Delivery Boy and Masked Girl - A delivery boy discovers the secret of a beautiful gal at his delivery destination. - Chapter 19: Shelter From The Rain With A Friend.
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Shelter From The Rain With A Friend.
“Hasumi-kun, do you want some bread?”
“No, thank you. I’m not hungry.”
I replied to Shizuki who was in the kitchen while I was sitting on the sofa in the living room.
Shizuki came back to me immediately, placed a bag of buns and two cups of tea on the table, and sat down next to me with a little space between us.
“Are you watching the weather report?”
“No. But according to the Internet, it looks like a heavy downpour. It’s supposed to stop in a couple of hours.”
“I see. That’s good…”
That’s good?
On the other hand, I guess we’re going to be in this situation for over two hours.
In the end, Shizuki forcibly kept me from refusing.
“You’ll catch a cold,” or “It’s dangerous if you go now.” She said,
In the end, she even said, “If something happens, it’ll be my responsibility,” and as expected, I lost the will to resist.
As I thought when I was nursing her, Shizuki is surprisingly stubborn.
Aside from the flashy mode she shows, I had a more modest impression when I saw her in this form.
“…After all, I’ll take shelter from the rain on some roof somewhere. It’s bad to bother you.”
Besides, I feel uncomfortable because of what just happened.
“No, you can’t! It’s cold outside. What if you catch a cold from that?”
“I won’t…”
“No! You! Can’t!”
Shizuki said angrily and stuffed a piece of butterscotch flavoured bun from the pack.
Lord, I’m not really sure if she’s being cautious or worried at all.
I gave up and decided to spend my time without thinking about anything else.
In a daze, I watched a variety show on TV.
…Oh, come to think of it, this is a good opportunity.
“By the way, Shizuki.”
“Ehh… Wh-What is i-it?”
At my call, Shizuki made an awkward, tense face.
“Wh-…What happened to you?”
“Ah… no! It’s nothing! Anyways What is it, Hasumi-kun?”
It’s nothing, you say….
Don’t say it. The situation is already so weird and it’s making me weirdly nervous…
“…No, I just wanted to talk to you about something.”
“About something…?”
“We had an encounter with Haruomi today, right?”
“What? …Oh, yes. After school, right.”
“Yes. And after that, he asked me, `What was my relationship with Shizuki?’”
“What?! Wh-What kind of relationship? …That’s kinda… uhmm…”
“Calm down… That’s not what he was talking about. He was just asking if we were close enough to have a conversation with each other.”
“Oh… is that so?”
Huh…. What is this atmosphere?
It’s all because of the lightning that struck earlier… Damn.
“Shizuki at home and at school …well, how to say. You have a different atmosphere around you at different places. So it’s better to keep it a secret, right, our relationship?”
“…Yes. I’m sorry for that…”
“No, that’s okay. It’s just that I thought it would be okay to let him know that we do talk a bit. But of course, it all depends on Shizuki.”
I don’t want to deal with him trying to pry into my life every time something happens.
“Y-you can tell him… a little about… out relationship…”
Shizuki made a gloomy face and was silent for a while.
After all, does she hate being known to anyone just because of her relationship with me?
“Senba-kun, was it…?”
“What? Ah, yes. That’s right. Haruomi Senba.”
“…He’s someone who can keep a promise, right?”
“….Ahー”
Shizuki’s question reminded me of my past interactions with him.
Haruomi is ….well nevermind.
“Maybe not so trustworthy.”
“What do you mean by that, not so trustworthy?!”
Shizuki made a big gesture of trembling.
She has a surprisingly good reaction.
“No, I don’t know. Honestly, I don’t know, we have never talked about our secrets.”
“I see…”
“…But he is not a careless guy nor a heartless person. If I tell him what happened between us and ask him to keep quiet about it, I think he’ll keep his mouth shut.”
“Y-you think so, right…?”
Shizuki was smiling wryly with a beautiful face.
But my impression of Haruomi is just like that.
I can’t lie to Shizuki just because I want to reassure him.
“Well, you’ll have to take that into account. If you want to hide it, that’s fine. I’ll try to deceive him as long as I can keep it a secret.”
“…Is that so?”
Shizuki seemed to be confused.
She crossed her arms, groaned and twisted her neck.
Well, it’s natural to be cautious.
“…Okay. Please tell Senba-kun about our relationship.”
“Is that okay? You don’t have to, if you are thinking about me.”
“No. He is a friend of Hasumi-kun… That’s why I’ll trust him. Besides, I don’t want Hasumi-kun to be uncomfortable with his friends…”
“…I see.”
Shizuki smiled with a soft expression on her face.
She’s not too polite now but it’s just too cute.
I turned away as much as I could without looking at Shizuki and then said
“Well, I’ll tell him about us next time we meet.”
“Yes. Please tell him we are friends.”
“Friends?”
We’re friends after all, aren’t we?
“We’re friends! No matter how you look at it!”
“…I see.”
Well, if Shizuki says it, then it must be true.
When I say that Shizuki, a flashy girl, and I are friends, it feels quite strange.
“Fufufu~~. I guess I’m Hasumi’s friend number two then.”
“That’s right. I’m like Shizuki’s friend number 500.
“No, I don’t have that many!”
“You don’t?”
I was being rather serious.
“…Um, Hasumi-kun.”
“Hmm?”
Before I knew it, Shizuki was looking at me with a strangely serious expression on his face.
I’m not sure why I can’t hear the TV or the rain anymore.
“The reason why Hasumi-kun doesn’t have any friends is because of …that, after all?”