Hey, Best Friend. How About A Kiss Today Too? - Chapter 33: "...B-best... frin…nd?"

“…B-best… frin…nd?”

It all started with a nerve-wracking home visit, followed by a nerve-wracking movie screening.

My heart, constantly tossed around by my childhood friend, underwent sudden overloads and rests, leaving me completely worn out.

But the one doing the tossing around was—.

“I can’t stand this crazy shopping mall anymore! I’m leaving first!”

“Wait, Jamie! There’s still a group of zombies outside!!”

“Ahhhh…!”

“What’s that!? That’s just a prop, right! It’s in such bad taste to scare someone like that, you…!”

“J-Jamie… don’t move, don’t you dare move…?”

“Help me, Tom! The well! The well is growing out of the floor and trying to swallow me!”

“Got it! Stay calm! It’s okay, I’ll help you now…!”

“No, my leg! It grabbed my leg… Aaaaaah!!”

“Jaammiieee!!”

“Hyyaaaah!!”

I was constantly being tossed around by horror movies.

Clutching tightly onto stacked cushions, I watched the oversized seventy-five-inch TV intently, thoroughly frightened yet intrigued.

Sagiri had always been afraid of scary things, yet her curiosity for them was strong.

As a result, I was always the one getting dragged into her watchalongs.

“Tom! The barricade is broken, and zombies are about to get in!”

“Shut up, Kate! Jamie, Jamie’s dead, you know!?”

“Tom! We’re all going to die like this!!”

“Ah… damn it all! I get it!!”

“Hooo…”

But well, it’s not so bad after all.

I get to see my childhood friend so engrossed and enjoying herself like this.

“Gyaaaahhh!!”

“Gyaaaahhh!!”

“Gyaaaahhh!!”

“Aaaaahhhhhhh!!?”

“Nooooooo!!?”

The barricade was broken, and Kate was devoured by the zombie horde.

Cushions were thrown, and Hayakiri clung to my chest.

“I… I can’t take it anymore! I can’t!!”

“C-C-cc..c-calm down!!”

I couldn’t stay calm.

This isn’t right… There’s a difference between a kiss and a hug, right!?

There’s a difference between the engrossed Sagiriand the real Sagiri, right!?

And the feeling of a school uniform versus a T-shirt, it’s different, right!?

“Renji, you smell nice.”

“I… I just took a shower.”

Why is she suddenly asking that?

“Aaaahh!! Jesse’s in the well!!”

“Let’s get out of here, Helena!!”

“Hyaaaah!!”

“Oooough!!”

Settle down, Sagiri! Calm down, movie! Calm down, me!

Sagiri, leaning over from the side, straddled me on the sofa, wrapping her arms around my neck.

The softness of her body pressing against mine was more comfortable than the sofa… no, wait, that’s not right!

“Uuuh…”

“I-it’s okay… it’s okay, Sagiri…”

I wonder if the actors in the movie felt like this.

Actually, what’s up with Tom’s love life? Apart from Tom, everyone else in this movie is female.

To calm Sagiri down, I gently stroke her head.

Damn it, her hair is really silky... Why do I think about this at a time like this?

The nervousness from the home visit and movie screening had already been overwritten by something new.

“Phew… Helena, we managed to escape somehow…”

“Yes, we did, Tom…”

“Hey, Sagiri! They made it out!”

“Huh? Oh, yeah…”

On the TV screen, Tom and the others managed to escape to a small cabin in the woods.

Would it be too pedantic to question why there’s a shopping mall in the middle of the forest?

Just by Sagiri turning to the TV screen, her long hair brought a faint scent, and any pedantic thoughts vanished.

“Helena, if we can just survive like this… Chuu~!?”

“Huh?”

“What!?”

Tom was kissed by Helena and pushed onto the bed.

“Tom~~… I love~ you. I love you~~, Tom…~ Mm.”

“W-wait, Helena… not now~… Mm… Hah~… This… isn’t the time… Mmph~…”

“…………”

“…………”

A romantic scene suddenly unfolded in the B-grade horror-action movie.

The blonde handsome actor and the beautiful actress intertwined on the bed, exchanging intense kisses.

And suddenly, I became calm.

We were embracing each other on the same sofa. Our faces were still a little far, of course…

“…B-best… frin…nd?”

My best friend, who had turned away from the TV, looked at me with flushed cheeks.

“Mm… H-Helena~… we shouldn’t… go further than this…”

“It’s oka~y, Tom… no one’s watching…”

Before I knew it, my hand had wrapped around Sagiri’s slender waist.