10 years had passed since I started playing the game of sekkusu with my childhood friend. - Chapter 28. A relaxing and warm summer vacation

28. A relaxing and warm summer vacation

As she announced, Haruhime stopped coming to my house on every Wednesdays during the summer vacation. The daily routine that had continued for more than ten years was brutally cut off, as if the power line had been disconnected.

Wednesdays without Haruhime were like fruit without taste. The feeling of every day was no longer interesting, rather, had become pointless.

I continued to spend my days alone in my room.

During that time, I didn’t even see anyone anymore. I turned off my cell phone completely. There were line-messages from Fukuo and Inawashiro, but I didn’t even bother to look at them.

If I had just let it all go, I could have thought of forgetting it all.

My days went all gloomy and bland. Those days and memories of youth at the beginning of summer vacation, when the four of us went to the beach together, had gone blank, and I was back to a semi-reclusive kind of life.

It kind of reminded me of my last year at junior high school.

Unable to fit in with the yo-kai/extrovert group, I spent most of my last year holed up in this room. Days went with me only going back and forth between school and home. Completely engrossed in studying for the entrance examinations.

『Tet-chan, you’re so amazing.your grades are getting better and better. 』

Just that, in those days, Haruhime was there, besides me.

『 Someone like me, is going to get overtaken in no time. See, look here, you even have the score in Maths exam way better than me! 』

『 After all, if it is time, I have ample with me. 』

『 Even still this is so amazing. To do this is such a short time, don’t you think you could decide on your preferred school after raising your level a little bit more? 』

『 I see. I never thought about it kind of, but …… might even be a good idea. 』

『 Right~ then we will go to the same high school you know! 』

As I start recalling my conversation with Haruhime, I put down my pen. I can’t concentrate at all. The image of Haruhime loitering in the background of the room comes to me no matter how hard I avoid it.

She was the one who talked to me and listened to everything I had to say. Even though I didn’t have any friends, by the fact alone that Haruhime came to see me every Wednesday, I was filled with a sense of contentment.

『 I need to get my feelings in order. 』

Now that she is no longer here, I start to realize the weight of her presence. I start to understand how blessed I was.

“I, I didn’t know the Line-ID of her as well…”

Even if I wanted to contact her, Haruhime is not in my contact list. Until now, I didn’t bother to contact her, after all, when Wednesdays came around, she would be right next to me as a matter of course, and we could be together, whether we needed each other or not.

“…… This is just no good. I can’t work like this.”

Unable to concentrate on my studies, I look out the window.

Right next door was Haruhime’s house, and with the curtains down, I couldn’t see what was going on inside. It should only have been a week or so since we last saw each other, but it feels like we haven’t seen each other for years altogether.

And just like that, the summer vacation came to an end. Unable to speak a single word with Haruhime, I was left in agony as the second semester came in.