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…..
After all was said and done, it was soon after school.
In the end, I ended the day without being talked to by anyone, although I was attracting attention and gazing at them.
It was a good thing, because I didn’t want to be talked to by so many people.
“Huh? I don’t have my phone.”
I realized when I changed my shoes at the shoe closet.
It seems I left my phone in the classroom.
The third year B class is located on the third floor of the school building at the far west side, so it’s honestly a hassle to go back there.
“…. haa mouu”
I went up the stairs and went back to the classroom.
On the way there, I heard a voice talking from an empty classroom.
It was a woman’s high-pitched voice. The voice leaked loudly into the hallway.
“So, why did you reject Makoto-kun?”
I sneak a peek through the lighted window in the door of the empty classroom and see that it is a bright blonde female student who is raising her voice. It was a gal.
And standing across from her was…
“I’m sorry, I don’t know this Makoto-kun person to begin with.”
As usual, Saionji-san was nonchalant.
“Haa? Makoto-kun and I are in C class, and you don’t even remember the name of the boy who confessed his love to you?
Are you seriously insane? He confessed his love for Saionji-san because he fell in love with her.”
“It’s such a nuisance. I think it’s more of a question of your sanity for you to approach me even though we haven’t even talked to each other before. Is that not the case?”
“Maybe you don’t know what love at first sight is? I’m telling you that this can’t be true because Makoto kun asked me for advice on love!
“I have the right to choose, too. Besides, I don’t fall in love with a stranger at first sight, so I don’t understand that feeling at all. Is that all there is to the story?”
Finally, Saionji let out a huge sigh.
Unlike the gal who was losing her cool, she was not upset at all.
“……, that’s enough. I don’t know what’s going to happen.”
The gal came closer
I quickly hid myself behind a ledge of the wall.
“She’s so crazy, what’s with her… There’s no way she’s rejecting Makoto-kun, but I’ll definitely make her look hurt!”
The gal whined between clucks of her tongue.
She walked down the stairs with a wild gait.
“…so scary.”
When I didn’t hear the gal’s footsteps anymore, I wiped the cold sweat off my face and took a breath.
At the same time, Saionji-san came in front of me, this time with quiet steps.
“Oh my, Inoshita-kun. Are you eavesdropping? You have bad taste.”
“Ah….sorry. I was wondering if you were in some kind of trouble.”
“Don’t worry about it. It’s not that I’m having trouble, it’s just that I’m being linked to something that doesn’t make sense.”
I thought I had done something wrong, but Saionji-san didn’t seem to care.
In fact, it seems that she is more disappointed in the gal from earlier.
“The reason for that is what she said earlier about confessing?”
“Yes. Yesterday after school, a boy from another class confessed his feelings to me. Mamoru-kun? I think he’s a friend of the blonde girl who just came in.”
“Makoto Ashiya, from Class 3 C, is the ace of the soccer club. Our soccer club regularly competes in national tournaments, and I think I’ve heard that he wants to become a professional.”
“You know a lot about him.”
“Well, yes.”
I knew Makoto Ashiya because he was in the same class as Mika and they were a close group.
I had also seen the gal she just mentioned.
I’ve never talked to either of them, but they stood out from the crowd, for better or worse, in the so-called “cheer” category.
I’m more worried about Saionji-san than anything else.
“Is everything all right?”
“What?”
“No, that …… if you speak like that, you’re going to get into all kinds of trouble.”
It was a good argument, but I felt I was saying it too strongly.
Especially if you are dealing with a gal like that, you never know what she might do to you if she frowns on you. The last line seemed to make sense.
“No problem. I’m used to being talked about behind my back, and I don’t care a millimeter what these people think of me”.
“I see. That’s fine. ……”
It doesn’t really matter if Saionji-san is good.
At first glance, she seems to be mentally strong, and no matter what anyone says, she seems to be able to shut her up.
“By the way, what was Inoshita-kun doing?”
“Oh, that’s right! I was on my way to the classroom to get my phone!”
I forgot all about it.
“I see. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Yeah, see you.”
There was no way we would go home together, and we parted in front of an empty classroom.
Saionji-san’s back was as dignified as ever as she turned on her heel.
-Maiban