Chapter 181: Chapter 4 Part II
At midnight, while slightly worried about Sakura's response tomorrow, I made preparations to go to bed. My phone vibrated once.
"Are you awake?".
A modest, short sentence. It was from Sakura. I stared at the screen of my phone for a while without touching it, but a continuation of that sentence doesn't seem to be coming. She probably assud I was asleep and is being considerate. I opened up the chat screen and marked it as read. And when I did, another brief ssage was sent.
"Did I wake you.....?".
"Sorry, I had so laundry to wash. It's fine".
I answered with a small lie like that. As I did, perhaps she felt relieved, as next ca a slightly longer sentence.
"Tomorrow at 5 o'clock I'll have to et Yamauchi-kun...can I et you before that.....?".
That sort of ssage ca in. I could have refused but for Sakura, there's no one else she could rely on.
"Where are you eting him?".
"The sa place behind the school building as yesterday".
I did know that, but on top of confirming that again I made a promise to et with Sakura. Since I did not want to trouble Sakura, I decided to et with her in the sa place behind that school building.
Now, ti to sleep. Promptly finishing off the remaining chores, I turned off the power and laid down.
And, my phone vibrated again.
"Umm...sorry for bothering you so many tis. Is it ok if I call you?".
Anxiety that was transmitted to
through the mail. It's better if I don't just go to sleep and leave Sakura hanging. And when I called her, Sakura answered with a low voice.
"You can't sleep?".
"Yeah.....thinking about tomorrow, I just got nervous.....haaaaa".
It was a depressing sigh. Her anxiety is also being transmitted through the call. She's probably thinking about an answer to the confession.
"I---I don't know anything about Yamauchi-kun.....and that's a bit scary.....".
"I see.....".
"Liking soone, or hating soone. I just realized it cos with a huge responsibility".
For Sakura, who has not paid much attention to the distance between her and her surroundings up until now, this event must have been too much of a stimulus. But the extent to which an outsider can interfere and help out is limited.
The one who decides everything will be Sakura, and the one receiving it will be Yamauchi. This pattern alone cannot be broken. That's sothing even a beginner in romance like myself understands. I don't have the right to advise Sakura to either reject him or accept him. I can do nothing but quietly listen to what she has to say.
"Yamauchi-kun's done nothing wrong, but I'm just...thinking I don't want it. But I also feel bad for him, who noticed even soone like .....".
I keenly realized that love is definitely sothing complicated.
".....when I kept on thinking, I just don't know what I should do.....".
That's understandable, even through the phone I could understand how she must have been constantly feeling confused.
"Why .....I thought. Why do I have to suffer like this, I end up thinking".
Rather than being happy, on the contrary, it seems as though she dislikes or at least is troubled by it.
"Ayanokouji-kun, you, umm.....ahh, you might hear sothing unnecessary but....".
"Please ask
anything. If it's sothing I can answer I will answer".
"Umm.....right now, are you dating soone.....like that?".
For so reason she asked
that in a formal tone.
"No, absolutely not. Right now and of course, up until now too".
"R-really!?".
"If you sound so happy it makes
feel like you're being sarcastic".
It does unusually hurt when she's so happy about a man who's never dated before.
"Waahh....no, I don't an to make fun of you! I was just happy, because you're just like ".
"I'm just kidding" I told her.
"Mou.....!".
It was just a light joke, but it seems to have unravelled Sakura's hardened heart.
"Then umm, have you ever been confessed to by soone, or confessed to soone, sothing like that?".
She seems to be stepping it up quite a bit. But I have nothing to hide so it's fine though.
"Sa as you. Confession experience 0".
But in Sakura's case, this would be her commorative first ti though.
"So that's how it is!".
She sounded happy again. And just like that, Sakura and I talked aimlessly about random topics excitedly for a while. After a while, I felt Sakura getting drowsy and ended the call. I hope she slowly falls asleep just like that. Thinking that, I too decided to sleep.
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