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After school that day.
We left the school separately, but I secretly met up with Yuuka at a nearby park as we had promised.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, Sota kun. I’m glad we were able to meet safely.”
“Of course. We’re out of school in a hurry.”
After exchanging a few words, we started to walk away from each other.
“We won’t know, right? You might get kidnapped by the wrong person.”
“Yuuka is as beautiful as an idol. The possibility of that happening is absolutely nil.”
“Ah….Sota kun is good at flirting…”
Yuuka’s face turned bright red at my line that came out reflexively .
“Eh…? I’m sorry ! That’s not what I meant just now
!”
I suddenly realized that I had just casually said something and started making excuses.
It’s fine if a good-looking guy says it to her, but I bet she wouldn’t be happy if someone like me said it to her.
[Are you making the mistake of thinking that you’re my boyfriend just because we went home together? That’s disgusting ! !]
It would be a disaster if she thought that I was a creep.
I started making excuses as fast as I could.
“It’s not about what I think of Yuuka subjectively, but about what everyone else is saying. It’s just an objective opinion that came out of the conversation, and it’s not necessarily my personal opinion.”
“I-I see……”
However, after hearing my extremely fast-talking excuse, Yuuka seemed a little disappointed.
I don’t know why, but it’s much better to be disappointed than to be misunderstood.
“So don’t worry about what I just said and forget about it.”
“Uh, yeah. Understood. I guess I won’t worry about it…yeah…”
“I’d appreciate that.”
Well, well, well.
“But since you know this park, does Sota kun commute to school by bus?”
“That’s right.”
Most of the students in our high school go to school by train and turn right to the station right after leaving the school.
However, only a few students, including myself, take the bus to school and turn left at the bus stop near the school.
And only the bus commuters knew about this small park in a residential area a little further down the street.
“then we’re the same. Hm? But I don’t think I’ve ever seen Sota kun on the bus before?”
“I think it’s because we come to school at different times. I always take the bus just before the time when I’m not late.”
Whenever I entered the classroom at a late hour, Yuka was always already there first, happily talking with her friends.
Since the commuting time to school tends to be fixed depending on the lifestyle of the students, Yuuka and I probably had no contact with each other even though we commuted to school on the same bus.
“I see. It’s been more than a year since we entered the school, and now we find out that we commute to school by the same bus, I feel a little disappointed.”
“Well, that’s just how the world works.”
I had actually seen Yuuka on the bus a few times in my first year.
Unlike Yuuka, who has such a prominent appearance that she is called the idol of the school, from her point of view, I was probably a mob guy in a different class and she didn’t even know my name, so I guess she didn’t remember seeing me.
Of course, I don’t make Yuuka feel bad by telling her about it.
“However, as someone who uses the bus, I can tell you that commuting by bus to school is pretty inconvenient, isn’t it? The time is not as regular as the train, and the last bus leaves immediately at night.
Why do you take the bus, Sota kun?”
“I happen to have a house near the bus stop. I used to commute by train at first, but the train station was too far away, so I switched to the bus.”
“I know what you mean～! Actually, I switched from train to bus because the bus stop was close to my house.
We’re the same.”
Yuuka clasped her palms together in front of her chest while saying that.
When we arrived at the bus stop, my heart was pounding as I saw the most beautiful smile on my face, and the bus arrived just in time.
Yuuka got on the bus first, lady first, and then I got on the bus.
The bus ride took about 10 minutes.
When I pressed the “get off” button, a lighthearted tone rang out, ‘Ding dong’. The bus stopped at a stop near Yuuka’s house.
“Where do you live, Sota kun? You said the bus stop is close to your house, right?”
Yuuka asks me as soon as we get off the bus.
“Actually, we’ve already passed by. It’s two stops before. It’s right after we get off.”
“Wow, it’s really close.”
“Right? I could have walked home the other day, couldn’t I?”
I couldn’t take the bus with my hair and pants wet, but it wasn’t that far to walk two stops.
“Even so, you might catch a cold. Even if Sota kun’s house is next door to ours, I’ll make sure he takes a bath at home before going home.”
“Ahaha, how overprotective are you? If my house is next door to yours, I can take a bath at my own place, too, right?”
“Sota kun, you’re so uptight. You don’t have to be so reserved.”
“It’s not a matter of being uptight or anything like that.”
As the two of us were walking side by side talking about nothing in particular, we soon arrived at Yuuka’s house that I visited that day.
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