A Childhood Friend, Reunited After 10 Years Acts Deredere With Me - Chapter 36 - Sorry... For Hiding It

Chapter 36 – Sorry… For Hiding It

“………”

The festival was over. But I have not forgotten the words I heard at that time. But what I couldn’t forgive more than anything else was the fact that Alice didn’t say anything about such an important matter.

“Nn? What is it, Sora? Are you going to sleep?”

Only a dim light illuminated the room, and Alice was already in bed. A lot of things had happened at the festival, but I was so concerned about it that I didn’t care how tired I was.

“Hey Alice…is there anything you’re hiding from me?”

“Eh… Eh? hiding from you…?”

Alice made a face as if she didn’t understand.

“I honestly don’t want to be bound like this. Because everyone has secrets. But I wanted to ask you this.”

“…Hiding…hiding…? Nn? Did you hear what I was saying on the phone earlier?”

“…Yeah.”

I heard what I wanted to hear. There’s no turning back now that I’m talking about it.

“I see…you heard…”

“You’ve got to be kidding me…! Why are you going back to America so easily? You have nothing but bad memories of that place!”

No, that’s wrong…I’m… ..I’m trying to change the subject. I really just didn’t want her to leave me. But the embarrassment got the better of me, and that voice came out.

“Hey! Hey, hey! I’m leaving, but only for a little while!”

“…Hah?”

I couldn’t help but make a funny sound.

“Uh, you see, I’ve heard my parents say they want me to come back to the U.S., and come to think of it, I haven’t been back in a while, so I thought I’d go back this Silver Week for the first time in a long time.”

“Wha…what…?”

My face is getting redder and redder. Because I …… was just… mis…mistaken then, wasn’t I?

“Agh, damn it! What the hell! If there’s a hole, I want to fill it…damn…I made a mistake!”

“Man, I was surprised when I first heard about it. I thought maybe you found out about the Sora photo album I keep on my phone.”

In the meantime, a very short silence ensues. Understanding that she had dug her grave, Alice utters, “Oh…”

“Alice, can I borrow your phone?”

‘Y-You can’t! You can’t look at a maiden’s phone without permission!”

She tried to hold the phone carefully, but I was quicker to make the first move. I immediately took it from her and opened the photo folder.

“Aaaaahhhh no!”

“Oh… oh… this is amazing…”

The folder was full of my pictures. Me with slightly damp hair after a bath, me sweating after a workout, and my sleeping face. And my sleeping face.

And when I looked at the date, I saw that it was taken on the 26th of August, seriously recently.

“…Alice.”

“Yies!”

She sat up straight on the bed and stared into my eyes as she straightened her back.

“You’re not doing anything with these pictures, are you?”

“…Well… when Sora was taking a bath… that’s when I used them as a diversion…”

“Aah I know what you’re talking about so don’t say anything else!”

I’m not so stupid that I don’t know what those words mean.

“Whaut!? If you say that, then Sora also had an ecchi book about childhood friends the other day!”

I was really embarrassed to be exposed again, so I threw away all the stuff I had in the house.

“Oh, I have a good idea! I’ll take a sexy picture of me with Sora’s phone! Sora can have it as material.”

“I won’t, you idiot! I haven’t done anything like that since you came here!”

“What? What about the high school boys? I’m not sure if Sora is… sick? Oh, I’m fine! I’ll continue to love Sora no matter what he is!”

I can’t keep up with the story anymore, it’s taking too many leaps…

“I’m not going to miss you! I mean, I’ll usually miss you when you go back to the States…”

I’m a little sad, but I guess it’s important to spend time with family. Let’s accept it.

“Then, Sora, will you come too? I mean, I’ll die of loneliness if I’m away from Sora for more than a day, right? I’m serious.”

Normally, I would say she was joking, but I can’t deny that it’s a real possibility.

“O-Okay, I got it. I’ll go with you. To America.”