When I brought my childhood friend back home after a long time, she suddenly started undressing and said, "I want you to hold me..."

“Hoho~ So you’ve found someone you like.”

“… Yeah.”

“Is that for real?”

“What’s wrong with it?”

“No, there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s just that… I didn’t think Aoi would fall in love with someone.”

“Ugh… I’m sorry that I fell in love.”

“Hey, you don’t have to feel sorry for it, it’s just that this was quite rare, more so coming from someone like you who is quite detached with things like these.”

“Don’t say anymore. The way you phrase it makes me look like I am a panda sitting ideally in a cage, and it makes me feel really bad.””

“I didn’t think about it that way…”

“It’s okay. Just say something absurd!!”

While pouting in an adorable gesture, Aoi approached her friend, Mizuki for advice. The content of the consultation was ‘I want to confess firmly’, and surprisingly she was very comfortable and open about her relationship with him.

However, she did not tell Mizuki that she had already crossed the line and did the ‘deed’. And that was a topic that she cannot openly converse with even her best friend.

Anyways, since she wanted to somehow convey her true feelings to him because she had misled him in various ways, both this time and the last time. She couldn’t even clear up the misunderstanding, and in fact, she added an unintended temptation.

And Aoi was getting impatient with every passing hour.

“Well, the way you deceived him was terrible and funny at the same time.”

“… That’s–”

“And what happened after that?”

“…..”

“Why are you quiet about it.”

“It’s nothing. We didn’t talked much about it, and when it was getting dark, I sent him off.”

“That’s it?”

“Yeah, and I know it was bad of me to do something like that, and I regret about it.”

Mizuki and Aoi both had never been in love before and amateurish in that field. In the first place they came to the university for studying and get a job as middle school teachers.

Of course, Aoi used to hang out with Sho a lot, and they’ve built a relationship that can be called best friends, but they didn’t decided to date and make their relationship official, until they crossed the final like and had s-x.

“But even if you ask me, I don’t know anything either.”

“Yeah, you’re right. I forgot you are the same as me.”

“Hey, but did you really said that last night?”

“What else I might had done, if not divert the topic to the anime.”

“But, that’s some weird anime you are watching, Aoi.”

“Why did you care about it so much.”

“I mean who wants to see that minor, unpopular anime series.”

“That’s just some weird anime you’re watching, Aoi!”

“You can’t belittle it like that.”

Their angry shouts resonated throughout the cafeteria.

“Um… excuse me, could you please be a little quieter?”

“Yes… and sorry about it.”

The waiter asked them to converse silently as not to disturb the nearby customers who were getting irritated.

“So… what do you think I should have done after all?”

“Hmm, I can share some of little bookish knowledge about it.”

“Sure, continue.”

“Why don’t start with going out on some proper dates, invite him out to some popular outing spots and when the time is right confess your feelings properly when the right time comes.”

“And how longer would I have to wait in order to confess?”

“At least a month, I guess?”

No, wait… Isn’t that too long!”

“What, so you want to go out with him right now?”

“I’m not saying that, but…”

Aoi wanted to confess her true feelings properly this time, because it would have been bad to keep Sho in dark, and he doesn’t comes to a random deception about her.

And Aoi felt a little uncomfortable about all this, as deceiving him was not the right choice.

“Can’t you wait?”

“I think I can wait, but…”

“According to me, you should take things slow at start.”

“Ugh…”

“Don’t complain. If you think I am right then you should consult someone more experienced with dating.”

“Yeah, I will.”

“And you also have to consider your partner’s feelings, too, right?”

“I know that much about it.”

“Yeah, even though you both have known them since childhood, you were not with him during your middle school and high school days right?”

“Well…”

“Oh, and there is also that possibility where you might actually like someone else.x