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!?~
Silence reigned in our Ferris wheel gondola for a little while after the Ferris wheel went up, but then Hizakura, perhaps trying to manage the atmosphere, opened her mouth in a bit of a panic.
“D-did you have a good time at the amusement park with me today?”
“Yeah, if I had come alone, I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed it as much as I did, but because I was with Hizakura, I had a lot of fun.”
“I-I see,……, if you had a good time, I’m glad you did.”
And then, I decided to look back on what was impressive at the amusement park today.
“In the haunted house, Hizakura was screaming like I’ve never heard her scream before.”
“P-Promise not to tell!”
After that, after much reflection, we looked back at the last maze-type escape attraction we went to.
“…… also, I missed the correct answer five times in a row in the maze, and after the sixth time we went to the opposite side of Hizakura, after that we were able to reach the goal smoothly.”
“Don’t tell me that too! E-embarrassing …….”
Hizakura covered her face with both hands.
I never thought that the day would come when I would be able to come to an amusement park with Hizakura and casually talk and laugh with her about it, but now that it is actually happening,……, I am glad from the bottom of my heart that that is happening.
After that, silence reigned in the gondola for another moment, and when the gondola reached the top of the Ferris wheel, Hizakura stopped covering her face with her hands and said, her cheeks flushed red.
“Kanzaki-kun,…… can I sit next to you?”
“…. yeah”
Not long ago I would have asked, “Why are you sitting next to me?” but now I don’t ask such a thing.
The reason is that if Hizakura is willing to sit next to me, there’s not a single reason for me to refuse.
She sat down next to me once, a little distance away from me, but then, as if on second thought, she moved closer to me, so that we were shoulder to shoulder.
Then she said in a whispering voice
“I’ve never been this close to a boy other than Kanzaki-kun…It’s not just physically, we go out together, invite him over to my house, hug him, feed him food, go shopping with him…Kanzaki-kun was the first to give me sleepovers, cry and get angry, have fun and be happy…all of them are precious things that Kanzaki-kun gave me.”
“When I heard that,……, we really did a lot of things, didn’t we?”
“Yeah…But I still want to do a lot of things with Kanzaki-kun.”
“With me,……but the person you like—“
When I was about to say so, Hizakura linked her arms around me.
I’ve been linking arms with Hizakura all day, but when she crosses her arms in this private room with just the two of us, I feel a different kind of tension ──── than before.
Yes,…… this is not tension,──── but pounding,────.
I didn’t realize it before, but I noticed that my heart was beating very fast.
When I was puzzled by the sensation for the first time, Hizakura said
“Kanzaki-kun, don’t tell me the rest of it”
“Don’t tell…..?”
I somehow managed to shift my attention away from my beating heart and back to Hizakura and asked her
Don’t tell……? For Hizakura, the person she likes should be the most important, and the reason she asked me for love advice was probably because she wanted to date that person.
However, Hizakura said again
“Yes, it’s just as I said. …… Don’t tell me the rest of it.”
Not understanding the meaning of those words, I open my mouth to ask for an explanation.
“….. why? Hizakura’s feelings about the person────.”
But Hizakura interrupted me and said.
“Kanzaki-kun, you don’t need to say the rest of it.”
No need to …… say the rest of it?
“I don’t know what you mean ────.”
Hizakura, perhaps numb to the fact that her point was not being conveyed, let her loud voice reverberate throughout the gondola.
“I can even kiss Kanzaki-kun, so there is no need to say anything else!!”