A Sweet Romance That Starts With One Bottle of Juice, Between a Heiress Who Must Marry Her First Kiss and a Lonesome Guy With a Menacing Look - Chapter 20 - Sleeping With the Young Lady - Part 3
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Chapter 20 – Sleeping With the Young Lady – Part 3
After finishing brushing Yasunomihara-san’s teeth, we were finally able to go to bed…
It’s been a really long day.
“I’m going to turn off the lights.”
Yasunomihara-san, who turned off the light, laid down on the bed next to mine.
“……”
“……”
Should I talk about something…?
N-No, no, I should just go to sleep normally!
I forcefully closed my eyes and hid my impure thoughts in the darkness.
“…Tadakuni, can we talk for a bit?”
“…Sure…”
As I looked up at the ceiling in the darkness, I listened to Yasunomihara-san, who spoke from beside me.
“I want to do more things with Tadakuni. Would you like to go overseas when summer vacation starts?”
“N-No, I don’t want to go overseas.”
“Oh, why not?”
“…I’m scared of airplanes.”
“Geez, you’re so cowardly.”
I could hear Yasunomihara-san’s modest laughter, and I felt a little embarrassed.
“W-Well, there’s nothing you can do about being scared of something.”
“If overseas is not an option, how about spending a month at Tadakuni’s house?”
“That’s a big change…”
“Is that not okay?”
“Umm…”
It might not be good for her to meet my mother, she could be a bad influence on her.
“I will eventually have to rely on Tadakuni’s family, so why not start now?”
“Huh, eventually… Does the Yasunomihara family approve?”
“Since this has happened, we must marry into the Yasuda family rather than the Yasunomihara family. I cannot take Tadakuni, the eldest son of the Yasuda family.”
“I-I see…”
As usual, it’s all about family background.
I don’t really care either way.
“I can’t wait to talk to Tadakuni’s mother.”
I hope that my mother doesn’t disappoint her expectations.
“By the way, how did your conversation go with my parents?”
“Eh? Well, um…”
Well, I thought your father was surprisingly cute, and your mother’s… assets were quite impressive… But I can’t really say that, can I?
“I thought your parents were really nice. They’re kind and responsible.”
“I see… Is there anything else you thought about them?”
“Anything else? Um… Not really.”
“I see.”
Eh, what? Did I say something bad?
“Yasunomihara-san, it’s time to go to bed. We have an early start tomorrow.”
“Oh, before that…”
“Huh… Do you want something else besides your teeth brushed?”
“N-no, it’s not like that! … S-since we’re next to each other, I want you to at least hold my hand.”
“I don’t understand the meaning of ‘since we’re next to each other,’ though.”
“Mou! Please don’t say that, it ruins the atmosphere!”
The baby lady seems to value the atmosphere. (Doesn’t she realize that the mood was already ruined when she made me brush her teeth?)
“Okay then.”
Drowsy and dizzy, I hold out my left hand towards Yasunomihara-san.
“You want to sleep while holding hands, right? Here.”
“…T-Tadakuni, you’re quite proactive at night.”
“You’re the one who told me to do it!”
Yasunomihara-san wrapped her hands around my left hand happily.
“…Good night, Tadakuni!”
“G-Good night.”
……
…………
…I can’t sleep.
After being wrapped in Yasunomihara-san’s slightly warm and glossy hands, I was needlessly nervous and couldn’t sleep for an hour, but I quietly let go of her hand when she fell asleep, and soon my consciousness drifted away.
Finally, I could sleep…
As soon as I closed my eyes, I started dreaming. I was standing in front of the entrance mirror, putting on my shoes, and staring at myself…
This is probably a dream of my first day of school.
Determined to make friends from high school, I had stayed up late reading a guidebook on how to make friends, and hadn’t realized that I had bags under my eyes.
“Hey, isn’t that guy kind of creepy?”
“His eyes are scary, and he has terrible bags under them.”
As soon as I entered the classroom, people whispered about my appearance.
Yes, from the first day, I had become someone who was difficult to approach in the class.
But… There was someone who spoke to me, the only person who reached out to me was—
“Good afternoon. I’m Yasunomihara Yuuka, I sit next to you. It’s nice to meet you.”
Yasunomihara Yuuka.
I felt a noble aura from her elegant manner and wealthy way of speaking. I shook her hand in return.
“M-My name is Yasuda Tadakuni.”
“Yasuda-san, you are very tall. How tall are you?”
“Um… Around 185 cm?”
“I see… If you’re that high, maybe you see a different world than the average person.”
She said so and went around to greet others.
—When I think back, from the first time we met, Yasunomihara-san was a person who didn’t judge others by their looks.
She treated people like me equally.
However, precisely because of her equality, Yasunomihara-san did not praise or envy my advantage of height, but used a strange expression.
That we see the world differently…
…Even though my world was so small and narrow.
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