Bizarre Love Triangle - Chapter 1.5
[Are you feeling sick or something……
——–Crystal eyes approaching at close range.
——-peach coloured lips and collarbones peaking through the nape.
——–bulges pushing the front of the blazer and white legs extending from the skirt.
Sharing the body with Akiha——.
——-and there.
Haruka’s movement suddenly stopped.
And then—–a face as if it was unbelievable.
With a face with as if she just get a premonition of something outrageous,
[………Perhaps…….Akiha?]
Slowly, she spoke the name.
[Does Yano-kun like Akiha?]
——I could no longer create a character or act.
My head stopped thinking and I couldn’t say any more words to deceive.
My face was getting redder and redder, as I could clearly see.
[What?… really?….]
Haruka looked at me with a flabbergasted face.
[ Do you really like Akiha?]
I wonder what I should do?
If I were to say I like Akiha to this girl, I wonder how it will turn out?
Wouldn’t she think I’m creepy?Maybe I wouldn’t be able to stay friends with Haruka?
maybe I should try to hide it somehow….?
However, there is no way to cheat or lie from here on out.
I don’t have a choice but to prepare myself——.
[….. that’s right.]
I confessed while noticing that my voice was a little faint.
[The one I like is Akiha]
[……I see]
Haruka pulled back, entrusting her weight to the chair and muttering something like “uwaa”.
[Yano-kun to Akiha……]
I wonder what will happen now.
Will she be drawn?
Or Will she reject it?
The next moment when I took a shock-resistant posture in my heart so that I would not be depressed no matter how I was treated.
[Uwaa…..wow….is that so]
Haruka dyed her white cheeks pink and raised a strangely cheerful voice.
[Akiha seems to have been popular for a long time……I see, Yano-kun likes Akiha…….! Waa, it’s someone more closer then I think]
It was an unexpected reaction.
An innocent reaction, as if she was talking about love with a normal friend——.
Then she pulled her chair over to me and peered at me with a look of delight on her face.
[Hey,hey, when did you start liking her? You haven’t met each other so many times yet, right…….?]
She started a barrage of questions.
[Umm well…………..on the day of the opening ceremony, it was a chance encounter…..]
[Then it’s love at first sight…….what do you like about her?]
[……….do, do I have to tell you that?]
[there is no harm, tell me! Of course i will not say it to Akiha]
[……we, well she is a self paced person part?]
[That girl core is too strong, isn’t it!…….hmmm, speaking of that]
And thereupon Haruka face suddenly turned as if she just realised something,
[Could it be…… you are saying to help me out cause your purpose is that girl?]
[No! I can’t say that’s not the case but…….]
I was about to deny it vigorously, but then I toned it down.
It would be a lie to say that I wasn’t excited there.
[Certainly I had expectations that if I were to help Haruka then the time I spent with Akiha would increase…..]
When I approached Haruka, I had a slight selfish expectation.
I was hoping that it would be a good opportunity to close the distance between me and Aki.
Maybe I would become a special existence for her in that time.
[But it was true that I thought I couldn’t leave you alone! That was my number one reason, you can trust me on that]
[…..umm, that’s right, isn’t it?]
Haruka nodded and smiled mischievously like a kid as if she had successfully pulled a prank.
[I know that in reality, sorry for troubling you, it was my bad]
[…… what’s it, aren’t you a little impatient?]
[Really sorry…….but, umm, I will be supporting you, Yano-kun love]
Then, for the first time, she showed some confidence in her expression——-,
[——I’m sure you’ll be able to do better than anyone else.]
[Ah, thank you]
I felt reassured, honestly.
For Haruka is Akiha herself.
You can’t find a more trustworthy person to talk to about your love life.
[So,I’m sorry that order was reversed]
And with that preface, Haruka bowed her head.
[Thank you for taking care of me too]
[…………um, leave it to me]
Just then, there was a knock on the door of the clubroom.
[Yano-kun, are you there?]
The door opened and Chiyoda-sensei peeked out.
Chiyoda Momose-sensei.A petite build sensei whom I have known since last year.
She is twenty seven years old.Her well-groomed face and mature demeanor, combined with her short stature gap, has earned her the devotion of some boys.
Apparently this room management has been entrusted to her and has overlooked my occasional stay here with her administrative authority.
However, it’s strange.
It’s unusual for this cautious person to open the door without waiting for an answer after knocking. ….
And this time, she did.
[…….hmm? Ah, Minase-san…..I’m sorry, were you busy in the middle of doing something?]
Noticing that it wasn’t only me but Haruka was also here, she candidly said.
[It’s okay to get along but keep abiding by moderation, okay?]
[No, no, that’s not it]
Realising that I was misunderstood outrageously, I stood up and hurriedly denied it.
[We were just chatting ideally……]
Even if I started explaining like that, I couldn’t just outright say the truth.
In the end, it took me about fifteen minutes of explanation to clear up Chiyoda-sensei’s misunderstanding.
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As I walked out of the school building, I noticed that the sun had turned to the west already.
Junior high school students on their way out of school, restaurant clerks shopping, and businessmen on the phone were passing by on the sidewalk.
Right in front of me, an overweight mixed breed dog is being walked by its owner with a sense of reluctance.
A line had already begun to form in front of a ramen shop that was ranked among the top ramen shops in Japan on the food log.
——-the time was past 16 o’clock.
In this town along the Sobu Line, there is no end to the number of people passing by even at this mid-day hour.
In less than 30 minutes, Haruka’s personality will be replaced by that of Akiha.
[………..fufufu]
Abruptly, Haruka beside me started laughing in low voice.
[……… what’s with you]
[Ah, you know, when we are going back together like that, it’s like……….we are friends]
Saying that, Haruka laughs shyly.
[We had been in an orphanage for a long time before we came here, and we didn’t have any friends. Even before that, we didn’t get along with anyone at school. That’s why this is the first time doing something like this… I feel like we’re friends…]
With those words… for the first time, I realized what Akiboli and Haruka had been up to.
I see, because of the aforementioned dual personality, these girls were spending the everyday vastly different from me.
So maybe this is the first “normal school life” for them.
[……… speaking of that, aren’t we friends?]
I said as I watched the blackboard in front of the coffee shop being replaced with a dinner menu.
[……huh?]
[Whether it’s look like it or not, I thought of Haruka as my friends…….]
We have similar feelings of wanting to be one person.
We both even made a promise to help each other.we are definitely friends.
Of course, if it were anyone else, I would never have said this out loud.
But for —– Haruka.
I conveyed it directly to her who was walking alongside with me.
And I think I will never forget the change that happened to Haruhi at that moment.
For a moment, Haruka paused as if she were being spoken to in a foreign language, and then,
—-a smile bloomed on her face.
The soft cheeks lifted. The dark eyes shine brightly.
A happy smile that seems to even increase the brightness of her skin.
[I see…….I see.so we are friends]
[Umm, that’s right]
[I’m happy……. that’s first time for me]
[Then I’m glad]
She scratched his cheek in embarrassment.
In front of my eyes I have turned away, two elementary school kids were chasing each other and rushed into into the park.
[That’s right]
Abruptly, she raised a voice as if she just thought of a great idea,
[If it’s okay with you……. would you like to exchange diaries with each other?]
[……..huh?diary exchange?]
[It was something I saw in the manga and something I longed for, me, Akiha and a good friend exchanging diaries]
[Oh, that’s right. But I don’t think there are many people who do that today.]
[Umm, no, is it not good?]
With a face like a puppy getting wet in the rain, Haruka tilted her neck.
[Even though I thought it would be fun since Akiha would also write it]
Honestly, it was troublesome.