It’s Too Early to be Having Newlywed Syndrome! ~Childhood Friends Who Rekindled their Love for Each Other ~ - 5 - 12 - With That Person for a While
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With That Person for a While
After Naoto hang up, while going to quench his parched throat with iced tea at first, Natsuki and Sakurako are waiting for him to tell them what transpired in the phone call with glittering eyes.
Although they couldn’t here Iida’s voice, based on Naoto’s words, they can surmise how the conversation went.
Naoto, in response to the expecting gaze of the two, put down his drink once, and for the time being told the two the following.
“Iida said he wants to get close to Hirose-san. He told me if Hirose-san acts kindlier than she already had towards him or take a hold of his hand, he will end up liking her very much.”
“You’re kidding!”
Naoto, after gulping down his black tea in great haste, began talking.
“——It’s true. He said he wants to know which restaurant Hirose-san would like. And that he wants a picture of Hirose-san.”
“Eh— me, someone like me, is this really happening? Did he really say ‘Hirose-san’? ——Oops, sorry my drool got on the table.”
Sakurako hurriedly wiped of the drool on the table,
“Don’t tell Iida that I drooled, okay?”
She continued with a smile while wiping the corner of her eye.
“I won’t tell, it’s alright.
Iida was really thankful to Hirose-san. He wants to give you a birthday present, but he doesn’t know if it would be okay with you.”
“He can just give me a melon pan as a birthday present. Anything not expensive is fine. Or rather, if we could go on a date, that would be the best present for me.”
“Well, sine your birthday is still at the end of the month, maybe I’ll just give him a photo and info on the food that you like and dislike.”
“About the photo, please wait until I can have Natsuki take a good one. In terms of food, I’m mostly okay with everything that is not escargot. Does it look like Iida-kun was worrying about the expenses?”
“If Iida could treat you to something, he would want to do it. However, if Hirose-san refuses it then he would settle with splitting the bill, I think.
That’s why, if you tell him ‘We can split the bill today, but next time it’s your treat’, then you just made a promise to go on a next date in a natural way.”
“I’ll go tell him that! I’ll get that next date!”
“Is there somewhere you would like to eat?”
“I’m not good at eating in grilled fish places, so if we go to there, he might get disillusioned with me.”
“Aah, I see. I don’t think Iida would mind that though.”
“What do you think should I do? Should I decide on it immediately?”
“No, I don’t think there’s a problem on that point. Wandering aimlessly and deciding together where to eat might get you more time together, you know.”
“Is Iida-kun alright with eating voraciously at a karaoke place?
There’s a karaoke place near a clothing store that I know that permits bringing in outside food and drinks. They also have a great selection at the drink bar.
If we couldn’t find anywhere to eat, at the worst, maybe we could just bring some food and eat in there. I could have something like sandwich and Iida-kun can have gyudon. Then we can add some snacks. Is it a bad idea?”
“There’s also a gyudon shop nearby?”
“I don’t know. Haven’t seen one, so there might be none.”
“Then, what would be good? But Iida likes playing the guitar, so he might like the idea of bringing a girl to karaoke. Regardless of the food available, it might be worthwhile asking him to karaoke. Being asked to go to the karaoke when it’s just a guy and a girl are alone would make any guy happy. We don’t put that strong a wall around our hearts, after all.”
“If we go to the karaoke, will it make Iida’s heart throb?”
“Should be.”
“Maybe I’ll invite him to karaoke—. In truth, I want to go with him to dinner and karaoke too though.”
“He said he wanted to talk with you a lot, so how about doing both? Tell him to you should hang out together next time as well.”
“Won’t Iida-kun be mad if I only keep asking hi such selfish things?”
“It should be alright. While eating leisurely at a restaurant with a drink bar, invite him to karaoke. In the event that he says it’s a bit embarrassing, you can just rescind the invitation.”
“Is Iida-kun the type to get embarrassed at karaoke?”
“Not, that’s not the case at all, though.
What I mean is that, in terms of being too embarrassed to sing in front of a person he likes when there’s only the two of you, he might refuse. He’ll definitely say something like since he hasn’t sung for a long time, let him practice first.
At any rate, he said that he might cry if Hirose-san ended up disliking him.”
“There’s no way I’ll dislike Iida kun just for something like that—”
“That may be so, but Iida doesn’t think that Hirose-san is deeply in love with him. You didn’t get the chance to tell him, but it’s fine, right?”
“Of course. I couldn’t tell him that I’ve been eavesdropping.”
“Rather than eavesdropping, it was Iida who called me in such a time.”
“But, I wasn’t able to tell him that I was here as well. It was all too sudden.”
“That’s all Iida’s fault for suddenly calling without sending a message or a chat to me beforehand. If at the start, Iida asked me ‘How many of you are there, good sir?’, then I would’ve answered him honestly.”
“I don’t like that family-restaurant-waiter version Iida-kun.”
Sakurako smiled as she imagined Iida.
“Speaking of which, there is also the option of eating at a family restaurant while the two of you still don’t know what the other’s preferences are.
Depending on the timing, the surroundings might be noisy which not bring the right mood, but at that point you can tell him ‘Eating out with Iida-kun, makes it look like I’m your girlfriend, which makes me happy. Since it’s just the two of us here, is it alright if I call you Kazuyasu-kun?’ all the while fixing your gaze at him.”
“Won’t he think it weird if I tell him something like that?”
“I your feelings for each other are mutual, then I think he would be happy hearing it.
Me, whenever Natsuki say ‘We’re alone, aren’t we?’ or ‘I love it when we hold hands’ or ‘The staff just called you Mr. Boyfriend’, those words of hers really make my heart beat fast.”
“I feel like what we have is not yet mutual love, though. It all feels like a dream.”
“But during our call earlier, Iida said that it feels like his head was full of thoughts of Hirose-san. He was asking things like what should he do to avoid Hirose-san disliking him or what should he do to make Hirose-san happy.
Would someone who’s just a friend become like that?”
“Then, is it alright for me to expect anything out of it?”
“Or rather, isn’t it almost a surefire thing by now? If Hirose-san made a bit of physical contact with him, he’ll definitely be completely in love with you.”
“Eh, eh. Is there a way to make physical contact while passing it as natural as possible?”
“Once you’re already walking on the way home together, maybe you can pull on his sleeve and from there, hold his hand. Then you can tell him something like ‘If, by any chance, Iida-kun was able to become lovers with someone during our trip at Health Land, then we wouldn’t be able to hang out just with the two of us like this, would we?’ After that, you can tell him ‘It might be the last time we can do this, so I don’t want to go home yet’ to put him on the spot.”
“Eeh—, that’s too extreme……”
“To make it doubly sure that it would work, look up at him with eyes that are about to cry and tell him ‘You might be able to get a girlfriend so before that happens, I want to make more memories with Kazuyasu-kun’ while clinging on him, he’ll definitely fall for you.”
“If I say such a thing to him, he’ll think that I’m deep in love with him.”
“Rather than he’ll think, you’re actually in love with him, right?”
Naoto said as a matter of fact.
“That’s true. But if I told him that I want to make more memories with him, doesn’t that sound kinda pervy?”
“Is that bad?”
“Saying something that goes that far, might be impossible for me……”
“On Iida’s side, he wants to invite Hirose-san to his house someday, but for now, his goal is to not get you to hate him and treat you as someone important to him. If Hirose-san would not be aggressive about it, I don’t think a confession will be happening anytime soon.
He did phrase it such that he might fall in love with you if you hold his hand, so I don’t think he has any intention of initiating it.
It seems like he’s already completely content with you just becoming friends and being able to hang out with each other.”
“I wonder why Iida-kun ended up having feelings for me.”
Sakurako looked up at the ceiling, and said with a wondering expression.
“Well, Iida himself doesn’t understand it clearly, but maybe it started with the way Hirose-san made him okonomiyaki? You were talking a lot while making them, so it was clearly conveyed to him that you didn’t hate doing that at all.
While we’re on the toilet back at the okonomiyaki shop, he suddenly selfishly said that he wanted to go with the group to the arcade, but now that I think about it in the present, that act of his was rather odd. Iida even said that he felt like the conversation you had back then was not enough. Back then, he might have already felt that you’re a good person.”
“While Morita-kun fell asleep back then he said how you were really tired, and that maybe what he asked of you was bad while looking apologetic.
He said ‘Even though Morita already wanted to go home, I asked him to do it for me.’”
“So he was actually worried about that, huh?
It’s actually relatively rare for Iida to ask me to do something that he ouldn’t do. That guy really doesn’t make me do things that I’m not suited to doing. Even at the curry shop, Iida would order my meal in my place.
That that Iida, on top of not being able to invite you on his own, would ask me to do it in his stead, when I think of it right now it really just scream suspicious.”
“But he did come to meet Haruka-san, right?”
“It was all because I told him to come. That’s almost like he just went with the flow of the situation.”
“Speaking of which, while Morita-kun was sleeping, when I asked him if he will not meet again with his first love, at first he said something close to not meeting them is alright to him.
And then Iida-kun told me that if he was ever rejected, we should eat okonomiyaki together, when I said it’s a promise he was very happy.”
“What with that? It’s like he’s already in love with Hirose-san back then.”
“Certainly, I was also interested at that development back then. For a moment I thought Sakurako has made another guy fall for her.”
Natsuki was very excited as she was recalling what happened.
“If you have thought of such a thing, you should’ve secretly told me afterwards—”
Sakurako raised her voice.
“Sorry, I completely forgot about it.”
Natsuki apologized earnestly.
“You just normally forgot about it?”
“Wait, haven’t you completely forgot about that too, Sakurako?!”
“Ah, you’re right. I also forgot about it, haven’t I? I’m such an idiot.”
When Natsuki pointed it out to her, Sakurako became weird and started laughing.
Natsuki was also bending her body in laughter just like Sakurako, but when she saw Naoto, she suddenly changed in to a serious expression.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing, I was just thinking how our conversation right now was a big boon.
In terms of timing, it looks like he started developing feelings for Hirose-san before we met with Tachibana-san, so his feelings for Tachibana-san might not have been reignited.
Well, taking into account about that happenstance, maybe having Hirose-san try to ask Iida is not a bad move.”
“It’s too nerve-wracking, that I might not be able to hold a proper conversation with that person for a while, though.”
Sakurako let out a pathetic voice, and hid behind Natsuki.
After that, Naoto was kicked out of Natsuki’s room for a moment.
“I’m sorry. If I took a picture with Morita-kun, it’ll be awkward if Iida-kun had a bad reaction to it, after all.”
Sakurako said, convincing both Natsuki and Naoto.
Ten minutes of waiting. Naoto who looked at the photo that was finally taken, though what a nice smile was being shown in the photo.
“Yep, ain’t this perfect?”
When Naoto’s about to send the photo to Iida,
“Is that photo alright? Now that I look at it a second time, it doesn’t look cute at all, couldn’t we just cancel everything?”
Saying such things, Sakurako was once again worried.
Natsuki was humoring Sakurako while laughing. While Naoto was looking over at that scene with a smile, a message came from Iida.
This is what was written at that message.
She’s looks so cute, that I might not be able to hold a proper conversation with that person for a while, though
When Naoto showed that message to Sakurako, her face became red in the blink of an eye.