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After school that day.
“Sota kun, why don’t you go home with me today?”
Yuuka asked me as I was leisurely getting ready to go home.
“Right, let’s go home together.”
I had nothing special to do, so I said yes,
“I thought you only went to school together, but then you ended up leaving school together…! Damn it, you guys are definitely dating after all !?”
Kensuke muttered in a trembling voice as if he had just witnessed the end of the world.
“It’s not like that. It’s because Yuuka and I both go to school by bus. We’re classmates, so it wouldn’t be weird if we went home together halfway, right? Yuuka.”
“T-that’s right, Sota kun !”
“Kuu……! You’re strangely in sync.”
“We’re classmates, so we can be in sync with each other, right?
We’re in the same year, and we take classes in the same classroom every day. Right, Yuuka.”
“R-right, Sota kun !”
“Kuuhh……! It’s certainly not surprising if you’re classmates.
It’s not surprising at all……!”
The magic word “classmate”.
The effect is outstanding!!
“So, I’m going home with Yuuka today. See you tomorrow, Kensuke.”
“See you, Hattori kun.”
I waved lightly at Kensuke, who had a look on his face that said, [It doesn’t really make sense, but I can’t pursue it any further. I’m so frustrated !] then I left the school with Yuuka.
I got the same attention from the other students as I did when I arrived at school, but we were classmates, so it was perfectly normal for us to go home together.
I desperately told myself this in my mind and continued to endure the pressure of their stares.
And just as strongly, I told myself that I was on the verge of a feeling of superiority.
We are just classmates, not “more than friends but less than lovers” as Kensuke calls it.
Today I feel that Yuuka is being very aggressive with me, but don’t make the mistake of thinking that, Konno Sota.
I’ve told myself many times that I’m just a classmate who “saved Mizuki chan’s life”.
I’ve had a good female friend for years, and we’ve gone to summer festivals and amusement parks together many times, so she must be interested in me. I thought so, and when I confessed my feelings, she said, [〇〇-kun is my friend.]—The Internet is full of stories of high school boys who were rejected because they were told, [I can’t see you as anything more than a friend]]
I left the high school and headed to the bus stop, trying to keep my mind under control as I felt like I was going to get carried away by the situation of going home with the school’s idol.
“There were a lot of people watching us on the way home. It’s not like that for us, is it?”
“Yuuka is a very famous person in the school. Everyone loves her.”
If Yuuka were to walk to and from school with me, an ordinary person, there was no way she wouldn’t attract attention.
If I was in their position, I would probably end up watching it three times, wondering what was going on.
“I’m just a normal high school girl……I eat normally, I can barely keep up with my classes, I often make mistakes, and I fall asleep in my afternoon classes…….”
Yuuka looked a little sad as she whispered that.
It was then that I realized for the first time that the school idol that everyone envied was actually a girl the same age as me.
“I’m sorry, I was wrong. To tell you the truth, I had been looking at Yuuka with a biased view. I was very conscious of the fact that she was the idol of the school that everyone was longing for. But I thought to myself, Yuuka is just a girl who goes to a normal high school like me.”
I had just been made aware of such an obvious fact.
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