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!?~
On my way home after school, as I was casually walking home while talking with Makoto, Makoto pointed to a certain store and said cheerfully.
“Kakeru-kun! Do you remember that store?”
I turned my eyes in the direction Makoto was pointing …… and there was a store there that looked familiar.
There is a small line of people waiting to get in and the menu sign has a picture of a cake on it.
“I remember this cake store from the first time me and Makoto went out together.”
“Yes, yes! That time, Kakeru kun said he liked a cake with strawberries on it, and I had just found a good cake store at that time, so I invited you to come here with me!”
“That happened, didn’t it?”
“Not just that! Ever since then, I’ve liked Kakeru-kun, but Kakaru-kun hasn’t noticed it at all, and even asked if I’d like to go to a cake shop with him. Even when I asked him out, he didn’t realize that I liked him at all, and he said something like, “to the person you like,” and at that time, I was really nervous and tried my best!”
“I-I’m sorry…….”
Maybe I’m going to end up apologizing to Makoto every time she brings up the past.
Now that I think about it, I wonder why I didn’t notice Makoto’s feelings even though she was going through all that trouble, but the biggest factor is the stereotype that the person Makoto likes isn’t me, the person who is asking for love advice. It must have been a big thing.
“Speaking of the past, the hardest time was when I started to fall in love with Hizakura…I knew that Hizakura had someone else. Even though I like you, I had to seek love counseling, and to be honest, it was quite dangerous at that time.”
“Ah! I’m sure you’ve heard of the time he avoided me! I was really worried then!”
“But…..”
I shook Makoto’s hand and said,
“Now that we’re spending time together as lovers,…… I’m happy about that.”
“I-I’m happy for that,……, too.”
We looked at each other a little, and if we were here in the house, we would have hugged each other, but ──── we are in the city and in the public eye, so we couldn’t do that.
“….. W-we have to be patient.”
“….. yeah.”
We let go of our hands and, at Makoto’s suggestion, we entered the cake shop together.
Then, when the staff led us to our seats, Makoto and I sat down next to each other, and Makoto hugged my arm with her left arm.
“……Kakeru-kun, do you remember? When we were here before, we were sitting face to face, remember?”
“That’s right.”
“And now we’re sitting next to each other, isn’t that strange?”
“yeah ……, but I’m happy.”
“Yeah!”
After that, after looking at the menu, I ask Makoto.
“Makoto, which one would you like?”
“Strawberry shortcake, same as Kakeru-kun.”
“….. I did say I liked it, but I didn’t say I’d order it yet.”
“No?”
“It’s true though…”
“I know.”
Makoto smiled as if saying that she knew everything, and we ordered two shortcakes.
“…Now that I think about it, the last time we came here, you said something like maybe we looked like a couple.”
“Oh, I did say that, ────.”
I waited for the shortcake I ordered to arrive while reminiscing about memories that now feel like a long time ago. When two shortcakes arrived, Makoto cut them into pieces and held them to my mouth.
“Aahhnn~.”
“ …… we eat that way out there?”
“Yeah.”
“…… got it.”
I put the cake offered by Makoto in my mouth.
And then Makoto asked me happily.
“Is it good?”
“…… yeah, it’s so sweet and delicious.”
“Let me eat some too!”
I did as I was told and fed it to Makoto as well, and Makoto said happily.
“It is delicious~! It tastes even better and sweeter than when I ate it with Kakeru kun before!”
“I felt the same way.”
After that, we finished eating the cake while talking about various things, and Makoto and I walked home, holding hands.
Going now to the cake store where Makoto and I first went out together, I enjoyed it many times more than before and saw Makoto’s smile many times more than before.
I want to go to more places in the future, not just …… cake stores.
As we walked home, Makoto and I happily talked about where we wanted to go in the future.