It’s Too Early to be Having Newlywed Syndrome! ~Childhood Friends Who Rekindled their Love for Each Other ~ - 4 - 19 - I Fooled Around

I Fooled Around

          “Wait one moment. I don’t understand at all. You proposed, and you pushed her down……?”

Makoto looked at Naoto while slapping her own cheeks twice.

“By pushing her down, you don’t mean just pushing her down, aren’t you?”

Makoto asked Naoto in a small voice.

Naoto, after taking an awkward glance at Natsuki,

“How should I say this, I stripped her on my bed, then put myself on top of her……”

He started recounting.

Makoto interrupted Naoto,

“Scary, scary! You don’t have to tell me!”

She said, shaking her head side to side.

“You didn’t realize, Nagatomo-san? I thought you would have made the connection with the atmosphere after Tachibana-san recited that essay, though.”

“I wouldn’t get such a thing if we weren’t given a specific subject to write an essay on.”

Makoto said with a serious expression.

Naoto, whose about to suddenly laugh at Makoto’s words, had a hard time keeping a serious face.

Nagatomo-san do like word quizzes, but I wonder, does she also like Japanese Language exams?

After waiting for his heart to calm down a bit,

“S, sorry……”

Naoto started talking.

“Haruka was composed when she recited your essay, so she didn’t know about that at all, right?”

“No, Tachibana-san also does well in our Japanese Language exams, so surely she might have thought of what I really did a possible meaning of ‘A mean thing that a guy does to a girl that wouldn’t be forgiven a second time’.”

“Eeeh—-?! Then, that wasn’t a good essay at all.”

“That’s right, isn’t it? Why did it reach such a level that teach and Tachibana-san took an interest in it?”

“As I thought, maybe Haruka haven’t noticed that that’s what it meant at all.”

“But if I’m going to be someone who memorizes some lyrics, I would’ve conjured up a lot of meanings behind that phrase.

If she was able to memorize it just by reading it once that she can recite it to heart, then there’s probably no way that she has no idea what ‘mean thing’ means when it comes to male-female relationships.”

“But how can she shake hands with a person that wrote such an essay if she does know the meaning behind it?”

“I also have no idea why, that’s the reason I also said back then ‘I don’t know what’s going on in Tachibana-san’s mind.’ Normally, one wouldn’t just shake hands with someone whose heart is as tainted as mine.”

“But it looked like Haruka really likes Morita-kun’s essay. She was really looking forward to reading your novel while we’re escorting her home, after all.

She also showed us that thing where your essay was printed together with her yearbook. What’s written there really matched with what she recited.”

After hesitating for one moment, Naoto opened his mouth,

“I think my mother have a copy of that thing where my essay was written. I actually remember being worried for a while about the possibility of Natsuki hearing about my essay from my parents.”

He sullenly said.

“Speaking of, I wonder why our moms didn’t tell me about that essay.”

Said Natsuki.

“I think it was a bit before that, but I talked to my parents about my essay.

Hasn’t my mother told Natsuki ‘My son wouldn’t even give me something for Mother’s Day’ in front of me when you happen to meet each other outside? I told my mother that Natsuki——no, I didn’t call you that yet, I told my mother that Oshida-san is feeling awkward, why can’t you see that, for the first time since I was born, that’s the first time I got genuinely angry at my mother. Maybe that’s why she hasn’t told you about the essay.

But after that, when Natsuki returned to visit me after I caught a cold, I really thought it was because she found out about it.”

“Speaking of, my mom might have told me about how ‘It looks like he wants to be friends with you again’. Well, she always told me that, though.”

“By mom, you mean your mother, Natsuki?”

“Yup”

“Then, my mother might have told your mom about it.”

“Was mom keeping it a secret?”

“No, we wouldn’t know about that. My mom might not have cared about it that much so there’s a possibility she might not have talked about it.”

“But she has your essay, right?”

“That’s supposed to be the case.”

“If it’s right now, can you show it to me?”

“Probably”

“Then I’ll go to your house to read it!”

“I’m okay with you reading it once we dated for the fifth.”

“E—h, that’s so far away.”

“Will reach our fifth date in no time.”

“Then, today, I’ll let you accompany me until our door, so that counts as one date, right?”

“No, we’re neighbors in the same apartment complex, so even if I don’t want to, we’ll be going home together anyway! Why would that count as one date?”

Saying that, Naoto suddenly remembered that he was in the middle of a conversation with Makoto.

What should I do? I was in the middle of talking about something important with Nagatomo-san, but I fooled around with Natsuki halfway.

While thinking about such things, he looked at Makoto, and saw that she was giggling.