“Hey Ryu-chan, won’t you date me?”
Perhaps for Rika, this would be the confession of a lifetime.
I’ve had many opportunities up to now, but every time I’ve laughed at myself and pretended to be.
“……”
Therefore, he hesitated even more to say the word of refusal.
Of course, there is no option here to accept her confession.
Then you will betray the president’s trust.
But he didn’t want to hurt Rika either.
Truly a dire situation.
I licked my lips and barely spoke.
“Rika, can I ask you one thing?”
“What?”
“Why did you fall in love with me?”
It was always questionable.
The reason why Rika, Karen, and Sasha like me, who are not particularly attractive.
The three appear as heroines who like Ryuji in the original original, Scramble Love.
If they had naturally come to like Ryuji, it would have been understandable.
Ryuji is like the main character of a manga, and even to me as a man, he is a good guy who is full of charm in many ways.
But it wasn’t Ryuji that they chose now, it was me.
So I wanted to know why.
How did you come to love me?
“that…”
Perhaps it was an unexpected question, Rika was momentarily speechless.
But, he said, looking straight at me, wondering if his thoughts were organized.
“Ryu-chan is a very nice person. He kindly gives directions to people he’s never met even if he talks to him. Actually, I didn’t think of Ryu-chan as the opposite s*x from the beginning. For some reason, my eyes kept getting closer. And because my interests are similar, and I didn’t think it was strange after hearing my hobbies… That’s how I came to like it.”
“…”
It was a much more normal reason than I thought.
Rika must have been thinking like that when she looked at me.
To be honest, I was a little happy.
Because I knew that the person who likes me today doesn’t just like me because of the rules of the world in comics.
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Maybe I’ve been thinking too negatively all this time.
It’s because I don’t trust people’s favors easily, and I’ve always been suspicious of them.
“Whoa-“
I took a small deep breath.
Now that I heard Rika’s honest feelings, it was my turn to answer this time.
After making up my mind, I faced Rika with a serious expression.
“First of all, I’ll say thank you.”
“What are you thankful for?”
“Probably, if you hadn’t come to me at the beginning of the semester, Rika, I would still be living like a shadow at school. It’s all thanks to you, Rika, that I have so many friends. Because of you, I was able to be who I am today.”
At first, it was just a coincidence.
A little kindness anyone can give.
I just told them the subway lines, but Rika pretended to know them the next day.
Since then, the environment around me has changed.
Every day was fun.
After I grew in size, most people felt uncomfortable talking to me, but after Rika spoke to me first, she acted as a buffer, so other children started to approach me without pressure.
Of course, there are people who are afraid of me even now, but at least I am not treated as untouchable as in my freshman year.
Being able to spend such a fulfilling school life was all Rika was the starting point.
That’s why I thank Rika.
If I hadn’t met the president before Rika, I would have accepted Rika’s confession.
However-
“I can’t accept your heart. I already have someone I like.”
Thinking of the president waiting at home, I closed my eyes tightly and refused her confession.
“…person I like?”
Upon hearing my answer, Rika muttered with a blank expression.
“Yeah. You know it too. You know the student council president, right?”
“…”
Rika’s expression suddenly darkened.
As expected, it was painful to watch.
Because she was one of my best friends.
Rika barely opened her mouth in the uncomfortable silence.
“Since when… have you been liking me…?”
“It’s the same as you. There’s no special reason, but after we’ve been together for a long time, we naturally fell in love with each other.
Silence comes again.
“I see..”
again-
A single tear fell from Rika’s face as she answered each letter with difficulty.
“Huh…? Why are the tears…?”
Rika muttered like that and rubbed her eyes with her forearm.
But her tears did not stop.
“Haha.. It’s strange.. It’s not sad, but tears keep coming out..”
Rika said that and forced a laugh.
But her face was already distorted to the point of being distorted.
She tried to pretend she was okay, but she couldn’t stand it any longer and began to cry like a child.
“Ahhh!”
I couldn’t say anything in front of her like that.
***
After 15 minutes had elapsed, we got off the Ferris wheel.
Rika’s crying stopped in the middle, but since then, she has no choice but to sit in an awkward atmosphere.
That’s right, the person who confessed just before and the person who refused to confess were gathered in one place.
on the way home.
Rika said softly as she walked down the darkened street.
“I disassemble.”
“…what?”
“It wasn’t Karen or Sasha, but Ryu-chan was taken away by someone I didn’t know well.”
I couldn’t say anything.
It was an ambiguous situation where I could not take sides with my girlfriend or friend.
And maybe Rika wasn’t expecting an answer either, so she continued to say it alone, vigorously.
“To say that I became Ryu-chan’s girlfriend just because I met him first, I honestly think it’s cowardly.”
seeing it for the first time.
Rika is loved by everyone because she has smooth interpersonal relationships and always goes out with a smile.
It was refreshing to see her angry like that.
After walking for a while, we stopped in front of the subway station.
Rika, who had been grumbling with an angry face all the way, looked back and asked.
“Ryu-chan, can I ask you one thing?”
“What?”
“If there was no such person as the president, would you accept my confession?”
I had already rejected her confession, so now, such an IF has no meaning.
But it seems that Rika still wanted to know.
what i think of her
After thinking for a while, I opened my mouth.
“Perhaps it is.”
“…that’s it.”
Rika smiled sadly as she said that.
Then he said as he ran down the stairs.
“I’ll go first today. I’ll see you at school next week. Ryu-chan.”
“Yeah. Come in.”
Normally, I would have taken the same subway back home.
But, perhaps thinking that it would be difficult to endure that much, Rika said that and first got on the subway and left.
Left alone on the platform, I lowered my vigorously shaking hands and sat down on a nearby bench.
And then stretched out his arms and legs.
‘tired.’
Until the next train arrives, I’ll have to close my eyes a little.
***
By the time I got on the next train and came home, it was already past 8 PM.
“I’m home.”
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Maybe it was early today, and when I entered the house, my parents were sitting in the living room.
“did you eat?”
“Yes. I ate.”
I didn’t actually eat it, but if I said straight it would be obvious that my mother would prepare the meal, so I opened the door and went straight into the room.
in a dark room.
I lay straight on the floor without turning on the fire.
In the morning, I was in a hurry to leave, so the untidy futon wraps my body softly.
I thought with my eyes closed.
‘Did you do well?’
In fact, it was a natural procedure to refuse Rika’s confession unless she wore both legs.
However, it was impossible to guarantee whether the method of refusal was the best or not.
Because there might have been a slightly better way.
When I close my eyes, I remember Rika’s crying face.
Naturally, a sense of guilt creeped up.
We’ll see each other again at school next week, so what face should we look at then?
It was a time when I was struggling so much by myself.
smart!
Suddenly someone knocked on the door.
“Yooseong-kun.”
“President?”
I jumped up.
“Is it okay if I go inside for a moment?”
“Oh, yes. Come in.”
When my permission was granted, the president carefully opened the door and entered.
I asked, looking towards the living room behind her back.
“What about your parents?”
“You’ve already entered the bedroom. It’s pretty late.”
It seems like a lot of time has passed since I was lying down for a while.
I gave up my seat to the president and asked.
“What’s happening all of a sudden?”
“Yooseong-kun looked different from usual. And I was curious about how the date went.”
I laughed bitterly when I heard the president’s words like that.
“The president was right. After all, it rang.”
“That’s unavoidable, because from the beginning I was going to refuse the confession.”
The president said so and held my hands tightly.
“Yoosung-kun, thank you for choosing me. I will do as well as the child’s share.”
“President…”
The president and my eyes cross.
As a strange atmosphere flowed in the room, the chairman looked at me with moist eyes.
“Call me Kumiko now.”
“Kumiko-senpai…”
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Maybe it’s because I don’t usually call my name, so it feels strangely unfamiliar.
But, whether he was satisfied with that, he smiled and kissed me on the lips.
Then he lowered his face and said in a whisper.
“If something upsets you, tell me everything. Because that’s your girlfriend’s job.”