”
I was very confused at that time.
It was because the beautiful girl in the same class as me, Hiiragi Mayu, confessed to me.
[I, like Haruto-kun.]
[I’ve liked you since a long time ago.]
[You’re smart, and different from other boys, I think the quiet part of you is cool.]
[Will you go out with me…?]
I was shocked.
For Hiiragi-san who’s like a being higher than the heavens, would confess to an unattractive introvert like me.
To be honest, I have no idea what she means by doing this.
I’d obviously be surprised.
That’s why I asked for help from a friend.
“Hello?”
[Yo, good work. For me to be contacted by Haruto, that’s rare.]
“Actually, I was sent this…”
I asked for help from my good, understanding friend, Tenrai-kun.
[You-! Are you serious!?]
“You’d be surprised, right?”
[Of course I’d be surprised! Why is it that I quickly got dumped, but you were confessed to!? This is way too unfair.]
“But isn’t it too sudden? It’s summer vacation right now, you know?”
[Yeah, it feels like a punishment game. But, I’m so jealous! After all, it’s a beautiful girl popular with boys, you know! Even though me and a bunch of other boys got rejected, good going!]
“If it’s a punishment game, I wouldn’t be happy at all though…”
[Dumb*ss, you should be happy even if it’s just a punishment game. I haven’t heard of Hiiragi-san confessing to anyone at all to this day.]
“That’s true….”
[So? What about your reply?]
“Not yet.”
[Haa? That’s where you should reply immediately! You’re a man right!?]
“It was way too sudden, so I asked her to wait for a while.”
[...Well with Haruto’s personality, I can’t really expect you to reply immediately, geez, what are we supposed to do about this.]
“Uuu… How do you think I should reply?”
[Can’t be helped. I’ll go to your house tomorrow, so we can go through this!]
“I understand.”
I cut the call.
I already ate dinner, and took a bath, so I just lay in bed.
“I wonder why I got confessed to.”
That thought kept running in my mind.
ーーーーーーーーーー
“Oi, Open up! Haruto, are you asleep!?”
I woke up to the sound of the doorbell and the door being hit.
I had a hard time sleeping due to the thing with Hiiragi-san not leaving my mind, but it seems I fell asleep before I noticed.
“Sorry, Sorry, I just woke up.”
The time is around 10am.
It was pretty late for me, who was usually awake by 7am.
“Good morning.”
“Good morning, Tenrai-kun.”
I let Tenrai-kun into the house, and after changing in my room, I went to the living room.
“Well then, can you let me see your LIME?”
“Sure, it’s this.”
“...It really is sudden.”
“Right?”
Tenrai-kun said as he looked at the chat history.
LIME is a free communication application.
The convenient point in it is the function where you can make group chats.
“Did you suddenly get added as a friend? And got confessed to on the same day.”
“Un, That’s why I was surprised, it was way too sudden.”
I’m only part of 2 group chats.
1 of them is the class group chat.
Including the teacher, everyone in the class is in it, and it’s used to share the scope of the tests and photos from school events.
I could be sent a friend request through that, and Hiiragi-san sent me a friend request last night.
In other words, it was just a little bit before I was confessed to.
“I see… it really feels like a punishment game.”
“It’s just like I said, right?”
“The part where you’re smart, and quiet…? Certainly you’re smarter than me, and you are quiet…”
“Why do you look frustrated?”
“Of course I would be! Just like I told you yesterday, I was immediately turned down!”
“In Tenrai-kun’s case, there was too little information, and you guys didn’t know each other that well yet.”
“Well, I guess that’s true.”
Tenrai-kun nodded.
“In the first place, what does Haruto think of Hiiragi-san?”
“U-n… Other than being in the same preschool, we don’t really have any other point of contact.”
“Wait a minute. It’s my first time hearing about that!”
“I heard about it from Hiiragi-san. She said [We were in Yukinoshita preschool together!]. I don’t remember at all though.”
“Ku-, I’m so jealous!! I only went to Kindergarten after all! But you’re also mean, to think you wouldn’t remember at all.”
“Well it was something from 9 years ago, so I don’t remember at all. Although I remember people from back in elementary school…”
“Then what happened during that time?”
“We were in different classes back in the 1st year, so she went during break time and asked me, and I answered [Sorry I don’t remember.] and she got really angry, and went back to her own class.”
“She got angry and went back?”
“Yeah, but she talked to me normally after that, so I thought she wasn’t that mad about it.”
“What’s with that, I can’t understand her.”
“I know right?”
“Then let’s get back on topic, what are you gonna do?”
“...I think I’m gonna refuse. No matter how you think about it, I’m not suitable for her anyways.”
“You’ve never been the type to date a girl for no proper reason.”
“Is that bad? Even I have the desire to date a girl, you know?”
“Then I think this is a good opportunity, don’t you think? Since it’s like this, I don’t think it would be a bad idea to try dating.”
“I,Is that so?”
“If you date, you’ll see parts of your partner you don’t know about. It would be a good experience for you.”
“But, would you go out with someone you don’t like that much?”
“You really are indecisive.”
“Uu, I’m at least aware of that…”
“Think about it for a little bit more. If you think it’s ok then accept, if you hate it, then refuse.”
“...I understand.”
“Then, let’s play a game!”
“Wait, why!?”
“The love consultation has ended! For now we’ll play, you can worry about it after I go home!!”
In the end, Tenrai-kun ended up going home at night.
“When you’re in trouble, ask me.”
Saying that, Tenrai-kun left for home.
And then I went deep into thought afterwards.
“I’ll talk with her properly once and give her an answer.”
The 4th day.
As expected I felt guilty for not sending a response at all, so I steeled myself and sent a message.
“...”
No response came.
If anything it wasn’t even read.
I tried calling her, but it said that she was in a call.
“It was too late…”
I cursed my own indecisiveness.
And without a word, a week passed since the day I was confessed to.
To that day… I was dumped.
Thanks for the new chapter!
ReplyDeleteI ..... I don't understand the protagonist .....
ReplyDeleteyeah... he wouldn't date someone who he doesn't like but feel heartbroken after being "dumped"
Deleteis just because punishment games it's doesn't mean play someone feeling
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