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“You were pretty active in the cavalry, weren’t you, Hikaru?”
“Well, yes.
By the way, what are you going to do for dinner?”
“I’ve been invited, so I’ll eat. Do you want to come too?”
“No, thanks.”
“I see, I’ll see you later.”
He was probably going to eat with the people he had been with at the beginning, but I didn’t feel like I could keep up with him, so I declined, and he scurried off to his friends.
As I was wandering around with my lunch looking for a place to eat alone, a voice called out to me from behind, “Hikaru!”
“Y-Arimura?”
I turned around and there stood Arimura Yui, my ex-girlfriend who had abruptly broken up with me on the first day of Golden Week.
“Can I talk to you for a minute?”
She beckoned me over with a slightly awkward look and took me to the back of the gym.
“It’s been a while. I’m sorry for the sudden notice…how are you? Are you well?”
“I’m fine.”
“I see, you’re fine. I’m glad to hear that. I recently joined a club. I’m the manager of the soccer team.”
Hearing this, I thought, “Oh, the rumors about senpai are true.”
I felt that if I kept listening to her, I would get frustrated, so I hurried the conversation along.
“What’s the reason you called me up?”
“…. Oh, that’s right. It’s been so long since I’ve talked to Hikaru, I was having so much fun I forgot about it.”
When Arimura said that, she took a deep breath and bowed deeply towards me.
“Um…uh…I’m sorry!!! We broke up, right? I didn’t go into details about the reason, but I acted on one side without listening to Hikaru.”
I silently listen to her story.
“But after that, I thought about it calmly. After I left, I realized that you are thinking about me first. I realized that you are the one who thinks about me first. From that day until today, I have not been able to forget you.”
The magma of anger simmered inside me.
“After the summer break, you even cut your hair and became so cool. Every day, I followed you with my eyes and all I could think about was …… you. I’ve been meaning to apologize for a long time, but I couldn’t say anything until today. …… I’m really sorry. I love you, I love you. I will always love you. I know it’s selfish, but I want one more chance with you. I know I’m like this, but will you go out with me again……?”
“I can’t.”
After stewing like this, my anger was at its maximum
Arimura was stunned by my refusal, as if she didn’t think she would be rejected, so I gave my reasons as if I were folding them up.
“Why did you unilaterally cut me off at that time? You ignored my feelings. I mean, weren’t you dating Murakami-senpai?”
“W-Why…? I really want to start over!”
“I can’t do that, Arimura. We’re already over. I’ve been struggling with this since you left. I blamed myself for what went wrong. But that doesn’t matter now. You dumped me, and I’ve moved on. I have no intention of looking back.”
Arimura bit her lip to hold back tears.
Seeing her like that didn’t shake my feelings.
A certain face came to mind, and I didn’t want to make that face sad.
“I don’t feel anything for you anymore, even if you want me back. Besides, I’m in love with someone else right now. So we can’t get back together. I’m going my way and you’re going your way. It’s best for both of us, right?”
With that, she turned and left the back of the gym.
I thought Arimura might be crying behind her back, but I couldn’t bring myself to keep her.
I took a deep breath, changed my mind, and thought it was a shaded area so I might eat lunch in this area, so I went a little deeper and saw a familiar figure.
“Sakine-chan!?”
There she was, sitting on a slight step, eating a gummy bear with a sad look on her face.
“What’s wrong?!”
“I came here alone, but I forgot to bring some food.”
”You didn’t tell your sister that you came here alone?”
Sakine-chan nodded a little apologetically, her eyes downcast.
I was worried and a little surprised at the same time to learn that she came to school alone, but I knew I had to do something.
“You forgot your dinner, didn’t you?”
“Yeah… Onii chan and onee chan came to Sakine’s sports day and cheered me on, so I want to cheer you too. But I wasn’t thinking about lunch, so I brought a snack but forgot about lunch.…”
Sakine-chan was looking dejected as she picked up some gummy bears with her small hands.
I looked at her and smiled.
I felt sorry for her, thinking that she had come all the way here to cheer me up, but had forgotten her lunch.
“Then, how about we eat my lunch together?”
“Eh, is that okay?”
Sakine-chan looked up as if surprised.
I smiled lightly and nodded.
“Of course, it’s boring for me to eat alone. I’m glad you’re here, Sakine-chan.”
I took out my bento from my backpack and sat down next to Sakine-chan.
When I opened the lid, I found that it was filled with the usual side dishes that my mother made for me.
There were fried eggs, fried chicken, and rice topped with furikake.
“Wow, that looks delicious!”
Sakine’s face instantly lit up.
I handed her the chopsticks and smiled a little shyly.
“Then itadakimasu!!”
“itadakimasu!”
We started talking little by little as we ate our lunches together.
“Sakine took a lot of pictures of onee chan and onii chan”
“Oh, It’s a good shot.”
“Right~?”
Sakine made a smug face and then looked up at me and asked me for a favor.
“Onii chan, I want you to keep it a secret from onee chan that Sakine came.”
“Eeh”
“Look, I’ll give you this picture.”
The pictures she showed me were of Hina with a big smile as she played the ball drop, talking happily with her friends, and running with a serious look on her face.
“Onii chan, you like onee chan don’t you?”
I waved the white flag of surrender in my mind at Sakine-chan, who said that and smiled wickedly at me.
“I understand. I’ll be counting on you, cameraman Sakine-chan.”
“Yes!”
I promised her that I would go home with her on my way home, and we spent a pleasant lunch together.
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