Chapter 56: Sendai-san always goes for the extra mile — 56
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Not that one, not this one.
I can’t decide what to wear, despite the fact that I spend about thirty minutes laying out my clothes on the bed, groaning, and then putting them back in the closet.
I know I don’t need to spend so much ti on every piece of clothing.
Yesterday, Sendai-san and I did not decide on a movie to watch, but we quickly decided on a destination.
Places where we would not normally go and where students from the sa school would not normally go.
The rendezvous is such a place, and we have to take the train to get there.
No one knows that I et with Sendai-san after school, and it is a secret that they et during the sumr vacation. I couldn’t go to a place where I would bump into soone I knew, so I went out of my way to pick a place that was far away from .
Go to the station and take the train.
The line takes a long ti to go, if only to see a movie. Still, the appointnt to et is in the afternoon, so there is still ti.
「I’ll take this one.」
White blouse and jeans.
I pick up the clothes I wore when I t Maika and the others the other day.
There is no need to get all worked up to et Sendai-san.
I should have made my decision quickly, instead of slogging through it.
I dressed quickly and put away the clothes I had pulled out. I open the curtains, wondering if I should tie my hair up. I looked out the window and was flooded with glistening, dazzling sunlight.
It looks hot.
I feel like my neck is going to burn, so instead of tying my hair up, I put sunscreen on it. I checked my watch and found it was still a little early to leave the house.
One sigh.
Although I was on board with what Sendai-san must have said in jest, I felt heavy-hearted. There are movies that I would like to see, but I don’t know if they are the ones that Sendai-san would like to see. If she had a movie she wanted to see, I didn’t even know if I wanted to see it.
I didn’t know much about Sendai-san’s friends that she would know.
Her favorite movies, her favorite music, her favorite food.
I had never heard of anything that her friends would know as a matter of course.
After a long exhale, I lightly slap my cheek.
Today we are just going to play “friends”.
It’s not that hard.
I can spend ti with Sendai-san as I spend ti with Maika and the others. Even if the movies we want to see are different, there must be a compromise, and we have been able to reconcile our different tastes and preferences with Maika and the other mbers of the group.
「A little early, but okay.」
I grab my bag and leave the apartnt.
Within ten minutes, sweat is pouring out, creating a stain on my shirt. The sound of cicadas mixed with the sound of cars driving by makes it even hotter and more depressing.
I run into the shadow of a building and stop.
Co to think of it, Sendai-san’s house was not far from mine. If the destination is the sa, the train I take may be the sa.
I don’t intend to look for her, but I look around.
There’s no way she’s there.
I go through the ticket gate to get on a train that I usually don’t take. There were no familiar faces on the muggy platform or in the not-so-cool car.
I passed through several stations and got off the train. Inside the station, I head for the weird statue that we have designated as our eting place. But before I can approach the weird statue, I find Sendai-san.
The person, whom I recognized even from a distance as Sendai-san, was different in dress and atmosphere from the Sendai-san who cos to my house.
The long skirt and sleeveless shirt she wears are the kind of clothes you can find anywhere, nothing special or unusual. But she looks good and seem to stand out because of her appearance.
She is the type of person that I would never talk to if we weren’t eting up, and even if we were eting up, it would be difficult to talk to her. I can tell that if we were in class, we wouldn’t get along and we wouldn’t belong to the sa group. Sendai-san is close to the impression I had of her before we started this kind of relationship when we had just started our second year.
But I can’t help but not speak to her.
Swallowing a sigh, I take three steps forward and my eyes et those of Sendai-san. Before I could approach her, she ca up to and waved「Miyagi」at .
「Sorry. Did you wait?」
I wasn’t late for the eting. I don’t need to apologize because I still have at least enough ti left before the appointnt, but I do apologize in case she is my friend and I should apologize.
「I ca directly from the prep school and arrived a little early.」
I don’t know how long she waited, but Sendai-san laughed and said she didn’t care. Then, after looking over from top to bottom, she said.
「Miyagi, you don’t look much different from when you’re at ho.」
「I don’t need to change it.」
「I see.」
「Is that how you always feel, Sendai-san?」
The last ti I saw Sendai-san with Ibaraki-san, the atmosphere looked a little different from now, perhaps because of the distance.
I was sowhat curious and asked her about it, but it is not unusual for people to wear different clothes on different days, so I don’t think it was worth asking. But she picked up her skirt and looked very serious.
「Yes, is it that weird?」
「Beats . I just kind of heard about it.」
「If that’s the case, fine. Let’s go for now.」
Fluttering her skirt, Sendai-san walks away. The destination is a movie theater without being told, and I walk a short distance through the station and get on the elevator. After going up several floors and getting off the elevator, I saw a poster on the wall.
「Do you have a movie you want to see?」
Sendai-san asks, looking at the poster.
「Just in case.」
「There is. What is it?」
I tell him the na of a Japanese movie that is based on a romance manga that I have at ho.
「Ah— after that. Umina said she wanted to see it.」
「Ibaraki-san did?」
「The guy who plays the heroine’s partner. She seems to like him.」
「Oh, I see.」
I answered in a mumbled voice,「Do you like it too, Sendai-san?」I ask. But I quickly swallowed the words and uttered the most natural line of dialogue in the place.
「Does Sendai-san have movie she wanted to see?」
「I do.」
What I heard from her mouth was the title of the movie I least wanted to hear in this world.
「Do you want to see it?」
「It’s for sumr, isn’t it? Is Miyagi okay with horror?」
It’s not alright.
The movie that Sendai-san wanted to see was a so-called B-grade horror movie set in a school. She doesn’t seem like the type to watch these movies. And I don’t even want to watch comrcials for horror movies.
I would like to turn around and go ho right now if she says she will watch this movie, but I don’t want to tell Sendai-san because she might make fun of if I tell her I don’t want to watch it.
「…」
「Oh, is Miyagi soone who can’t take horror stories?」
Sendai-san asks , as I remain silent.
「It’s not that I don’t want to, I just want to see a different movie.」
「That’s the one. That’s the type of person who can’t go to the bathroom at night because they think it might be haunted.」
「It’s not.」
「If not, would you watch horror?」
Sendai-san says happily.
I never wanted to say I didn’t want to see it because this is what happens. But I don’t want to have to watch horror stories as it is.
「…There’s no such thing as ghosts, but you never know, a hand might co out of the toilet.」
There is sothing behind .
I know there is nothing behind , but when I am ho alone, I sotis feel like there is sothing behind and I get scared. In such a case, I don’t think it’s surprising that sothing ca out of the toilet.
「Miyagi, your parent cos ho late, right?」
Not only is it late, but he doesn’t co ho much. But when I kept my mouth shut, not wanting to bother saying such a thing, Sendai-san chuckled and said.
「Okay, it’s a movie Miyagi wants to see. It would be a problem if you couldn’t go to the bathroom at night.」
「You’re making fun of .」
「That’s not true. I just think it’s cute, like a child.」
「You’re really making fun of .」
「I didn’t. But I thought Miyagi likes happy endings. This one, it’s not a happy ending, you know?」
The movie I want to see is a romance movie and in the original comic the heroine dies. As Sendai-san says, the ending is not a happy one, but the main character does get together with the boy she had a crush on, and the ending is not a bad one.
But now I am more concerned about Sendai-san’s mory than the ending of the movie.
It is true that I once said in front of her that a romance novel with a non-happy ending was boring, but that was only once.
「You rember it well.」
「I resent you for spoiling it for .」
Sendai-san says in a tone that makes it hard to tell whether she is joking or serious.
「After all, you read it all the way through.」
「Well, yeah. So, does the movie have to have a happy ending?」
「Even if it doesn’t have a happy ending, I still like it.」
「Then, let’s buy the tickets.」
Sendai-san smiles at and turns away.
She smiles more than usual today.
Because we are friends.
Even if that was the reason, Sendai-san was different from yesterday, and I was not at ease when the movie started.
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