A Mob, Desperate After Being Ntrโd by a Coworker, Attends His High School Reunion for the First Time in 10 Years, and for Some Reason Is Approached by Four Beautiful Girls
โAkamura Reia’s Point of View
There was someone I like
It was Uesugi Natsuki, who was in the same class with me.
What did I like about him? It is hard to answer that question, but I guess it is right to say everything.
–It was love at first sight.
In all my life, I had been confessed to a hundred times, but I had never fallen in love with anyone.
That is why I have come this far without dating anyone.
However, it turned out to be a revenge, and I understood myself for the first time after I fell in love with someone.
I was too embarrassed to talk to him at all.
I tried many times, but I lost my voice and went blank, not knowing what to say, and in the end all I could do was watch from afar.
But that was okay.
Apparently he had no friends, and of course I hardly ever saw him talk to girls.
In other words, I didn’t have a single worry that someone would take him.
And yetโฆ Recently, I started to see Nina talking with Natsuki-kun.
That made me anxious and uneasy.
Natsuki-kun looked uncomfortable when he was talking to Nina, but he seemed to be enjoying himself somehow.
โฆ I thought it was unfair.
So I decided to talk to him today, thinking that I wouldn’t move either.
7:45 a.m.
I left the house earlier than usual.
The reason is that today is the day Natsuki-kun is on day duty.
In other words, I wanted to take a chance to talk to him by pretending to be a coincidence.
I could at least talk to him if I was in a situation where there were hardly any classmates’ eyes on me.
With that thought in mind, I entered the classroom, skipping along.
Then, there were already three classmates in the classroom.
They were Natsuki-kun, Iwai-kun, who was sitting next to Natsuki-kun and who was also on the day shift
And Sana.
Sana was sitting next to Natsuki-kun for some reason, and they were talking happily about something.
“โฆAh, good morning, Reia,” Sana greets with her usual enthusiasm.
“G-good morningโฆ It’s so unusual to see you here so early,โ I forced myself to smile, but I probably wasn’t smiling very well right now.
“Well. Reia is unusual too, right?”
“Y-yeah I woke up a little earlyโฆ.” I finally looked at Natsuki and said, โG-good morning, Uesugi-kunโฆโ. I called him by his last name even though in my mind
โOh, g-good morningโฆ Akamura san,โ and this was the first time we had a conversation.
H-he’s looking at me! He returned my greeting! and such a trivial thing filled my heart so much.
However, after he finished greeting me, she happily talked to Natsuki-kun.
”So? Any novels you’d like to recommend?โ
“Noโฆ I don’t really know that much about itโฆ I don’t even know what genre Anzen-san would like.”
“I like mysteries.”
“M-Mysteriesโฆ What do you have?”
Maybe Sana doesn’t realize it herself.
What kind of face does she have on her face now?
And what kind of feelings she is having.
โฆ Aaah, of all people, Sana?
I am not a person of good character.
I knew that best.
I get jealous, I lie, and I respond to people I don’t like in a roundabout way.
There is no such thing as an Akamura-san who is kind to everyone.
So I am still honestly jealous and have emotions towards Sana that I shouldn’t have towards my friends.
Iโฆ sucks.
As it is, I go to my seat and fall into self-loathing.
If this is what it’s going to be like, I shouldn’t have fallen in love.
Even though I thought so, it was already too late.
Ah, this is what love feels like.
That’s what I thought.