I Tried Pulling When Pushing My Childhood Friend Didn’t Work, and It Totally Broke Me Inside - Chapter 5

After that, I got handcuffed and dragged back.

Looking back, I should’ve just run barefoot.

I guess when I panic, my mind gets really narrow.

“This way, we’ll always be together.”

“Um, Yuna, isn’t handcuffing me a bit too much…”

I was thrown onto the bed with the handcuffs on and was completely stuck.

“It’s your fault, Daisuke. You tried to run.”

“I know I tried to run, but I’m staying like this. I can’t just accept it. What about school, or my parents? They’d freak out, you know?”

There’s so much I want to say to my mom, too.

“Starting tomorrow, we have four days off. And dad’s going on a business trip for a while. Mom won’t be back either. I just told them to go somewhere for four days, and they said okay.”

Oh, that’s right.

Monday’s a holiday, and our school anniversary is coming up. So we actually have a four-day break.

And… the real culprit already ran off.

I could totally smack my mom now if I wanted to.

Wait, I have to stay here for four days?

“Daisuke…”

“W-What… Whoa!”

Yuna hugged me suddenly.

“I’ve wanted to do this forever. Now, you’re mine.”

Her soft body pressed against me…

If I weren’t trapped here, this wouldn’t be so bad.

“I’m sorry…”

She said it while holding me tight.

“Even though you confessed to me so many times… I finally realized, I really like you, Daisuke.”

“Y-Yuna…”

“But it’s too late… You’ve fallen for Satou-san already.”

“That’s a misunderstanding!”

“A misunderstanding?”

“Yeah! A misunderstanding! I don’t actually like Satou-san. I still like you, Yuna!”

I hope Yuna goes back to normal…

“That’s, I see… I’m glad.”

Good. It seems like things worked out.

But that feeling didn’t last long…

“Then, let’s stay here forever, okay? Forever…”

Nope.

The misunderstanding is cleared, but I’m still trapped in this room.

“Y-Yuna? I like you. So, maybe you don’t need to lock me up?”

“No.”

“No?”

“You like me, right, Daisuke? I’m your girlfriend now, right?”

Before I even realized it, Yuna had become my girlfriend.

It’s what I always wanted, but I wish I could have been happy about it in normal circumstances and not like this.

“Y-Yeah.”

“Then it’s okay to stay here forever, right?”

“Ah, but we should go back. Look, it’s already seven.”

She pointed at the clock.

The curtains blocked the outside view, and my phone had been taken with my bag, so the clock was the only connection to the outside.

“Ah, I have to get the bath ready.”

“Are you listening?”

Apparently, I wasn’t getting through at all.

“Um, before that, I need to use the bathroom.”

Half of that was a lie.

I had been holding the small one for a while.

“Okay.”

She brought out the portable bathroom from earlier.

“Here you go.”

“I-I can’t, please, let me use the bathroom.”

“This is the bathroom?”

“P-Please…!”

Yuna stared at the portable bathroom and didn’t move.

“If you let me use the bathroom, I’ll do anything you say. I won’t try to run again, please!”

I really couldn’t hold it anymore.

“Anything?”

“Anything! Please, I’m begging you!”

“I see…”

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Haaaaaaa!

That was close.

In the end, I actually managed to use the bathroom…

But, instead of taking off the handcuffs completely, she tied a rope around my body and attached it to the outside.

Yuna tugged on the rope and asked, “Are you not done yet?”

This felt strangely familiar… some old stories.

What was it… the one with the kid and the talisman?

“Are you not done yet?”

“Yes, yes, I’m coming out.”

It felt weird, like I was living a story from a fairy tale. I’m happy, but also not really.

After washing my hands, she handcuffed me again.

“Hey, can’t you skip the handcuffs now?”

“Daisuke, do you remember what you said earlier?”

“If you let me use the bathroom… I’ll do anything… I won’t try to run again…”

“That’s right. Then let’s go back.”

Maybe this is what it feels like to make a deal with the devil.

When I was brought back to the room, I was thrown onto the bed again.

“Daisuke, are you hungry?”

Yuna had been using me as a body pillow for a while.

“Yeah, a little.”

“Wait here.”

She left the room.

And a few minutes later, she came back with an omelet rice.

“I’m sorry for the wait.”

I thought that she’d finally take off the handcuffs so I could eat.

But instead…

“Here, ahh.”

She held out a spoon to feed me.

“No, I can eat myself if you just take off the handcuffs.”

“Nope, aahh.”

“No, but.”

“Daisuke, it’s not just to keep you from running away.”

“Huh?”

“It’s proof of my love.”

She suddenly said something really intense.

“So, Daisuke, you don’t need the handcuffs, right? You said it earlier, didn’t you? From now on, you’ll do whatever I say, you’ll be mine, and you’ll accept everything.”

“No, I didn’t exactly say all that.”

“You did!? Are you lying? To me? Why? Why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why, why?”

“I get it! I’m sorry… I’ll do whatever you say!”

I ended up making an outrageous promise just to deal with Yuna’s intensity.

“Then, ahh.”

I gave up and let her feed me the omelet rice.

“Is it good?”

“Y-Yeah, it’s good.”

“I’m glad. It’s my best one yet.”

“You made it yourself?”

“Yeah.”

I could’ve been a lot happier about it if this weren’t happening…

Later, even when I took a bath, she joined me.

According to Yuna, a wife is supposed to always stay with her husband.

Somehow, she had already upgraded from girlfriend to wife in her own mind.

And she had even prepared clothes that fit me perfectly.

That night, I went to sleep with Yuna using me as a body pillow.

I couldn’t fall asleep right away as too much was going through my head.

Of course, the handcuffs weren’t taken off.