I Fell in Love with Someone I Shouldn't Have Fallen in Love with

Inferiority Complex

Emi’s POV

I just entered middle school this spring.

I’m now no longer a grade school student, I’m now a middle school student like Onee-chan. And so, I was filled with excitement and anticipation wondering if I can be a little more mature. I also want to be more involved in club activities, and even perhaps experience love.

However, this excitement and anticipation starts to fade little by little.

The reason for it is Onee-chan and Souji Ando.

Even to me, her young sister, Onee-chan is very beautiful.

She is even really popular among the first-year students.

After a short time at school, I’m often told by my classmates,

“Mamiya-san, your older sister is Mamiya Ami-senpai, right?”

“I’m so envious! Someone that beautiful is your older sister.”

“Mamiya-san’s older sister is truly beautiful!”

“If I go to Emi-chan’s house to play, will I get to meet your sister?”

When I was still getting used to my new school in April and May, I was approached not only by my classmates, but also people from other middle schools. It kind of made me feel happy and I bragged about my beautiful sister.

However, I started to realize that I’m not the reason they approached me.

Everyone is interested in my beautiful Onee-chan, not me.

They only see me as ‘Mamiya Ami’s little sister.’

When I realized this, every time they talk about Onee-chan, I felt like I’m being told,

‘Your sister is truly beautiful, but you are not that special.’

I felt like I’m constantly being compared to. Being asked about Onee-chan became really stressful to the point that I wanted to shout to them, ‘Enough already!’

As for club activity, I decided to join the tennis club, but even there, it was the same.

Especially from the second and third-year boys. I would be asked about my sister or they would say things like ‘Introduce me to your sister, I want to be friends with her’. Dealing with those senpai and turning them down is really troublesome.

Furthermore, even though they don’t say it directly, but I heard rumors about the female senpai say some things like,

‘She’s getting carried away because she is Mamiya Ami’s little sister.’

‘I’m so pissed that she is getting all of the attention just because she is Mamiya Ami’s little sister.’

‘Even though she is not much of a person.’

Because of the situation of the tennis club, I eventually left the club just before summer break started.

I know it’s not Onee-chan’s fault, but I can’t help but to think, ‘if it weren’t for Onee-chan, things would surely be better.’

Then, there is another problem, Souji Ando.

At first, I was against living with a boy.

But when I heard that his mom has passed away and he has to stay with us because he has no other relatives. I can’t help but to feel sympathetic towards him.

So, I thought maybe I should just keep my distance with him.

If he tries to get close to me, I can always tell Mama or Papa about it.

That’s what I thought.

My first impression of him was that he is lame, boring, and has some kind of gloomy aura around him.

So, at first I wasn’t interested in him at all.

Mama seems to blatantly hate him, so I try not to get involved with him.

In fact, he never got involved with me at all, so I just ignored him as if he doesn’t even exist in the house.

But that is not the case at school.

Because Souji Ando has become even more popular than Onee-chan at school.

Every day, even if I don’t want to, I always hear gossip about Souji Ando.

‘The student council president is so handsome!’

‘That song by Ando-senpai was really moving!’

‘I wonder if he has a girlfriend.’

‘I heard that he is really smart too! He is the top student in his grade!’

Especially among the girls, everyone is really excited every day talking about him as if he is a celebrity.

Some of them even went to the third-grade classroom to see him and brag about the conversations they have with him.

I’m truly horrified of the situation.

I’m already in a lot of mess because of Onee-chan, if they find out that I’m living with the celebrity Souji Ando, things would turn out to be ridiculous.

Fortunately, Onee-chan seems to think the same thing. One day, she told me that I must never tell anyone at school that we are living with Souji Ando.

According to Onee-chan, Souji Ando also agreed about it and kept it a secret.