My Childhood Friend who is My Girlfriend is not Looking at Me - Chapter 3

An Eye for An Eye

Kana and I has been good friends since kindergarten.

I used to be shy, quiet and not as well socialized as I am now.

I think Kana was the only one who I played with when I was a child.

In kindergarten, she always followed me everywhere.

In grade school and middle school, I made some other friends. Although we were not always together, but she often came to my room after school and on weekends.

Even after we started dating in middle school, nothing much changed.

In my third year of middle school when I seriously studied for the entrance exam. The time I usually spend for mangas and video games had turned into studying time. She still would often come to my room and study with me almost silently.

The only thing that changed was that I had sex for the first time in the spring after my entrance exam was over.

But now she only comes to my room when we have sex, and it has been always like this lately. We’ve known each other for more than ten years, but I still don’t know what she’s thinking.

I don’t think she hates me.

But perhaps she is just not interested in me.

I have never been asked the standard conversation between lovers such as, ‘What did you do today?’, or ‘What did you eat for lunch today?’ I’ve never been asked those questions. She even was not worried about me when I was sick and missed school.

Perhaps, to Kana, we are like brother and sister siblings who are on cold terms.

A sibling who she can have sex with.

I don’t feel I need to talk to her about this, it’s only natural for us to be together.

But still, it seems that I’m just a partner who she can have sex with when she feels sexually aroused.

Ah, what a convenient partner.

In other words, I’m just her sex friend.

We live in a neighbourhood that doesn’t care about each other. So we can just have sex whenever we want.

There are not many neighbourhoods that are as convenient as the one we live in.

That’s why Kana hasn’t cut off her relationship with me.

I finally came to that realization when Setsuna told me to break up with her.

“I don’t know how Kana-chan thinks about me, but I have a vague feeling that even if I tell her I want to break up with her, she probably won’t listen to me.”

“What makes you say that?”

“I am the most convenient partner for Kana-chan.”

“Hah… Mugi-kun, are you sure that’s what you want?”

“I don’t know…”

“…that thing just now, it wouldn’t be strange if I say she is cheating on you, right? Can you still forgive her?”

“…if that’s the case…it can’t be helped, can it?”

“Why!? She left her boyfriend alone, she hangs out with her other boy friend, and then she flirts with him so openly!”

Setsuna, you are always meddlesome, but today you’re being persistent…

“If that’s the case, then you should cheat on your girlfriend too.”

“…eh?”

“That girl, Mugi-kun always listen to everything she says, and you never even got mad at her, so she got carried away and disrespects Mugi-kun. If that’s the case, make her feel threatened and scared.”

“That’s a bit…”

“A bit what?”

“Cheating is a bit, I don’t want to cheat on her…”

“You’re still saying that? Hah… Okay then, I’ll be Mugi-kun’s girlfriend from now on.”

“Eh!? What are you talking about?”

“I’ve already decided. Mugi-kun, you are my boyfriend from now on.”

“Please don’t be absurd.”

“Just shut up and do what I say.”

Setsuna said so emphatically, I’ve never seen her this serious before.