Redo of a Romanceless Author’s Life Devoid of Love; Another Chance at Youth Chapter 6

Chapter 6. Lunch with a Nosy Neighbor (2/3)

She gave a strange look and opened her mouth but hesitated as if unsure what to say in response. After a short pause, she asked doubtfully, “If you can talk so easily with a stranger… why don’t you have any friends?”

“I said it before, didn’t I? I don’t need them, nor do I want any. I enjoy being alone without having to deal with troubleso relationships.” It’s been that way for as long as I can rember.

“I don’t believe you since you already admitted to being a liar.”

“Haaah. Suit yourself. Believe whatever you want to believe.”

I turned away from her then unlocked my phone with the intent to edit and proofread my work. But the first thing I saw when I unlocked my phone left puzzled.

As for why I was puzzled, it was because my contacts list was open and it wasn’t empty. Reading the registered na saved in all caps with hearts surrounding it, I nearly tossed my phone on the ground with a twitching lip.

‘♡♡♡THE GIRL I WISH WAS MY GIRLFRIEND♡♡♡’

Bitch, there’s no chance in hell I want a fate worse than death. Do I look like I enjoy pain? I’m not a masochist, please spare .

I stiffly turned my head toward her and asked with a twitching lip.

“What’s the aning of this exactly?”

“Well, I pitied your poor girlfriendless soul and was kind enough to do so charity work by saving my number as a courtesy.”

“Please spare , I’m deleting your number.”

“Jeez, if you dislike what I saved it as, just change it to my na or sothing. You don’t need to seriously delete it, do you?”

“Your na? I don’t even know your na.” She looked caught off guard when I said that.

“You’re kidding… right?”

“Does this face look like it’s kidding to you? I was asleep during the self-introductions and for a lot of lessons thereafter you know. Even when I’m not asleep during lessons, I’m just ssing around on my phone and not paying any attention to what’s being said in the classroom.”

“Ah, now that you ntion it… you’re right.”

“Exactly. And I can proudly say with confidence, I don’t know a single classmate's na even after three weeks into the sester.”

“That’s not sothing you should be proud about! Why does it look like you were expecting to praise you?”

“Well, you know how people have that one thing they want to be best at? I was just thinking, I could probably beco the best at not rembering people.”

“Shut up. Be the best my ass. Don’t disguise your laziness as you trying to be the best at sothing.”

“Haha.” I inadvertently let out a small laugh without thinking.

“Ah.” She looked at like she’d seen sothing rare.

“What?”

“That’s the first ti I’ve seen you let out a laugh and smile.”

“You’re mistaken. That was not a laugh, and I definitely didn’t smile.” Sohow I felt embarrassed that I’d allowed for a crack to appear in my mask. She also seed overly pleased with herself like it was her win.

“Keep telling yourself. No matter how much you lie to yourself the truth of the matter will not change.”

Seeing her triumphant felt unpleasant. I didn’t even understand what she felt she’d bested at.

“Anyway, since I feel bad for you I’ll tell you the na of the girl you want as your girlfriend. It’s Rosa Scarletyse. S-c-a-r-l-e-t-y-s-e.”

Red scarlet eyes? I looked her in the eyes and couldn’t help but think how fitting a na it was.

“Does your family all have the sa eye color as you?”

“Yes, hence the last na.”

“You don’t secretly belong to a family of vampires or sothing, right?”

“Pfft. Vampires? That’s really the first thing you thought of?” She looked at strangely like she was unable to get a good read on .

“What else would I think of if not vampires?”

“Vampires don’t even exist. Try for sothing that does exist.”

I thought it over a bit but ca up empty. I had no idea what answer she expected to get out of .

“I really don’t know.”

It didn’t show on her face, but sohow it felt like she was a bit happy about sothing.

“Is it just or do you seem happy I don’t know? Could it be one of those if you know I’ll have to kill you things?”

She blinked once then a smile ford on her face.

“What if I said it was?”

“I see, so you truly are from a family of vampires after all I take it.”

“Hahaha, what the heck? Why are you suddenly so stuck on the idea that I'm suddenly a vampire?”

“Elentary, it all adds up, my dear Watson. If we take a look at the evidence, everything lines up.”

“What evidence?”

“All your contacts are n, they must be the people use for your supply of blood when you get hungry. Secondly, I drink a lot of coke.”

“Huh? What’s with the second one?”

“My blood sugar must be unusually high. Thus, the reason you’re constantly staring at must be because I look like a snack as a result of my blood being too sweet.”

“Hahahahaha, your logic is so absurdly stupid that even when you’re keeping a straight face while saying it, I can’t take you seriously at all. Just think about it, if I was a vampire, why would I want the window seat so badly where the sun blazes down. Also, how would I be able to run under the sun in P.E. beside you every ti?”

“If you’re a pureblood vampire… maybe? Or maybe there’s so special sunscreen or sothing that can block it out.”

“Does it look like I have sunscreen on?”

“No. But that doesn’t an it isn’t there.” I raised my right arm up to her face and touched her soft right cheek with my fingertips. I pulled my arm back then rubbed my fingers together. There wasn’t anything that felt like sunscreen. She apparently wasn’t even wearing any makeup either.

“See? Nothing right?”

“Certainly.”

She tilted her head to the right and propped it up with her right-hand index finger making a small backward arch while she smirked at with her lips forming into a small pout.

“You could have fangs that you’re hiding though.”

“Huh? Fangs? You would have long seen them if I had fangs, don’t you think?”

“They could be retractable and hidden behind your front row of teeth.”

“Don’t you think you’re grasping at straws now?”

“I see. So I must be onto sothing now.”

I again raised my hand this ti placing it under her chin. I tilted her head up from below with my index finger and pulled down on her chin with my thumb to open her mouth a bit. She didn’t put up any resistance and let examine the roof of her mouth freely. When I confird there was nothing there, I removed my hand from her chin, let out a small sigh, and shook my head disappointed by how boring reality was.

“You’ve got nothing else, right?”

“Well the only other thing I could say is… isn’t your natural face without any makeup a bit too pretty to not be a vampire? Isn’t this a bit unreasonable? How do you get specs so high? Don’t you think you should apologize to other won who have to try hard to look good?”

“Isn’t that quite the indirect way to complint a girl?”

“It’s not a complint, it’s a complaint.”

“Potato, tomato, it’s the sa shit as far as I’m concerned. For so who previously said it was unpleasant being touched by you’ve sure been taking advantage of the situation to feel up you know.”

“That’s your imagination. I’m doing no such thing.”

“Sure there. Why don’t you just be a good boy and honestly admit you wanted to touch .”

“I didn’t, it just ca down to touching you to confirm my suspicions of whether you were secretly a vampire.”

A bit tired, I slumped down over my desk and lazily rested my chin on top of my crossed arms.

While seated in this position, I heard my nosy neighbor’s chair slide back across the ground. She stood up and circled around the opposite side of my desk and positioned herself between it and the wall. She raised her leg and took a seat on the left edge of my desk while resting her left foot on a bar on the desk and her right leg on the wall.

“Why are you using my desk as your chair?”

“I wanted to look outside the window. Is there a problem if I’m sitting here?”

Her hair was brushing up against my arm and cheek, but she didn’t seem to care. She also didn’t seem to mind that my left arm was in contact with her left leg. Since it made a bit uncomfortable I scooted away from her a bit, but as soon as I did she just took the opportunity to take up more space on the desk. It resulted in the sa situation as before.

I moved away one more ti but she followed again confirming it was intentional on her part.

“You’re doing this on purpose, aren’t you?”

“Doing what on purpose?”

Annoyed, I didn’t want to budge another inch and give up any more of my desk to her.

“You could easily use the person’s desk in front of who isn’t here at the mont rather than mine, but you picked mine instead. In what way is this not on purpose?”

“I wanted to use this desk, so I used it. You’re the one who chose to take it from in the first place. You only have yourself to bla for doing so. If you really hate it that much then just sit upright in your chair until lunch is over.”

“I’m not giving up my desk just so you can use it as your chair.”

“Have it your way.” She shrugged her shoulders as if it didn’t matter to her what I did and opened up the window to let so fresh air in.

On her lap, she had a small box that appeared to contain her lunch.

She opened it up and started eating in front of while she enjoyed the view outside the window.