That stupid runt who reunited with me after 10 years is now transformed into a beautiful and innocent high school girl - Chapter 40: A concealed heart

Chapter 40: A concealed heart

　1

April is over, and we move into May, as the depths of spring deepen even further.

We are entering the Golden Week holiday season, and this city, with its thriving tourism industry, is crowded with many people. High schools have also entered for holidays for a few days.

“Ei with this, we will begin the first meeting on how to make Yuu – nii notice that it’s me. The agenda is exactly as it was said above: how to get Yuu-nii to notice that it’s me …….”

The place they were at was the back seat of a McDonald restaurant, where Mio took a sip of her S-size iced coffee and began to speak.

“Here” Mahiru puts up her hands.

“Yes, Tatsuishi-kun.

“How about, getting the chairperson to have enough courage and make her confess her name right now, won’t that solve the problem in an instant?”

“Yes, rejected. Please understand the purpose and reason behind the agenda.”

“Suureee~.”

“If possible, it should be natural enough so that it won’t be obvious that I am desperate right now, but then again, something powerful enough for having Yuu-nii notice that all by himself and notice my true identity immeditaely and—…”

” Your request is really demanding. Also, you already admit that you’re desperate huh, Mio.”

　Mahiru bites into the The second Mcburger right after saying that.

“Well, after all, I can’t just stand by and stay doing nothing after all.”

“Yuu–nii is also in quite a trouble, isn’t he? Really, if only you look at Miya’s face carefully, you can see the resemblance. …… Well, why don’t you dress up like how you did back then and go for the attack?”

“And that means?”

“Even though the clothes…… might be too big for you right now, how about dressing up your hair, accessories, and so on?”

“Humuhumu…”

“Like, you remember how you used to wear heart-shaped hairpins when you were in elementary school?”

“Un. The one that Yuu-nii gave it to me as a birthday present.”

“Why don’t you just wear it in front of him then?”

　”Oh that one.”

“Even I am still wearing the wristband that Yuu-nii gave me back then.”

After devouring the Big McBurger deliciously, she reached out for the large fries with her left hand. On her wrist, there was a wristband still there.

　A worn out black wristband. It was a gift from Yuu-nii for when Mahiru crossed her seventh birthday.

“You take good care of it, aren’t you, Mahiru?”

“Un.”

On my seventh birthday, Yuu-nii gave me a hairpin as a present.

It had a bright red heart jewel with a glittering finish around it, however, I still remember being extremely happy about it at the time.

　It is a treasure that I still cherish to this present day, but the only problem is that it looks too much like an item made towards children.

　Those are the kind of stuff that little girls use to play princess-princess. If it was a wristband, even me would, I would wear it and go out even as a senior high school student, and I would not also be afraid of getting classified as a hideous girl by others around me as well… ……

No, no, even though I just said to myself, that I can’t just stay doing nothing and pretend everything to play out accordingly.

“All right, I’ll do it.”

“Ou~ Good luck.”

　Saying that, Mahiru proceeded to have her hand reach out for the Mcshake next.

2

Hairpins, check, hair-style like back then, check, cell phone on manner mode, check.

<Moon Night Terrace>, here I come!

“Welcome. Ou”

“Konnichiwa, Yuu-san.”

“yeap, yeap …… Nn?”

Somehow my heart is beating funnily.

As I thought, maybe this looks strange after all.

Before coming here, many people looked at my head and gave me indescribable expressions. When I showed this to Hoshina, who didn’t know about my situation, she snickered at me heartily and handed me a fashion magazine saying, “You should study this”.

Yuu-nii’s eyes were, as expected, was focused on the hairpin. The awkwardness of his expressions in fact stirred up the anxiety from within.

What should I do? I wonder if he’s thinking that I’m a dowdy girl or that like I’m forcing myself to be fashionable (laughs in his mind) on those lines.

　As I thought, I should have just stopped it when I had the time.

“That—…”

“Y, yes.”

“It looks quite good on you.”

“Eh?”

An unexpected word suddenly came out of his mouth.

“This, Does this really look good on me? This?”

“Yeap, it’s makes you really cute.”

“Ehe, ehehe, ehehehe.”

　He said that I am cute.

　Wait, No, no, no.

　This is no time to be happy!

　Yuu-nii, don’t you recognize this hairpin?

　You are the one who gave it to me you know?

“Please come to the counter.”

“…… mmmuuu.”

As soon as I sat down at the counter seat, the usually taciturn man looked at me once, and then took a second glance. For a moment he looked at me as if saying, ‘Is this girl for real?’

“Welcome. … here.”

　I had coffee just earlier. … so, for now let’s go for….

“A Coke float, please.”

“I, I understood, bringing it, right up.”

The man who went into the kitchen, was trembling.

　I feel so embarrassed.

But still  I’m worried about Yuu-nii’s sense of style when he even says that hairpins that suits lower grade students looks good on me, a high school one.

　Isn’t Tokyo a place where more fashionable people gather and dress up?

“That hairpin.”

“Eh?”

　Yuu-nii stood beside me, and was staring at my head seriously.

“Wh, what is it?”

　Oho, as expected, did you finally notice?

　I guess this all this worth the effort?

True right. After all, you do remember, don’t you?

“Come to think of it, do you remember how I told you about that little dip-shit that lived next door before, right?”

“Yeaaahhh.”.

　That dip-shit adjective was unneeded though.

“I just thought that it was almost the same design I gave her for her birthday present you see.”

“Eh, Heeeh.”

　Rather than ‘almost’the same design, it’s the same design….. damnit!

　In the end, since Yuu-nii didn’t even notice who I was this day as well, and then answered with another silly name like “Mitsurugi Hinako,” so I gave him a hard prick on his head as a return present.

3

That Mio, I wonder if everything is going fine for her.

“I’m home”

“Welcome back, Mahiru, go take a bath first.”

“Un. Mama, what’s for dinner today?”

“Tonkatsu”

“Yeay”

I put my bag in the room and headed to the dressing room. Taking off my school uniform, and was dressed up only in underwears.

　It seems that my braissure seemed to have become tight again recently. It’s heavy and hard to move around with it, it’s hard to see my feet as well, and even boys are always sneaking glances at my breasts. It not at all a good thing to be this big at all.

　Or so, I used to think that way until now.

“……”

　When I put my hands on my chest, I start remembering the warmth of hugging Yuu-nii tightly back then in my arms.

　I wonder if Yuu-nii likes it on the bigger sides.

“Arre?”

　When I took off my underwear and removed the wristband for the nth time, I noticed that the red heart patch I had sewn on the back side of it was about to come off again yet again.

“Ahhh…”

　I’ll have to sew it back on it again later huh. While having that thought in mind, I headed inside the bathroom.