“Can I adore you?”
sudden confession.
I stared blankly at the president with a puzzled expression on my face.
Then, she opened her lips that did not come off easily and asked.
“Does that mean you want to date me soon?”
Then the president nodded slowly.
“yes that’s right.”
“…First of all, thank you. But to be honest, I’m a little confused.”
As it was with my junior Minato, I never thought that a handsome person like the president would like me.
Not to mention, she’s not even the heroine of the original.
In a way, without a doubt, it was as if he had confessed out of pure goodwill toward me.
When I showed him hesitating because of that, the president asked with a worried face.
“Are you sure you don’t like me?”
I hurriedly waved my hand.
“No, it’s not that the president hates me. I just didn’t expect you to think of me that way. Well.
When I said it like a joke and scratched the back of my head, the president pushed his upper body into anger.
“No! Not at all! It’s not burdensome, it’s reliable!”
“Yes?! Yes…”
I was pushed by the momentum and agreed to the president’s objection.
I was never surprised by the sudden breast thrust in front of my eyes.
“Really… Yoosung-kun’s evaluation of himself is too low.”
“…I’m sorry.”
After hearing the president’s rebuke, I reflexively said that and apologized.
Then, the president, with his arms crossed, immediately accepted.
“Don’t apologize.”
“sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry.”
“……”
After all the options were castrated, I finally shut my mouth.
Has it been like that for about a minute?
It was the president who spoke first in the strange silence that flowed between us.
“Yoosung-kun is a more attractive person than you think. So don’t judge yourself too low. I fell for Yoosung-kun’s confident and kind side.”
After borrowing someone else’s mouth and receiving compliments right in front of me, my skin felt itchy.
“And I don’t judge people based only on their looks? I’m willing to love Yoosung-kun no matter how he looks. As long as Yoosung-kun just gets my affection…”
As I sat still and listened to her compliments, I rubbed the back of my neck in embarrassment and struggled to speak.
“President.”
Then the president stopped talking.
“What happened?”
I looked straight into the president’s eyes and said,
“To be honest, I think it’s okay if I’m the president too. We’ve known each other for a long time, and we’re not on a bad note.”
From an objective point of view, if the president becomes his girlfriend, he will be a very undeserved opponent for me.
Then, the president’s face turned red.
“then….”
“However.”
After saying that, I pointed out the realistic part.
“Like the president said earlier, wouldn’t your family object?”
Unless we’re characters from a children’s fairy tale, just because the two of them dated haphazardly doesn’t mean ‘they lived happily ever after’.
The chairman’s family belongs to the Saionji Group, one of Japan’s top five conglomerates.
If you make a mistake and get caught by the elders there, it’s not uncommon for our ordinary family to fall apart.
And perhaps because he knew what I meant, the president bit his lip.
And then he countered.
“If that’s the case, I just have to convince my grandfather. Everything about the Saionji family is decided by his hands.”
“Chairman… you know better than that, that’s a bit of a cliché, right?”
When I spoke as if to appease a child, the president finally exclaimed with a tearful expression.
“What! That attitude! I confessed to the best of my courage!”
“I’m seriously thinking about it, too.”
Having said that, I confessed my true feelings to the president.
“I am well aware that the president didn’t ask me to go out with him lightly. But beyond that, we don’t have much time left.”
It is now the end of August, so there is only half a year left until the president graduates.
And the president was a senior in the 3rd grade.
“Are you going to go to university?”
“…Yes.”
“Then, from the second semester onwards, I will be busy preparing for the center exam. Even if we really get to know each other, there will be little time for dating.”
“What if I don’t give up studying and dating?”
“Then you have to force it. I don’t want to hear that you ruined the exam because of me.”
“Really, not even a single word.”
With eyes that looked like they were about to burst into tears at any moment, the president spoke as if he was sarcastic.
“If you don’t want to date me, just tell me you don’t like it. It’ll be more refreshing on that side.”
“No, I meant it like that… Please wipe away your tears first.”
I took out the handkerchief I had in my pocket and handed it to me.
Then, at first, the president wiped his tears as if dipping and applying it, but then he sniffled his nose and began to weep loudly.
“Ahhh! Bad noom!”
I looked at the president like that with a puzzled face.
I was embarrassed to answer right away, so I turned around, and it seems that I misunderstood something.
So I hurriedly spoke behind the scenes.
“Half a year! Wait half a year!”
Then the president looked at me without crying and crying loudly.
“Half-girl?”
“Yeah. If we’re really dating, let’s date after the exams are over, half a year later.”
I said so and took my handkerchief from the president’s hand.
Then he put it to his nose and said.
“Come on, have fun. Huh.”
“huh!”
After blowing the president’s nose like that, I looked down at my tear-stained face and said:
“Like I said before, I don’t want the president’s grades to drop because he’s in a relationship. So, if you don’t change your mind after graduation, can you confess to me again?”
At that time, I wouldn’t talk like I do now, and I’ll accept it properly.
Then the president asked with eyes as red as a rabbit.
“What if I confess now?”
“I won’t accept it.”
Then the president groaned, swallowed his tears, and answered with a firm voice.
“Okay. I’ll wait and see.”
After crying a lot, if I feel that the mental age of the president has been strangely lowered, is it because of my mood?
I gently patted the back of the president next to him until he fell asleep, who was exhausted from crying.
***
Unsurprisingly, the president, who came to his senses after a while, was extremely ashamed of what he had just done while crying.
“Hey, forget it! All the things I said while crying!”
“Really? Is it okay to forget my confession?”
“Except that!”
The president, blushing, muttered, “Ugh… what did I do?”
I didn’t know it when I cried, but after seeing it, it seems like a black history.
I asked the president like that.
“Chairman, can I ask you one thing?”
“What?”
“What did you like about me to confess?”
“…I won’t tell you.”
The president said so and slit his tongue out.
It felt like the president’s attitude toward me had lost more faults than before.
***
It seems that I forgot to sleep while doing the nightmare.
The bonfire that had been burning all night was extinguished, and when I woke up feeling the chill of the cold sea breeze, the sky was already dark in color.
It is often referred to as the dawn just before dawn.
“Umm…”
After checking whether it was too cold or the president tying the blanket behind his back, I put a handful of branches in the burned out ashes and lit it with a match again.
“Who! Whoo!”
As he diligently revives the embers by smearing ashes on his face, the flame that had been trembling precariously as if it would be extinguished at any moment came back to life in the pit.
As I was looking down happily at the scene, the president, who had been tossing and turning in the hut, slowly opened his eyes.
“Umm… What time is it?”
I glanced down and checked the time on my smartphone.
“It’s six in the morning.”
“…Aren’t Shinji and Minami still here?”
“Yeah. I think I slept in the mountains yesterday.”
They’re both ninjas, so it’s probably okay, but since I’m a human, I couldn’t help but worry.
“Ha-am, then I’ll sleep a little more.”
“Yes. That’s right.”
As there is a saying that a beautiful woman is a sleeper, after waking up for a while, the president fell asleep again as if he had always been like that.
After sitting in front of the fire and squinting at it, I decided to prepare breakfast before it was too late.
I didn’t want to procure food from the wild like yesterday, but I was going to heat the retort food on the yacht in hot water.
It was when I had just dipped my feet in the sea to go to a yacht anchored on the shore.
Boo woo woo!
In the distance, a cruise ship was approaching through the white waters.
“It’s a rescue boat!”
I stayed on a deserted island for only one day, but I exclaimed so happily without realizing it.