Delivery Boy and Masked Girl - A delivery boy discovers the secret of a beautiful gal at his delivery destination. - Chapter 38: Gratitude And As I Am.
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Gratitude And As I Am.
After that, I had to walk Shizuki home again.
I lent her the same jacket as yesterday, and we walked along the same road as yesterday.
“…”
“…”
Shizuki did not say anything.
She simply looked down with a blank expression on her face.
I didn’t say anything either.
In the meantime, we arrived at Shizuki’s apartment.
It was after 20:00. It was still dark, but not that late.
I would have to study again when I got home.
I didn’t make much progress today.
Thinking of this, I took my jacket from Shizuki, who still had a gloomy look on her face.
To be honest, I was quite worried about her.
After all, I had heard such a back story.
“…Are you okay?”
I couldn’t help but call out to her.
“…Eh?”
“Well… You don’t look so good, that’s why..”
“…Hasumi-kun.”
Shizuki’s face lit up a bit.
No, more precisely, her eyes widened in surprise.
“I’m not exactly… feeling good. Hehe~ sorry…”
“N-No, it’s fine….”
“I don’t exactly… feel good, but I’m fine. Thank you very much. For listening to me… today.”
“….I don’t have any reason to be thanked to though. “
I just listened to her, nothing else.
I couldn’t comfort her like Minai did.
Besides…
“I’m sorry about that….”
“Ehh…?”
“I was wondering how …you got to be the way you are now, Shizuki. I should have asked you that earlier ….I’m really, really sorry.”
“…That’s”
Shizuki held her hands crossed in front of her chest as if she was praying.
Then she slowly shook her head and looked straight at me.
“But you probably couldn’t ask me because you were afraid that I might be sad, isn’t that right… Hasumi-kun?”
“….that’s, well…”
“I can tell from your words and facial expression that you were thinking of me, Hasumi-kun. Even I am surprisingly perceptive, you know.”
“…Shizuki.”
“That’s why it’s all good. If Hasumi-kun, you had asked about me earlier, I probably would not have answered…”
“…I see.”
“Yes. I’m just really happy that I was able to get a proper bunch of people who would listen to me today. Besides….”
At that moment, a young man who appeared to be a resident of the apartment building passed by us.
Immediately, Shizuki and I turned away from each other and remained silent until the man disappeared into the apartment.
When we faced each other again, Shizuki’s face seemed to have turned slightly red.
“…Besides, it was all thanks to you, Hasumi-kun, that I was ready to talk about it. You accepted me as I am and gave me time to be honest with myself…”
I was ready to talk about it thanks to Hasumi-kun. Hasumi-kun accepted me as I was and gave me time to be honest with myself. ……
“……”
“I’m sorry I haven’t said it properly to you all this time. …Thank you so Very much.”
“…Yeah.”
“….Hey, Shizuki.”
“?… What is it…?”
“…You said ‘be honest with myself’, and ‘as I was’ but.”
“……”
Our gazes meet.
When I looked at Suzuki’s softly smiling face, I felt embarrassed and involuntarily put my hand over my mouth.
What does she mean by “as I was”?
What kind of herself was she talking about?
“You wanted friends, you wanted to change yourself …and you made an effort to change for the sake of it. You are the true Shizuki, right?”
Shizuki said.
She said that Haruomi and Minai and I spend time just as we are.
She said that we were living without worries, and that we were amazing.
But that’s just the way she wants to live.
If that is the case, then the desire to change or to act differently than usual must be the person’s true feelings.
“…Hasumi-kun?”
“…So you can give yourself proper credit for trying so hard.”
“…Eh?”
Shizuki’s mouth was agape, as if she were dumbfounded.
She was puzzled as to what she was being told, but she seemed to be unravelling the mystery little by little.
A person like myself, who was satisfied with what she was doing till now, in other words, was just standing still.
I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
I’m not qualified to say that.
But the desire to change is dazzling.
The person who can actually take action to get closer to the person they want to be is more than enough in itself to be amazing.
So, even if one fails in doing so.
Even if you regret it, you shouldn’t deny yourself.
Rather, what is needed for Shizuki now is…
“You’ve done a great job so far.”
Immediately, tears came to Shizuki’s eyes.
Tears welled up and ran down her cheeks in streaks.
Her face was teary and she began to cry.
Shizuki hugged me as if she was going to jump into my arms.
In front of the apartment, Shizuki buried her face in my chest and cried in a small voice.
“Hasumi-kun!! ….I … I!! … Always… Always!!….”
“It must have been hard. You’re really great, you know.”
“I did my best…! I tried, but…!”
“Yeah, I know. Great job, Shizuki.”
I put my jacket on Shizuki, who was in my arms, and rubbed her back.
Minai, for once, please don’t say I’m sexually harassing shizuki.
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