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!?~
When we entered Hizakura’s room, we sat down so that we were next to each other on the carpet.
Then, Hizakura opened her mouth and said.
“Well, umm,……, the rest of the conversation, right?”
“Ah, yeah,…… what do you mean when you say that our relationship was no longer just friends from the time Hizakura asked me for relationship advice?”
When I asked this, Hizakura said with a serious expression, as if thinking back to the past.
“I had a guy I liked,…… or rather, I still like him, but the guy I liked was my friend, so I thought that if he saw me as a friend, I would see him as a friend, too.”
“…… I see.”
“Then, we were friends for a while after that, but I ended up having fun talking to him, and I liked the smile he showed me every now and then, so I couldn’t give up on him… I tried to approach him in various ways, but I didn’t know how to approach him.”
She wanted to give up on love with that person once, but she still couldn’t give up on him, so she tried to approach him somehow, but she didn’t know how to approach him ……she was in a much more difficult situation than I thought.
“So I went to a certain Japanese store to look for a romance book,…… and as a result, I got that romance book.”
“I see, so that’s the book you were reading at the time,”
“I-I was embarrassed to tell you the name of the book, so don’t tell me the title! I bought that book because it was different from other books and had a lot of useful information in it, not because I was trying to win him over!”
“It’s different from the other books, and the other books are romance books, so they should have some useful stuff in them, right?”
“Maybe that’s …… true, but at least they didn’t seem to make any sense to the guy I like.”
I knew this when I even stayed over with Hizakura and he was unaware of Hizakura’s feelings, but I wondered how solid …… Hizakura’s favorite person is if what is written in a romance book doesn’t make sense….and yet.
“I don’t usually read romance books, so I don’t know what kind of things they say, for example what kind of things?”
“I met Kanzaki-kun after I bought that book, so I haven’t read many romance books since then, and before that, I had no interest in romance books, so I hardly ever read them… Things like complimenting him every bit, or wearing open-chested clothes to make he thinks of me as members of the opposite gender.”
“…. intentionally doing the former might be a little awkward, and the latter might be effective if you can do it, but is it uncomfortable to be seen?”
“No, the former is not intentional, I do it unconsciously because I really think the person is great, but I think it’s taken as friendship. …… As for the latter, the person I like is not interested in that kind of thing.”
“I don’t think it’s that he’s not interested.”
“…Certainly, sometimes when I put our bodies close to each other, or when we took a bath together and I hugged him with almost no clothes on, he reacted a little bit, but boys are usually more like that. It should be fine for him to be aggressive towards me, but at least he doesn’t show that kind of attitude toward me at all… He said that he was aware of me as a member of the opposite gender, but I’m sure that had nothing to do with the fact that we were in close physical contact. Even if there is a relationship, it stops there.”
Is he aware of her as the opposite gender,…… or, more importantly, is the problem that the person is still unaware of her feelings for him, even though he has been in physical contact with her and taken baths with her? As a person who offers love counseling, it’s about time he realizes it, or else my heart will ──── ache?
“…”
Yes, I was so focused on the conversation that I didn’t realize it, but my chest has been hurting since a while ago.
It’s not a physical problem, it’s a heart problem.
Whenever I hear about Hizakura getting closer to the person she loves,…… my chest hurts.
Why does my chest hurt?
──── I already know
It is because …… I like Hizakura.
So, when I hear that Hizakura is getting so close to other people who are not me, my heart aches.
I promised …… that I would be there for her no matter what happens between her and the person she loves,──── but I may not be able to keep that promise.
“Hizakura, let’s end our conversation,────.”
When I tried to bring today’s conversation to a close, even temporarily, to avoid the pain in my chest, Hizakura said forcefully
“So ──── Kanzaki-kun, I’m going to ask you for one last love advice right now.”