Hey, Best Friend. How About A Kiss Today Too? - Chapter 37: "Is it not okay?"

“Is it not okay?”

All we did was get into the same bed. Just that. However, the situation was far from being easily dismissed, and I had to keep reminding myself of that.

A high school boy and girl lying side by side on a single bed.

One in a summer uniform with a short-sleeved shirt and a miniskirt, and the other in sleepwear with a short-sleeved top and shorts. A mismatched combination crammed under the same blanket on one bed.

In my room, on my bed, with the sweet scent of Sagiri blending with my own. It was driving me crazy.

“Renji, you’re the type who doesn’t use the air conditioner when sleeping, huh?”

“W-why are you suddenly bringing that up?”

“Well, it was hot earlier…”

Hot? What’s the connection? Because it was hot earlier, what? Does that mean her uniform was undone because it was hot? In my bed? While sleeping next to me?

There’s no way I could ask such a thing though!

“…Are you an idiot?”

“If I weren’t, I wouldn’t be asking you to help me with my studies, Renji.”

The vectors of idiocy are different, but I didn’t expect her to be so brazen. The history of my life for over a decade proves that this idiot is formidable. Well, dealing with a troublesome beauty is what I’ve grown accustomed to.

No, I’ve been dealing with beautiful girls for a long time now.

“Hey, hey.”

“What…?”

“Look this way.”

“…N-no way.”

I, who had been stiff since earlier, kept my back turned to Sagiri. I hadn’t looked anywhere but my own room from the edge of the bed. Despite being in my familiar room, it felt unsettling, as if I were in a stranger’s house.

“…Hmm.”

I heard a dissatisfied voice from behind.

“All right!”

“Aah!?”

A moist and warm sensation spread over my legs. It created a slow entanglement, generating a bit of weight. Inside the blanket, the legs exposed from the shorts intertwined with the legs revealed by her miniskirt.

On my back, a large and soft sensation pressed against me.

“S-sagi, sagiri!?”

“…What’s the problem? We’re best friends.”

Frantically panicking on my part, but Sagiri seemed different today.

Monday after the break.

The only conceivable cause was the kiss that had been left unresolved on Friday.

“Is it not okay?”

“…!”

Sagiri traced my back with her finger, and it was ticklish.

“You did it to me, Renji.”

“Sa-Sag…!?”

The cause was correct.

However, I wasn’t in any condition to focus on that.

The fingers that were tracing my back pulled away, and the slender arm seemed to crawl around to the front… wrapping around my chest.

In the same bed. Deprived of freedom from behind, I felt like a body pillow. Every part that Sagiri touched made me feel her softness, and it was driving me crazy.

“You have a boy’s body…”

“I-it’s because I’m a boy!”

Perhaps this response had no meaning. Sagiri’s hands playing with my clothes from above, the smooth long legs entwining mine, and the softness of her body pressing against me from behind—all of it made it impossible for me to stay calm.

“Hey, Renji?”

“Uuuu…!?”

Whispered into my ear from behind, not as a best friend, but calling me by my name. Only Sagiri knows the difference.

“Look this way.”

“……waauuu…”

I succumbed to these ordinary words and sweet whispers. No man can resist this, but I found myself not wanting this kind of temptation from any other guy.

“Good… morning…”

“Yeah…”

The first words exchanged with our faces meeting in the same bed under the same blanket.

“Your face is red.”

“It’s because you came in.”

“But you were the one who came in.”

If I say it like this, she responds like that.

My childhood friend is a very persistent person.

If she were in my shoe, she would probably say, “…It’s fine, we’re best friends.”

“…Yeah, it’s… fine.”

It seems like I’ve been poisoned too.

I knew the poison had been spreading since last week.

Worrying about how to deal with it from this week on was pointless from the start. After all, Sagiri just ignores all my thoughts and suddenly comes at me, even entering my bed without caring if I’m asleep or not.

There’s no such thing as manners among close friends, at least not for her.

No, maybe she’s here precisely because we’re close friends… that’s what I thought.

“…It’s… fine?”

For the second time in a row, “It’s fine.”

However, this “It’s fine” had a different meaning, and my hands were moving on their own.

Running my fingers through her silky silver hair and touching her feverish cheek, her intricately pale and smooth skin turned a shade of crimson.

“Sagiri…”

Yes, calling her by her name and getting closer…

Click

The sound of a door opening.

“Sagiri-chan, would you like to have breakfast at our place today?”

That’s when I heard Mom calling out her name.

“Oh my…”

Click.

Once again, the sound of the door closing echoed.

“…………”

“…………”

Sagiri and I, facing each other in the same bed, froze like stones.

“O…oh my…”

“Please don’t imitate her…”

Both of us turned bright red, and simultaneously, we averted our gaze when we heard Mom calling Sagiri name.