I Liked Her First, but My Brain Was Broken, Then for Some Reason, I Became Friends With Beautiful Girls, So I’m Done My With Childhood Friends
I, Yazawa Hiro, have a lovely female childhood friend.
By the time I hit puberty and began to be aware of her as a girl, she had become incredibly beautiful. I was even at a loss to talk to her, even though we were childhood friends.
I like her, my childhood friend. Even before I became aware of her as a member of the opposite sex, I had a faint feeling of love for her since I was still a child.
I was the first one to like her……
“Wha……!?”
One day, in a classroom at dusk.
The class that my childhood friend, Hashiba Mitsuki, belongs to.
There was a scene spread out there that I never wanted to see.
“I……like you, Hashiba san.”
“I’m so happy….. I like you too, Izumi kun……”
A man and a woman staring at each other in the classroom after school. The perfect confession situation in the sunset.
Unfortunately, I witnessed the youth of a high school student.
If it had been a stranger, I would have quietly congratulated them in my heart.
However, the person who got confessed to was my childhood friend and the person I had been in love with.
In front of my eyes, the girl I’ve loved since I was a child was taken away from me…….
“Wha !?”
I woke up with a start. It seemed like I had fallen asleep in my own bed without realizing it.
I don’t even remember how I got home.
The memory of what happened after Mitsuki was confessed to by a boy other than me had completely slipped away.
“No way, haha……I must’ve been having a bad dream……”
I see. The scene just now was a dream.
What a nightmare. Give me a break. If it was a dream, I wish they would have shown me and Mitsuki dating.
I let out a dry laugh. I was drenched in sweat from sleeping in my school uniform.
“Hiro, Mitsuki chan’s here.”
“Whoa !?”
Without knocking, my mom peeks out. She is too careless about the private space of a high school boy !
“Eh? Mitsuki…..?”
“Sorry to bother you.”
My voice choked.
The person who came into the room, replacing my mom, was my childhood friend Mitsuki, who had appeared in my dream earlier.
Chestnut-colored semi-long hair, a cute and well-shaped face, and a slender physique. The familiar appearance of a childhood friend.
She is popular among the boys, and is so beautiful that she is listed as one of the “cute girls” on the list.
“Geez, Hiro, did you sleep in your uniform? You’re really sloppy.”
She is such a beautiful girl, but she treats me in an easygoing tone.
It’s exactly the kind of distance that a childhood friend can feel.
“Haha, I guess I was tired…….”
“Um, I came here to tell Hiro about it first.”
“Eh?”
Mitsuki started speaking before she could hear the end of my words.
Without any hesitation, Mitsuki sits on the bed of her male classmate. This is the sense of distance between childhood friends. That alone tells me that she trusts me unconditionally.
From such a close distance, she said with a smile.
“You know…..I have a new boyfriend.”
My eyes went completely dark.
It seems that the scene I thought was a nightmare was, unfortunately, reality.
“Do you know Izumi kun? He’s a boy in G class……. I’ve always had a crush on him, and he confessed his feelings for me after school !”
Mitsuki is saying something excitedly. But I couldn’t understand the meaning of the words being spoken.
All I could understand was that Mitsuki was smiling happily…… Whether it was because I didn’t like it, whether it was a lie, whether it was a dream, whether it was a misunderstanding on my part… I was certain that things weren’t going to turn out so conveniently.
My childhood friend whom I have always loved.
I have had a faint infatuation with her since I was a child, and when I hit puberty, I realized that I liked her as the opposite sex.
I was sure that one day ….I would be able to tell her about these feelings….. I was thinking too long.
The day never came, and my love, which I had nurtured with great care, ended easily.
“Phew, I felt relieved after telling Hiro. Thank you for listening.”
“Hahaha……oh, we’re childhood friends, so it’s only natural.”
Mitsuki is smiling brightly, and I can’t help but cry, saying, [It’s a lie that you’re dating, isn’t it?]’ It was all I could do just to spit out a raw reply.
“Right ! We’ve been and always will be childhood friends, right !”
The words, uttered with an unclouded smile, shattered my heart.
Yes, Mitsuki and I were just childhood friends, nothing more, nothing less.
A childhood friend is different from a relationship between a man and a woman.
I was the only one who was aware of it, and Mitsuki probably saw me not as a man, but as a family member.
“This is the end of the report. Then I’ll be going home. Goodbye Hiro.”
“B-bye bye……”
Her usual ‘bye-bye’.
The farewell greeting that I gave was my last intention.
I stared at the door, which was slammed shut with a simple slam, for what seemed like forever.
How much time has passed since then?
“Damn iiiiiiiiiit ! !”
I suddenly screamed and stormed out.
I can’t accept this reality… That information may have destroyed my brain.
Maigetsu