Episode 7 

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The chime rings to announce that the morning classes are over, and I stretch to get rid of the fatigue that has built up.

As I finish stretching and place my lunch box on my desk, I’m thinking about Eita, who became my ex-boyfriend after I broke up with him yesterday.

Even though he has become my ex-boyfriend, I’m not so much of an asshole as not to be concerned about how Eita, whom I have been dating for many years, is doing since I dumped him.

The day after I said goodbye to Eita, I went to school as usual with a nonchalant look on my face, entered the classroom, and looked around.

However, I couldn’t find Eita in the classroom.

Yesterday, I had become emotional and spat out some terrible words, and I was worried that Eita might be thinking of taking his own life because of it.

No, but Eita’s heart must not be so weak that he would think of taking his own life just because he was dumped.

He would probably come back to school sooner or later, so I decided not to worry too much and waited for Eita to come back to school.

If the teacher had said that Eita would be absent due to a cold, I would not have suspected that the reason was a lie, as Eita was not a student who habitually missed school..

Eita’s absence from school was either because he fell asleep due to the shock of being dumped or because he had difficulty showing up for school.

The concern that he might be trying to take his own life has not disappeared, but if he was that shocked, he would have been more desperate to keep me around when he was dumped, so let’s not think about that any more.

It would be a relief if he really had a cold instead of being in bed from shock or having a hard time showing up for school.

That piece of shit deserves to be punished..

I could easily imagine that if I told Eita that I had fallen in love with Takamiya senpai and wanted to break up with him, he would try to keep me around.

However, the way he kept me back was disgusting on a level far beyond my imagination.

If he had told me that he loved me and did not want to leave me and kept me around, I might have reconsidered my relationship with Eita.

And yet, Eita tried to keep me around in a roundabout way by saying bad things about Takamiya senpai.

And I, not believing that Eita who tried to keep me like that and unintentionally became emotional and hurled terrible words at him, was the worst.

I think the reason Eita tried to keep me in such a lousy way was because he lacked self-confidence.

Eita’s lack of confidence in himself had a lot to do with the fact that my liking for Eita has faded in the first place.

It may sound strange to say it myself, but I’m a gal who stands out from the crowd, and yet I have a good personality and very friendly, and I’m popular.

Furthermore, to be honest, I am very popular with boys because I have a high level of appearance as well as my inner self, and I often see my classmates being jealous of Eita being in a relationship with me.

In contrast to me, Eita has always had a quiet and modest personality, and is classified as a so-called [shady character] who cannot even have a proper conversation with his classmates.

The reason why we ended up not being friends but becoming lovers was simply because we were childhood friends. If we hadn’t been childhood friends, I wouldn’t have even been friends with Eita.

There was no way we could have become lovers because we were so opposites, and Eita, who is an introvert, began to pay too much attention to me, who’s an extrovert and was popular with my classmates, and our relationship deteriorated.　

When we were still in junior high school, Eita never paid attention to me, but after a while in high school, Eita started saying that he would rather go to school with his friends than with himself, and that he would rather play with his friends on holidays than with himself, but I wanted to be with Eita all the time.

I felt lonely, but I knew that Eita was saying this for my sake, so it was hard to force him to stay with me.

Above all, I could not force myself to say that I wanted to be with Eita when I thought that it might be painful for him to be with me.

Days went by without Eita, and I thought to myself.

[Hm, is there any point in being together?]

When you are in a relationship, you’re supposed to love each other, make out, have occasional fights, and enjoy your love and nurture it while making waves.

But I felt dissatisfied with our relationship, which had become a state in which there was neither water nor wind to begin with.

It was inevitable that I would fall in love with Takamiya senpai, who, like me, had a high level of good looks, a good personality, was popular and adored by my classmates.

……Yeah. I knew it was not a mistake for me to break up with Eita.

I was thinking about this for a long time when my friend Hoshino Mai, with whom I always eat lunch together, came to my seat with her lunch box.

“Sorry to keep you waiting. Your boyfriend didn’t come today. Did he catch a cold?”

“I don’t know.”

“Eh, you don’t know either?”

“No. Because we broke up.”

It’s nothing to hide that Eita and I broke up–or rather, it’s something I have to tell everyone from now on, so I told the truth without hiding.

“Ehh !? You broke up !?”

“Hey, you’re talking too loud !”

“Ah, s-sorry. But is it true?”

“Yeah, it’s true.”

“I told you before that it would be better if you didn’t break up… I guess it’s because you ended up liking Takamiya senpai more?”

I have already discussed everything with my best friend Mai, including the fact that I was dating Eita, and that I have fallen in love with Takamiya senpai and want to break up with Eita, and she understands the situation.

Every time I talked to Mai about it, she said I shouldn’t break up with Eita because Mai wouldn’t know anything about how uninteresting it would be to date Eita.

“Yeah. There’s no point in going out with someone you no longer like forever, so I thought I’d dump him early and move on to the next love–oh, sorry. Phone call.”

As I was explaining to Mai about why I broke up with Eita, my phone vibrated and I excused myself from my seat and went out into the hallway.

And when I saw the name displayed on the screen of my phone, my eyes widened involuntarily.

“Eh, Utako san?”

The caller was Eita’s mother, Utako san.

I wondered if she had called because she was upset that her son had been dumped yesterday.

She would probably only complain when I answered the phone anyway, and I couldn’t pick it up.

With the phone ringing, I put my phone away in my pocket and returned to the classroom.

“Sumi !”

When I returned to the classroom, Mai jumped on me, looking very different from before.

“What’s going on? It hurts.”

“I heard that your boyfriend was hit by a car and is in the hospital.”

“–Eh,hit by a car?”

When I returned to the classroom, Mai told me the unbelievable fact that my ex-boyfriend, Eita, had been hit by a car and was in the hospital.

The news that Eita was hit by a car and hospitalized was so sudden that I could not accept it.

The reason why I immediately understood that it was true that Eita had been hit by a car was because I realized that the phone call from Utako san was not to ask about my breakup with Eita, but to inform me that Eita had been hit by a car.

“While Sumi was on the phone, I went out to the hallway to go to the bathroom, but I could hear the teachers standing around talking…”

“Heh, I see. That’s why he took a break.”

“…Eh? Aren’t you worried?”

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t worried.

Even though we broke up, we’re still lovers until yesterday, so that doesn’t mean that my feelings for Eita have completely disappeared.

Even so, the reason I couldn’t feel worried from the bottom of my heart was because Eita’s way of keeping me around was so lousy.

I had thought that the punishment given to Eita for his lousy way of keeping me around was not enough, but it seems that God was thinking the same thing.

“I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried about him, but there were some problems at the time of our breakup, so rather than being worried, there’s a part of me that just wants to see more.”

“Problems?”

“Yeah. He accepted the breakup, but he said that Takamiya senpai is a trash, so I told him to stop. Don’t you think it’s ugly? Saying bad things about the person I fell in love with just because I dumped him.”

“I don’t know about that,……I just think that your boyfriend is a good person…….”

Mai muttered something loud enough for me to hear, but I couldn’t make out what she said.

“……Eh? What did you say?”

“No, nothing. Anyway, wouldn’t it be better to go and see him? Eita kun was the one who got dumped, so I’m sure he’ll be happy if Sumi goes.”

“It’s fine. Eita and I are just classmates. Besides, he’s not going to die, right?”

“Uh, yeah…I heard he was hospitalized, so I don’t think so……”

“Then you don’t need me to go there. Besides, since he’s in the hospital after an accident, Eita’s family will probably be coming to visit him, and I wonder what will it be like if the woman who dumped Eita comes to visit him.”

“……Well, that’s.”

“Okay, I’m done talking about this. There’s still some time until lunch break ends, so I’m going to go see Takamiya senpai.”

“Uhh, yeah……”

As I’ve said many times before, Eita and I ended our romantic relationship and became just classmates.

So it doesn’t matter if Eita was injured in an accident or if I have my sights set on the next boy.

And so I went to Takamiya senpai to exchange contact information.

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