She is Reading My Thoughts Again Today - Chapter 37
Preparation Day
‘Nao Kisaragi can read other people’s minds. On top of that, Hokuto Usami looks at us with his dead, murky eyes. it’s better to not get involved with them.’
That’s what people say about us.
I let out a sigh and cower my shoulders.
“That is a wise decision.”
Kisaragi’s commotion is just a trivial matter in our school. The preparations for the school festival are proceeding without a hitch. Even when we’re at the staircase, I can hear people talking from every classroom.
“However, don’t you think it’s odd to ask the person you’ve decided not to get involved with to buy something?”
When I walk out to the hallway in front of the first-grade classrooms, there are piles of cardboard boxes on the way. Although I’m aware of it because I always see it around school, the hustle around surely makes it look like they are preparing for the cultural festival.
“It’s better to keep us away from the classroom, and it’s best to prepare the cultural festival by ‘the whole class working together’, they told us to buy some things so that we can work together for the festival while avoiding us at the same time.”
She suddenly stopped walking at my words. After a few steps I stopped walking as well and looked back at her. She is looking back at me vaguely.
“What is it?”
“I never expected such a twisted answer.”
“And incidentally, we are the two people in the class who most likely won’t misuse the class budget.”
She laughed at my words, but it’s just the truth.
“Take a look of this paper.”
The most popular girl in class, Kisaragi was given a piece of paper and told to buy things written on it. She refuses to take it and continues to walk away, but he chases after her. It seems that she had decided that she doesn’t have to see it twice and she should just see it when she arrives there. It would be a smart thing to do, but it’s also funny so I kept looking at them.
“He even wrote down the name of the model and the number of the product. If you know this much, why don’t you just use the mail to order?”
“It’s not always available in the stores.”
“Then why don’t we just call them? How about that?”
“Well, it’s Hokuto-san who takes the paper.”
“I knew it.”
She took out her shoes out of the shoe locker and went outside. We went to the bicycle parking lot and look for Mikinori’s bicycle. It took us some time to find it among the bicycles there, they look almost identical from a distance. But we finally found Mikinori’s bicycle and hurriedly went to the home improvement store.
I haven’t ridden a bike in a long time, the wind felt really nice as we ride on our way there. We both enjoyed the wind and didn’t say anything on our way there.
“Does your heart beat faster in excitement going into the store with school uniform at this time?”
“Is your heart beating faster? Then I suggest you to go to a cardiologist.”
“That’s a very serious suggestion.”
It was her who started the topic, but it’s no fun when she replied with such a serious manner.
“In the meantime, let’s walk around the store and see what we can find.”
“Yeah, sure.”
This store is one of the larger stores in the prefecture, and it has a wide variety of products. Kisaragi’s light footsteps made me wonder what is she up to, but she began to happily look for things that interested her.
“Can I sit on this chair for a minute?”
“You can do it when there’s no one around.”
Turning towards her, I see a weird shaped chair beside her, I can’t even imagine being comfortable sitting on it.
“…I’m kind of curious.”
“Right!? Well I have to try to sit on it now!”
“Don’t try it for yourself, let me sit on it too.”
Then we tried some chairs around the store, I don’t know what time of the day it is, but there aren’t many people in the store right now, so we are probably not disturbing other customers. At least I’d like to think that way.
Eventually, there are three things that we couldn’t find in the store, so I asked the store clerk about it and the clerk said that they don’t have them here. The clerk recommended several similar products, so I called the person who asked us to buy it and ask should I buy them instead. He answered the phone and told me to not buy them and just go back with the other things. So we pay for the things and receive our receipt. We put our things on the bicycle basket and ride back to school.
Will the rest of the things be purchased by mail order? Well, I guess so, it’s easier that way. I thought of going to another store to buy them, but I decided not to because it would be too much trouble. The wind feels even colder than when we came to the store. The sight of the sunset is incredibly dazzling.