Chapter 6 (1/2)

When I came out of the bath, everyone was sleeping all across the room. They’ve been through a lot today and were exhausted.

It was night, even in the world which laid outside the curtains. I poured myself a cup of water before taking out my smartphone. It was a little over 7:30 PM.

There was still no signal, but the time seemed to be in sync with how it was in the real world. I looked around the walls for outlets, but didn’t find any as I had expected. Pretty soon, I won’t be able to use my smartphone anymore.

I turned off my smartphone and put it back in my backpack. This would probably be the last time I would turn it on again.

I could feel fatigue was.h.i.+ng over me as I drank the gla.s.s of water.

“Guess I should go to sleep.”

I snuggled up on an empty bed, but after a while someone snuck inside my quilt. There was no-one who would do this besides k.u.miko.

“I’m sorry I woke you.”

“Any person would have woken up. What is it? I’m tired.”

“Don’t boys get more active in their lower regions as they get more tired?”

“Where do you come up with these ideas?”

There was no helping that delusional s.l.u.t. She was probably going to say she read it in a magazine. I didn’t need to hear about how a magazine for teens had erotic articles in it.

“Say, do you want to do it?”

As she said that, I could feel k.u.miko taking off her gown inside the quilt. I stopped her by grabbing her hands before she could take off her bra.

“Stop it. Not in a situation like this.”

“Shouldn’t you be saying we should do it in a situation like this?”

She chuckled in my ears as she took off my clothing. k.u.miko had already taken her bra off. The sensation of her soft skin and the sweet scent of her hair brought back memories.

It was the first time I hugged k.u.miko. A story from over three months ago.

It was around the end of May, back when I had just enrolled into high school. I was p.i.s.sed off and sick of the cla.s.ses that I didn’t want to attend, so I was sleeping in the Special Ed cla.s.sroom in the old building.

The old building which had been in use until last year, was planned to be demolished soon. It was being used as a storage area for the most part and n.o.body ever came around. It even had an old sofa lying around, so it was the perfect place to skip out on the cla.s.ses.

The way the dust glistened in the sunlight through the window gave the room a serene feeling as if time had stopped. I could momentarily get away from everything annoying about the world.

Suddenly I could hear the door open and I rolled out of sight to take a peek. I had no intention of peeping nor eavesdropping on them, but it was inevitable.

It was Nanami Shuichi and Kujo k.u.miko. There was no way model students from Cla.s.s A would come here to slack off like me. They were in the first grade, but were still in the student council, so they could be excused from cla.s.ses if there were any special school activities. I thought they were here because of that.

“Nanami-kun, please go out with me.”

I almost burst out laughing while trying my best to stay hidden. I never expected to bear witness to the scene of confession between two popular people….

“Is that what you wanted to talk about? If you mean as in for us to be in a relations.h.i.+p, I’m sorry, but I can’t go out with you.”

She was shot down. Really harshly, too.

I pressed down on my mouth with my hands and bit my hands in an attempt to suppress my explosive laughter.

k.u.miko probably never thought she would get rejected. She had a blank face as if her soul had left her body. Nanami Shuichi was known for being handsome across the entire school, but k.u.miko was a beautiful girl on the same level as him.

They were model students who were both in the Student Council and competed to be the top ranking student in the first grade. There was no other perfect couple that were as made for each other than those two. There were even rumors that they were already going out.

Nanami Shuichi spoke out that harsh rejection “I have someone else I like, so I can’t go out with you” as if he had said it hundred times before. k.u.miko turned her face looking as if she couldn’t comprehend, and finally tears started dripping from her eyes.

Why did a nice guy like Nanami Shuichi leave k.u.miko in there and just took off by himself that day? And why did someone like me, who thinks that being friends with others as nothing but a pain in the a.s.s decided to comfort her?

Thinking back on it now, it could only be described as fickleness of the heart.

I think I was touched by the scene of k.u.miko crying silently all alone in an abandoned cla.s.sroom. A beautiful girl like that getting shot down so mercilessly was a scene that you might only see once in a lifetime.

Even a bystander like me was shocked. I could imagine how the person who’s actually experiencing it was feeling. I couldn’t help but smile at the fact k.u.miko got rejected, but felt sorry and wanted to console her.

While I was secretly watching her, the shaking of her shoulders became more intense. Her beautiful tears flowed and eventually, she broke out into a wail.

“Uwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!”

It was my first time seeing someone on the ground crying. My heart sank at the sight of a girl who competed for first place in the school on the ground with tears flowing out along with snot, while pounding away at the ground with her fist.

I couldn’t explain it, but something changed within me.

That must have been it. I was planning on hiding until she went away, but I came out as if I was possessed.

“Hey.”

“Sniffle…. what do you want?”

“Hey” was a bad choice of words. I knew it.

k.u.miko’s eyes, even while crying and squinting at me looked big enough to suck me right in.

“What do you mean what do I want…”

“How long have you been there…. Did you hear all of it?”

k.u.miko stood up with a stagger, took out a silk handkerchief from her breast pocket and blew her nose into it. Her ears were all red, probably from embarra.s.sment. She was trying to fix herself up the best she could, but she was too fl.u.s.tered to do a proper job. The normally sharp model student k.u.miko looked like a mess.

There was some guilt that I shouldn’t be seeing her in this kind of state, but I think it worked out well in the end. If she was embarra.s.sed, she wouldn’t have the time to wallow in sadness. It was better for her to be angry at me than to cry alone.

I wanted to comfort her to best of my abilities and this was all I could come up with. I didn’t want to see k.u.miko cry anymore, so I taunted her.

“Yea, I saw everrrryyyy~thing. The scene of a model student getting rejected is more hilarious than I thought.”

“So you were listening from the start! Kyaaaa!!!”

k.u.miko screamed out and rushed up to me. She grabbed my collar and pulled to look face to face. Her eyes, swollen and bloodshot from crying, glared at me.

I buckled back a little at her immense force. This was a girl who was shocked just after getting rejected by a boy she liked. There was no telling what this girl would do in a fit of hysteria.

She was small, but it was dangerous if she acted impulsively. It was a mistake to have fanned the flames.

“No, no, wait. I’ll keep this a secret. I won’t tell anyone.”

“So you’re planning on blackmailing me to do all kinds of dirty things to me in this decrypt cla.s.sroom while threatening me with the secret. You lowlife.”

It was an unreasonable a.s.sumption. It was dangerous if she went around spreading rumors about how I was planning on attacking her.

“No, no! Don’t misunderstand, I just wanted to comfort you.”

“Hee- so your plan was to try to pick up a poor girl who just got rejected by playing the nice guy. That’s such an obvious method. So you were trying to do all kinds of dirty things with me like that! You pervert.”

She grabbed me by my hair and shook me around. Her situation was unfortunate, but the way she interpreted everything started to annoy me.

“Oi, why do you keep making me out to be some kind of villain? I’m sorry for overhearing it, but it was an accident.”

“How convenient for you to have just accidentally witnessed the worst moment of my life. I don’t know what kind of person you are, but the perfect life I’ve lived up until now is over. It’s O. V. E. R. I don’t even care about what happens now, ah ha ha.”

She spat out her words, took her hands off of me and leaned on me with all her weight. Was she planning to pull some kind of wrestling move and grab me by the waist? I had no clue what to do. What’s wrong with this woman? What about her is like an “ojou-sama”? Her mental instability was scary.

“Oi, what are you doing?”

“Ah-ha-ha, ‘comfort me’? How laughable. You probably just wanted to soothe me with some cheap words just to get in my pants. I’m not a bad woman, so have you been targetting me for a while? Well, now you have a chance. You don’t need to do anything so annoying, I’ll let you do it right now. n.o.body’ll come around this time, so you can do it quickly.”

What was she talking about. This was getting real scary.

She was acting really, really strange.

Even if I become the bad guy, even if k.u.miko blames me for everything and throws a hissy fit, if she was no longer sad, it was good enough. Since things somehow took a turn in this kind of direction, I’d play with her to her heart’s content.

“Then I’ll comfort you. Come over here.”

“So, I’m going to get ravished on that old sofa. In a cla.s.sroom in the old building… It’s an unbelievable place for the first time.”

After that, on the sofa with creaky spring we had incredible s.e.x……. not. Such an absurd first time wasn’t on my mind either.

I just wanted to comfort a girl who was crying. Some may call it cheap sympathy, but I just wanted to stay with her until she stopped crying. k.u.miko, who was crying while burying her head onto me with her arms around my neck was a cute girl.

Her black hair was pretty and had a nice scent coming off it. Her slender and thin body was incredibly soft when you hugged her. Why did Nanami Shuichi reject such a fine woman?

Just who was this “girl I like” Nanami mentioned? There were lots of students in my school, but there were only a handful who were as pretty as k.u.miko in our grade.

The most beautiful girls from first grade would be extremely popular. Like Aoi Leona from Cla.s.s D, who was a model and an idol at the same time. She would always be followed by the so called “Princess” Mayuzumi Kyouka from the reading club.

Or is it someone else from Cla.s.s A? Or maybe a handsome and popular guy like Nanami was into older women and the goal was the pie in the sky, our revered Student Council President.

If it was a high-spec girl like her, it was only natural that k.u.miko would lose. Even though she was pretty, k.u.miko was small and flat. She could just not be Nanami’s type. I noticed that k.u.miko had stopped crying and was unb.u.t.toning my uniform while I was thinking about these things.

“Wait, what are you doing.”

“But we can’t do it while wearing clothes.”

I sighed. I didn’t mean it s.e.xually when I said I wanted to “comfort” her. For the last time, I didn’t even have an inkling of intention to do something like that with her.

“Don’t give up on your life.”

“Something that would make me give it up happened.”

She was beyond help. She sat on me while pus.h.i.+ng me back onto the couch and sent a sharp glare off into my direction. She brought her face close to mine and our lips met. She kissed me without any hesitation.

I couldn’t resist. She even licked my lips.

“.... What are you doing.”

“Fu, fu, what do you mean. This is only the start.”

k.u.miko grabbed my lips, moistened by her saliva, and pulled upwards. It hurt. Was she trying to silence me? She chuckled as she pulled my lips around with her pale fingers.

“Stop playing around with my lips. You were crying just moments ago, what the h.e.l.l.”

“It was my first kiss. It wasn’t bad for me. How about you?”

“Even if you ask me that.”