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Seiji: [Karen, how about going out on Sunday for the first time in a while?]
Beep.
Karen: [Sorry, I already have plans to hang out with my friends.”
Seiji: [I see. How about next Sunday, then?]
Beep.
Karen: [Sorry, I’m also busy that day.]
“No way…”
Karen, who is supposed to be my girlfriend, has been very cold lately. Or rather, she shows no interest in me at all.
Even our exchanges on LiME are cold, and sometimes she only replies once a day.
I guess this kind of thing happens in long-term relationships, but Karen and I have only been dating for three months, and we haven’t had any fights that would cause our relationship to deteriorate…I think. I wonder why…
I don’t know the reason, so I want to meet her and talk about it.
[When are you free this month?]
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One hour passed
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1:00 a.m.
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Ping
“Hmm…Karen. Isn’t she taking too long to reply?”
Karen: [I’m not sure yet.]
…I waited this long for this?
I don’t understand what she means by “I’m not sure.”
She can make plans with her friends, but for some reason she can’t make plans with me?
What’s going on?
Is she hiding something?
With that anxiety in my heart, I wrapped myself in my futon.
The temperature was neither hot nor cold, probably comfortable for humans, but it took me a long time to shut down my consciousness.
***
On Sunday, with nothing particular to do, I ventured out alone into the streets of Shibuya.
Lately, it’s been called the “Youtuber district” so I’m always worried about being caught on camera somewhere, so I wear a mask tightly. Plus, the air in Shibuya doesn’t seem very good for your health.
But still, if you’re going to film for YouTube, at least blur my face, I get it’s tough, but still…
I went to a bookstore and looked at clothes, and since I still had time, I decided to go see a movie alone and headed to the movie theater. That’s when it happened.
When I saw that scene, my heart skipped a beat.
Karen was coming out of the movie theater with a man.
Karen’s expression as she walked with the man was very bright, like the smile of the sun that I hadn’t seen in a while.
“Haha….so that’s what it is…..”
I had no desire to watch a movie, so I slowly made my way home.
Before I knew it, I was back at my apartment, staring up at the ceiling of my room.
“Now that I think about it…she stopped smiling much after we’d been dating for about a month…”
My late father used to say that women are capricious creatures.
Perhaps Karen is the kind of person who finds the process of dating enjoyable. Once the goal of dating is achieved, it’s both the beginning and the end of love.
In fact, I’ve seen it mentioned online a few times, but it seems that many people think that way nowadays.
Romantic relationships in school are merely social training for the future, a practice phase before the real thing.
Thinking about it, it’s true that over 90% of couples who dated in school ended up breaking up.
Still, even if it’s a clumsy relationship between students, once I start dating someone, I want to take it seriously. For someone with old-fashioned ideas like me, love in this era is pretty tough.
“People with my way of thinking probably aren’t popular in this era…”
Today’s events say it all.
I’m a loser in love.
To be honest, I don’t feel like trying to get back together with Karen now.
I can’t forgive cheating, so I can’t overlook it.
But at the same time, I can’t bring myself to hate Karen completely.
What a contradictory feeling.
“I don’t want to go to school tomorrow…”
I can hear my mother calling me from downstairs. Dinner must be ready.
I can’t refuse to eat what she made for me, but I didn’t want my family to see my current expression.
I thought I’d wait until my feelings settled, but before I knew it, I had fallen asleep.
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