A Childhood Friend, Reunited After 10 Years Acts Deredere With Me

“Nn… Nnn.”

I wake up not in a hospital bed where it is difficult to fall asleep, but in my own bed where I can calm my mood to the maximum. I wonder what the sensation on my chest is, and the answer is immediately clear.

“Oh… that makes sense.”

I, no, it seems that Alice and I were asleep in each other’s arms. I’m not sure if it’s a foul, or if her sleeping face is just so damn adorable.

“……”

I hugged her tighter because she was too cute, and I heard her say something like, “Nnnn, niyu?” I can hear something like a sleepy voice.

“Uhehehehee… Sora smells so good. Let’s stay like this forever.”

Apparently Alice woke up too, and her hold on me grew stronger.

“I agree.”

There was no way I could resist in this situation, so I hugged Alice tight.

The sound of the intercom rings through my room. It’s a weekday, so neither my mom nor dad are home. I have no choice but to answer the intercom.

“Tsk…”

I get up from my bed, slightly annoyed at not being able to be with Alice, and go down the stairs to open the front door.

“Yo, Sora! Let’s go to the beach today?”

“It was Shunya, huh.”

I thought it was a delivery, but it was just Shunya.

“Who?”

“No, I mistook them for someone else. Let’s go get some breakfast.”

“Yeah!”

Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong.

“SHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT UP YOU IDIOT! Ringing people’s intercoms like it’s nothing!”

I blasted the door open and got into an argument with Shunya.

“You’d be crazy to turn away a friend who came under the blazing sun! Why did you shut the door on me and say, “It was Shunya, huh?””

“Why do you have to take my time? I’m busy with a lot of things.”

“…Fufu, you’re going to make out with Alice-chan?”

Shunya grins and looks at me disgustedly. Probably looking forward to me embarrassing him, but alas, it’s not to be.

“Yes, but what’s the problem?”

“I’m embarrassed…oh well. Let’s go up one time.”

“Yes, sir. Go wait for me in the living room.”

I’m just getting out of bed. Alice is the same way, so I need to get ready for a bit. Alice, being a girl, is probably especially so.

………

……

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“Summer festival…oh, I see…it’s today, isn’t it?”

After I had finished my preparations and was talking to Shunya, the word “summer festival” flew into my head.

“Yeah! You haven’t been able to enjoy your summer vacation because you’ve been in the hospital, right? So let’s go to the beach now and go to a summer festival on the way back.”

That’s a hell of a schedule, but if that’s the case, it makes sense that he came this early in the morning. The clock is at 7:00 a.m. at this point, by the way.

“Munyuu…”

Alice sleepily rests her head on my shoulder. She’s not very good in the morning.

“Shiina is going with me, so it’s what we call a double date. What do you think?”

“You’re saying… “What do you think?””

I’m a little worried about it, and Shunya says to Alice, “Hey, Alice.

Hey, Alice-chan. You want to see Sora in a swimsuit, don’t you?”

“!?”

Alice reacts as if her invisible cat ears jumped.

“So you get to see a near naked Sora, legally. What do you think?”

“Sora! Let’s go to the beach! We have to make a summer memory!”

“You just got caught, didn’t you!?”

I was about to make a tsukkomi, but Shunya’s target changed to me.