After My Childhood Friend Rejected Me, I Cut My Bangs and Took off My Glasses in Shock, and I Became Popular With the Girls. And I Don’t Like It When She Wants to Be Friends With Me Again…..
On Monday morning I woke up just in time as usual and began to get ready in a leisurely fashion.
Mom is vacuuming the living room.
Dad had already left for work and Sora was gone.
“…Ara, good morning. You seem particularly laid back today.”
“Well, I couldn’t sleep for a long time. I have to hurry.”
“Your hair and eyes have cleared up, so getting ready should be easy. You have a beautiful face, just like your mom and dad.”
“Do you think so?”
I reply as I put on my blazer.
Thanks to my shorter hair, I don’t get into bedheads easily, and I can just pop in my contact lenses and go outside.
There’s no need to spend that mysterious time first thing in the morning looking for my glasses.
Well, what happened? I used to put them on my bedside table before I went to bed, but when I wake up in the morning, they’re gone.
“I’m off.”
Having finished getting ready, I leave the house.
I check my phone. The time looks fine.
It takes me about 20 minutes to walk to school from my house, but I think I’ll make it just in time at this rate.
I like this time of the day because it’s just in time and there are not many students.
I was walking leisurely for a while when a familiar female student appeared from the corner right in front of me.
“Saionji-san?”
The straight back, the long silky black hair that reaches down to her waist, the wrinkle-free school uniform, the graceful way she walks… it’s definitely Saionji-san.
I feel like she was wearing casual clothes yesterday, but she looks graceful in her familiar uniform.
I feel like I’m stalking by sneaking around behind her
But, well, we’re going in the same direction, so it can’t be helped.
I mean, the distance between us wasn’t that great to begin with, so I’m just about to catch up with her.
“……”
We’re almost side by side.
It’s like I’m walking diagonally behind her.
I can’t help it, but it’s a bit awkward. Well, I don’t think she’s aware of it.
‘– Inoshita-kun, good morning.’
“Eh?”
I was suddenly approached by a voice.
The owner of the voice is of course Saionji-san.
It seems that I was noticed in a normal way.
I feel like an idiot for being so concerned about it. I’m embarrassed.
‘I wonder if you can’t even return my morning greeting.”
Saionji-san takes one look at me with a sideways glance.
“Ah, sorry. Good morning.’
I’m a bit confused.
She naturally walks to my left…and I can smell the sweet smell from her black hair that sways from side to side.
“Huh? Or rather, does Saionji-san knows me?”
“Yes.”
It was nothing to say, but it’s honestly amazing that she recognise me as me now.
I thought only my mother, father, Sora and Mika could identify me.
“…… That’s amazing.”
“We’re classmates. You’ve changed your impression a lot. Have you had a change of heart?”
“Something like that. By the way, aren’t you with them today?”
The two are Kojima-san and Yoneda-san, who are always together.
They seem to hate me, so I don’t want to run into them.
“When we go to school they get attached to me, we go to school separately. They’re not the best of friends to begin with.”
“Is that so?”
‘Yeah, I’m sorry to say it, but they’re just trying to get me to give them a free pass on the boys who confess to me. I’m hardly interested in them myself. They’re often talking to guys who are heartbroken because they’ve been rejected by me.”
“H-hee…….”
She says it with a clear face, but it’s scary because it feels like a sulky relationship.
From the outside, it looked like a trio of close friends, but in reality it was just two people and one person.
“See, I’m kind of cute, aren’t I?
The reason the two of them called out to you yesterday was to use me as bait to pick up on you. Well, it seems like those two didn’t know you.”
Saionji-san is indeed cute and beautiful.
Even now, she’s expressionless and cool, but I think there are probably a lot of people who will fall in love with her at first sight.
Well, I’m not going to like her because she’s just going to crush my soul anyway.
“……Girls are scary.”
“I guess so. Girls say that a boy confessed his feelings to them, or that a boy likes a girl, or that they get jealous and fight, or laugh at each other, they get in the way of a relationship, or spread unintelligible gossip and rumours because of recriminations, it’s all so droll and disgusting.”
The content was so raw that it was unbearable to listen to.
It is possible that Saionji-san, who is probably getting a lot of confessions, is also possibly involved in such things.
Because her eyes are dead when she’s talking.
“Inoshita-kun, you have to be careful too.”
“Hmm? Me too?”
“Of course. There must be a lot of girls who come on to you like the two from yesterday, and there might even be girls who are like beauty pageants. Because you’re a virgin aren’t you?”
“Buha! Yes, that’s true, but …… that’s nothing to do with me, that kind of thing.”
The cool young lady shouldn’t say such a thing with a straight face.
“Ara, really? I think he’s cool.
Inoshita-kun.”
“Huh?”
I’m cool ……?
Saionji-san thinks so?
“Are you unaware? I’m stunned.
You better not get stabbed in the back”
Saionji-san left me bewildered and went into the school building.
Before I knew what was going on, I was already at school.
“……I’m cool. ……”
I almost had a crush for a moment, but it would be better not to take it in stride.
Perhaps Saionji-san’s charm lies in her natural behavior, and it would make sense if a boy who had a misunderstanding confessed to her.
‘Maybe Saionji-san is incredibly experienced …….”
I think it was a familiar way of teasing. Calling a high school boy in the same class a virgin is not normal.
Either she is extremely sexually active, or she is so ignorant that she doesn’t think anything of it.
“She’s a young lady with long, innocent-looking black hair, but she does what she does. ……”
My mutterings disappeared with the morning chimes.
-Maiban