I Broke Up With My Girlfriend Who Was Cheating On Me, But She Was So Deeply Sorry That I Couldn't Help But Forgive Her. - Chapter 10: Present. Yotsuba Yomogi’s POV
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- Chapter 10: Present. Yotsuba Yomogi’s POV
Present.
Yotsuba Yomogi’s POV
Sometimes I pick up my aunt’s daughter, or my cousin so to say, from kindergarten when she is unavailable.
That day, I went to pick up my cousin Nazuno, and as we were walking home together, my phone rang.
I let go of her hand and looked at the screen.
It was a call from a friend of the girl who was now in another class.
“Hello!”
“Hello, Yomogi, are you okay right now? We haven’t talked much since we changed classes, so I was feeling a little sad, so I thought I’d call you, teehee.”
“I just picked up Nazuna and we’re on our way home together.”
“Oops, bad timing??”
“I’ll call you back when I get home.”
“Okay. Okay, Rogggerr.”
“Okay, I’m hanging up now.”
And I ended the conversation with my friend and glanced to my side,
“…Nazuna?”
I took my eyes off her for a second.
I let go of the hand I was holding.
I let go of her hand, and when I did, I couldn’t see Nazuna, who was supposed to be there, and I felt my blood run cold all over my body.
“Nazuna!”
Impatient, I looked around and saw that Nazuna was nowhere to be seen, so I ran back.
As I rounded the corner, I saw Nazuna a short distance away and fell into a state of relief.
“Sisssss!!”
Nazuna fell down and was crying.
I had to go quickly, but then I noticed that there was a boy by her side.
Is that… Umikita sitting next to her?
Umikita bought a bottle of water from the vending machine right next to her and poured it on her knee, then wet a handkerchief with the remaining water and tied it to her knee.
After that, he patted her head, and before I knew it, she stopped crying… wait, I have to go to her!
“Nazunaa!!’
“Ahh! Sisss!!”
I ran up to Nazuna,
“Pheww… I thought you were lost, but sis is here now, it’s all good.”
“Yeah!”
Umikita squatted down to meet Nazuna’s eye level and looked at us with a smile that would put anyone watching at ease.
“Huh? Yotsuba?”
“Yeah, thanks for helping Nazuna, Umikita.”
“No, I’m glad that she didn’t get lost. Well, I’ll be going now… Huh?”
As he was about to leave, Nazuna grabbed him by his pants.
“Onii-chan, Carry me.”
“Ah. Right, you have injured your leg.”
I was surprised to see Umikita holding Nazuna in his arms.
Nazuna was shy and I had never seen her ask to be carried by anyone other than Aunt, Uncle, and me.
She looked so excited to be carried in his arms.
“If it’s not too much trouble, I’ll carry her home.”
Umikata said to me with the same gentle face he had been giving Nazuna.
I felt a little discomfort in the way he looked at me.
Remembering the girl who begged to be held in his arms.
I realized what the discomfort was.
There was absolutely no ulterior motive in Umikita’s gaze.
Rather than being benevolent from the start, he treated Nazuna as if it were a matter of course, and spoke gently to her with a reassuring expression on his face that put her at ease.
No wonder Nazuna adores him so much.
“I’d appreciate it if it’s not too much trouble for you.”
On the way back home, Nazuna was calling him ‘Onii-chan, Onii-chan’ and was getting pampered as much as she could.
…Huh? Isn’t she acting more spoiled with him than with me?
“Onii-chan, tell me your name.”
“It’s Umi, Nazuna-chan. You can call me Umi.”
“Umi Onii-chan!!”
“Understood, Umi.”
“Et tu, Brutus?”
“…?”
That day, for the first time, I was almost interested in Umi.
The day it suddenly started raining on the way to school.
Some of the boys were excited to see a girl’s Y-shirt through the rain.
I thought it would be a good time to ask, so I asked Umi what was bothering me.
“Umi, you don’t give girls dirty looks, do you?”
And he said,
“I don’t look at other girls like that because I have a girlfriend.”
Umi replied with a smile as if to say, “Was it so obvious?”
I could tell that he cared about her very much.
I felt a little jealous of Umi’s girlfriend.
Another day, on the day before, Nazuna wanted to see the Umi, so I asked him,
“Do you want to come over?”
“Ah… Nazuna-chan?”
“Yes, she wants to see you.”
“Well, I can’t go to a girl’s house when I have a girlfriend, I don’t want to make her feel uneasy. I’m sorry. But if I happen to see her on my way home, I will take care of Nazuna-chan as much as I can.”
I don’t want to make her feel uneasy…?
I don’t know about boyfriends or girlfriends, I’ve never been in a relationship. But…
If I were to have a boyfriend, this is the kind of guy I’d want.
Regardless of my intention, my feelings were rising.
When I went to school in the morning and walked into class, Akifumi told me something I couldn’t believe.
Umi broke up with his girlfriend?
Not manly enough?
Dumped?
Umi, who cared for her so much?
I don’t understand.
Is this a chance?
…Huh? Chance? Chance for what?
I don’t know… but I don’t feel comfortable.
When I heard that he was going to take Umi on a blind date, I felt a bit confused, so I told him that if he was going, I would go too.
That’s right.
I should ask him to come over and play with Nazuna this time.
Maybe that would calm down my uncertain feelings a little.
I had a feeling like that.