I Went Back in Time to 10 Years Ago and Saved My Young Lady Childhood Friend and She Became My Fiancee ~She’s Honest and Cool and Looks at Me Like She Wants to Be Cared For~
After I eat, I get sleepy.
It’s the natural order of things, and there’s nothing I can do about it. A lot has happened today.
The reason why I think that is because Yorumiya looks really sleepy.
“Pheew…….”
She has been rubbing her eyes and dropping the mechanical pencil in her hand a few times.
She was studying for a test that was coming up. But she was still too tired to make that much progress.
“Yorumiya, why don’t you go to bed?”
“I know I should, but ……”
Yorumiya replied in a fluffy voice.
She had been feeling sleepy ever since she had the dishes cleaned up.
“But…I’m here with Shuu-kun…”
A voice that sounded like it came out exactly as I was thinking.
It’s really hard to react.
Yorumiya’s eyes were glazed over. I wonder what time Yorumiya usually goes to bed. I’m not that sleepy yet.
“…… should I put down the futon?”
By the way, I had vaguely guessed it, but it seems like I’ll be sleeping here with Yorumiya after all. Before I knew it, two futons were prepared in the room. The servant just brought it.
“Fua….okay”
There is a reply mixed with a yawn. Yorumiya doesn’t seem to be too concerned about sleeping in the same room. She looks more sleepy than that.
I cleared the table, asked her to go, and laid out a futon for the two of us. The futon…I felt like I kept a little distance between them.
“Thank you …… and good night …….”
Yorumiya gets into the futon.
Her eyes are puffy and I feel like she’s going to fall asleep soon.
I guess you don’t mind having me next to you.
(It would be weird to be concerned about it, probably.)
I don’t particularly want to do anything, and I don’t think I can. I guess it’s better not to care.
I turn off the light and get into the futon. It smells like someone else’s house.
I look up at the ceiling in the pitch dark, exhale, “Whew ……,” and think.
(But can I sleep? Can I?)
I feel like my eyes are a little sharp right now.
Can I sleep? How long has it been since she was next to me?
I’ve actually been feeling quite nervous since I got pushed over (?) earlier. That was like an accident.
Besides, I heard a lot of things today. The same is true of what Sae-san told me. I’ve been asked to take care of Yorumiya.
It’s hard to process in my head. How should I say?
“Shuu kun, are you awake ……?”
While I was thinking about that, I heard a sleepy whisper.
“Yes, I’m awake.”
“……It’s been a long time since we’ve been like this. ……”
This situation of sleeping together next to each other.
Long ago, when we were in elementary school, we had slept together lying down. That must have been at my house. We played together, got tired, and went to sleep. There were days like that.
“Indeed, it has been a long time. ……”
I was with Yorumiya a lot more back then than I am now.
The two of us would go home together, holding hands, and then go straight to my house to play.
Come to think of it, I used to hold her hand a lot back then.
I was the only one around, so maybe she was relying on me.
I think she was clinging to me. I didn’t …… realize it, though.
“Now, can I still ……?”
“Eh”
“I just wanted to hold your hand,…….”
She is whispering in the dark room in a voice that only I can hear.
I feel as if I were being peeked inside my head. But it’s not like that, it shouldn’t be.
I reach out my hand from beside the futon. It’s the same as before. I hold out my hand. I hold it. That’s all there is to it, but it makes me a little nervous now.
Yorumiya also leans her body to the side and pulls her hand out from the futon.
She picks up my index finger.
She squeezes it and pulls it away, or traces the outline of the finger.
“It’s getting …… bigger.”
“……I’m a high school student.”
“I stay small.”
“…… Is that so?”
“Yes,…….”
It was too dark to see Yorumiya’s face clearly.
But she sounded kind of depressed.
“I haven’t grown much taller either…”
“It’s just the beginning right?”
“I’d like to be as stylish as Mihato.”
“I’ll ask Mihato-san for her secret next time.”
“Will she tell us? ……”
“I don’t know. ……”
I don’t think Mihato is particularly conscious of such aesthetic aspects. She’s a person who does everything with a straight face, so she might say things like, “This is what I ended up doing when I was just living a normal life.”
After a while, Yorumiya said something to me.
“Will you stay by my side until I grow up ……?”
I was surprised by her hesitant tone. Maybe that is what she wanted to ask from the beginning. She chatted as if she was probing me. Taking the long way around.
“Yes. I will”
“……I’m glad.”
Yorumiya exhaled in relief and closed her mouth.
I close my eyes and begin to think about Yorumiya in my sleepiness.
Last time, I wanted to make Yorumiya happy.
But I also thought that in the end, she didn’t need me to be there for her.
If there was someone like a prince on a white horse who would make Yorumiya happy, that would be fine.
But after coming here today, talking with Sae-san, and talking with Yorumiya like this, I thought that would be a bit irresponsible.
Because, after all, it is up to her
Of course, if Yorumiya starts avoiding me, I should leave immediately.
But if not, I want to stay close to her.
Yorumiya’s fingers trace my hand.
Power is weak. I think she’s on the verge of falling asleep.
I probes her little finger and intertwines them.
I am linking my pinky with hers.
“promise …… to be by my side …….”
Yorumiya spilled out and began to sleep.
I also feel a sudden urge to sleep. A lot has happened today. I have school tomorrow. Let’s sleep.
And so I fall asleep with my pinky finger tied in the shape of a promise.
Tomorrow I have school again.
I wonder if I’ll be able to spend the day without them finding out that I stayed here…..
Maiban