Parents remarried. Now my lover starts referring to me as "Onii~chan" - Chapter 1 SS

Chapter 1: Side Story

I messed up. I walked into Daiki while he was still bathing. He saw me naked, and I had to escape before my stepmother found out. I was desperate. But now that I was safe and calmed down, I was getting embarrassed just thinking about it.

“Daiki… looked at my body… What did he think…?”

Daiki just apologized for seeing me naked apart from that, he said nothing else.

He didn’t say it was beautiful… nor even that he was disappointed… he didn’t say anything.

Well, it wouldn’t have mattered what he would have said anyways, I would have died of embarrassment regardless. If he was disappointed… I didn’t think I would be able to recover from the shock. However, I didn’t know what Daiki thought of me, and that worried me.

“What if he thought I was a bit chubby around my stomach… I should have exercised my waist properly!”

I had already decided to lose weight several times this year, but whenever I started to exercise, I typically gave up roughly three days in.

I was not the kind of person who got discouraged easily though, but for some reason, I just couldn’t continue to exercise. Was my body not equipped for exercising?

It’s okay even if I had a little flab around the corner, it was just like going to the pool with my friends… Somehow, I started criticizing my conscience which pampered me until now…

“Keeping that aside, Daiki was saying some weird things wasn’t he…? “My shower switch handle is about to turn up,” or “my foolish son is rising up in power,” and so on… What did he want to convey?”

I wondered if he became too dizzy from staying in the bath for too long, but maybe there were other meanings as well related to this.

“I should have asked him more about what he was trying to say…”

If there was anything else he wanted to convey, I would start to feel a bit sorry.

However, Daiki was probably resting in his room right now.

Trying to hear him out now would probably not be a proper thing to do. He must have been tired from taking a hot bath for this long. I wanted him to rest properly.

As I read online for answers, my body got hotter and sweat started to come out.

–Daiki’s shower switch handle was… “That thing!?”

So at the time, when I pushed myself onto Daiki’s back, the condition of his foolish son, in otherwords, “that” changed!? But I was sure Daiki was just trying his best to be vague so that he didn’t surprise me too much.

My head got hot as I started feeling dizzy. I became embarrassed remembering that I did something so bold.

But when I thought that Daiki’s heart went doki-doki because of me, it made me happy.

I was also glad at the kindness that showed that Daiki cared for me.

At this age, I couldn’t pretend I didn’t know any such things. Because it was strange if I didn’t.

If you were a girl, that kind of knowledge became important in order to protect yourself in the future. I didn’t have a mother, but my grandmother often taught me about it.

I wondered what Daiki thought of me… Even though I should know such things, I was still unable to understand what he was trying to say.

–Even after becoming a high school student, his words still didn’t get across me, I hope he didn’t feel gross over that… did he?

“No, I didn’t try to to pretend I didn’t know, I just couldn’t understand what he wanted to say because Daiki’s way of saying it was so peculiar after all…!!”

Although no one was listening to me, I desperately tried making excuses.

I took several deep breaths in an attempt to calm down.

It should be fine. When I brought the ice pack, Daiki was as usual as ever. I was sure Daiki wasn’t creeped out by it.

If not… He wouldn’t try to kiss me like that.

I touched my own lips which were about to be met by Daiki’s lips at that time.

What would have happened if our lips did meet each other as it was about to?

Would Daiki’s son’s condition change yet again?

I loved Daiki. I thought Daiki loved me as well, and if Daiki wanted to do that, I…

–But we were still high school students, and just because we were dating, it was still too early to have such an adult-like relationship! I was sure of it.

Yeah, that’s right! We shouldn’t do that so easily until we could take responsibility and raise our baby ourselves!

I shooked my head in order to get rid of my wicked feelings.

–“Maybe Daiki had to put up with it because he knew that, and he didn’t say it clearly. So, I should also do the same…! I had to take a resolute attitude myself!!”

I was happy that I fell in love with Daiki.

He was kind and had a compassionate side, he was the best boyfriend ever.

I knew with Daiki as my first boyfriend, I would definitely find happiness.

I was thinking of going to bed, but my heart was pounding so hard that I couldn’t even get a wink. I wrapped myself up in the futon and squeezed its edge tightly with my legs.

It had been only two months since I had started dating Daiki, but the more I knew about him, the more I fell for him.

–I also wanted Daiki to like me more and more…

“About my weight… should I exercise my abdominal muscles a little?”

Anyway, as I was not feeling sleepy, I should try moving a little and get sleepy.

I put aside the bed cover and started doing abs exercises on top of the futon.