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
-Fuyuki’s point of view-
“How did Serito kun and I got together?”
After watching the movie, I went into a café and spent a leisurely time sipping a cup of tea, when Kaori san, who was sitting in front of me, asked such a question.
Incidentally, Serito kun is out of his seat due to a stomachache and will not be back for a while.
I took a sip of tea, took a breath, and said the words.
“…I don’t think it’s okay to just talk about me.”
“No, we’ve been together ever since I could remember.”
“Is that so? Well, that’s fine. Let me tell you about the fateful encounter between me and Serito kun♪”
Memories of the fun and short days I spent with him that make my mouth go slack just thinking about them.
It can’t be helped, I said, and began to speak with enthusiasm.
# # #
–A few years ago.
“……Haa…..it’s so boring.”
A room in a hospital. Leaning against the white bed, I looked out my window at the blue summer sky with cumulonimbus clouds.
Fortunately, I can rest assured that it is not contagious.
I don’t know how many tens of days I have been trapped in this white prison……
“Haaaa…….”
Another deep sigh leaks out.
It is said that sighing keeps happiness away, but I wonder if I can take any more from myself, who is not happy to begin with.
I couldn’t help but laugh at my own pitifulness, but it didn’t change the fact that it was empty.
(Can anything interesting happen to me……)
Novels, school textbooks, resource books, and college papers are all available……. Having read almost all of them, I was bored and wanted to go back to sleep.
But then I heard the sound of the curtains surrounding my bed being opened.
“Dad ! Today is the day I’m gonna win at chess…..hm? Dad, did you play chess……!?”
“……Hm?”
The person who suddenly opened the door was a boy about the same elementary school age as me. He had a collapsible chess board in his hand and was staring at me with wide eyes.
“…Maybe you’re in the wrong room.”
“Seriously, I’m sorry ! Well, then–”
“Wait a minute. Do you play chess?”
To tell the truth, I consider boys my age to be ignorant, vulgar, and fond of trifles.
However, I was intrigued to learn that such a being was interested in the game of chess. From such a trivial chance, I stopped him, whose name I didn’t even know.
“Yeah. I played with my dad.”
“I’d like to have a hand-to-hand combat with you, if you don’t mind. I have so much free time that I can’t help it…”
“Well…..that’s all right. I’m the strong one, by the way !”
“I see. I’m looking forward to seeing the face of the loser♪”
“What the heck, man ! What a jerk ! !”
I’m just passing the time. As he says, I enjoy bullying boys who are probably my classmates at chess, and as he says, I have a bad personality, but I’m really bored and had no choice.
And I played chess with him with the elation that I have been here for a long time……
“Ugh, no……I lost……!?”
“Heheheh ! I won ! !”
I won five games and lost two or three.
Many adults can’t beat me, but to lose to a boy my own age is…..!
“O-one more time ! Let’s play one more time ! !”
“Ehh~…… But it’s already dark outside and my mom is waiting for me…..”
“Eh?”
I looked out the window and saw that the sun had completely set and night was spreading.
It seems I had lost track of time and lost my sense of time.
“So……it seems. You’ll be in trouble, so let’s call it a night.”
“I guess so. ……What’s your name?”
“Me? My name is Tarakida Fuyuki.”
It’s just for today, isn’t it? Why would he need to know my name?
He was smiling happily at me as I was feeling unhappy inside because he had won and escaped.
“I see ! Well, it’s been a while since I found an interesting one, so I thought I should know.”
“An interesting one. By the way, what is your name?”
“Me? My name is Sasagawa Serito.”
Sasagawa……ah, that man in the hospital next to me, Sasagawa.
“By the way, my family name at my grandpa’s house where I often go to visit is Matsuura !”
“Matsuura. haa, I see.”
“Not interested !!?”
I turn away in a huff and try not to look at him anymore. I was afraid that if I looked at him any longer, I would end up wanting him.
Finally, it was time to say goodbye.
“Okay, I’m gonna go now.”
“I understand. Well, good-bye.”
“Yeah ! I’ll see you tomorrow !”
“………Eh?”
The last thing I heard him say. I looked at him again, wondering if I was hallucinating, but he had already left the room.
“Tomorrow, tomorrow……huh? Fufu♪”
I let him ruminate on those words, and I couldn’t help but smile.
I wonder when was the last time I laughed.
“Gohoo…gohoo, gohoo…..! ! Oh no, I was a little too excited…..”
The chess game that I had been happily playing just a few minutes ago. My right hand that was gripping the piece is now covered in red liquid.
Oh, reality has returned, and I pressed the nurse button.
Maitoshi