Bizarre Love Triangle - Chapter 4.5
Intermission : Bizarre Love Triangle
“…Seriously, what’s going on?”
“I’m just as worried as you are…..”
In a secluded corner of the hallway, Sudo and Shuji were questioning me.
“But for two whole days, you haven’t talked with her, right?”
“Perhaps, something happened at the Odaiba? Something we don’t know about…?”
Both of them looked very worried.
But, it can’t be helped.
Right after going out to play with us, the friends they had been getting along with suddenly stopped talking to each other.
They’ve been blatantly avoiding each other.
It would be impossible for them to not care about that.
Especially when it’s these two, who care about their friends, they may feel responsible for this event.
But I’m going to take that into account and still say this.
“…Well, don’t worry about it.”
I said in my usual tone with my signature fake smile.
“It’s just temporary and not something serious…”
“Really? Frankly, I can’t see this as the problem of just that level though”
“It’s true. We just had a little fight, we’re waiting for the right timing to make up”
——Of course it was a lie.
It’s not a situation where we could reconcile or just something that with the right timing could be fixed.
We were no longer able to move even one step ahead of the helpless reality.
I returned to the classroom and attended the next class.
The class of my English teacher, Umura-sensei, whose 60th birthday was just around the corner, was boring and I couldn’t help but look at Haruka.
I was almost unconscious, and it lasted only a few seconds.
And yet,
“……!”
Precisely at that moment, she took a small turn and turned her gaze towards me.
At the same time as I averted my face hurriedly, she also turned her face forwards.
I felt like my heart was going to burst out of my chest with this helpless pain.
——-Bye-Bye.
I recalled the look on Haruka’s face when she said this.
I have seen many faces of Haruka until now.
The look on her when we decided to do the exchange diary, the angry look when she switched places in front of me, the happy look when she visited Odaiba.
And the recent face when she said, Bye bye.
“Is it really going to end just like this…?”
*
I had a dream that I was kissing Yano-kun.
I was hugged tightly, and I was completely in his arms.
A dream of overlapping lips with a very calm feeling.
When I woke up, I was very confused and I felt helpless and couldn’t help but loath at myself..
What was I thinking about at a time like this?
Putting Haruka in such a situation and having a dream like that…
Then, it was recess time.
I turned around and saw Yano-kun in his usual seat, talking with a group of friends including Sudo-san and Shuji-kun.
“Hey Yano, you like that sort of thing, right? It’s like a passing tale.”
“Ah, indeed! He was imitating them before, wasn’t he!”
“…..Oh, hey! Are you listening, Yano…”
“…Hmm? Ah!”
Then he finally looked up and said,
“S-sorry, I was just spacing out a little…”
The other members of the group erupted at his words.
“Hey, hey! What happened to you!”
“You’re acting really weird!”
“No-no, I was just a little sleepy.”
He was scratching his head absentmindedly as he said this.
I’m sure the reason he’s like this is because he’s worried about Haruka.
The future of the existence of Haruka, who is unreplaceable for him…
The future of the girl that I have robbed.
——-Then, I suddenly realized.
The dream about kissing Yano-kun, it wasn’t mine… but her’s.
It may have been a dream that Haruka had dreamt of.
There have been times when our dreams have been mixed up with each other while we were sleeping.
Dreams of fancy stuffed animals and cute clothes.
When I woke up surprised and asked Haruka about it, she told me that it was just what she had wanted.
That’s why, if it’s the same as before, it all seemed to make sense in my mind.
It was definitely Haruka.
I’m sure she still thinks that way about Yano-kun.
I don’t know what I can say to Haruka now.
If you don’t have a face to face with her or don’t share the same body properly, then you aren’t really qualified to be by her side. (T/N : not sure whom it was being referred to)
So, please.
Please, someone—–.
*
I could still clearly remember the feeling of that dream.
The warmth of his body. The strength of the arm around my back.
I can’t remember what kind of face he was making in the dream.
But I can still remember the soft touch of his lips and the feeling of happiness that I had felt.
“……”
In a class, when I turned around to glance at him, our eyes met.
…I feel like that…
I hurriedly turned towards the front and sighed so that no one would notice my unnatural behaviour.
Perhaps compared to other girls…. I’m a bit too vulgar.
It’s been days since we’ve last spoken.
Even though I should have settled my feelings already…
Having a dream of a boy who was originally a friend….
“So the Japanese translation of this… Yes, Minase-san, can you do this?”
“…Yes”
I hurriedly switched my mode to Akiha and headed for the blackboard.
As I looked at the board and wrote out the Japanese translation, I suddenly realized that —-
—–Maybe that dream was Akiha’s.
That’s right… it must be so.
If that were the case, it explains everything—–I think that’s the happiest ending for everyone in this scenario.
Since the day I stopped being friends with Yano-kun, it seems that the distance between Akiha and Yano-kun has only grown further.
Not only could I not find any traces of them any exchanges with each other, but Akiha seems to have stopped talking to anyone.
Honestly, I’m really sorry about that.
But still, someday after I disappear.
I hope they will meet again and be united once and for all.
I hope that Yano-kun and Akiha will be happy after overcoming the various entanglements that I have set upon them.
And then, at that time.
If the scar I made was still present in his chest.
Just that, If there was only just a trace of me left in this world—–.