Falling in love with my stalker

Takeuchi-san was bold…and quite possessive I knew. However, giving a love bite just after a day when we started dating…indeed something I could have never prepared myself for.

I stared at the red glaring hickey she left on the side of my neck before I couldn’t help asking, “Takeuchi-san, aren’t you quite greedy?”

“…but it’s Shou-kun’s fault as well. To tempt me with his defenseless self.”

“…” I intended to tease her, however, hearing those words, I could only stare at the girl in pure amazement.

I left my vulnerable self which urged her to take this step eh? A logic only Takeuchi-san could apply.

“From a different perspective, it will help Shou-kun ward off the pests, no?” She didn’t mean it literally.

She was asserting her ownership of me so any other girl wouldn’t look in my direction. It was quite a dangerous gesture…something which made my heart flutter.

I looked at Takeuchi-san with a slightly reddened face before asking, “Doesn’t that mean, that I also have to mark Takeuchi-san as well? After all, Takeuchi-san is so beautiful that I look at every other boy with a suspicious gaze.”

I meant what I said. Takeuchi-san was breathtakingly beautiful. Her domineering disposition and attractive figure easily make her the most beautiful girl in the school. If not for her background, I knew, there would have been a pursuer of hers and she must have received numerous confessions already.

‘…now that I think about it, there were some fools who tried to confess to her during the beginning of this semester.’

“…d-do you want to?” My focus returned to the girl who asked me with a strawberry-red face.

She has already loosened her tie and brought her fingers on her shirt button.

My heartbeat quickened at the slight exposure of her creamy white skin, and her sexy collarbone just overwhelmed my reasoning.

However, before I or Takeuchi-san could move, the door of the classroom was abruptly slid open revealing the face of a familiar brunette.

“Sawaruma-kun, you have to help me now!”

It was Hanekawa-san.

She was wearing the P. E. uniform and had beads of sweat rolling down her head as she walked inside the classroom with her eyes overflowing with anxiety.

I panicked as I saw Takeuchi-san getting up from her seat and walking toward Hanekawa-san.

I got up from my seat hurriedly as the two girls stood face to face.

“What…?” Surprisingly Hanekawa-san was able to retain her composure in front of this agitated self of Takeuchi-san. Without looking at her face I could tell that she must be glaring daggers at Hanekawa-san.

“Tak-ah!” I exclaimed as suddenly Takeuchi-san raised her hand and swung her palm toward Hanekawa-san’s face.

I closed my eyes as I anticipated for a thunderous slap to resonate across the class…however, nothing sort of such noise erupted; urging me to open my eyes and look at the startling scene.

“Isn’t it a bit rude to slap people out of nowhere, Takeuchi Rumi?” That brutal slap was held by Hanekawa-san easily as she glared at Takeuchi-san.

In response, she rotated her wrist and got her hand free from the brunette before Takeuchi-san twirled on her feet like a whirlwind and delivered a backkick to Hanekawa-san.

“Akh!” Hanekawa-san indeed tried bringing her palm to the spot where the strike was about to land, but her reaction speed was slow.

The brown-haired staggered on her feet before she glared at Takeuchi-san and clenched her fist.

Hanekawa-san charged forward before she launched a right jab towards Takeuchi-san’s face—easily to be evaded by Takeuchi-san. However, Hanekawa-san soon followed with a frontal kick from the same stance.

“Agh…” Takeuchi-san wasn’t able to counter that as she also staggered back and groaned in pain.

My eyes immediately widened as I saw Hanekawa-san forwarding toward her again with her fist clenched near her chest.

I immediately pulled Takeuchi-san in my arms and turned around.

I closed my eyes and anticipated a strong punch, given how hard and fast Hanekawa-san just tried hitting Takeuchi-san.

However, even after I remained like that for a moment or two, nothing happened.

“How manly of you, Sawaruma-kun.” Hearing Hanekawa-san’s words I turned to look at her with Takeuchi-san still in my embrace.

Hanekawa-san was standing there with her arms crossed on her chest and a thin smile extending her lips.

“Hanekawa-san?! What were you trying there?”

“Shouldn’t you ask your girlfriend for that? She hit me first after all.”

Hearing her words I sobered up a little. Indeed, as she said it was my girlfriend who hit….wait!

“G-Girlfriend? What are you talking about?” I stammered slightly, making the girl in front, smile more fiercely.

“You are still trying to hide it when holding Takeuchi Rumi so intimately. Not to talk about the reaction she has…” As she said my eyes instinctively directed toward the girl I was holding…

…only to find myself falling into a daze at how profusely she was blushing. Those teary eyes and slightly parted lips made my mind numb for a moment there.

However, I soon regained my composure and asked Hanekawa-san, “Can you please not tell others about it?”

I asked with a pleading look, but never expected the response to be this quick,

“Yeah, sure…” I sighed in relief but soon my breath stuck in my throat as she completed her sentence,

“…but you have to do something in return.”

I was stunned for a moment to hear the proposal of a barter. However, it wasn’t me who responded to her,

“So you showed your true colors huh, Hanekawa? What are your true intentions toward my Shou-kun?”

The way Takeuchi-san stepped between me and Hanekawa-san was quite admirable. She has a smaller stature than mine, yet she looks exceptionally domineering and dependable at the moment.

The way Hanekawa-san has been acting since morning it seems she indeed has some kind of interest in me—which justifies Takeuchi-san’s wariness.

However, the moment she parted her lips and informed her intentions, I and Takeuchi-san were astounded.

“It’s his friend, Asukawa Keita whom I like. And being a close friend to Keita-kun I just wanted some help from Sawaruma-kun.”

…it turned out, that lazy bastard also got himself an admirer.

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A/N:- Drop a comment if you liked the chapter and their interaction. This rom-com will develop in a wider way.