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The morning after meeting Yuka at the park and going home together.
“Hey, Sota, I heard you went home with Himemiya san secretly yesterday.”
For some reason, Kensuke, who was waiting for me at the bus stop closest to the school, told me this as soon as I got off the bus, without even bothering to say hello.
“…Isn’t the information too early?”
I had expected that the information about yesterday’s incident would be revealed sooner or later, but I couldn’t help but be surprised at this.
The source of the information is probably the same old newspaper club again.
I wondered if they had something against me.
“If it was only Sota’s rumor, it wouldn’t be talked about except that he was a poor guy who was dumped by a beautiful girl. After all, the person you went home with was that Himemiya san.”
Obviously.
There were other students who commuted to school by bus, even if it was a small number, and there were students wearing the same uniforms on the bus on the way home, so I thought they would find out someday, right?
But still, as expected, Kensuke already knew about today, don’t students at this school have any privacy?
As usual, I was surprised and puzzled and inwardly upset, but for the time being, I walked with Kensuke toward the school so as not to be late.
“The school’s idol, Himemiya san, has her first scoop on a man since entering the school. And it’s about you, the guy who was recently dumped by his girlfriend and became the talk of the town. The newspaper club seems to be in a frenzy.”
“What do you mean by ‘scoop’? There’s nothing to get excited about.”
“You said that, and then you went all the way to the park to meet up with her after you left school separately, didn’t you? The story is up, remember?”
……Trying to avoid the public eye so as not to become a topic of conversation has backfired, hasn’t it?
“The reason for this is not because we are dating, it’s just that I didn’t want to get Yuuka in trouble because of strange rumors. That’s because the other person is a celebrity, so I have to be careful.”
“I see. So it makes sense.”
“Just in case. It makes sense without a doubt. It’s just the way it is.”
“Well, of course, that means deep down I don’t believe in that kind of pretense !”
“Let’s believe that, okay? We’ve been together since elementary school, and we’ve been in the same class ever since middle school.”
“I wanna believe in Sota, who is my best friend ! I want to believe in him ! There are some things I just can’t believe !”
Kensuke stopped and turned to me and grabbed my shoulders and started shaking them.
“It doesn’t matter what you say.”
I forcefully pulled Kensuke away from me and started walking again.
“Damn, you’re a mob guy whose specs aren’t that different from mine, so why are you the only one who keeps getting the popular one after another? Isn’t it weird?”
“Don’t disrespect me like that,…..”
“Disrespect you? I’m jealous of you ! I’m so jealous of you, I can’t help it !”
Kensuke stopped again and turned towards me, and with a look of regret on his face that was hard to describe in words, he once again grabbed both of my shoulders firmly.
“Even though you said that……me and Yuuka have nothing to do with each other—“
“Shut up you scum ! Please ! For my lifelong request, would you please trade my gray youth for your sparkling youth? ”
“I don’t have anything to do with Yuuka, and I don’t have sparkling youth or anything like that. Also, why are you crying? It’s scary. Also, your voice is loud.”
Before I knew it, Kensuke’s eyes were full of shiny things.
What the hell is this guy, he’s crying for real.
“Kuuuh ! You seemed so relaxed, as if you were mocking my desperate state ! Is this the kind of composure that only men who have achieved stardom are allowed? I envy you from the bottom of my heart ! Half ! No, just ten percent, share it with me
! !”
“Yeah, yeah, that’s enough……but this area is residential, so don’t make loud noises in the morning. You’re disturbing the neighbors.”
I began walking again, trying to calm Kensuke, who seemed to have lost his mind and was desperately trying to cling to me.
Yuuka and I only met through helping Mizuki chan, and other than that our relationship is nothing special.
And yet, it seems like the story is getting far more than I had imagined.
Well, Kensuke is always overreacting, and I’m sure he’s just exaggerating this time too—there was a time when I thought so too.
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