Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Hot Watermelon
Amamiya Chizuru turned her head and walked out, Naoki Natsume following behind her with the handbags.
Shirai probably realized the words and deeds that Amamiya had just shown, and it was useless for her to say anything, so she didn't chase it out, but just sat on the edge of the bed and covered her face with her hands, not knowing whether she was crying or trembling......
Anyway, this is the last picture Naoki Natsume saw before the door was closed.
Coming out of the bedroom, the two of them didn't see Shirai's mother, thinking that they might think that their daughter's friends were guests, and that one of their parents would make the children feel constrained at home.
Everyone grows up as an adult, and some people forget it when they grow up, but some people remember it, so they become good fathers and mothers.
"What do we do now?" Amamiya Chizuru asked, "Generally speaking, what would you do when you go to someone's house as a guest and the host goes out?" ”
Naoki Natsume glanced at her and replied, "You were as imposing as a lion cub just now, and you were smart and clever in school, but you didn't expect to be so ...... in strange ways."
He originally wanted to say the word "cute", but seeing that Amamiya Chizuru was still puffing up now, he felt that he shouldn't open his mouth.
"What's the solution, I don't have any friends, and I rarely go to other people's homes as guests, and even if I do, my dad takes me there...... You know, there's no way a guest would have left me and my dad at home and gone out on our own. ”
"Just go."
"Doesn't it seem rude?"
"It would be rude if we had a good relationship with Shirai." Naoki Natsume thought for a moment: "Even if we are not friends, it would be rude for our classmates to come to visit and say goodbye. But now that you can see it, we have a very bad relationship with Shirai, so if you don't leave now, it will be even more embarrassing to wait for her mother to come back. ”
"Makes sense." Amamiya Chizuru nodded, "Then the wind is tight." ”
"Can't you see you don't have any friends?"
Out of the street, Naoki Natsume asked.
There are no lights in the dimly lit alleys, and the sky is already dark, and the infrastructure of Adachi Ward is completely incomparable to the vicinity of Amamiya Chizuru's house.
She and Shirai are the two most typical classes.
Amamiya Chizuru glanced at him, but he didn't mind, but said very frankly: "Yes, I just don't have any friends." Similar to my family background, such as the neighbor's daughter, who prefers piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, etc., drinks the Blue Mountains and goes to the golf hall on weekends. I like to play electric and drink Coke for 130 yen a can, and I go to an arcade in Shibuya on weekends...... So I can't play with them. ”
"What about girls who love games? It's impossible to be yourself. ”
"In their eyes, I am the one who likes piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, after all, my surname is Amamiya." Amamiya Chizuru smiled slightly, but she didn't feel lonely, and took a few handbags from Natsume's hand.
Now that she's out of the house, she doesn't have to behave aggressively like she did with Shirai, and she can't always trouble others with her things.
Her movements are very elegant, but her tone gives people a very free and easy feeling: "I'm good like this, otaku don't need friends." ”
"Hmm......" Naoki Natsume rubbed his chin and thought about it, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he smiled: "But you need teammates." ”
"Eh~ Teammate's statement is pretty good, much better than my raccoon dog." Amamiya Chizuru gave him an elbow on his arm: "Isn't your head still very useful?" ”
The little rich woman feels that she is a very manly macho greeting at this moment, which is popular in those hardcore shooting games The friendly interaction between the muscular man and his teammates is a sign of recognition......
But because of his delicate body and weak physical strength3, this time it was like flirting on Natsume's side.
I don't want to be praised for being smart by you, a girl with a 9-point understanding, but he's thinking about other things now.
Naoki Natsume shook his head slightly, "It's intermittent and easy to use. ”
You can already see the street entrance in the dim alley, and there are still street lights on the main road outside, but in this Adachi Ward house, which is full of old yards, even the street lights on the road exude a soybean-like color, which is dim, reminiscent of the light blurred by the rain on a rainy night.
While the two were chatting, a somewhat familiar figure flashed out of the street, and then walked briskly this way.
When they could see the distance between their faces, both sides were stunned.
And Naoki Natsume and Chizuru Amamiya's expressions are obviously more ...... Awkward.
"Why are you leaving?" Shirai's mother was sweating profusely, carrying a heavy vegetable basket in both hands-
Inside was half a sliced watermelon and lots of apples.
Naoki Natsume and Chizuru Amamiya glanced at each other and spoke first.
"Don't bother when it's too late."
"Stay and eat some fruit before you go?" Mrs. Shirai tilted her head, wiped the sweat that fell down her cheeks with her shoulder, and showed a very simple and sincere smile: "The neighbors say that the fruits of this house are sweet, buy them and let everyone taste them...... It almost closed the door, but fortunately, my aunt and I have sharp legs. ”
Naoki Natsume felt very uncomfortable, especially when he saw the half of the cut watermelon.
Although watermelon is expensive in Japan, it is not something that he and Amamiya cannot afford to eat at all.
But for the Shirai family, that's another story.
Why?
The two of us are obviously here......
Naoki Natsume didn't know what to do for a while, but Amamiya Chizuru seemed more calm at this time.
"I really don't stay, and I should worry about it later when I go back." She smiled kindly at Bai Jing's mother, and asked casually: "Bai Jing still has a faint fragrance in her room, do you usually clean her up with Auntie?" ”
Mrs. Shirai was stunned, she didn't expect this little girl to ask, "No, she usually doesn't let me into her room." Did you two go to her room? ”
Amamiya Chizuru nodded, and Mrs. Shirai showed a happy expression.
"That's great, it means you have a good relationship! This kid really treats you as a friend, she used to go to the women's high school, and she rarely took them into the bedroom when those classmates came to the house as guests! ”
Then Mrs. Shirai leaned the basket at her feet, and insisted on picking up the box of cut half watermelons and stuffing them into the arms of the two men.
"If you don't leave to eat, you two will eat on the way back, right? You can eat it while you are on the bus, and you can take watermelon on the train...... They say it's sweet, and I haven't eaten his aunt, but there is no reason why good things aren't sweet. ”
"You ...... You and Shirai are friends, Auntie, I have no education, and I have been working here all my life, Shirai is in college, and she studies very hard, right? ”
Naoki Natsume didn't answer, and he didn't reach for the box of watermelons.
He was wondering if he would tell the truth, and no matter how bad he was, he told his aunt that they were just here to visit the work-study program, just like he had discussed with Amamiya Chizuru on the way here.
But before he could speak, Amamiya Chizuru had already taken the lead in taking the box of watermelons from her.
"She works hard and is kind to some of her classmates."
Naoki Natsume turned his head slightly to look at her, he knew that this was not a lie, Shirai worked hard and was very kind to his female classmates...... He just didn't know what Amamiya was going to do.
Obviously, it is absolutely impossible to pick up this box of watermelons.