It’s Too Early to be Having Newlywed Syndrome! ~Childhood Friends Who Rekindled their Love for Each Other ~ - 5 - 10 - Great Timing
Great Timing
Sakurako’s questioning of Natsuki and Naoto was still continuing.
The worries of a maiden in love are mountainous.
Sakurako had Naoto’s most favorite amongst Natsuki’s skirts brought out and with a difficult expression, looked at a full-body mirror while placing the skirt over her waist.
“If I’m meeting Iida wearing casual clothes, would a skirt be better?”
While watching the two girls’ fashion show with a grin, Naoto thought that he wanted Natsuki to try Hirose-san’s and the other girls’ clothes as well, but he returned to earth with the sudden question.
“Er, what’s it again?”
“Skirt or pants, which do you think is better?”
“I’m firmly on the skirt side. If she’s wearing pants, it would make me worry if she found out that I wanted to look inside her skirt. It would make me thing that she’s being cautious of us being alone with each other.”
“Nn—-, if it’s a skirt, then would this length be alright?”
“If we’re talking about Iida, what would be the right answer?
If it’s a date on a cold day, it’s easy to see those who will be happy that their partner took the time to wear cold-looking clothes for them and those who would want to have their partner to go home early because they looked cold with their clothes. Hirose-san’s school skirt is not that long, so I think it wouldn’t be out of place if you wear a casual skirt with the same length though.”
“In the first place, you don’t know whether Iida-kun prefers skirts or not, do you?”
“I don’t know, but I know he will be glad if he gets to see a glimpse of a girl’s underwear by chance. He might get more excited with skirts. Therefore, when you’re alone while on a stair, lifting up your skirt without pressing down on it will make him happy. For me, such a thing makes an impression that I’m being trusted not to peek, which strikes a chord in me.”
“So it’s like making it seem that he can see inside while making sure that he wouldn’t be able to, is that it?”
“No, on the instance that the two of you are alone on a stairway, if you can pass it off as natural then you can make him have a glimpse of your panties.
Make him think ‘If she lacks this much sense of wariness around men, then it’s up to me to protect her’.
However, you must only show it to Iida. If it’s a usual situation where there are other people around, you mustn’t do it. Just do it on places where no one else is there, like a park where there’s only the two of you, a stairway on a train station with no other people walking by, and on a karaoke room or a private room in a manga café. If its on those places then you can show him your panties.”
Naoto, completely changing the topic from the talk about clothes coordination that they were having so far, and full of confidence, stressed his points.
“That’s so embarrassing, I couldn’t do that. It will definitely come off as unnatural.”
“Is it really that hard to show someone a glimpse of your panties? Somehow, I’ve been the recipient of Natsuki’s aggressive seduction way before we started dating, so maybe I lost sense of how far common people can go concerning these things.”
When Naoto said that, Natsuki, who was blushing, pouted, saying “I didn’t seduce you that much”.
While looking at Natsuki’s scowling face, Naoto remembered the one thing that Natsuki did to him before during a date before they started going out with each other that made him especially happy.
That’s right, it’s a girl’s gaze.
“If you’re going for the pure girl route, maybe keep on looking at him with a happy expression throughout your date. Like, do it until your face goes red in embarrassment.
If he asks you if something’s up, say something significant like ‘I’m just happy since this looks like we’re on a date’ or ‘Spending time alone with Iida-kun seems like a dream.’
If he hears those words come clearly from your mouth, he’ll be greatly relieved. With that, boys will feel more confident in asking girls on things like eating out.”
“Eh—…… but if I do that, wouldn’t he catch on the fact that I like him?”
“Rather, it’s better if he finds out about your feelings for him before the trip to Health Land. You should make him strongly conscious of you before he sees Tachibana-san again.”
“My heart’s not prepared for it yet, though.”
“It seems like Iida likes girls like Hirose-san though. Tachibana-san was also the type to chat with guys back in the day, and he’s the type to like girls who can speak on equal terms with guys.”
“But if he rejects me, Iida-kun’s Health Land trip that you painstakingly organized would become awkward. I don’t want that to happen.”
“Aah, so that thing would happen if you get rejected, huh. What should be done then?
Well, for the time being, if I’m on Hirose-san’s shoes, I might want to ask Iida ‘If, by any chance, Tachibana-san confesses her love to you, would you go out with her?’. Whether he wants a romantic relationship or not, if he wants to have a girlfriend or not…… the person himself doesn’t talk about those things that much, but is doing it kinda scary? That’s what I would do though.”
“I’m scared as well. Did you not talk with Iida-kun about such things today?”
“Iida-kun and I don’t normally talk that much about girls after all. Even when we talked about Tachibana-san, the conversation was only refreshing.
We didn’t talk about pushing her down or about how we can’t get enough of her tighs.
That’s why in regards to girls, I don’t know wht hispreferences are outside the fact that he likes getting a glimpse of panties and bra and that he likes bare feet. Since we are going bare feet at Health Land, he might be happy if you ask him for a foot massage.”
“I couldn’t ask him to do something like that. Just by imagining it, my heart’s already beating fast.”
“Hirose-san, you really like Iida that much, huh?”
“That seems to be the case, even though it feels embarrassing. It’s weird, right?”
“It’s not like it isn’t weird, I think. Even back in middle school, Iida had made a transfer student fall for him on just their first day in our school.
And then back during our first year of high school, on the way home from our school festival, he got confessed on by a student from another school. When he invited me to go together to the arcade, as we got out of the school gate, a number of girls from another school were waiting. They might have waited outside the school gate for a relatively long time. After I waited for him as he parted with me for a bit, he returned blushing, telling me ‘She told me she fell in love with me at first sight, so she asked if we could go out with each other.’”
“Eh—?! What happened after that?”
“Somehow, they exchanged contacts for the meantime and I think they became friends after that, but I don’t think they reached the point of being boyfriend/girlfriend.”
“Was that person a beauty?”
“My eyesight’s a bit bad, so I can’t really tell for sure. It was already dark by that time after all. However, Iida said something to the effect of ‘Even though she’s rather cute, why did she choose me? Is she not scared of me when I smile from time to time?’”
“Even though that person is rather cute, Iida-kun didn’t go out with her?”
“I haven’t really asked him that much about that part, it’s not like it’s often that such a thing happens to him, you see.
Based on my intuition, being told that someone likes you and deciding to go out with them for the meantime, its normal to think about wheter you will break up afterwards or not. Even if you listen in talks between other guys, that’s how the conversation goes.”
“Idiot, not everyone is like Nao-kun, okay? There are also those who seriously fall in love after all.”
Natsuki spoke without thinking.
“No, while that might be true. If a guy got confessed to, even more so when the other person is cute, guys couldn’t quite ignore them, you know? I just couldn’t get convinced otherwise.
So I suddenly asked him ‘It’s not like you’re going out with another person right now, are you? You could’ve just accepted her as your girlfriend instead of starting out as friends.’”
“And then?”
Natsuki’s and Sakurako’s voices came out at the same time.
“It seems like there was also a time when he got confessed after going off train which he promptly rejected back when he still has a crush on Tachibana-san. In order to decline that person, he thought that even though the person might not have anyone who they have feelings for, deciding to go out with them right there and there seems unfair, he said.”
“That’s kinda awesome, he’s really earnest, isn’t he?”
Sakurako’s voice sounded happy.
“Right? Even though Iida must’ve also had his own desires, he’s cool, isn’t he?”
“……Is Iida-kun rather popular?”
Sakurako sighed.
“He doesn’t brag about it, and he acts like he’s not popular, but I think he’s probably fairly popular.
That’s why you see, if you wait to see how Iida will act towards Tachibana at Health Land, there is a risk of him being targeted by other girls. There are only two guys who will be going with after all. If they learned that one of those two is already taken, Iida will stand out whether he likes it or not.
If that happens, there’s enough possibility that someone will develop feelings for him. As soon as possible, you must’ve made Iida yours before our trip to Health Land.”
“Even if you suddenly tell all that to me, it’s really impossible. Besides, even if I confess to him, we’ll still start out as friends, right?”
“If it’s Hirose-san, I think you’ll be able to have a start as his girlfriend, though. The Iida who warned you not to fall for him back then, wouldn’t be that happy with someone making him okonomiyaki like that. Well, he might be happy with being able to it lots of okonomiyaki though.”
“That might be the case. Would he be happy even if it wasn’t me who made it for him?”
“But that day, when Iida met Hirose-san and the others for the first time, he was all ‘Ain’t they insanely cute?’ and ‘Why would such people hang out with us?’, he was really excited.”
“He must’ve been talking about Natsuki and Aki, right?”
“No, no. He wouldn’t be calling Natsuki cute in that situation, based on Iida’s character.
He already met Natsuki once before that, and by then he already knows that we are going out with each other.
So I think what he meant by that was that the other two girls are both cute.”
“Is that so? Do you think I’m within Iida-kun’s strike zone?”
“I think you’re appearance and personality is within Iida-kun’s preference.”
“You’re lying, you’re just saying those things, aren’t you Morita-kun?”
“Well because, that Iida who rejected a cute girl who asked him ‘Please make me you girlfriend’, agreed to spend his birthday with Hirose-san, it’s a given that I’ll find it suspicious. If he only thinks of you as a cute-looking girl, things wouldn’t have gotten that far. Maybe he also found your personality wonderful.
This New Year’s Day as well, Iida went to the arcade all alone. If she agreed to an invitation of a girl who’s just a friend, then he would’ve spent time together with a girl as early as Christmas. By nature, if it’s Iida, he would’ve easily made a girlfriend in a mixer.
Even when buying clothes, he’s the type to usually buy his alone. There’s no mistaking it, Iida finds it easy to rely on Hirose-san.”
“Isn’t it just a case of him asking me because he had no choice since he’s worried that Haruka-san might find his outfit off-putting? Isn’t it just that he was so troubled he would accept help from anybody?”
“It’s possible to think of it that way if we go with the angle of buying clothes, but Haruka-san was not even related to the one about his birthday. That argument falls apart in that angle.
Or rather, that is not a promise that he would’ve made if he’s thinking about Tachibana-san. Even in the chance that he ends up going out with Tachibana-san, he would still spend his birthday hanging out with Hirose-san. In my opinion, that promise that he made was out of character for him.”
“Wouldn’t he just think that if he got into trouble, he could just cancel it?”
“I don’t think he’s the type to just make a loose promise with a girl, though. What do you think, Hirose-san?”
“I, just met him, so I have no idea at all.”
“No, just try thinking about it as a someone who doesn’t know that much at all.
Iida’s the kind not to immediately decide to go out with any girl who confessed to him, you know? He doesn’t even have a friend he can hang out to spend his birthday with. That guy made a promise to be with Hirose-san on his birthday.
If he could think that he can easily cancel a promise to spend his birthday with someone, the wouldn’t he have just not made the promise in the first place?
Isn’t it because that he knows he’ll keep being friends with Hirose-san after half a year has passed that he was able to make such a promise?”
“But somehow, I couldn’t believe that Iida would think that far just to invite me to his birthday……”
Even though she was saying that, Sakurako was so happy that she wanted to skip in joy.
Has Iida-kun took a liking to me?
“Well, even I was surprised when he made such a promise, but I saw Iida-kun being glad back then. At any rate, I can’t see Iida as a guy who would just make a promise half a year in advance without any thoughts behind it.
You know, Iida making a schedule on his birthday, it might that he was so happy that he must have acquired a confidence that he would never forget about it, or it might be that the person is someone whom he wants to make a promise to even if he has to put it in a memo. At the very least, if he manages to find a girlfriend, he would not cancel such——”
Morita spoke until that point, when he stopped to look at his smartphone which vibrated, a smile appeared on his face.
“—— Great timing, Iida’s calling me.”