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!?~
After school, we went to a restaurant together.
It wasn’t that we wanted to eat something in particular at this restaurant, but we decided to talk over dinner.
We each ordered the same pasta, and ──── chatted while waiting for our pasta to arrive.
“Fufu.”
It’s not like we’ve come to an establishment where we can have some fun, but for some reason the tension in Hizakura is high ……, or rather, she was grinning the whole time.
“You’ve been like that since after school, what’s wrong?”
I said, and Hizakura shook her head and said with a happy expression.
“No, even though I didn’t get to spend the day with Kanzaki-kun, I’m really happy to be able to spend time with Kanzaki-kun like this.”
“That much?”
“That much! I don’t think Kanzaki-kun knows, but I was really worried yesterday!”
She may be saying this cheerfully now, but considering Hizakura’s personality, she must have really thought about it deeply.
“I’m sorry for avoiding you without telling you the reason ……, but from now on, if I have to avoid you properly, I’ll tell you the reason too.”
“Don’t avoid me for any reason!”
Hizakura said, puffing out her cheeks a little.
“I know, I know,……, but I was in a lot of pain yesterday, too.”
“Is that so…..?”
“Yeah”
When I said this, Hizakura said softly, as if to comfort me.
“Mou, and the reason for that is because it would be my love life, that’s really missing the point, even though it’s absolutely not true.”
After saying this, Hizakura, who was sitting opposite me, moves over to sit next to me.
I smelled a sweet aroma for a moment as Hizakura came next to me.
Just after she moved next to me, she looked at me and said,
“It’s easier for us to talk at this distance, so it’s okay if we sit next to each other, right?”
“I don’t mind.”
I always sit next to Hizakura on the rooftop bench, so this distance itself is not a problem ……, but I would be lying if I said I was not at least a little conscious of the fact that she went out of her way to choose to be next to me when I could have chosen to face her, but I somehow managed not to let it show.
As we continued to chat lightly, the pasta we had ordered, officially Neapolitan, arrived for the two of us.
We both immediately try the pasta.
“It’s been a while since I’ve had pasta, but it’s delicious.”
“Yes! It’s delicious ……! It tastes twice as good as it usually does because I’m eating it with …… Kanzaki-kun.”
“What did you say?”
“N-Nothing! Let’s quickly eat!”
For some reason, Hizakura was encouraging me to eat, but I didn’t pay any attention and proceeded to eat.
Then, something occurred to me, so I decided to ask her.
“Can you make pasta dishes?”
“I have never made much, but I think I could if I had a recipe, right?”
“Well, I’d like to try the pasta dish you make someday,”
“….!”
After saying that, I put the pasta in my mouth again.
Since it’s a restaurant, the taste is perfect, but after eating the food from Hizakura, I feel like it’s missing something other than the taste.
“Ka.. Kanzaki-kun, if you don’t mind, would you come to my house on your next day off?”
“Hizakura’s house? Why?”
“……If you want to eat it, I’ll study how to make pasta before our day off, so I thought you might like to try it.”
“I just said it out of the blue, so you don’t have to worry so much about it. ────”
“No! I want Kanzaki-kun to eat the pasta I made too!”
I couldn’t help but be captivated by the expression on Hizakura’s strong will.
Hizakura has always been good in everything from her face to her style, but sometimes she really catches my eye.
I’m sure that’s when some feelings are about to overflow inside ,……, but I somehow manage to regain my composure and reply to her.
“If you’re going to say that much, I’d like to eat it too, so let me go eat it.”
‘Yeah! …… Oh, and you know what? One day, I would like to go to an amusement park with Kanzaki-kun.”
“An amusement park with Hizakura sounds fun,……, that’s exactly what you want to do on our next day off, right?”
“……Eh!? T-The next day off?!”
“If it doesn’t work out for you, we can go another day ────.”
“N-no!! The next day off is fine! Kanzaki-kun and the amusement park…this is a date────Date! ? Oh, I’m too excited…! However, when a man and a woman go to an amusement park together, it means that we are close, and to those around us, we look like a couple.—-“
Hizakura kept muttering something in a low voice that I couldn’t hear────After that, today I was swayed by Hizakura’s high tension that I couldn’t understand, but as a result, we both had a good time talking. As I finished eating the pasta, I decided that on my next day off, I would eat pasta made by Hizakura at Hizakura’s house, and I would go to the amusement park with Hizakura…as if it was a lie that I was hurting yesterday, I feel really happy when I’m with Hizakura.
I was really looking forward to my next vacation with that thought in my mind.