“Let’s go home, Nii san.”
After school, as I was getting ready to go home, Alice came over to my seat.
She was smiling happily, but as for me, I’m more worried about my classmates looking at me in the distance than Alice in front of me.
“Don’t you have to go home with your friends?””
“Eh, I want to go home with Nii san today.”
As a brother, I’m happy to be told that by my sister, but when I think about it as a student, it’s a little complicated.
It’s painful in many ways to have my younger sister, who is popular in class, all to myself.
I guess I can’t say it because of what happened this morning, but I can see what I want to say if I look them in the eye.
You might think that you want me to be self-respecting or read the atmosphere. I’ll see you when I get home, so please do that. I completely understand how you feel, and I want to do the same.
“Um, I have something to do today….”
i was filled with regret when I tried to turn her down、
“What about your debt?”
“……Okay.”
When she said that with a big smile on her face, I had no right to veto it.
I quickly packed up my things and left the classroom, following Alice closely.
Of course, I get the attention of my classmates, but I concentrate so that only Alice’s back hair is in sight so as not to make eye contact with them.
The long silver thread sways every time I walk, but the feeling of wishing for time to pass quickly before I think it is beautiful comes first.
“By the way, I don’t mind if you go home with me because it doesn’t count as a debt.”
“Eh, is that right?”
“Because I want to do it. And it was Nii san who chose to come, and I didn’t say anything about it.”
“That’s right, but….”
The reason why I stammer here seems to be that I’m a small-time citizen at heart.
Maybe I could call her cunning, but I didn’t feel like I could win against my little sister.
“It’s okay, I’ll have you repay it right away.”
When she laughs, she starts walking straight.ight. Without any hesitation, she spoke confidently, as if cutting through the wind.
This alone makes me realize that I’m different from my younger sister.
Having gone out into the hallway, that idea becomes more certain.
“Hey, that girl…..”
“Yeah, the rumored one…..”
“Pretty…..”
The students, who were probably just hanging out, moved to the edge of the hallway as soon as they saw her.
Alice walks in the middle of the corridor as if it were natural, without worrying about them.
The students look at Alice’s profile as she passes by, but there are students who stare at her and talk quietly, and that alone shows that Alice is attracting attention in other classes as well.
Of course, nobody saw me. In front of a special existence called Alice, I was not in their eyes, at best, I was like the stone of the roadside.
I knew that long ago. The only one that was watching me was Amane.
(So, I…..)
Amane’s eyes who looked at me during lunch break flow in my mind. Amane looked at me with pitiful eyes.
Her eyes said, [What’s the point in doing something like that? You would be happier if you were with me.] Even I—.
“Brother”
Suddenly, Alice called me.
“Don’t think about other people.”
“Ah……”
“I’m the one who is with you, Nii san. Please don’t forget about that.”
I can’t see Alice’s face as she says this without turning around.
I don’t even know what she looks like.I wonder if there is no particular problem to see the students around.
If you are saying without breaking the expression, I will continue to think that you’re still an amazing child. Before I could be surprised at how good my intuition was, I pretended not to see that I was convincing myself of that.
“……Yeah”
“I need Nii san. When you’re with me, please only look at me…please.”
A plea from my younger sister mixed with some sadness.
There was a part of me that was happy when I heard that.
(I wonder if you say that you can’t save people like me.)
Even though my sister was sad, I was happy that she needed me.
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