After separating from Lola and the others, when they returned home alone, it was already completely dark. When I went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water, I couldn't help but turn my head and look out the window, but I couldn't see anything other than a few convenience stores that seemed to be open 24 hours a day in the distance.

After pouring the water from the cup down his throat in one gulp, it was finally not as uncomfortable as it had just been. At this time, the stomach began to make a drumming sound. So I took two more eggs from the fridge and a ham sausage and prepared to fry them.

Once, when the interview didn't go well, I often made up random reasons not to go home, and always pretended to be an office worker and stayed at a random restaurant for about an hour before going home, and Natsume never asked, just prepared a meal and waited for me every time.

Even if I don't have time, I will leave a sticky note and stick it on my refrigerator - "There is dinner in it, remember to heat it up before eating." "Sticky notes like this are seen almost every now and then—thinking so, I hold a spatula and stir-fry it in the same way I remember Natsume.

But sure enough, she couldn't be so proficient, just turning around and having a side of anxiety...... At this time, if she is there, "How stupid, brother! "I must say that, right? I sighed unconsciously at the thought of this.

"Really, it's not promising......"

Then, I poured the half-burnt but barely edible ham sausage into the prepared bowl with the eggs, and took a carton of milk—dinner—from the cabinet below, and that was it, right? Then, sitting at the table, I ate while eating; I turned on the TV.

"The continued rainy weather shows no signs of improving—" I glanced up at the TV screen and then out the window — and while I couldn't see anything, I could hear the raindrops falling on the leaves.

After swallowing the omelette, I threw the dishes and chopsticks into the sink. It stands to reason that I should have cleaned them up after a few days, but I'm not in the mood for that today. After that, I turned off the TV and just like that, I lay down on the bed.

At this time, some bad things in my mind also revived the moment I lay down—"Look, it's a wheelchair?" "To be honest, this is the first time I've seen—" The moment I came to the second floor and turned right to go to the club room, this whisper sounded around me again.

"You say, is he really unable to stand up?"

"Who knows?"

Although these voices were small, they all reached my ears word for word. It's just that now, even if I contradict them, the same thing will happen again the next day. Moreover, it is not only here. It's the same in the classroom...... "Chihiro, it's so slow!" ”

My senior sister quickly ran to me, reached out and took off her glasses, and said to me as if she was angry. "Sorry, it's late—" I said, trying to make my expression look less stiff than it had been before, but I couldn't hide it from her. "Anyway, come in first, right?"

After speaking, the senior sister reached out and gently patted me on the shoulder, and pushed me in.

"What are you going to do today?"

Every time, when we can't think of anything we can do, the senior sister will mumble this as if nothing happened. Today is looking at me...... To be honest, I was embarrassed to be stared at by her, so I looked away a little shy, but I didn't expect her to lean over and whisper, "Face, what's going on?" ”

She asked, pointing to the right side of my face near my chin. "Accidentally on the way here—" I hurriedly covered it with my hand, and then made an excuse while avoiding her increasingly serious gaze, "I accidentally fell." ”

"Didn't I say a long time ago that if you have something, just look for me? And gave you the phone number—" But in an instant, her voice overshadowed mine, as if she had seen through the excuse from the beginning that it was just a perfunctory lie.

"And this doesn't look like a fall injury, does it?"

With that, she sighed and sat back in the chair across from her. "Why do you say that?" Then he asked directly about the reason. "Because, I can't give you any more trouble." I looked up at her and forced myself to laugh a few times.

"Because you want to be a member of the student council, right?"

"Yes, but it's two different things, right?" At this time, her tone also became stern. But I ignored her look of surprise and anger, "Well, don't talk to me again—"

"Chihiro! Am I so unworthy of your trust! ”

Suddenly, she put the cup she was holding in her hand on the table and made a loud noise! I was taken aback, "But senior sister, if you want to enter the student union, you should minimize negative comments, right?" ”

I stared into her eyes and asked her rhetorically. "If the two of us continue to be together, the negative comments will only increase!" Then, as if a switch had been completely pressed in my body, I hysterically told her all the words I had kept in my heart.

"I don't want to be a burden to you—"

"But I don't think our relationship is a burden at all! I don't care! ”

"But I care!"

And just like that, the two of us quarreled. In the end, "I'll go back first—" Senpai left with only these words, and after a while, there was a sound of the door closing behind her as if she was venting.

"I'm sorry ......"

"Chihiro!!" Immediately after, my shoulders were shaken a few times, which immediately startled me, "What's wrong?" I hurriedly coughed a few times, and at the same time waved away the hand that Izumi had placed on his shoulder, and asked as if nothing had happened. You still ask me? Your face was terrible just now! ”

"Really? Maybe I didn't sleep last night, right? ”

Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking, my face was held by her hand, and she turned to her side, "Really? Then, with a suspicious look on her face, she leaned over and looked at it for a long time before my neck was freed again, "Well, it looks like your dark circles are really serious—"

"That's why I said it!"

Then, nodding her head slightly, she finally accepted, and then, Mr. Xia Fan got up from the chair opposite me and walked up to me, grabbed my hands and said, "Thank you, Chihiro, thanks to you, this department of literature has a chance to continue—"

Locked in by her enthusiastic gaze, I laughed awkwardly a few times, and then quickly turned my face away, "After all, I can't change the result if I join alone, right?" Teacher, you have to thank you, and you have to thank Lola for them—"

Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking, the teacher bowed seriously again in front of us, "Thank you!" At this time, Aster, who had been typing on the keyboard, reminded from the side: "Just getting enough people can't be considered all right." You haven't forgotten, teacher? ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Xia Fan's mournful scream, and she instantly fell into the chair with an expression that was deeply shocked, but couldn't cry. "We have to come up with something that most people will agree with at the school celebration in the near future."

"But how can it be so easy to say......" Izumi said as he walked over and put his hand on her shoulder, as if he were coquettish. There's still a lot of time left, isn't it too early to say that? ”

After saying that, she turned around and looked at Izumi playfully. "Do you have a solution?"

"I was sorting out what I needed—"

As she spoke, she showed the computer screen to Izumi, and we all got together, "These are...... Book? Aster nodded lightly in our slightly surprised voices. But I remember that they used to be discarded in a corner, right? ”

The teacher looked behind him, and the corner of the wall, which was once scattered and full of books, was now very clean and tidy, and it was simply spotless. "After separating from Chihiro yesterday, I came to tidy it up—"

Shion said naturally, in a somewhat proud tone. "At the same time, we also labeled books that were usable and basically useless."

"That's amazing!"

As soon as she finished speaking, I couldn't help but admire, "It's easier to find it this way!" Izumi echoed my words and continued, she was even more excited than I was. Oh, if you have to say it earlier, I can help too, right? ”

Izumi said with a grin.

"I'm enough for this kind of thing alone. Besides, I'll say it when I need your help—" she said, turning to face Izumi and gently pushing her face away. Then he continued: "Next, we have to decide what kind of program to use to attract everyone's attention at the school celebration." Any suggestions? ”

She crossed her arms and waited for our words. "Speaking of Shion, don't you know how to sing?" At this point, I had the idea to suggest, "In that case, how about we form a band?" ”

Izumi was taken aback by me, Shion also showed a very surprised expression, and Lola was even more surprised that she just kept blinking! "What did you say?" Shion couldn't help but ask again, as if to confirm whether I was serious or not.

"Band. Isn't it possible? ”

"No, no, we're a literary club—" After a while, she reminded me in a voice that overshadowed me. "So what does it matter? And it's more dramatic, isn't it? But I immediately corrected her without showing any weakness.

"Okay, but what about the money to buy a musical instrument?"

However, she immediately threw out a more realistic conundrum. "Wouldn't it be okay to sell the useless old books you just said?" I thought for a moment, looked up and said with a smile.

However, she did not immediately agree with my solution, but shook her head firmly and vigorously and said, "There is more than one instrument to buy, and this method is far from enough-" As soon as the words fell, Lola patted her on the shoulder from the side, "Do you have a solution?" Lola? ”

Shion waited with a puzzled face as she wrote something in her notebook, "We can borrow it from the vocal club!" —The moment she finished writing, Lola couldn't wait to show us, "Yes! Izumi shouted violently.

Because she was so excited, her knees seemed to hit the corner of the table the moment she stood up, and she suddenly felt so painful that she could only cover her knees tightly with both hands, and tears were about to run out. "Is it okay?" I hurriedly walked up to her and tried to help her up, but she waved her hand while shaking and said, "I'm fine......"

"Then decide to do so for the time being, right?" Shion sighed softly after looking at Izumi, who was sitting on the floor and was sure that he would not be able to recover for a while, and turned his gaze back to us again. "Okay!"

I half-jokingly swung my fist in front of her eyes. "Chihiro, you look positive, huh? Why? In an instant, she got up from her chair and walked up to me and asked with interest. There's no particular reason for that, it's just that, since I brought it up, I want to do it as well as I can—"

— Because, I don't want to repeat the mistakes of the past, and memories like that, one time is enough.

"Really? Tomorrow, let's go to the used bookstore, shall we? "Okay." I didn't even think about it before I agreed.