Hey, Best Friend. How About A Kiss Today Too? - Chapter 21: "How about... skipping the rest of the day?"

“How about… skipping the rest of the day?”

After being pulled out of the classroom by Sagiri for the second time, I found myself on the stairs just before homeroom came. 

After a while, the chime rang, signaling the start of classes, my childhood friend still didn’t stop dragging me further.

Enduring the discomfort around my neck, we arrived at the same place as last time – a narrow, dim space at the top of the stairs, with a door leading to the rooftop that never opened.

“…”

“S-Sagiri…?”

Finally released from the grasp of Sagiri’s tie, she conspicuously avoided eye contact with me.

“I guess… I’m not the only one… right?”

Twirling her long, white hair around her fingers, she spoke hesitantly.

“B-Best friends… they want to do this too, right…?”

Playing with her silky hair, she glanced at me with her beautiful, blushing ears.

“So, um… you want to…?”

Her short question had an unexpectedly suggestive tone.

“Wait, Sagiri! I haven’t said anything like that!”

“…”

If I thought it was over, I was wrong.

Skipping the morning homeroom and rampaging like this – I felt a sense of urgency to stop my childhood friend.

“Because, Renji…”

Clearly flustered, Sagiri’s long hair swayed, revealing her ears that were now completely red.

“If that’s the case…”

“Wait a minute, Sagiri! I haven’t said anything like that yet!”

“Because, you see, Renji…”

She paused, and then asked hesitantly, “You want to kiss… right?”

“Wait, Sagiri! I haven’t said anything like that!”

But she continued, “I thought so. Because I want to do it as well.”

“Hey, Sagiri! I haven’t said anything like that!”

“Because you’re my best friend… and best friends can kiss, right?”

“Wait, Sagiri! I haven’t said anything like that clearly yet!”

“But, Renji, best friends can kiss, right?”

“Sagiri, wait! As I said, I haven’t said anything like that!”

At this point, I felt like I was stuck in an endless loop.

“S-so, that’s…”

Sagiridropped her shoulders with a thud.

Ah, that was close. If we continued staring at each other at such a close distance, that strange switch inside me might have flipped again. Honestly, just looking at her face up close makes my heart race.

Even though she’s my childhood friend, and I’ve been looking at that face for so long…

“…………”

“S-so, Sagiri…?”

I called her name again as she remained silent. Even though she was drooping weakly, her hand grasping my shoulder showed no signs of letting go.

In my field of vision was the top of the head of my childhood friend, with beautiful white hair stretching down. The scent was incredibly pleasant, and it was currently disrupting my consciousness.

“…………”

“Hmm? Hey, Sagiri!?”

Squeezing, squeezing, squeezing.

My body, with both shoulders grabbed, was pushed back without any resistance, and my back immediately hit the iron door.

“Hey, best friend.”

“Wha-!?”

Sagirididn’t raise her face.

But when it comes to childhood friends, you can understand their feelings just by their voice… and I understood.

She’s angry. It was definitely the voice of someone who’s angry.

“…Want to?”

Sagiri lifted her face.

She was smiling. A beaming smile from the school’s most beautiful girl. Only her eyes weren’t smiling.

“You want to, right?”

Sagiri used both hands to put her weight on my shoulders.

Physical and mental pressure. My body, crawling against the door at my back, went down, down.

“So, that’s why you did that?”

And finally, I found myself sitting in that spot. Leaning against the door with my back, knees bent awkwardly, in a somewhat disheveled seated position resembling gym class exercise.

There, Sagiri was straddling me as if covering me entirely.

No matter how you looked at it, it was an outrageous posture.

“Do… you want to?”

The hand that had been gripping my shoulder cradled my cheek. Soft, delicate, and warm, the hand mercilessly held my face.

In front of me, my childhood friend, now flushed crimson, had a slightly teary-eyed and disheveled expression due to embarrassment.

Moreover, Sagiri’s weight and warmth were pressing down on my lower abdomen, intensifying the sensations, and everything was being colored by the influence of my childhood friend.

“Kiss…”

With more weight added, our upper bodies overlapped.

“Wait, wait, Sagiri! Th-this situation is really—”

Even through my shirt, I could feel the warmth and softness of her body, and my thoughts spiraled into panic.

“――Mmm.”

It was a kiss that seemed to overwrite everything. The kiss, with our bodies almost completely pressed together, felt as if I were melting into Sagiri.

The familiar chime signaling the start of the first period echoed.

“Ding-dong-ding-dong, ding-dong-ding-dong, ding-dong-ding-dong, ding-dong-ding-dong…”

For some reason, the sound felt distant.

“Hey, best friend?”

My friend, who had just parted our lips, looked mischievously at me.

“How about… skipping the rest of the day?”

Despite the unmistakable lack of best friend distance, I couldn’t say anything in response to that smile.