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“Come to think of it, since when does Miyu have blonde hair?”
Kaoru, Kinako and I were gathering at Kaoru’s house in the morning to catch up on our summer vacation assignments when Kaoru started saying that thing.
“Now that you said it. You already had blonde hair when you started talking to us. Around the fourth grade?”
“Even back then, you really stood out.”
I answered their questions as I recalled.
“I think it was just before I started talking to you two.”
“Why did you decide to go blonde in elementary school?”
“I happened to admire a Hollywood actress I saw on TV. I asked my mom and she said it was totally fine. I’ve dyed my hair regularly ever since.”
“I guess you were warned about it when you were in middle school?”
“In the beginning. Eventually the teachers gave up.”
The junior high school had strict school rules, and I was scolded from the first day I entered the school.
I still didn’t dye my hair black, probably because of the rebelliousness characteristic of adolescence.
At the time, I heard that Ken was also told to persuade me.
“…Don’t you wanna see Miyu with black hair?”
Kaoru’s comment made Kinako’s eyes light up.
I had a bad premonition.
The premonition was right and Kaoru took out a black-haired wig from the wardrobe.
“I miss this ! I used it at the middle school festival !”
“I kept it in case I could use it for something ! Here you go, Miyu.”
“No, I won’t put it on.”
I said so, but they looked at me as if they expected something from me.
“If you don’t put it on, I won’t be able to concentrate on my assignment.”
Kinako said deliberately.
I was taken aback, but decided to put it on just once.
That was a mistake.
“…..Is this okay?”
When I showed them how to put it on, they both shouted with delight.
“It’s so cute !”
“Yeah ! Just change the hair color and it’s super neat !”
“Satisfied? Then let’s get on with the assignment.”
“Eh～! Just a little more !”
While Kinako clung to me and protested, Kaoru put her hand on her chin and was thinking about something.
After a while, she claps her hands.
“Let’s put on that wig and go see Kenchi !”
“Huh !?”
Kaoru’s comment makes me raise my voice involuntarily.
“W-what are you talking about? I’m just gonna get caught and made a laughing stock of !”
“From my point of view, I think Kenchi is the type of girl who is neat and tidy.”
“Wait–“
“I can understand that. Maybe she’s like Fuyusaki from class one.”
“If it’s the current Miyu, our chances of winning go way up !”
“Don’t go on your own !”
I was forced to wear a pure white one-piece dress, which Kaoru had for some reason, and a pair of high sandals, which I usually don’t wear, and forced to leave.
“Well, good luck.”
“I’ll be waiting for your love story.”
After all this time, the two of them would not approve of me coming home empty-handed.
I had no choice but to head over to Ken’s house, and perhaps because I was nervous, I didn’t notice the molester and was saved, and the person who saved me happened to be Ken, and I unintentionally invited him to have tea with me, and then I stepped on a land mine…
“What am I doing?.”
I remember the words that came out of Ken’s mouth a few minutes ago.
Family members are strangers in the end.
I know that feeling.
I don’t understand my mom, and my stepfather is not related to me.
My real father….
If there is a difference, it is how it happened.
I realized it, Ken realized it.
It was definitely my mom who instilled that realization in Ken.
It was us who made Ken the way he was.
“Maybe I’m not good enough.”
I was not prepared to accept Ken’s pain.
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At night, after Kinako and Miyu left, I was in my room putting away the wig and dress that I hadn’t put out in a while.
Miyu was somewhat listless when she came home after that.
Maybe I was a little pushy.
She didn’t tell me what had happened, and I couldn’t ask her if she had met with Kenchi.
“I’ll have to make some kind of apology next time.”
As I continued cleaning up while saying this to myself, my phone rang.
I stopped to check it and saw that it was a message from Kenchi.
I opened it.
[Wanna get a part-time job at the beach house?]
Along with such a message, an address and date are also sent.
Come to think of it, I haven’t been to the beach this year.
“This is a no-brainer.”
I replied that I’m going and resumed cleaning up.
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