“A place without you,” was it just my imagination that I wanted to curse at him for a moment there?
Kaede isn’t very sticky when we’re in public, but once nobody’s looking, he comes to stick to me.
After being confessed to, the skinship between us became even more intense, I was confused.
“I had something to do.”
“We could’ve gone together.”
“You don’t have to come with me.”
“I’m saying I want to go.”
“Alright, alright.”
‘I can go to the bathroom alone and I can deal with things myself!’ I joked around in my mind to distract myself from the confusion.
In an empty hallway, Kaede walked beside me as he joined our arms together.
I turned to look at him, but he just smiled back.
You’re so strong-willed.
When I opened the classroom door, not a single person was inside.
The windows were open, and the voices of students doing their club activities were coming in from outside.
There are several seats with bags on it, so people will probably come back.
As I took Kaede’s arm off me, I headed to my seat.
Speaking of which, Hina was being weird and I didn’t see her in school today.
“Did Hina go back already? Let’s take a peek in her classroom.”
“I think it’s fine? She’s going to come again tomorrow morning anyway.”
“You’re so dry.(Dry humour?)”
“It’s because I like to be alone with Akira.”
He wrapped his arm around mine once again as he said so.
It’s hard to move, stop it.
I looked at him in astonishment, but when our eyes met, he smiled at me again.
……Certainly, he’s cute like an angel.
But he’s a guy.
If Kaede was a girl, maybe there wouldn’t be a problem at all.
“What? You’re staring at me.”
“Nothing.”
Thinking so, I looked at Kaede’s face, but went back to looking at my seat and started to pack my stuff.
Suddenly, Kaede’s face approached mine and……something touched my cheek.
He backed away immediately, but I knew what he did at once.
I stopped moving.
“……”
I looked at Kaede, but he had the same smile as before and acted like nothing happened.
However, something happened for me and I can’t calm down.
“You……”
“Akira, you’re so defenseless, you know?”
“Don’t do such things in school!”
“So I can if we’re not in school?”
“That’s not the problem……”
――Rattle
I heard a noise near the door of the classroom.
When I looked over, the door that was supposed to be closed, was open……Standing there was the familiar looking childhood friend.
So you haven’t gone back yet?
I was thinking of going to her classroom to check, but great timing.
“We were about to go……Hina?”
Something’s strange about her.
It seems like the noise just now was the sound of Hina’s bag dropping and rolling at her feet.
She didn’t pick it up as she looked at us and froze in place.
“You said you weren’t BL……”
I could barely hear her muttering, sounding as if she was going to cry.
I understood from just that.
She probably saw him kiss me on my cheek just now.
It seems like she’s misunderstanding something.
“No, you’re wrong.”
It’s troubling for a childhood friend to misunderstand.
I approached her to explain, but when I took a step forward, Hina quickly picked up her bag and ran out.
If we don’t talk this through, they’ll be a danger of a gap opening between us.
I have to resolve this immediately!
“Akira!”
Kaede tried to stop me, but Hina is the top priority right now.
I left Kaede and chased after Hina.
I couldn’t catch up to Hina in the hallway, but I was able to catch her at the shoeboxes, where she had to stop to change her shoes, in front of the entrance.
I grabbed her hand to prevent her from running away.
(T/N: Idk bout y’all but I sense drama so GRAB YO POPCORNS HEHEHEH)
“I said to wait!”
“Let go!”
With no signs of her calming down, Hina struggled as I let go of her hand.
I can’t talk with how she is right now and even though there’s nobody around us, it’d be troubling if somebody heard us.
“Listen to me!”
I grabbed her shoulders and shouted.
Surprised, Hina jolted.
I think it was a bad idea to raise my voice, but I can’t speak unless I do this.
When I thought it was finally getting quiet……
Hina looked up with tears in her eyes.
“What……You’re always angry at me!”
“Sorry, I was wrong. But that’s because you never listen to me.”
The tears finally fell from Hina’s eyes as she shouted at me.
The person who made her cry was without a doubt, me.
”
”
I forcibly grabbed her and even raised my voice at her.
Even though she’s my childhood friend, I’m the worst for making a girl cry.
It’s awkward and I feel bad, but……I want to resolve this misunderstanding.
As I mused about how to persuade her, Hina began to yell at me while crying.
“All you do is flirt with Kaede-kun!”
“Like I said, you misunderstood!”
“I know! Aki is definitely the seme! Uwaaaaah!”
“Huhh!? Wait a minuteee!!”
I flusteredly let go of Hina’s hand and she ran off.
I immediately reached out for her hand again, but she already changed her shoe and without being able to grab her……
Hina was gone, leaving behind a sentence I couldn’t ignore.
For Hina to say such things……It’s shocking.
”
”
Along with the shock of making her cry, I was shocked about various things inside.
I was so confused that my brain stopped working, I stood still, feeling dumbfounded.
It was at that moment.
“You’re wrong, Amachi-kun is the uke.”
“Who’s an uke!”
……Hm?
That voice just now, who’s that?
I unconsciously reacted, but it isn’t……my inner voice.
I have a bad premonition.
I feel like it’s the kind of scene where if I turn around, I’ll die.
My neck is heavy as if it’s rusted, I can’t turn it.
However, I can’t not move it.
I should just give up and not look at it, even though I’d die if I look, I just have to move.
That’s what humans are.
When my neck turned around with a creaking sound, over there was……
――Grin
My former comrade……who’s now a fearful person, was standing there with an evil grin.
“Eek!”
The words, “You can’t deceive me anymore, I won’t let you talk your way out,” were written on her face.
It looked like they were saying, “Now, it’s time for your execution.”
“Amachi-kun, let’s talk.”
The moment I saw that horrifying smile, I abandoned all my thoughts and……ran away.