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~Yuuka SIDE~.
That night.
As I soaked myself shoulder-deep in the bathtub, I thought back to the series of events that had taken place that day.
A boy in my class saved Mizuki from drowning in the river.
“Konno Sota kun……”
The small murmur, however, was strangely loud to my ears, perhaps because I was in a quiet bathtub.
Sota kun and I were in the same class for the first time in the second grade, but even after half a month, we had never talked.
He was rather inconspicuous in class, but I somehow knew that he was dating a beautiful girl named Kuzugaya san in the next class.
Sota kun, with whom I had only such a thin relationship, happened to become friends when he helped Mizuki and dropped her off at home.
“Mizuki really took a liking to him. Thanks to that, we got to know each other very well even though we had never talked to each other before.”
Mizuki is quite a spoiled brat, but that’s only for family members.
It was the first time for me to see Mizuki being so fond of a boy she had just met outside her family.
“Before I knew it, she started calling him So ta Onii chan…that means I don’t really have the status of a big sister. Just kidding, fufu.”
Of course, that was a joke.
As an older sister myself, Mizuki was a very good younger sister.
She was bright, polite, cute, and charming.
I’m sure she will be popular in the future.
“I didn’t know Sota kun because I had never talked to him before….he was kind and sincere.
He seemed kind of nice…I think I might like him quite a bit.”
………
……
“–What am I saying !? I mean, falling for a boy you just talked to for the first time is a bit !?”
I was about to come to some kind of awesome answer, when I unintentionally opened my eyes wide and stood up vigorously in the tub.
Zaban !
With a loud noise, a large amount of hot water flowed out of the bathtub.
“Huh, I did it……”
I got back into the bathtub and pressed the reheat button.
The bathtub is now back to its original depth in no time at all.
“W-well, Sota kun actually has a girlfriend named Kuzugayasan–ah, but he said he got dumped, right…?”
[It seems like she was dating not only me, but also a handsome medical student. I happened to run into her when she was on a date, and she dumped me in a hurry.]
I remember what Sota kun said when we parted.
I remember Sota kun’s sad expression that I caught a glimpse of at that time, and for some reason my heart tightened tightly in my chest.
“I wonder what this feeling is…..”
I don’t know how I feel, even though it’s my own feeling.
But I’m sure it’s not an unpleasant feeling.
“But, but. Does that mean? Sota kun is free now, right?”
He won’t get back together with Kuzugaya san….right?
It’s true that Kuzugaya san is beautiful, but you wouldn’t normally get back together with someone that dumped you, right?
“But I wonder what will happen…..”
I’ve never even been in a relationship with a boy in the first place, let alone cheating or two-timing, so I’m not familiar with that kind of male-female relationship…..
“—I wonder what I’ve been thinking about all this time !? I’m not thinking about Sota kun’s feelings at all after he was dumped. Above all, there’s no way he’s not sad. If I take advantage of him, I’ll become the worst kind of woman.”
Oh, but Sota kun also said he was over it, right?
So, he doesn’t want to get back together with Kuzugaya san anymore, right?
If that’s the case—
“No, no, no, wait a minute, me. In the first place, it’s about how I feel, right? What’s important is how I feel about Sota kun, right?”
But I’ve never liked a particular boy before, so I don’t know if I like him or not……
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