We are pretending....right? - Chapter 11- A little too touchy?
During the whole first of the four periods, many glances were converging toward a single direction who was currently occupying the seat by the window.
To say students and even teachers were merely surprised to see the change Sou, would be a huge understatement. Most of them thought that he was some newly transferred student but when the homeroom sensei herself confirmed that he indeed was Sou Sanada, every doubt shifted to utter shock.
He looks completely different with this touch-up. Unlike his usual gloomy self, Sou seemed more eye-catching that no one was able to deny their urge and not gawk at Sou even for once.
Sumire was also receiving looks, more so from her best friend who sat just beside her, because of the things that happened in the morning, but Sumire’s mind was filled with other thoughts to mind them.
Even if she tried, Sumire was not able to brush off the memory of Sou’s annoyed face and how coldly he told off Kabura. Not to talk about that intimate whisper which followed.
Sumire was not ready for that…and why did he have to say it in such a way in the first place?
Now she was nervous to face him during recess, but since Sumire had to apologize to Sou, she would follow his words and meet him on the rooftop.
‘I can’t even focus on class… ‘
Sighing to herself, Sumire planted her forehead on the desk as she realized that the whole second period went over yet she has yet to register a single word taught today.
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[During break]
“Sumi-chan…are you okay?”
Akari has noticed how bothered Sumire seemed since morning and it was given the reason for Sumire’s troubles. Akari herself would have felt uncomfortable if she was to be put in such a situation.
“Yeah, am good. What about you, tho? You missed school yesterday and I know it’s not because of bad health, right?”
Akari knew Sumire would have already understood why the pink-haired girl took leave from school yesterday which made the girl embarrassed now when mentioned about.
Smiling sheepishly, Akari changed the topic since her feelings and conflicts were not something to talk about right now.
“Tell me about yourself first, Sumi. Why I never got to know that you found yourself a boyfriend out of nowhere?”
Sumire knew this would come up and she genuinely don’t want to lie to Akari about anything. But telling her that Sumire was dating Sou to get out of this bloody love triangle would hurt Akari since she would blame herself in the end.
Taking out her lunchbox from her bag, Sumire got up from her seat and vaguely replied to her best friend before darting away from the class.
“Let’s talk after school…”
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‘I did come here…but I didn’t see whether he was following or not…’
The rooftop was not allowed for students to go but Sumire had spent enough time in this school to know the place where she could find the key and get on the rooftop.
However, when she climbed the stairs to the topmost floor she found the lock was already open and the gate was slightly ajar as well, signifying that someone was already upstairs.
Sumire had already figured that it must be Sou on the other side which made her heart rate slightly elevated. She wanted to act calm and such, but after what she saw in the morning, she for some reason, couldn’t see Sou in the same casual light at all.
‘Do I have some weird fetish or something…’
Dismissing her useless thoughts which were not tingling her sarcastic side at all, Sumire walked forward and upon pushing the door she was greeted with a caressing breeze brushing past her skin.
The weather was much cooler than usual with the sun being wrapped around the clouds, failing to bestow the scorch, which provided a very pleasant atmosphere to have lunch in open.
Sumire held her hair with her left hand which was slightly messed up because of the wind and tucked them back behind her ear before her eyes began roaming around the rooftop, to find the person who called her here.
“Why don’t you tie them?”
“Eiik!”
Sumire shrieked slightly hearing Sou’s voice from just her behind but before she could have jumped in surprise, Sou brought both of his hands over Sumire’s shoulders, to keep the girl in the place.
“W-What are you doing?”
Startled Sumire asked in a stutter as she felt her hair being arranged and gathered begins her head before she felt something tied around her hair.
“And done. It’s good that I keep extras with me.”
Sou finally walked forward after he dressed Sumire’s hair in a ponytail, only to be greeted with a flushed Sumire who was long ago had stiffen coldly at her place.
“Your face seems red. Are you fine?”
As he said Sou brought his hand over Sumire’s forehead to check her temperature when the latter party instinctively stepped back and glared at Sou with her blush still adorning her fluffy cheeks.
“Aren’t you getting too much touchy today?”
Sou raised his brows since he didn’t notice that he was letting his desire control his movement. Though right now, he genuinely was worried about her health.
“I…I am sorry if I crossed the line. I will keep things in check from now on.”
Hearing his words, Sumire blinked in the realization of what she just said and felt slight guilt since it was not that he was touching her inappropriately and it was her who was on extra caution which made her say such mean words.
“I…didnt mean…”
Sou didn’t hear her muttering as he turned on his heels and began walking toward the other end of the rooftop before he called out for Sumire.
“Stop being gloomy and come here, Sumire.”
Pouting to see his usual self back on track, Sumire shrugged off her worries and followed Sou without noticing that a pair of eyes were watching them from the partition of the door.
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A/N: – Drop a comment and lemme know if the story is interesting or not… I am skeptical about this one…sigh*