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★side: Hiroshiki Kirara
“Grandpa, grandma ! I’m home !”
After parting with Kaoru chan and Kaito kun, I finished my part-time job and came home.
“Welcome home Kirara. Thank you as always….”
“Welcome home, good work…..”
When I came home and greeted my grandma and grandpa, they said to me.
“No problem. It’s okay ! I’m happy to work part-time !”
“I wish we had more money…..”
“Yeah…….”
They both look depressed.
But from my point of view, they’re both working really hard for me, and I’m really worried that they’re going to break down.
I lost my parents when I was very young, so I have no other family but the two of them.
They have always loved me and supported me through the loss of my parents.
I wouldn’t have survived without them.
That is why I love my grandma and grandpa more than anything else in the world.
I can say that has never changed and will never change.
I want them to live long and I want to be with them forever.
“Don’t worry, Grandma and Grandpa ! I’m fine ! Let’s have dinner soon !”
“I know.”
“Sure.”
So I ate dinner with Grandma and Grandpa, took a bath, and went back to my room.
“Haa, I’m so tired today.”
I have a part-time job almost every day, and on weekends I often have to work both in the morning and in the afternoon.
Tomorrow I have two part-time jobs, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, so to say it’s tough is an understatement.
But when I think of the work I’m doing for my grandma and grandpa, I feel strangely motivated.
“Well, I still get tired……”
I get sleepy as soon as I get home, and sometimes I doze off at school.
I want to study hard to get permission for a part-time job, but I don’t have time, so that’s not going to happen.
Mostly because I’m not smart to begin with…….
So I make sure they never know I have a part-time job.
I don’t have permission from the school, so it would be a big problem if they find out.
“Speaking of school……”
I had a classmate’s friend ask if he could come over to my house to hang out.
I laughed at the time and said that karaoke would be better. I managed to fool them into thinking that…..but I’m still worried that they’ll eventually find out.
I never once told my friends where I lived, even in junior high school,……because I didn’t want them to know that I was poor.
Ashamed of being poor……I don’t think that at all, but I think people look at me differently.
I don’t know why people have always told me that I have a good life and that they are envious of me.
Somewhere along the line, more and more people started telling me that they admired me.
I couldn’t say I was poor…..because I was afraid that if I did, people would be disillusioned.
I was afraid that the friends I had would distance themselves from me…..I didn’t want to think that would happen, so I was really scared.
Of course, since I’m a girl, I often felt envious of my classmates who played freely and bought all kinds of things.
I have dreamed many times of such a relationship……where I can freely dress up and shop with my friends.
“Well, it’s no use thinking that……I’ve got another hard day’s work tomorrow, so I’ve got to get to bed early.
Come to think of it, I have a lot to look forward to at school these days.
Of course, it’s fun to be with my old friends, but I also have a lot of fun talking to Shin and Kaoru chan, who I’ve recently become friends with.
Kaoru chan is just so cute.
Even as a woman, I saw her as a cute girl.
And she is a very kind and nice girl.
We have only known each other for a short time, but I enjoy and like being with Kaoru chan…..the reason why I got involved with her is because of Shin, but I actually thought she was cute and was interested in her from the day I entered the school……I was hoping we could become friends.
As for Shin, to be honest, at first I just tried to talk to him since he was sitting next to me, but once we started talking, he became a bit more interesting.
He has a cute childhood friend named Kaoru chan, but when I talk to him, he looks shy and sometimes I make fun of him because of his funny reactions.
Of course I like him as a friend, but I also like him a lot.
I’m not thinking about romantic feelings right now.
I don’t have time to fall in love, so I haven’t even found my first love yet.
I’ve had countless confessions of love.
I’ve only been a freshman in high school for a short while, but I’ve already had a few people confess to me. …..of course, I’ve turned them all down.
I can’t have a boyfriend when I’m busy with my part-time job, and I’m afraid that he would find out that I’m poor……and even if I did have a boyfriend, I would have very little time to spend with him.
I mean, it’s really surprising that Shin doesn’t like Kaoru chan.
I thought that even though he was a childhood friend of such a cute and nice girl and they’ve been together for a long time, he could fall in love with her.
If I were in her shoes, I would definitely like her.
I don’t know what it’s like to be childhood friends, so I can’t really say.
Well, I don’t really know about romance.
“I mean, if anyone is surprising, it’s Kaito kun.”
I was in a different junior high school from Kaito kun, but there were some light rumors about him at my junior high school as well.
When I was in the same class as Kaito kun in high school, I was honestly quite intimidated.
I felt that all of my classmates must have thought so.
Some of the girls in my class even said that if you got involved with him, it would be the end of your life.
Also, I remember saying that no matter how good he looked on the outside, he was a dead man on the inside.
Well, I thought that was a bit of an exaggeration.
“Even so, Kaoru chan had a huge smile on her face.”
When I found them, Kaoru chan was talking happily with Kaito kun and had a great smile on her face.
I’m sure Kaito kun really isn’t a bad person if Kaoru chan can smile that much.
“I mean, she even asked him to pick her up from cram school, so it’s only natural.”
Come to think of it, Kaito kun himself said that some of the rumors are true, but I wonder if something happened to him in the past.
I’m not sure, but he must have gone through a lot of hardship.
“I guess it’s the same as me……”
And I don’t have the luxury of worrying about others right now.
“Alrighty ! I have another part-time job tomorrow, so let’s go to bed.”
With that thought in mind, I went to bed and fell asleep in no time.
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