A Cheeky Childhood Friend Found a Suicide Note I’d Written for Fun a Long Time Ago, and as a Result, She Suddenly Became Very Clingy and Wouldn’t Leave Me
I, Matsura Serito, am a very ordinary high school boy.
There is only one thing that is different from the norm.
“Fwuah……. it’s already morning–! !”
On a weekday morning, I woke up to the morning sun streaming in through the window and tried to get up, but my face was enveloped by something semi-transparent.
I squirm and peel it off, only to realize it is kitchen wrap.
“Ahaha ! Morning Serito ! Best morning surprise ever ! !”
“You…..you shouldn’t do such a stupid thing so early in the morning ! Kaori ! !”
The person who had set up the morning surprise was apparently holding a smartphone by the bed and taking pictures.
The name of the person who did this is Shiomine Kaori. She is a beautiful, good-looking girl with medium long brown hair and blue eyes.
She has good looks that ten out of eleven people would praise as pretty.
She and I have been friends since childhood, and that is the only thing that makes us different.
“I’m a beautiful girl and I’m here to wake you up, right? You should be more grateful.”
“I didn’t ask you to wake me up. If you wanna wake me up, just do it normally.”
“Isn’t that boring?”
“No, it’s not boring at all !”
With her good looks, athleticism, and high level of communication skills, she seems to be perfect. But of course, she has her flaws.
Perhaps because she was pampered too much as a beautiful girl, she grew up to be a cheeky childhood friend who often played the mischief I mentioned earlier.
“Look, you should get up early and eat your breakfast.”
“I know.”
I got out of bed thinking, but the next moment I felt a sharp pain.
I looked at the floor and saw that there was a certain block on the floor that I could assemble and play with. Probably……or definitely a prank by this guy.
“Ouch ! ! !”
“Oh, you didn’t look at the floor properly〜♪”
“You……! I won’t let you get away with this today !”
“Kyaa ! Run away〜〜! !”
Kaori runs away like a rabbit.
I thought about chasing after her, but I gave up because she ran out the front door first and went straight to school.
The noisy morning before was a complete change, and I was able to eat breakfast in peace and quiet.
I changed into my uniform and went to school and entered my classroom.
“Haa……. I’m tired already……”
“Good morning, Seritan ! You look tired, don’t you?”
“Who the hell is Seritan? Shut up, you wicked and tyrannical Melos.”
“It’s the king who’s wicked and tyrannical !”
When I took my seat, a flirtatious man greeted me.
This guy is my friend Rentaro, and we have been friends since junior high school.
“Well, a lot of things happened. I’d like you to take over for me if you can.”
“I’m gonna refuse because it’s too much trouble !”
“Right.”
In case you are wondering, only a few students know that Kaori and I have known each other since childhood. I’m in the same class as her, but she never speaks to me at school, which is surprising.
We used to talk a lot until elementary school, but before I knew it, we stopped talking.
(Well, I guess she wants to have her own school life, so I don’t mind.)
I continued to talk nonsense with my friend at my seat, worrying about the sole of my foot that still hurts a little.
# # #
–After school.
I came back to my house and went through my wardrobe.
Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are holidays, so I was thinking of going to my grandfather’s house in the countryside for a night or two. So I’m making a lot of preparations.
“I thought I still had some lures left. Oh, there it is. ……Hmm? What’s this paper?”
I found a lure for fishing, but at the same time I found a mysterious piece of paper.
The paper was written as a suicide note.
“Huh? Whose–or rather, mine !? Ah……well, like the one I wrote for fun a long time ago……?”
The contents of the suicide note included such apologetic messages as [I’m sorry I died first] and [Actually, I’m the one who broke the flower bed.]
The contents are childish, but since I had learned calligraphy, the handwriting is as beautiful as mine is now.
“I miss this……. I used to be afraid of where I would go when I died. I didn’t want to die with nothing left to say.”
I was about to think back to the old days, but I interrupted myself by slapping my cheek. It was just like that feeling you get when you are cleaning out the house at the end of the year and you find an album from the past and you are too busy cleaning it out. I put the suicide note on my desk and proceeded to prepare for tomorrow.
“Tomorrow’s sleepover set ready ! Ah, my phone…..since I’m going to the countryside, I should turn off the power.
I’m free from electronic slavery.”
I’ll take it with me in case of emergencies, but I probably won’t turn it on for two days.
“……Ah, Kaori’s father is calling me.”
My parents and Kaoru’s parents are close, but for some reason I’m her father’s favorite.
We play minor games (shitty games) a lot with each other and I guess he wants a friend to talk to.
He invited me to play games with him tomorrow, but I told him no, mentioning that I was staying over.
“Kaori is….well, I don’t have to tell her.”
I decided on my own and put my phone on the desk.
–I was unaware of it at the time.
The suicide note on the desk, the phone turned off, and the contact to Kaori’s father…….I didn’t think that these would cause such a thing……
Maitoshi