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After that, I started to avoid Iyoki-san a little.
I felt sorry for what I had done.
She looked a little sad, and it wasn’t that I was being harassed by her.
It’s just that I don’t understand why she is so obsessed with me.
How could such a beautiful and popular girl like her be with a shy person like me?
And that gaze that sends a shiver down my spine, those round eyes.
There were just too many things that didn’t feel right.
–It was probably because I was thinking that way that I said what I did to her.
On the way home.
As I was walking with her, I said to her
“Hey, Iyoki san”
“What’s wrong, Iriake kun?”
“Well, um, …… can you please stop waiting in front of my door in the morning?”
“Eh?”
Iyoki-san froze.
Then, she distorted her face as if she was in shock.
“Why?”
“Well, I’ll be surprised, and there will be strange rumors. …… It’s not that I don’t like going to school with Iyoki san, it’s just that ……um”
”I-is that so”
Iyoki san looks down.
By the time I said it, it was too late, and I was desperately thinking about what to do.
However, Iyoki-san dropped large tears on the ground.
“Iriake-kun, you’ve been avoiding me lately, haven’t you?”
“N-no it’s not like that. How can I put it ……”
“Do you dislike me?”
“I don’t hate you! I don’t dislike you, but I don’t understand why you are talking to a guy like me.”
It’s frustrating when I can’t express my feelings well.
I didn’t want to make Iyoki san cry.
What am I doing?
“I’m sorry, Iriake kun. I’m …… I!”
Iyoki-san ran away without caring about me.
“Iyoki-san!”
I was about to run after her, but I stopped in my tracks.
There is nothing I can say to stop her now.
It’s useless to hold her back.
“Aaah, I really wonder if this is why I can’t make friends.”
My chest felt tight.
♦ ♦ ♦
Next day.
When I left home, I did not see Iyoki-san.
In the end, I did not see Iyoki-san until I got to school.
“Huh? Isn’t Iriake alone today?”
“Sae-sama dumped him, didn’t she?”
“I don’t think they were ever together in the first place! they are not compatible no matter how you look at it.”
I sat down on my own seat after getting through the strange stares.
After that, I usually run into Iyoki-san, but that didn’t happen either.
I had to go after school without talking to Iyoki-san even once.
…… Let’s go apologize to her.
I’m sure I’m the one who hurt Iyoki-san.
I’m not sure how much time has passed.
I’m sure that now is the only time to tell her.
I rush to Iyoki-san’s class and check to see if she’s there.
“Sae-sama? I think Sae-sama would still be at school.”
“Excuse me, thank you.”
My bag is still in the classroom.
I was sure she would be somewhere if I looked for her.
I ran around anyway.
It would be bad if Iyoki-san left
I had been avoiding her so much, but now I was looking for her.
Maybe I was the one who was crazy.
I ran around for about ten minutes at that rate.
“Iyoki-san!”
“Iriake, kun ……?”
Iyoki-san was in a flowerbed behind the school building where there were few people.
I had not decided what I was going to say, but the words came naturally.
“I’m sorry about the other day! No, I’m sorry about recently! I avoided you!”
“I-it’s not your fault, Iriake-kun. I mistook the distance between us.”
Iyoki san’s face is downcast.
I am the one who is making the always gorgeous girl depressed.
I have to take responsibility.
“I! It’s not that I don’t like you, Iyoki-san!”
“Huh?”
“I was just surprised by the distance. And, well, it’s hard to say, but …… I was wondering why you were so interested in me, Iyoki-san.”
“Iriake-kun ……”
“So really, it’s not that I hate Iyoki-san or anything! it’s all my problem So, it’s not your fault, !”
I don’t know if I said it well, but I was able to say all of my feelings.
I was out of breath and wiping the sweat from my cheeks when she began to cry.
“I-I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to make you cry again. ……”
“No, it’s not like that! How can I say this, Iriake-kun is a good person after all.”
“Eh?”
I have never been told that I am a good person.
Iyoki san said in this situation, it is completely unexpected.
“It was the same when you saved me that time and kindly put a blazer on me. That’s why I wanted to be friends with Iriake-kun so badly.”
“Iyoki san ……”
“But, I’m sorry. It was the first time I wanted to get along with someone of the opposite sex, and I didn’t understand the sense of distance. So Iriake-kun will be troubled…”
I sat next to Iyoki-san and wiped her tears with a handkerchief.
“It’s not a nuisance. I don’t have any friends. So I don’t know how to feel distance from them.”
“I-Is that so?”
“Yes. But I wanted to be friends with you, too.”
“…… Really?”
“Yes, it’s true. I would never lie to you.”
“…… Iriake-kun!”
Iyoki san jumped into my chest.
She pressed her forehead against my chest plate and cried aloud.
“I’m so happy that you want to be friends with me. Therefore, in a way that we don’t know how far we are from each other, why don’t we get along?”
“Is that okay? I might cause you a lot of trouble, Iriake-kun, don’t you think?”
“That’s fine. After all, Iyoki-san is my most important friend.”
I felt like I was finally able to say what I wanted to say.
–And so, I and Iyoki-san made up.
This was the end and the beginning.
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Well it’s most certainly the end of his freedom lol
But literally lied that he had friends to see not more than a couple chapters ago. White lie I guess but still feels a little hollow hearing that he’s never lie to her.
Honestly, why most JP Novels always fond of “Suspension Bridge Effect”? I dunno but its rare to find Romance Story thats love between two characters grows gradually. Unnaturally natural? XD
To Haru novel is one