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

“Look, look, Sora! It’s so big, that statue!”

“Yeah, yeah. Calm down a bit.”

Alice looks around at the animals with a twinkle in her eye. She looks like a child.

(it is my birthday today…right? Why is Alice having more fun than me?)

Alice bought me a ticket to the zoo because it was my birthday and we were going on a date there. At first, her goal was to entertain me… but for some reason, Alice was having more fun than me.

(Oh well… it’s nice to know that Alice is enjoying herself.)

Well, it’s nice to know that Alice enjoys it as much as I do. It’s like the love a parent has for their child.

“I haven’t been on a date like this since the amusement park.”

“…I guess so.”

An amusement park before summer vacation. I remember that back then, I couldn’t shake the trauma of the past, and I refused to kiss Alice.

“I’ve decided…”

“Decided what?”

“Today, I’m going to catch you off guard and kiss you.”

“Funoah!?”

It’s Alice’s weakness that she comes on her own but she’s weak when it comes from me.

I laugh a little at her personality, which has not changed in the least.

“What is it? Are you that surprised?”

“Fu, fufufufufufufun!? Oh, Alice-chan, as an adult, I’m not surprised at all! If you want to kiss me, just kish me.”

“Your ending is a little weird, Alice.”

Kish? I’ve never heard that word before in real life. Normally, I would have thought she was a bad-looking girl, but when Alice does it, she becomes instantly cute.

“Oh, Alice, we’re in trouble. They’re about to start feeding the pandas.”

“Wat!? That’s something we can’t miss! Sora, follow me! I shall lead the way!”

With that, she started running toward the place where the pandas were being fed, and I followed her.

“Yes, yes. Don’t run, it’s dangerous.”

………

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The good times go by so fast. We came to the zoo in the morning, but it was already evening when the zoo closed and we were on our way home.

“We were so happy to see the zoo! That was fun! How about Sora?”

“I had fun too.”

I told her shortly and took Alice to a certain place. She wondered about that, but followed me without saying anything in particular.

“Ah…”

She must have guessed it. A huge Christmas tree just after turning the intersection. The illumination glowing around it.

“Fuoooh! Beautiful~!”

She ran towards the lights like a kid and came right under the Christmas tree.

“I guess I didn’t have the courage to come alone, but this is my first time too…wow.”

Last year, a classmate with a girlfriend bragged about it. I’ve never been here before, but it’s amazing. However, a single person would not have had the courage to come to the den of normies.

But I was thinking inwardly, “If I get a girlfriend, I’ll take her here.”

(I never thought it would come true…)

I didn’t think so at all. I was traumatized in junior high school, and although it’s an exaggeration to say that I had a phobia of women, I was sure that I couldn’t trust women anymore.

(All of that… all of that was cleared up because Alice was here…)

Alice took off my shackles. I fell in love with her.

“Thank you… Alice.”

“Thank you…Sora.”

We said almost the same words together and looked at each other and laughed.

“Ah, that’s right. I had a Christmas present for you.

Right after that, I remember a little about the morning. That was a bad idea. I’m so glad you did it in the morning. If you had done it at night, I would have seriously exploded.

“Hmm? What is it? Oh, you mean like kissing? Heh heh. That won’t work…”

I pulled out of my bag a small black box that fit in my palm. Alice’s face froze the moment she saw it.

“What… is…?”

Alice opens the box little by little, bit by bit. Then she discovers what it is.

It is a ring.

“Well, it’s alright. If you don’t want it, you can throw it away. That’s it. You could sell it to Mercal. Yes.” (E-commerce company)

After buying it and handing it over, I finally realized. I’m….

(I’m so damn embarrassed! What the hell! A ring as a Christmas present for a girl I’ve only been dating for about six months… heavy…!)

Thinking about it calmly, it’s stupidly heavy! I wonder if she’ll think I’m a pain in the ass…

“Sora…”

“!?”

Alice found herself with large tears in her eyes. They fell down her cheeks.

“I…I…! I wonder if it’s okay for me to be so happy like this…? The person I’ve always loved has fallen in love with me, and has broken the fetters of the past…and I’ve even received such a…wonderful present…”

“…Man. I thought you might have cried because you didn’t like my present.”

Well, I’m glad to hear that though

“Wha…! That’s not-“

“It’s okay. You can be happy.”

Okay, now I’m going to say something that reeks of crap. I’m just going to go with the flow and say it. Well, I mean it.

“I’m a pain in the ass who wants the woman he falls in love with to be happy. You’ve fallen for a guy who wants to do that. You should be prepared for that, right? Whether it’s now, 10 years from now, or when I’m an old man, I want you to be happy. You must hate yourself for falling in love with a man like me.”

Saying this, I smiled wickedly. Alice quit crying, wiped her eyes with her arm, and shouted inspiringly.

‘Then I’ll! I’ll make Sora even more happy! If Sora loves me, I will super love you!”

“Hoh? You say that. Then let’s play. Let’s see who can make each other happy.”

“Heh heh! I’m all for it!”

Then Alice showed a big smile like the sun.

I grinned and put my hand around the back of Alice’s head. Then I forcefully kissed her.

“!?”

Only a few seconds. But it was enough. I slowly pull my face away and face Alice, who is turning bright red.

“I succeeded in catching her off-guard…”

“Muu…!”

The swollen face of Alice is very cute. I’m not sure what to do with it.

And now that I’ve made Alice happy, I’m one step ahead of her.