The Case of My Unknown Childhood Friend Who Became My Girlfriend Without Me Even Knowing It - Chapter 19 - While You Were Sleeping

Chapter 19 – While You Were Sleeping

It was midnight before I realized it.

I didn’t even need to look at my watch to know that it was night, as I could see from the pitch-dark room.

I have a headache.

And I’m terribly sluggish.

How come I was so tired that I fell asleep after eating dinner?

And if I’m lying on the futon, does that mean Sakatoki put me to sleep?

……

I rummaged around under my pillow and found my mobile phone.

The time is 2 am.

When I turned on the screen light, Sakatoki was sleeping beside me.

… Her sleeping face is also cute.

If she was always this quiet, I might have been a little more open to her.

Well, I don’t see that happening.

She’s a stalker, and how can I like a woman who strangles people…?

Hmm?

As I think about this while looking at Sakatoki’s sleeping face, I realized that I’m naked.

Not only the upper half of the body, but my lower half is also completely naked.

And…

“…Nnn, nnn…”

I realized Sakatoki, who turned over in her sleep, was also naked.

She’s hidden by the futon and it was only visible from the chest up, but it certainly looks like she isn’t wearing anything.

I involuntarily avert my eyes and think.

…Did we…?

This is the so-called “post-love-making.”

Even I, with no experience, have some idea of that.

I felt strangely refreshed and calm, even though I had a terrible fatigue.

And there’s a naked girl sleeping in the same futon.

This is indeed indefensible to say that nothing happened.

I have no memory of it at all, but if someone walked in here, I’d be out in one shot.

……

No, I still don’t remember.

Maybe she’s playing a prank on me by taking off my clothes while I was sleeping…

“You’re wrong.”

While I was looking at my mobile phone and thinking about this and that, I heard Sakatoki’s voice.

“Y-You’re awake…”

“Yeah, I woke up at Kanata-kun’s presence.”

“I-I’m sorry. So what did you say was wrong?”

“You see…”

She said so thoughtfully and hugged me, who had my back facing her.

Then, I felt something soft hit me.

There was also some kind of projection.

“Y-You…”

“Kanata-kun, I’m not wearing anything right now. If you turn around, I’ll be just as I am, okay?”

“S-Stop it… It’s hitting me.”

“I’m just guessing. Are you getting nervous?”

“…Gulp.”

Under my breath, I focus all my attention on the phone, trying to block out the nerves in my back.

I just can’t let that happen. All the while, her hand was stroking my thigh. 

“Kanata-kun, I’m not going to attack Kanata-kun in his sleep, okay?”

“Well, that’s, thank you… Um, your hand.”

“Because, you see, I want Kanata-kun to mess me up. I want Kanata-kun. I want you to ruin me even more.”

Her breath on my ear, her hand moving closer and closer to my crotch.

Something soft was pressed against my back the whole time, and I let my consciousness escape outwards, making my body squirm…

“U-Um, g-get off.”

“Why? If we were lovers, wouldn’t it be normal to do naughty things? Or perhaps Kanata-kun…”

She clawed my thigh.

“Did you lie to me? You told me you liked me, but you lied to me.”

She squeezed and dug her fingernails in.

“I-It hurts.”

“Hey, so how is it?”

“…I like you.”

“Really? If so…”

“Because I like you, I won’t do it.”

“Eh?”

It was a gamble.

And I know it will probably only buy me more time.

But even so, this is the only way to break the situation, even temporarily.

If I embrace her here, it’s game over.

I’ll buy myself some time, and in the meantime I’ll work out my next plan.

“Because I like you… No, I love you, so I don’t want to get too easy on you. I’m not that much of a monkey, and even with people I like, it’s more of a step-by-step thing… Anyway, not now. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like it or anything.”

It’s a bitter evasion.

But this is about all I can think of.

I prayed that this would make sense, and eventually the soft thing on my back left, and the claw that had caught my thigh also gently left.

“…Do you like me that much?”

“…Yeah, I l-love you. So let’s just sleep like this today. Why don’t we hold hands as well?”

I dare even to suggest that.

I hope it ends like this.

At that moment…

“Yes… I’m happy, Kanata-kun. Let’s sleep holding hands today. In return, don’t ever let go, okay?”

“O-Of course. Come on, get under the futon.”

“Yes.”

Feeling the presence of her crawling under the futon, I timidly turn around.

While trying not to look at Sakatoki’s naked body, I also laid down under the futon.

And we gently hold hands.

“Kanata-kun’s hand is so warm.”

“I-Is that so…?”

“Yes, they’re big and nice. Kanata-kun, I love you.”

“……”

“Tell me you like me again?”

“…I like you, Aya.”

“Ehehe, I’m so happy. Give me a kiss~”

“Ah, no, that’s…”

“Kiss me?”

“……”

Since Sakatoki is on the verge of being convinced, I reluctantly turned towards her and kissed her.

Still, I only brought my face close to hers, not touching her body, and kissed her in the dark.

My head gradually lost its ability to work at the feel of it.

More to the point, I was scared that if I stopped kissing her, she would make other demands next.

Until I fell asleep, I kissed Sakatoki the entire time.

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“Good morning, Kanata-kun.”

It’s morning.

A safe morning.

I guess I’m still a virgin.

Sakatoki, who woke me up, is also properly dressed.

“G-Good morning.”

“Today, after eating breakfast, we’ll board the bus and leave. We have to get dressed and get ready quickly.”

Sakatoki is so nonchalant that it seems as if last night’s events were a dream.

Is she trying to say that nothing happened or…

“Hey, Aya. My parents lived in a rented house, so they don’t really live there.”

“Right now, Mother is back at her parents’ house, right? That’s not a rented house, is it?”

“Well, that’s… I mean, are you in touch with my mom?”

“Yes, every day. Yesterday too, after Kanata-kun fell asleep, we were talking.”

“I-I see.”

Apparently, it’s not a lie.

And when I called my mom before, she knew about her as a matter of course.

Now let’s see how I can destroy the false credibility she’s built up.

“But Kanata-kun was very serious, huh?”

“W-What do you mean?”

“‘I love you, so I don’t want to get too easy on you’… I was so happy you were taking such great care of me.”

“Well, that’s, you know…”

“Ehehe, Kanata-kun was so cool, I thought you’d rush.”

“No way, I’m a virgin. You know that much, don’t you?”

When I said this sarcastically, though I didn’t go so far as to say that she was a stalker, Sakatoki, who was organizing her belongings, turned her head and looked back at me.

She looked at me curiously, and then said,

“Kanata-kun, you’re not a virgin anymore, you know?”