Having Had My Bride Stolen, I Just Want to Live Peacefully - Chapter 18

Amagamine High School, Class A of 3rd grade.

“Ehehe.”

Break time. Nene was looking at her smartphone.

Of course, what she’s looking at is Arata-san’s selfie.

For it was a picture of Arata-san next to the boiling down of the meat and potatoes.

It was really fun for the two of them to cook together with matching aprons.

She’s been looking back many times since then.

Then suddenly, a pink pigtail burst between Nene and her smartphone.

“Aah! Nene-chi is smiling at the picture!”

“EH? I’m not smiling.”

Miu pointed out that she was trying to make her expressionless as usual, but her mouth was smirking.

“Ahaha! Nene can’t hide it at all!”

Seeing this situation, Himari laughs loudly.

Every time she laughed, her golden curly hair and her big chest were shaking.

“They both have loud voices.”

“Nene-chi’s shy, aren’t you?”

“That’s not the case.”

Nene puffed up her cheeks and got angry.

“Show us the picture too.”

“Miu wants to see, wants to see!”

“What shall I do?”

Nene tilted her head anxiously.

“Eeh, we picked out the clothes together, right?”

“That’s right!”

“That… Thank you. Alright, I’ll show you.”

Nene was pretentious, but she longed for a show-off peculiar to high school girls, and she really wanted to show it to them.

“Whoa, Nene-chi’s so cute!? That dress was the right one. Even if you wear an apron from above, your back is sticking out, so it’s very attractive.”

“Ah, I think it worked pretty well.”

Nene looks back on that day.

Arata-san looks up a little and looks away.

That means he was conscious, right?

He hid it so that no one else could see it, and she was very happy that she could feel the kindness.

He blushed when she asked him to take a good look at it, and it was really cute.

“Nene-chi, you’re so cute! But the older brother next door is handsome! He’s really tall and stylish!”

“Yes, he’s handsome, right?”

The suit was cool, but the apron also had a homely feel that he could cook, and it was great.

Haa, he’s so handsome.

Nene was dazed looking at the picture.

“Oh wow, this is the face of a girl who is in love.”

“Well, she’s a newlywed now!”

Miu’s remarks bring back Nene’s consciousness.

“…N-newlyweds?”

“That’s right! Because you’re obviously a newlywed wearing the same apron and cooking together, right?”

“I-is that so?”

“That’s right! I think so, too!”

Himari also supports her.

“Is that so?”

She said so while shaking her body and grinning.

“What is this adorable creature?”

“I’d like to take her home.”

Himari and Miu had spotted the dreary Nene.

And they decided to make fun of her later.

The boys who saw this might have thought Nene might have a boyfriend!?

But it had nothing to do with Nene.

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The night after Nene went shopping with Arata-san.

On the bed with the canopy, Nene lay in memory of that day.

It was fun to choose Arata-san’s clothes.

Because he’s tall, everything looks good on him.

He’s so cool.

I took a lot of pictures. Doesn’t he think it’s strange?

On my smartphone, there was Arata-san’s photo of him wearing a variety of clothes.

It was supposed to be taken to compare clothes, but for that reason, there were a lot of facial improvements.

The rest are glasses.

He wears glasses because his eyes are harsh and intimidating, but if he takes them off, I can see Arata-san’s long-cut eyes and it’s cool.

But if he takes it off, I wonder if everyone will find out how cool Arata-san is.

“I don’t like it.”

Nene was a little depressed when she imagined a scene where many women surrounded Arata-san and said he was cool.

He doesn’t wear glasses at home, so it’s a special appearance that he’ll just show me, so I can keep it to myself, right?

Nene resolved the idea to have him keep his glasses on.

And today is the day Arata-san told me his secret.

I thought we were not close because we didn’t talk about our family, but it wasn’t as simple as that.

I understood a little bit the meaning of the words that Arata-san’s father was yelling at that day.

It made my heart ache to see him speak as if nothing had happened.

Dad and Mom must have known this, too.

There’s no reason to tell me, and I can’t help it, but I almost fiddled with the fact that I was treated like a child again.

I guess I’m still a child in this kind of place.

But this time, Arata-san told me properly.

Little by little, do you mean he trusts Nene?

I hope so.

There are many things I don’t know yet, but I hope I can learn little by little.

Thinking of something I didn’t know, I suddenly got out of bed.

I can’t believe that Kohinata-sensei was a former student of Arata-san for a short time.

“I haven’t heard of that…!”

Without thinking, Nene held her mouth in her hands and uttered a loud voice.

Then, Kohinata-sensei saw Arata-san standing on the platform and teaching.

I imagined Arata-san wearing a suit and writing a formula on a blackboard.

And after a moment of anguish, there was a glimmer of jealousy.

“Okay… I envy you…”

And Kohinata-sensei was asking for his contact information, seriously, what is it?

Arata-san was just casually teaching her, ugh!

I can’t help but feel Kohinata-sensei is interested in Arata-san.

It’s been a long time since they saw each other again, and her eyes were shining.

It was a woman’s intuition or something like that of someone who had the same feeling.

A good idea came down to Nene who worried about what to do.

Tomorrow, Nene decided to do something.

“I won’t lose to Kohinata-sensei.”

Nene showed her willingness.