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“Akurut! We’re almost at the house that Akuru told us about!”
The place where we gather today has become the house I used to live in before I moved out, that is, until I just started high school.
This house is smaller than the one I live in now, but no one except Haruka, Ai, Sara, or rather my family has ever been here before, so I sent them the location beforehand to tell them.
“Okay, I’ll tell my mom that”
“Yeah! I just want to make sure again that the only person I’m going to see today is your mother, right?”
“Only my mom. My father’s schedule didn’t work out, so he won’t be here today. Well, like I said before, both of my parents are extremely busy, so it’s rare for us to have the same day off.”
“Okay! I’ll be there in about 10 minutes.”
“Just to make sure, Ai and Sara are with you right now, right?”
“Yes! We’re walking next to each other right now. Ai has been silent the whole time and Sara seems to be nervous.”
“I see, then please tell them that they don’t need to be nervous. Well, if telling them would make them feel less nervous, then they probably wouldn’t have been nervous at all by now.”
“Hahaha, okaay! But I’m not nervous, and I’ll do my best today!”
“I’m counting on you.”
“I’ll see you later!”
And so I finished my exchange with Haruka.
“Mom, all three of them almost made it.”
“Yeah? Then, ……! Oh, by the way, do we have any more drinks?”
“I went to the store this morning to get some.”
“Eh? When did you do that?”
“While you were sleeping. Well, you worked late yesterday, so you don’t have to worry about it.”
I’ve heard that my mom is off today, but even so, she is scheduled to be working yesterday and tomorrow, and will be traveling around all day. If anything, she has an overseas performance starting tomorrow, so to tell you the truth, she is so busy that she has to catch a plane this evening.
The current time is 1:00 p.m., but when Mom came home today… that is, after the date had changed.
“Yeah? Thank you.”
“That’s fine…but if you’re coming back this late, why not try again another time? You’re also getting on a plane tonight, right? I was surprised when I heard about it last night before I went to sleep…”
“No, because I also told you that if I went overseas today, I wouldn’t be back for a month.”
“Well, sure, I heard that.”
“I can’t wait to meet your girlfriends. Besides, I can sleep as long as I want on the plane.”
“I see. Well, that’s good. Anyway, the three of them will be arriving in about 10 minutes.”
“I’ll get ready then ♪”
I said, and my mother was very enthusiastic.
“What preparations?”
“Well, since your girlfriends are coming, we have to meet them in proper attire, don’t we?
dressed properly ……, but I think you’re dressed properly now too, don’t you?
“What are you trying to look like?”
“What do you mean? …… I’m wearing the same outfit I wore when I met Mari for the first time.”
“I think the first time you met Mari was at a fancy restaurant with her parents after a big party, right?”
I asked her that and she nodded her head.
A fancy restaurant after a big party……
“Are you going to wear a dress by any chance?”
“Yes.”
“No. Why are you wearing a dress in the house? Nothing wrong with the way you are dressed.”
“But since we’re meeting for the first time, I thought I’d dress nicely. ……”
Mom’s personal life is not extravagant enough to make you feel rich, but sometimes there are things that are just a little off.
Well, I wouldn’t say that she’s a young lady, but her father ……, or my grandfather, who is now deceased, was a very famous musician, so she was probably influenced by being wealthy from a very young age.
“I’m sure you know this, but I’m sure the three of them would feel a little awkward if you wore a dress. The three of them will be dressed normally, as I’m sure you know. Of course, I don’t intend to change out of this outfit either.”
“Indeed, if I do that, I’ll be the only one in a dress. …… Then I’ll wait in this outfit.”
“Yeah, you do that.”
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★Nanase Haruka (side)
Right now, I was heading to Akuru’s house with Ai-chan and Sarachi.
“I’ve contacted Akuru, both of you, and we’ll be there soon. You two have been silent for a while now, is everything okay?”
“I guess I’m just not getting enough sleep because I’m nervous… well, I’m so nervous that I can’t feel sleepy at all…”
“What time did you go to bed?”
“Maybe five o’clock? I don’t even remember if I looked at the clock after that. ……”
“Then you haven’t slept at all. …… Well, you have tomorrow off, so you should try your best to get a lot of sleep today.”
“Yeah,…….”
Sara is, or rather, the two of them except me are not the type of people who usually stay up late, so Sara seems to be really nervous.
As I told Akuru, I still have to do my best today!
“So, are you okay, Ai chan?”
“Of course I’m fine. Yesterday, I was practicing….”
Ai-chan was about to say something, but for some reason she stopped talking, looking embarrassed.
I didn’t hear what she said because her voice was getting a little bit quieter after yesterday.
“Hnn. What did you say?”
“N-nothing. Anyway, it means I’m fine.”
I think there is something wrong with Ai today, but if she says she is okay, then I guess she is okay. And if something happens, I’ll just have to do my best to cover it, just like Sara.
“Yes! Akuru told me again that there is no need to be nervous. Well, he also said that if you could get rid of your nerves by being told that, you probably wouldn’t be nervous by now.”
“Yeah,…… I’ve been told that many times when I was in school, but I still get nervous,…… and meeting my boyfriend’s parents is the first time in my life that I’ve ever done so. I’ve seen it a lot in romance anime, too,…… but there are a lot of flags at that time, and there are stories where they let you forgive them in the end, but sometimes they just can’t admit it… …”
Sara came to me anxiously.
This is very unusual for Sara these days.
I mean, she was saying things like flags and stuff like that shouldn’t be acknowledged, but this time I thought we completely skipped that part and had heard from Akuru that the mood was already welcoming, right? That’s what I thought, but I thought that saying more wouldn’t ease the tension, so I said.
“Anyway, let’s go for it.”
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