I Saw My Female Friend, a Beautiful and Neat Girl, Holding a Romance Book Titled “How to Get Your Male Friend to Like You” and Decided to Give Advice on Love~ In Fact, the Guy She Likes Seems to Be Me!?~
The idea of having Hizakura teach me how to cook on my day off was decided to be on a Saturday at her suggestion.
It was Saturday morning, and we were walking to a nearby supermarket together.
“This is the first time we meet on a holiday, even though we usually see and talk to each other so much.”
“Yes, you look so cool in your casual clothes.”
“Today I was only going to learn to cook at Hizakura’s house, so I was pretty simply dressed ────I almost didn’t hear you say it, but did you just say I was cool?”
“Eh?”
When I asked that, Hizakura let out a bewildered sound once and then fell silent for a little while.
Perhaps she was recalling what she had said.
—-The next moment, she blushed and said.
“I-I’m not! That’s not what I meant!”
“That’s what you mean, you mean I’m not cool?”
“No, that’s not what I meant!”
“Then you think I’m cool?”
“That’s not what I meant!”
“Then what do you mean?”
“W-Well, it’s ……”
Hizakura looked puzzled for a moment, but then said as if she had hit upon something.
“Kanzaki-kun, this is the first time you’ve seen me in my private clothes, right? What do you think of me in my private clothes?”
I see, what you were thinking about meant that you were directing the topic towards me.
This may seem a little strange, but just because you’ve been told you’re cool once, talking about it over and over again isn’t something you want to do, whether you look at it subjectively or objectively. Let’s answer Hizakura’s question honestly.
Hizakura was dressed in a knitted sweater and black trousers, a simple but well-dressed outfit.
“It looks good on you, doesn’t it? It fits your tall and thin body perfectly.”
“D-Do you think so?”
Hizakura looked a little embarrassed, but I told her this without any embarrassment, because it was true.
“Yeah, it looks good on you.”
“T-thanks ……!”
Just after Hizakura said this happily, we arrived in front of the supermarket and I went inside the supermarket with my basket.
And as we were both looking at the vegetables on the food shelves, Hizakura started talking.
“What do you want to eat today, Kanzaki-kun?”
“If I’m going to have Hizakura teach me how to cook, that means it’s going to be me cooking, right?”
“Lunch, yeah, but I’ll cook dinner.”
“Dinner ……? Today, we’re going to go shopping in the morning and I’m going to cook lunch while Hizakura teaches me how to make it, isn’t that the end of it?”
“I’m thinking that you would like to try my cooking, but I think it would be difficult to eat two meals at lunch, so I thought maybe I’ll do it at night…but I guess you’re busy at night.”
“I’m not busy, it’s just that …… well, I’ll be at Hizakura’s all day today.”
“Yes., just the two of us, since my parents are gone.”
Alone with Hizakura all day at Hizakura’s house?
I’m sure it won’t be particularly awkward, but still a little nerve-wracking.
But for now, I decided to continue with the shopping in front of me.
And as I was deciding what dish to make and picking up the ingredients needed for it, Hizakura muttered something.
“If me and Kanzaki-kun get together, we’ll continue our daily routine of happily shopping together like this. ……”
I couldn’t hear what it was, but I was certain that something in Hizakura’s eyes was very powerful.
After we finished buying our groceries, we both headed to Hizakura’s house together.
◇Hizakura Makoto side◇
I was thinking about it on my way home from the supermarket where I had just finished shopping with Kanzaki-kun.
Today …… I absolutely cannot fail.
It is half true that I wanted Kanzaki-kun to stay until night because I wanted him to eat my cooking, but half is not true.
The other half is that I wanted him to stay home until night, no matter what the excuse.
Why else would I have chosen Saturday and Sunday to invite him to my house?
Why did I emphasize that my parents were not home?
──── all in order to have Kanzaki-kun stay over at my house today and to close the distance between us in one fell swoop.
As I strongly thought earlier,…… I can’t even properly tell him that I think he’s cool right now
There are so many other things I want to say other than just how cool he is, but I can’t. Up until now, from my second year of high school until this cold weather, we were just friends. No matter how much time passes, I will never be able to date Kanzaki-kun if I continue to act like I am.
So ──── I want to stay over with him today, close the distance between me and him, and be able to tell him everything I want to tell him as soon as possible.
“Hizakura? Is something wrong?”
It seems that he noticed that I was thinking and was worried about me.
I am so happy every time he is kind to me, it’s as if he has struck my heart.
“No, it’s nothing.”
I want to go out with him,…….
On the way home, I thought about only that as I headed home with Kanzaki-kun.