She is Reading My Thoughts Again Today - Chapter 13
The Day Before the Quiz
“Occur.”
“Hassei Suru.”
“Operate.”
“Sado Suru.”
“Appeal.”
“…arawareru.”
“Too bad, that’s wrong. What you said just now means ‘appear’. The correct pronunciation is ‘Kongan Suru’.”
“I don’t like Hokuto-san’s pronunciation.”
“Shut up, I just hit a sore throat due to all this pronunciation.”
Then she cried like a frog and dropped her head into the table. It is a voice that should not come from a beautiful girl like her. I’ve never heard a frog cried before, so I can only imagine what it sounds like, but it probably sounds something like this.
“Please stop talking about me using your frog analogy.”
“Yeah, yeah. Okay.”
The quiz will be held tomorrow. There’s still time to study. After all, it’s just a quiz, the learning material for it won’t be that much.
“What about Hokuto-san? Have you studied yet?”
“…I’ll study when I get home.”
“I need to pass the quiz this time.”
Her last quiz score was disastrous. I was very surprised because I have a prejudice that cool beautiful girls are really smart.
“Its not good to prejudice people. “
“I agree.”
She looked me in the eye as if she were trying to say ‘then why did you do it?’. But neither of us talked anything about it. Perhaps she is reading my mind right now, she looks irritated but she continued the conversation.
“Last time, I didn’t know the materials for the quiz had changed.”
“You need to listen to what others say about the quiz.”
“I have no one I can ask about the quiz.”
“Ah, that’s right. I forgot about it because we always talk to each other casually. I forgot that you are a loner.”
“Stop it.”
“The only cool, dark-haired and beautiful girl I know besides you are the characters from light novels that I read.”
“Don’t you feel sad when you talk like that about yourself?”
“People usually come in groups, so they pity us who are loners. Well, I have nothing for people to pity me.”
“That’s right.”
If she is that assured, there is no way she would talk anything back about it.
“Regardless, if you don’t understand the subject of the quiz, you always can ask others about it. You need to start trusting people.”
“No can’t do, people usually see me as a perfect human being, right?”
Why is she being so modest today when she usually pushes me?
“Oh, does that mean you don’t trust me?”
“That’s not what I meant.”
“Don’t worry. Worst case scenario, you can ask Mikinori.”
“You always can trust others, can’t you Hokuto-san?”
“You can trust me more you know? You can always rely on me.”
When I looked at her, she was blushing because of what I said, then she gave me a small nod, her nod made me feel awkward even though I said those words myself. Actually, Mikinori actually has better information than I do, but how can she trust someone that she has never talked to before?
“Well, I still don’t trust you after all this time.”
“That’s a terrible thing to say you know?”
She discreetly laughed aloud. She is really cute when she laughs.
“Yeah. Maybe sometimes it’s better to rely on others.”
“That’s right.”
“Well, from now on, I won’t hesitate to ask you anything. For example, what should be in tomorrow’s lunch?”
“That’s not what I meant when I ask you to rely on people more.”
Wait, or does she mean, what do I want to eat for tomorrow’s lunch?
“Are you going to make lunch?”
“Yeah. …oh, should I make one for Hokuto-san as well?”
I bowed my head and said.
“I’m sorry, I must refuse to that offer.”