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…..
It was time for lunch break.
As usual, I was eating my lunch in the corner of the classroom.
Sumi is a cafeteria guy, so he was not there. It was a little disappointing. It couldn’t be helped.
Everyone around me was eating in groups.
The only ones eating alone were me and Saionji-san.
“Hey, Inoshita-kun.”
“Hmm?”
While I was eating my lunch, a girl sitting right next to me called out to me. I don’t remember her name yet because she just joined the same class this year.
I believe there was another girl sitting across earlier, but she may have gone to the bathroom or something, and now she is all alone.
“I heard a rumor.”
Before I could say her name, she started talking to me.
“Yeah.”
“Saionji-san, is she a bitch?”
“Bitch……, Eh? Why are you asking me?”
What kind of question is this person asking me while we’re eating?
“Somehow. I’m sure you often watch people because you are sitting in the corner by the window, right? Besides, you and Saionji-san were going to school together the other day.”
It just so happened that the two of us were going to school together, so there’s nothing to it, and I don’t think Saionji-san is like that.
No, wait,…… seeing that feeling she had when she played with me about my virginity, could it be possible that she might be ……?
Let’s quit. It’s rude to Saionji-san, isn’t it?
“Well,…… first of all, why did you think Saionji-san was, well, you know?”
I don’t know if she’s a bitch, but if you don’t have any proof, you shouldn’t say anything.
“Well, I’ve only heard rumors. Everyone has been talking about it since this morning, and Saionji-san didn’t say anything, so I just wondered if it was true. From my point of view, it doesn’t matter at all.”
“Hmmm.”
I lightly listened to it. Probably some weird rumor of unknown origin. I didn’t think that this would happen after yesterday.
“By the way, do you have a girlfriend, Inoshita-kun?”
That’s so abrupt. I don’t even know this girl’s name, but I feel strangely comfortable talking to her. I feel like I’m talking to her as if she were a male friend.
“Do I look like I have ……?”
“That’s the reaction, you don’t have. Hmmm, just a few days ago it didn’t seem like you were there because I couldn’t see your face, but now that you’re cool, I’m sure you’ll be able to have one soon.”
“Really?”
“Everyone’s wondering about you. You’re not happy about the fact that girls are glancing at you?”
“Yeah,…… I guess it’s not that I’m not happy about it, but I just can’t seem to deal with it.”
I got used to seeing it in a day because it’s my face.
It’s not like I had plastic surgery, so I don’t feel uncomfortable.
But I couldn’t get used to the stares and attention I was getting from people around me, and I was feeling frustrated or scared or I don’t know.
It seems I need a little more time to get used to that feeling.
“By the way, um, ……”
“It’s Minami. Minami Nami”
It’s an easy name to remember. Like newspaper or tomato.
“Do you have a boyfriend, Minami san?”
“Hmm, do you think that? The quiet-looking girl with glasses who was sitting in front of me just now my girlfriend.”
“Like a girl’s love?”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“I see”
Is there a sense of tempo or tone? I thought it would be easy to talk to her
I don’t know if I’m saying it right, but maybe it’s because Minami-san is playing the male role.
“No, I mean, you seem to be rather nice when you talk to me, Inoshita-kun.”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean that before I was a little scared of you because of your long hair and the fact that we don’t see eye to eye, but now we can have a normal conversation and I feel safe because you don’t have any prejudice against me at all, no ulterior motives or prejudice or anything like that.”
“safe ……?”
“Yeah, yeah. Because it seems like you don’t believe the rumor about Saionji san at all.”
“I don’t believe in rumors that have no proof.”
“That’s right. Yesterday, when Inoshita-kun was getting tangled up with Kojima-san and Yoneda-san, she coolly helped him out, and Saionji-san wouldn’t do something like that. We just ignored them too.”
“I think that’s a good idea.”
“……And just between you and me, Kojima-san and Yoneda-san don’t have a good reputation among the girls, so be careful, okay? They act like henchmen for the naughty girls in the other classes.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. I wonder if they call them“Pasiri”. Sometimes I’ve seen people them giving juice or bread, or walking behind them with their bag.”
“Hmmm……… I see.”
This was another rumor I had no way of knowing, but I decided to keep it in the back of my mind.
As soon as the conversation was over, Minami-san’s girlfriend had returned.
Minami san was so excited that she ran
I don’t know if she was famous just because I didn’t know her, but no one said anything in particular, and they flirted and walked out of the classroom.
I could see lilies blooming. Good, good, good.
-Maiban