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
How did this happen?
On a park bench at night, Matsuyuki san and I were sitting next to each other.
“Hmmhmm♪”
Matsuyuki-san was opening a bag of snacks with a different kind of smile than the elegant one she had at school. She was even humming a song. Was she really looking forward to eating snacks that much?
It was Matsuyuki san who brought me to the park. She didn’t even give me time to say whether or not I wanted to come, so I missed my chance to leave.
“Um, why don’t you eat at home?”
I knew it was too late to ask but I couldn’t help but say it.
In response to my question, Matsuyuki san kept her voice down with a serious face.
“Actually,……my mother has banned snacks.”
“I-I see…….so she gets angry if you eat them at home?”
“Yes. She will get angry at me. I still wanna live, so I have no choice but to eat here and destroy the evidence.”
It seems that even Matsuyuki san is afraid of incurring the wrath of her parents. Though it seems a bit too exaggerated.
At school, I got the impression that she didn’t have much experience getting scolded by her parents because she seemed to have a good attitude. But from the way she was looking at me, it seemed that she had experienced a lot of scolding.
“That’s why, here.”
“Yes?”
Potato chips, a staple snack food.
I was puzzled by Matsuyuki san’s intention as she gently grabbed a piece and held it out to me, and I tilted my head.
“Please, eat. It’s a hush money.”
“Ah, I see……”
I accept the potato chip. Just one piece is a small price to pay to keep me quiet.
But it was given by Matsuyuki san, who is considered by everyone to be the most beautiful girl in the school.
According to some people, they may be jealous.
“Thank you.”
I thanked her in advance. It’s not like I have the time to tell Matsuyuki san’s mother.
The reply was not a [You’re welcome] but rather a puff of air.
“I can’t resist this sound♪”
Matsuyuki san was opening a plastic bottle of coke with a happy look on her face.
Potato chips and coke. The most junky combination. It felt like a little party.
It is not an unusual choice of snacks for people of our age, but when it comes to Matsuyuki san, it seems strange.
I had assumed that she would eat more fashionable sweets, since she usually looks so elegant. For example…..macaroons?
“Puhaa ! I can’t resist the sweetness of coke and the saltiness of potato chips. I lived for this moment !”
“No, no, no, you’re exaggerating too much.”
Matsuyuki san pours the coke down her throat and chews on a potato chip.
She seems like a normal girl.
I once saw Mitsuki in a state of self-indulgence, lying down in front of me, eating chips, drinking coke and reading manga.
I had never imagined that Matsuyuki san would replace her.
I realize that I had been looking at her with prejudice, and I reflect on that. I know, you can’t live with you back straight all the time, can you?
“Do you always eat chips in the park?”
“Yes, I do. I definitely can’t let my mother find me like this…….”
Matsuyuki san shakes her body.
Is Matsuyuki san’s mother really that scary? I feel like I want to see it, but at the same time, I don’t want to.
“But it’s not safe for a girl to be alone at night.”
“I’ve been looking forward to this once a month. Even though I know it’s risky, I don’t wanna stop. Besides, if I wear a hat and dress like a boy, I’ll be all right, surprisingly.”
Matsuyuki san keeps her long, glossy black hair tucked into her hat. Dressed in drab clothes that don’t show the lines of her body, it is indeed difficult to tell at a glance whether she is a man or a woman.
“But I still think it’s dangerous.”
Even if she was dressed as a man, it is still dangerous for a girl to go out alone at night.
Besides, when I hear her voice, yI can tell right away that she’s a girl, and even though she’s wearing sunglasses, I can’t help but think that her white, moist skin is that of a woman.
“Hiro kun, you worry about me without any ulterior motive, don’t you?”
“Eh, how can you tell that I don’t have ulterior motives?”
“Of course. I also have a woman’s intuition.”
A woman’s intuition is amazing. I have heard that girls are sensitive to ulterior motives and feelings.
It seems that Mitsuki does not have this sense.
If she had a woman’s intuition, she would have noticed my motives and rejected me long ago. But, she already rejected me !
“But even so, Hiro kun speaks normally when you talk to me, doesn’t he?”
“Yeah, well…..normally?”
“In class, you speak more softly and less frequently. If you speak the way you do now, everyone will accept you, I think.”
Matsuyuki san says simply.
Apparently, she doesn’t understand the ecology of the “shady” world.
“You don’t understand, do you, Matsuyuki san?”
“What do you mean?”
Matsuyuki san took a position to ask me, so I decided to tell her what an “introvert” is.
“I’m aware that I’m an ‘introvert’ person. People seem to think that I stutter all the time, but actually I don’t. There are as many different kinds of ‘introverts’ as there are people.”
“Many kinds, you say?”
“Yes. For example, in my case, it’s not that I cannot talk at all. But if someone speaks to me, I can respond. But that’s only in one-on-one situations. It’s more difficult to talk in a place with a lot of people.”
“I can understand that. I also feel uncomfortable in the presence of many people.”
“That’s right. Since you have to think about it a lot, your range of answers naturally expands. While you’re thinking about the right answer, others get ahead of you.”
“I see. You read the air too much, don’t you?”
“Yeah. I think that people who are called ‘extroverts’ don’t seem to care about that. I’m trying to answer properly, not reflexively, which is why I’m taking so long to respond, but it doesn’t mean I’m not thinking–“
…What am I talking about !?
I’m tormented by the regret of having said something so strange. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m alone with a girl at night or if I’m just getting carried away.
Oh, I want to die……
“So, if it’s one-on-one,……will you chat with me, Hiro kun?”
“Eh?”
Matsuyuki san stared at me as she chewed her potato chips.
Her eyes, illuminated by the park lights, seemed to glow with a pure light.
“I wanna have a classmate friend. Hiro kun doesn’t have any ulterior motives, and……I’ll try not to cause you as much trouble as possible, so will you be my friend……?”
A friend….. If that’s the case, I want one too.
But Matsuyuki san probably has at least one friend in her class, even if it’s not me. However, the way she says it now makes it sound like she doesn’t classmates any friends.
…I think it’s because I think about such useless things that I have a hard time making friends.
“I-if it’s okay with you….I’d like to be Matsuyuki’s friend,……”
I shook off my hesitation and decided to jump at the opportunity in front of me.
There was no way that that popular Matsuyuki san would go out of her way to say something like this.
But if I rejected her, I would remain isolated for a long time. I didn’t want that.
The time when I could rely on Mitsuki was over.
“Thank you, Hiro kun !”
Her smile, like a blooming flower, shone brightly in the park at night.
Gradually holding her hand, we signed a friendship contract.
……Matsuyuki san’s hands are a little greasy. I wish she hadn’t asked for a handshake with a hand that had eaten a potato chip.
“As a token of our closeness, here’s another one for you.”
“Oh, thank you.”
The potato chips given to me by the most beautiful girl in school tasted salty.
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The day after I became friends with Matsuyuki san.
“I heard that Matsuyuki san is an evil woman who deceives men.”
Matsuyuki Ayano is an evil woman. I had heard rumors like that.
Maigetsu