When I Saved a Lost Plushie, I Got Close to a Young Lady From a Yakuza Family
—Pipipi
The next morning, a light telegraph tone announces a fact contrary to its tone.
37.2 degrees Celsius. I’m not coughing anymore, but I feel slightly tired. Let’s take a rest today, too.
I operate my phone on the bed and call the teach rto let her know that I’m taking the day off.
Yesterday, Uruwashi told me to call her if I need to take a day off, so I remember to send her a message.
A little later, Uruwashi-san came to visit me at home, so we had a quick chat at the door.
“Good morning. Are you all right? Sagara-kun is usually so energetic, but once he gets sick, it seems to linger.”
“How did you know that?”
“Emi chan told me.”
I hope she didn’t say anything strange.
“Are we going to wipe your sweat today?”
“No, I took a shower this morning so I’m fine.”
I still felt tired, but my temperature was below 38 degrees, so I moved my body after waking up and took a morning shampoo. It was my first shampoo in two days, and I felt very refreshed.
No matter how much I had my body wiped down, the smell of my hair on my head wouldn’t help, and I didn’t want Uruwashi, who was coming to take care of me, to think I smelled bad.
“I see ……. Sagara-kun, I thought you would take the day off today, so I made you some. For breakfast and dinner.”
For a moment, I thought Uruwashi’s expression had turned dark, and then she handed me two lunchboxes.
I guess she heard from Emi that I have been sick for a long time. She was really well-prepared.
“Thank you for everything.”
“I’m glad I could be of help to you, Sagara-kun.”
I wonder what would have happened to me if it weren’t for Uruwashi-san.
I would have forced my tired body to go shopping and ate convenience store food by myself.
I am so grateful.
“I’ll be back after school.”
“Thanks I’ll be up at that time.”
“I wish Sagara-kun would sleep, considering his physical condition. ……”
Even so, if I fall asleep, Uruwashu an might get locked out.
Yesterday it was the opposite, it seemed like she couldn’t leave because I fell asleep.
Well then, I went back to my room, took something out of the drawer of my desk, and returned to the front door.
“I’ll give you a duplicate key, so if I’m asleep when you come home after school, you can go in on your own.”
“A-a key?!”
Uruwashi’s sharp eyes were wide open and she looked very surprised.
I was so surprised that I even ended up separating the spare keys in a weird place.
“Is it okay……?”
“Yeah. I trust you, Ten-chan.”
“Thank you,” she said as she took the keys and clutched them tightly.
She was holding them with such force that her usually snow-white fingertips were red.
“Sagara-kun, I have to go now, but send me a selfie when you can.”
“Okay.”
Yes, I had made such a promise with Uruwashi, who wanted me to send her a picture of how I was doing.
“I’m off.”
“Bye.”
I send Uruwashi off.
I felt nostalgic because I never have this exchange when I live alone.
Then I went back to my room, ate breakfast, and went back to sleep.
When I woke up hungry, it was past noon.
I guess waking up with an appetite is a sign that I am gradually getting better.
Thinking about this, I looked at my phone.
There was a message with a picture from Uruwashi.
[I am having lunch]
In the photo, Uruwashi was pictured with her lunch box. The location was behind the gymnasium, a familiar place these days.
It looked like a photo book of an idol, vividly capturing the daily life at school.
It’s just lunch time at the high school. I’m going to have lunch too.
And, feeling a little embarrassed, I try to take a selfie with my lunch, just like Uruwashi.
Emi took this one from the angle above, but I’m not sure if that’s the right one.
This is a photo for reporting, don’t worry about whether I can make it look good or not.
I’ll just take one quick shot and be done with it.
[I’m going to take one now]
[Itadakimasu]
I sent the photo with a message, which was immediately read.
[I’m glad you have an appetite.]
[Get well soon and let’s have lunch together again.]
Uruwashi’s message warmed my heart.
I wonder if having lunch with me has become Uruwashi’s daily routine.
I am happy that someone else’s time and my time overlap.
[Yes, let’s eat]
And I decide to have another sleep, even though I don’t feel very sleepy, in order to recover quickly.
If it had been me before, I would have passed the time by lazily touching my phone even though my body was tired.
However, for the sake of those who worry about me, I’m going to concentrate on my recovery.
When I woke up, I felt the presence of someone.
Who is it? I was momentarily impatient, but my consciousness was awakened by the familiar silver hair and her beautiful profile.
It was Uruwashi sa, ……, to whom I had given the duplicate key.
Uruwashi was spreading out a notebook on her desk and transcribing something while looking at her phone.
“Good morning, Ten-chan. Studying?”
“Good morning, Sagara kun. I’m copying yesterday’s notebook so that the energized Sagara-kun can copy them.”
Yesterday’s notes?
I see, Uruwashi-san had left school early yesterday to take care of me.
I was going to ask her to let me copy Uruwashi-san’s notes, but I would need someone else’s notes for that day.
“Is that so, you take a picture of a classmate’s notebook?”
Uruwashi interacted with classmates?
“Yes, this is the first time I’ve approached someone. Except for Sagara-kun.”
“Wasn’t the person who got called out surprised?”
I can easily imagine the commotion in the classroom.
“I’m sure that’s true. But this is also for Sagara-kun’s sake.”
Uruwashi said as if it was nothing.
But I was devastated by the fact that Uruwashi took action for me.
That makes me very happy.
“How are you feeling?”
“I feel a lot better.”
I don’t feel physically heavy. I took my temperature and it was normal.
I showed the thermometer to Uruwashi.
“I’m glad.”
“It was thanks to Uruwashi san.”
I thanked Uruwashi-san again as she patted her chest.
“I’ll give a reward to Sagara-kun for getting better.”
Uruwashi-san said mischievously, got up from the cushion she was sitting on, and brought a yellow-green sphere from the freezer.
“Wow, that is?!”
What Uruwashi brought me was an ice cream called “Melon Balls.”
It’s a melon-shaped container filled with sorbet that looks cute and tastes great.
“Emi chantold me about it. I think Emi asked her mother about it.”
“I see. I’ve been craving for this ice cream. Can I have some?”
“Yes, of course.”
I opened the lid, which was shaped like the stem of a melon, took the spoon and took a bite. The aroma of melon spread throughout my mouth, cooling it down. Ah, it’s delicious.
Emi teaches you a good lesson, too, doesn’t she?
“It’s childishly cute. Sagara-kun used to keep his treasures inside the melon ball container, didn’t he?”
“Why do you…..!”
When I was a little boy, I used to wash and treasure my melon balls and other watermelon balls and peach balls.
They were just plastic, but to my childish mind they looked so shiny.
“And that too from Emi chan.”
Fufu, Uruwashi-san smiled, putting her hand over her mouth in a funny way.
Emi , what are you teaching her?
I put the sorbet in my mouth to cool my embarrassment.
“Sagara-kun, can I leave this cushion here?”
Uruwashi asked, holding the cushion I was sitting on.
I thought it was an unfamiliar cushion, but I didn’t realize it was Uruwashi’s.
I guess she brought it because her feet hurt yesterday when she was studying.
I’m usually either in bed or at my work desk, so I don’t get to use the low desk I use to eat dinner very often. Besides, I have no friends, so a cushion for visitors never occurred to me.
“Aren’t you using one at home, Ten-chan?”
“I use a different one, so I’m fine.”
If that’s the case, I agreed.
Uruwashi might come to my house again.
After she finished copying the notebook, Uruwashi packed up her belongings and went home.
She said she would lend me the notebook tomorrow. Even if I borrow it today, I won’t be able to copy it right away because I’m sick.
Also, I got my spare key back. I’m feeling much better now, so I don’t think Urswashi san will come while I’m sleeping.
After Uruwashi san left the house, I looked at the cushion.
The cushion that Uruwashi-san had been sitting on a while ago. More specifically, the cushion on which Uruwashi san’s buttocks had been sitting.
If I touch it now, I may be able to feel its warmth. ……
I slowly extend my right hand.
“Sagara-kun, I forgot to tell you, but there’s dinner in the fridge so make sure you eat well.”
“Yeeeaah!!”
The front door opens and Uruwashi’s voice is heard.
I hastily raise my outstretched right hand.
“I remembered on the way home, so I came to tell you. What are you doing?”
“N-no, um, stretching?! I’ve been lying down for so long that my body is stiff! Thanks for the food, I’ll eat it!”
Uruwashi-san tilted her head and left, saying, “See you tomorrow.”
I was in agony and decided to take a shower to wash away my miscellaneous thoughts.
I would like to think that the reason I had trouble sleeping that night was because I had gotten too much sleep during the day.