Chapter 1 (2/2)
That’s why, all the ood memories of this trip
The baskets in which everyone rode steadily cliher I went to a bench nearby to sit down and kill some time
My idle hands opened and closed my cell phone a number of times
There wasn’t any indication that Sugawa had sent a reply to the e-less action, I kept checking“You have no new awa this time
It’s not as if I had souilty conscience; I had not awa It’s just that I kind of, for some reason or another, missed the chance to tell her about it
Even though we’re supposed to be dating, it’s not like we keep in touch with each other every day I don’t really understand her schedule co out for five months, we haven’t even kissed or so s continue on like this, I won’t ever be able to ask to touch those voluptuous boobs thatabout them
We’re still at that stage
Even so, I don’t think she sees like that
“I just don’t understand a girl’s heart…”
Those words just kind of popped out ofsomeone who is satisfied with their life would say They h I’m just a dim, introverted son of a bitch…
Before long, everyone got off the ferris wheel in groups
“Hoas it? Was it fun?”
As I asked, Takigawa put on a forced sreat”
…Soe here
I felt a new sense of aardness that was not present in the girl that was here fifteenface, souys were so lively before they got on the ferris wheel I don’t think they have a fear of heights or anything, either
Looking at theers coh at anyover the tops of their heads
…What in the world happened on that ferris wheel?
On the other hand, Kitahara and Pizza-ta had on the sa I wanted to ask them if they had felt any emotions at all
On the way to our next destination, I tentatively whispered to Kitahara, asking about her thoughts As I had expected, she bluntly answered like a certain actress, “Nothing in particular” However, I could not hide my surprise at the next words that came out of her mouth
“…Seki-kun isto Kyoto next year”
“Eh?”
So power had firripped my chest
“…Why is he doing that?”
“Beats me Seems like there’s a fa to attend a pro training school I don’t really know the specifics Why don’t you ask him yourself?”
Incidentally, I looked at the back of Pizza-ta, alking a few steps in front of Kitahara and ed from the usual, and was drenched in sweat However, from that, I couldn’t really read as in his heart
I’awa don’t know that Pizza-ta is going to leave his hometown If he tells anyone else, it’ll have already reached my ears already, anyways
I wonder what kind of emotion drove Pizza-ta to confess this to Kitahara
I wanted to ask hi this important, there’s no way I could use this second hand information as a basis for the questions
Ever since they got off the ferris wheel: Soawa had taken a turn for the worse, and Pizza-ta was hiding an iht face…
——–Fro, it appears that this trip is not going to end up a happy trip
As the evening continued at Ae (Amerikaaoka and Takigawa behaved seey as they walked around everywhere, it seemed almost like an aard, amateurish performance If you askedwith them, I wouldn’t be able to reply However, todifferent about those two
On the school trip, it seee on the second day, and they spent the dayshopping around the Horie District Despite that, even though this time eren’t bound by restrictions like on the school trip, she still decided to coe
“There’s a store that’s selling pastry twists on the corner that caught o buy some?”
“Nah, I’ll pass… I’m on a diet…”
“Oh Pizza-ta, there’s a guy vending some black people’s hiphop clothes there Don’t you like that kind of stuff?”
“I’ll pass… Nowadays the brats in japan won’t even wear BAPE and Stussy…”
shi+t Even after talking to Pizza-ta, he won’t expand the topic of conversation And seriously, he’s the type of guy that talked about fashi+on… How should I put this; nor up a conversation wouldn’t be a probleht up in the conversation even when you’re consciously trying to pull him in
Having said this, Nagaoka and Takigawa had an atmosphere around them that made careless conversation difficult, and Kitahara was unsociable, as usual What the hell should I do about this?
If Sugawa had coh spirits…
When I thought of that, I started to miss her
As it got dark, ent to the Food Theme Park in Dotonburi and ate okonomiyaki; afterwards, ent to the hotel It was there that I saw a rare sight
…Nagaoka and Takigawa having an argument
That night, we stayed in a hotel in which we had made reservations In contrast to its cheapness as a student-oriented payood hotel The cramped and dirty rooms typical of such were nowhere to be found
It looks like we can get a good, peaceful night’s sleep here
Or so I thought Even after lights out, I couldn’t really fall asleep
Even though my mind and body were both exhausted fro about theasleep
In the end, as we passed into the next day, I ended up not receiving a reply froawa That also kind of bothered me
Theto sleep, thearound on top of my bed a bunch of times At last a curtain dropped in my brain, and my senses started to fade out At that instant, I heard a rustling sound next toup from his bed
At first I thought that he was going to the toilet, so I kept quiet and was going to overlook it, but it seeentle steps in order not to wake Pizza-ta and me, opened the door, and headed out into the hallway
When I looked at the sub-display of the cell phone at aoka, he was faking sleep and waiting for me and Pizza-ta to fall asleep
I was curious, so I followed Nagaoka out of the rooure in the hallway, but it’s likely that he went to the first floor lobby, so I’ll ride the elevator and give it a try
As I got off the elevator and rounded the corner to the entrance, for sohts, she should be in her roo yukata that dragged on the ground, and clinging to the wall almost as if she were a spy
“Hey Kitahara, what are you doing ther-…”
As I spoke out and drew closer to her, she put a finger to her mouth and checked me with a short, “SHH!”
“Takigawa-san and Nagaoka-kun are in the lobby If you speak up, they’ll notice”
Eavesdropping is in bad taste Although, isn’t that what I came here to do in the first place?
“Takigawa-san suddenly got up in the ht and left the room I was curious, so I followed her,” is how Kitahara explained this situation Good lord, our first thoughts were exactly the same
I poked et a better peek at the lobby facing the entrance Takigawa and Nagaoka sat facing each other at one of the corner round tables that were evenly lined up They both had on serious faces, and for soument
“What’s going on here?”
As I asked in a quiet voice, Kitahara rahtly into my side
“If you take a look, you’ll understand And, don’t get so close to rosses me out”
“Ah, uh… my bad”
As you say, I’ll
Aside frons of life in the lobby; the sounds that reached my ears was only a sudden burst of salon awa’s conversation off in the distance
“I… I don’t want this! I don’t want to be separated froawa-dono!”
“I’ve told you soup It’s not like we’ll never see each other again…”
“B, but!”
Things aren’t looking so good
After listening for a little while, I got a grasp on the situation
It seeawa made the same sort of confession as Pizza-ta In other words, at the sa to move to another prefecture
Siawa also had a dreaet a job related to fashi+on and accessories Toto her level However, it looks like her lover Nagaoka doesn’t approve
A negotiation between love and dreas felt so aard this afternoon
“What do you think?”
The yukata-dragging Kitahara suddenly asked this to me
As for me… hmm
If I was standing in their place, then it’d be easy to understand If Sugawa had said the saawa did, I wouldn’t have the confidence to honestly support that dream If she went somewhere far away that I didn’t knoouldn’t just be lonely I’d be torrief
If we lived apart, the string that bound us together noould undoubtely break souy on a whim in a new location I didn’t have any confidence that I would be able to tie up her feelings
“I would support Takigawa’s dreas”
——Besides, if Takigawa left, I’d be sad
After I replied, Kitahara put on a bored-looking face and said this
“…I agree with Takigawa-san Serves hi if those two break up will be quite a spectacle”
…This girl’s intense
Does she still have souy that was stolen from her? Well, I didn’t really think that was the case, but… At any rate, rather than not being honest, I couldn’t think of it as any
“I’ back to my room Kurosawa-kun, be careful not to stay up too late…”
After saying that, Kitahara patted me on the shoulder and walked in the direction of the elevator Shethat it was probably better not to eavesdrop excessively on our friends’ private conversation any more than this
I followed Kitahara, and shortly thereafter rode the elevator
Although, once I returned to the rooaoka had not come back, and couldn’t really sleep
In the end, Nagaoka and I finally ended up falling asleep around 2:30 AM
END OF PART ONE