Okazaki and Apricot did not have a kissing connection that went down, and they were seen and misunderstood, and gossip spread on campus. ○ Apricot in order to quickly quell the rumors this time.,So against his will, he proposed a relationship to Haruhara.。

Or rather, she was scared, she was afraid that her true heart would be discovered, and she was anxious to put it to rest.

Okazaki accidentally saw and heard this, did not come out, and hid aside. Apricot notices Haruhara, perhaps to prove something, or maybe Okazaki's presence forces her to want to escape and cut off her feelings completely. So she deliberately went to kiss Haruhara.

But when she was about to kiss, Haruhara's stopped her.

"Do you really want to have a relationship with me? Don't force it, you're shaking...... From my point of view as a bystander, you like Okazaki, right?" Haruhara bluntly tore apart Apricot's disguise.

Overwhelmed Apricot, she can only keep staring at the place where Okazaki is hiding, which makes Haruhara, too, discover Okazaki, and an awkward atmosphere flows between the silent three.

Just as Okazaki was about to speak, Apricot who was in a big mess lowered her head and ran away in a panic.

After a while, Haruhara spoke: "I should have heard it, right? Xing likes you, probably, from a long time ago...... But now that you are in a relationship with Starling, it is even more impossible for her to speak, and in order to quickly quell the rumors, she must associate with other people, and choose me only because she will have the opportunity and reason to stay by your side often in the future. ”

Okazaki was silent, looking at the direction of Xing's escape, and he said, "Because of that reason, can you go and socialize with someone you don't like?"

Haruhara's reply to Okazaki, "Hasn't she already done this?"

"She can easily quell the rumors by just saying, 'I don't have a relationship with Okazaki,' right?"

"Simple...... "Haruhara asked Okazaki rhetorically, "Okazaki." Apricot is also a girl. Speak your own mouth and deny that you like someone. But it's actually the object of my liking, and it's painful. ”

Isn't it painful to associate with someone you don't like? and...... Isn't she the one who facilitates herself and starling?

Apricot and starling, the figures of the two people flashed in Okazaki's mind one by one.

"Do you really want to be with Starling? Don't you think it's too reluctant? I think you and Apricot will be a good match together. Haruha said to Okazaki sincerely.

"......" Okazaki was silent.

"What was the feeling when you eavesdropped just now? peace or pain, which of the two in your bureau is the real feeling of 'love'?"

As Okazaki's best friend, Haruhara's asked He Chen seriously, patted Okazaki's shoulder hard, and turned to leave.

Haruhara's words. Scenes of the past alternate in Okazaki's mind.

He began to ask himself, to examine his true feelings, who did he really like?

Sometimes, the feelings are clear and intense, and other times, the feelings are hazy and vague.

Could it be that he himself has been unconsciously trying to be with the starling, the victim or something...... He didn't know, and so did his feelings for Xing.

And, if, as Haruhara, said, Apricot likes him. Why did he match him with Starling? Could it be that he loved his sister so much, that he suppressed his feelings and suffered pain?

Why give such priority to others?

School gates. Starling was still waiting for her to come home from school together. The two walked side by side as usual, and such daily time has become a matter of course. Starling chats with Okazaki about happy things, and Okazaki examines his feelings absent-mindedly.

The next day, I met Xing, who just smiled and said don't listen to Haruhara's nonsense, she just wanted to quell the rumors.

"I'm also reflecting on what I did to Haruhara...... So don't worry too much about it, so the starlings will suffer. It's enough for a boyfriend to think about his girlfriend, and it's not okay to care about someone like me, because I don't have any special feelings for you. ”

Apricot smiled freely and explained Okazaki.

The hypocritical freedom is like the moon in the water, as if the smiling face will collapse when touched...... Why, even so, did she maintain this bright, sad, heart-wrenching smile?

Okazaki clenched his fists, his nails digging deep into his flesh, he was afraid that if he didn't do this, he would be touched by the apricot who was working hard alone in front of him, but when he thought about it like this, it was too late, and when he said goodbye, Okazaki felt a wave of soreness pass through his chest.

At night, Okazaki had a dream, a dream in which he was silently holding an apricot and starling and weeping.

The next day, Okazaki and Starling were late for the first time since they had been dating. On the way, I met Apricot, and although I hit Okazaki on a motorcycle as usual, I looked back at Okazaki while riding, and I knocked down a telephone pole again, but fortunately I only injured my knee, and the front of the motorcycle was broken but it was still able to start.

For lunch on this day, starling and Okazaki ate a bento together, and the bento was made with apricots and starlings, and the special pork belly was a unique dish of apricots......

Okazaki looked at this pork belly and was a little distracted. I remember that he used to say that this was delicious, could it be that she always remembered it......

Starling becomes more and more positive and outgoing, approaching Okazaki directly in the classroom, asking for dinner and shopping, and the classmates know that they are dating, and they become an open couple. Even on the day of the school anniversary, at the initiative of the starling, the two kissed in the courtyard, and when they kissed, their eyes passed through the starling's shoulder, and Okazaki saw the apricot.

Apricot watched this scene with an expression that she had never seen before, it was a sad face that would cry at any time, and when she found money in the starling, Apricot ran away, but that expression was deeply imprinted in Okazaki's heart and in the hearts of countless viewers.

The next day, Okazaki and Starling went on a date, and Okazaki joked that he was going to go to a place where no one was "that", but he didn't expect his joking words, but Starling replied seriously.

"If you really want to...... Me, I'm okay. ”

Looking at the shy but serious amount, Okazaki realized even more that he couldn't joke around, Starling was already willing to do anything for him, and he liked himself to this point......

Because of this, he could no longer say such irresponsible words...... Moreover, this is not able to do so now. A chasm that does not deserve to be crossed.

this day. Okazaki's heart is still in turmoil.

"I will cherish and love you very, very much. So this kind of thing, it's too early. ”

Starling has already expressed his willingness, but when he still can't figure out his mind, he can still insist on not taking a step beyond Lei Chi, such a person has captured the hearts of countless girls.

However, he could only cover himself up with such a lie, and Okazaki felt that he was really a hypocrite. But then Starling suddenly asked Okazaki, "Although it's a little strange for lovers to ask like this...... Do you like me?"

Okazaki just realized. I've never said I like starling, but Okazaki can't answer this question that ordinary people can blurt out at such a time.

Starling understood this to mean that Okazaki was embarrassed to say it.

At noon the next day, Tomoya waited for the starlings in the courtyard with a bento made of starlings, saw the very energetic apricots, and after chatting about the starling's lunch, he went to eat with the peonies that kept croaking.

Starling's bento is not particularly delicious, but it is already at the level of a normal person, compared to the previous dark dish where a peony could convulsed and faint for a day with a single bite. It can be said that the progress is very fast.

Starling looked at his hands full of the amount of Band-Aids, this qiē effort. are all ** naked engraved on this pair of slender hands that should be cared for.

After eating, on the way back to the classroom, the two learned from Xing's classmates that Xing seemed to be a little uncomfortable and left early. However, wasn't he still very energetic before, Okazaki wondered.

It was raining heavily in the fifth class, and Okazaki was sleeping on his desk, and suddenly an inexplicable feeling appeared in his heart, and through the window, Okazaki saw Peony looking in his direction at the school gate.

Didn't the apricots leave early? I don't think I will leave the peony behind.

A sense of foreboding caused Okazaki to rush out of the school gate and follow Peony to the woods. Apricot stood there alone carrying the rain.

"Leave me alone!" Apricot drank Okazaki as he approached.

"How could I not care about your ......"

"You have to leave me alone!"

Apricot shouted hoarsely, and Okazaki's footsteps stopped.

"You're Starling's boyfriend, just care about her, I'm the child's sister, you're the object I must not get too close to, and I am also the object that you must not get too close to, I know you understand...... It's painful to be around you who have become lovers and become intimate...... Starling told me to kiss you before, and she said, 'Thank you, sister'...... And I smiled and said to her, 'Great'...... When I returned to my room, my chest became painful...... I saw both of you at school the day before yesterday...... It's not a strange thing to say, lovers, it's not the first time, but when I think about it, I can't stop crying, no matter how many times I comfort myself, how many times, I still can't stop it...... I can't face you anymore...... The thought of what you're doing makes it impossible to stay in school...... Too late...... Whether it's found...... Or deceive ......"

Who is too late? These days I have already noticed the discomfort, anxiety and confusion with Starling......

"Confessions are terrifying...... I'm afraid that if I am rejected after confession, I won't even be able to be a friend, and I can't stay by your side anymore, so it's better to suppress my feelings and continue to be friends, I want to say that this won't hurt...... I really regret it...... It's obviously my own determination, but I can only regret it...... I'm actually very cunning, sticking to you and starlings like this, although I cheer for starlings, I don't want her to be so smooth, how good would it be if starlings were rejected...... In my heart, I thought of such a dirty, ugly, filthy, and vile thing......"

Okazaki raised his hand, he wanted to say that it was himself who was cunning, who he wanted to see through the starling's face......

“…… I really hate myself like this! I look like I help others, but I only think about myself, I am afraid that I will get hurt but I expect others to get hurt......"

Apricot 's painful voice was also stabbed into Okazaki's heart, and although he had already found it, who was it who continued to hurt people by pretending not to see it...... Looking at the apricot through the starling, who is the most despicable?

It's himself.

Okazaki hugged Apricot.

"I'm sorry...... I like you...... So don't be gentle with me anymore, because I'm a fool and your meekness will mislead me......"

Rain and tears joined in a line, leaving a line from the face.

Xing's helpless, sad, and painful appearance makes countless people's hearts ache.

Don't be gentle with me anymore, because I'm a fool and your meekness will mislead me......

Hearing Xing's words, many people have become tears.

Okazaki hugged the apricot: "Apricot...... I ...... to you"

"Okazaki!" Apricot knew what Okazaki wanted to say, from the time Okazaki said "I like long hair" before, she vaguely knew and vaguely regretted it, so she stopped Okazaki from saying it, she was afraid that Okazaki would say that sentence, and the persistence she had been trying to maintain would collapse in an instant.

"I'm Apricot Fujibayashi...... It's not a vine starling!"

Hearing the starling's name, Okazaki's heart tingled, and he relaxed his arms that hugged Apricot, who said "bye-bye" with a smile in a small voice, and then ran away.

The sound of rain drowned out the sound of crying.

Okazaki lowered his head and let the pouring rain hit him.

The soaked clothes, just against his body, cold, but he didn't feel it. (To be continued......) ——51436+d2w3x+22631813——>