On my third birthday, I made a birthday wish.

To be honest, I've forgotten all about it, but every year on my birthday, my parents have to rehash it to make fun of me.

Gradually, I carved into my heart the scene described by my parents.

Tsuki-kun, who lives next door, had the same birthday as me, and I was born at 9 a.m., so I heard that it was the most beautiful time of the day, so my parents named me "Sakura", a symbol of cherry blossoms.

Yuejun was born at nine o'clock in the evening, and I was twelve hours older than him.

For us who were still young, 12 hours was enough to be compared to the length in "years", so for a while, I always thought of myself as his sister.

As for when we started and what we experienced to become better, we gradually became inseparable.

How can I remember that kind of thing one by one.

It's like using chopsticks to pick up vegetables and spooning soup.

From the day I was born, there was a boy who surrounded me all the time, and I couldn't think about why.

As for the thought of "separation" in the future, I haven't even thought of it for a second.

At that time, we didn't seem to have the concept of "individual" in our brains, and in slightly numb words, there was no distinction between you and me.

I always feel that even the need to go home and sleep separately at night is a very bizarre thing.

I think, maybe in the "childhood sweethearts", we are also a little peculiar.

……

……

It was about the second grade of elementary school when I began to realize that Tsuki-kun was a very popular boy.

Every day, when I pass by the school shoe closet, I can always see three or four letters falling out of his shoe closet, all of which are pink and tender, with his name written in round letters.

He would blush and put all the letters in his bag, and I felt a little envious just looking at them.

That's great, I want to write to him too.

I want to see him blush for me.

Maybe it's because we've been together for too long, and we've never had a blushing and heartbeat between us.

And I never thought how mesmerizing he looked.

Even if he doesn't look like this, I won't leave.

"Yuejun, we can always go home together today."

"Eh~~, but I made an appointment with everyone to play football together today."

"However, I want to go home with Yuejun, we haven't been home together for a long time."

"Hmm...... That's right. I know, I really can't help you, that Sakura-chan is waiting for me here first, and I'll go talk to Toru Ya. ”

"Hmmm! Thank you! ”

Actually, I don't care if he plays or not.

Just unilaterally enjoying the happiness that he will compromise with me, I feel that he puts "Sakurakoji Sakura" above anything.

That alone makes me happier than others.

After that, I never asked him to refuse to play with his friends.

I would sit on the slide in the park and watch him play in the clearing, and when the sky turned golden and he was the only one left in the bustling clearing, I would slowly come out and go home holding hands with him.

I was amazed at how much more time I could spend with him.

Well, if only I had done it sooner.

……

By the time he was in the third grade, Yuejun had completely become a grade celebrity, and although he was not outstanding in his studies, everyone would always have a good impression of the handsome sports boys.

I heard that the girl who served as the manager of the football department would secretly call him "Yuejun" in private.

That's a privilege that belongs only to me.

"Recently, Tsuki-kun, and the competition with Meguro Elementary School next door, I also won a very beautiful game, and everyone said that it was the credit of Tsuki-kun."

"It's the result of everyone's hard work, and I've done my best just to live up to everyone's passes."

"Yue-kun, you look very happy."

"Hmmm! I'm happy every day, I'm happy to play football, and I'm happy to come home from school with Sakura-chan, huh...... If only the math had been easier, the previous math test was too difficult. ”

"Although Yuejun is very good at sports, his studies are average."

"I'm the wise and foolish type."

"What does it mean to be wise and foolish?"

"Well, I think it's to describe people as smart."

"I see, Yuejun knows that there are still a lot."

"Hey~~"

"Then let's go home together, Moon."

"Huh?"

"Let's go home, month."

"Hmm...... Wow. ”

I started to stop referring to him as "Jun", perhaps to compete with the manager of the football club whom I had never met.

I've been by his side since I was born, and there's no reason why I should lose to her.

So, whenever he called him "Yue" in front of other people, there were always people among the boys who loved to coax him, and screamed "husband and wife".

Honestly, I don't hate it.

I think it's the same with the month.

Because from then on, he also called me Sakura.

……

Tsuki has always been ahead of me, and I was still regarded as a younger brother when I was a child, but it seems that I have become difficult to keep up with him.

Aside from the fact that I'm growing taller every year, I don't seem to have made much progress compared to when I was in my lower grades.

Lately, I haven't had much chance to go home with Tsuki.

Whenever school was out, he was always surrounded by girls I didn't know, and although he seemed very troubled, he often looked at me asking for help, as if he wanted me to intervene and get rid of them.

But every time I saw such a scene, I felt a strange discomfort in my heart, obviously I didn't hate him, but I suddenly didn't want to see his face, so I turned my head and left.

Of course, even then, I couldn't have hated him.

I started thinking, thinking and thinking, thinking about what it would take to catch up with him, Sakurakoji Sakura.

So, I started practicing athletics.

If I could be a decent sports girl, would I be closer to him?

With this expectation in mind, I practiced rain or shine, day after day, year after year.

The soft flesh on my body disappeared, my fair skin was tanned to a wheat color, and I won the district championship without paying attention, and when I came back to my senses, everyone around me was cheering for me.

He is also one of them.

After moving on to junior high school, Yue stopped playing football.

It's not because of an injury or anything like that, it's purely because my academic performance is not beautiful enough, and I was asked by my parents to study hard.

Tsuki is different from me, he's the type who can improve his grades as long as he studies hard, and so far he just hasn't done his best.

Because I'm his childhood sweetheart, I understand.

And as time goes on, we can't continue to go to and from school hand in hand.

He's getting taller and taller, and I'm starting to wear a suspender shirt, looking forward to my second development, which I don't know when.

He was still surrounded by a lot of girls, and I was used to it in my mind.

As for the manager of the football department, I heard that he went to a different school than ours, and he never met again.

Even if we go to the same school, different classes mean different intersections.

Gradually, we went from childhood sweethearts to alumni.

"Sister Liuli, is Yue at home?"

"Let's read in the room."

"Eh~~ This guy, why is he still reading at home on weekends."

Because of some complicated reasons, there is an older sister in Yue's family, and at first I was fighting against her, and I was against her everywhere, which can be regarded as young and frivolous.

"Month, I'm in."

When I opened the bedroom door, I was sitting in front of my computer with my back to me, wearing in-ear headphones, and I didn't notice that I was entering the house.

I got into a prank, and stepped forward lightly, trying to blindfold him, but my eyes were drawn to the image on the computer screen.

He took a step back and kicked down the small stool that had been placed aside to get his feet.

Suddenly, I was shocked to look back at me, and my face was reflected in those dark eyes.

"You, you, you............ Why didn't you come in without knocking! ”

I stared blankly at the computer screen, and I didn't have time to think about whether I had knocked on the door or not.

And Yue jumped to the side very excitedly, lifted his pants in a panic, and the headphone cable connected to the host computer popped out "boom", just like the nerve in my brain, and it broke with joy.

The shameless female moaned and immediately overflowed the room.

After a few seconds of eye contact, I fled.

……

After that, we didn't speak for two weeks.

Even when they met on the train, they pretended to be strangers and tacitly avoided each other.

I thought that if my life with him was over, it would be better to accompany him to watch that movie.

Luckily, it's our birthday.

The place to celebrate his birthday is his house.

At first, we sat on pins and needles, and neither of us wanted to look at each other, but as the conversation between the parents deepened, we had to start to echo and talk about something at school.

Such as athletics, studying, falling in love, and the like.

"Ahh In a blink of an eye, the children are so old. ”

"That said, I always feel that these two guys were so tall not long ago."

"This girl Sakura, when she was a child, she said that she was going to move to Jinguji to live."

"When did that happen?" I couldn't help but complain.

"It seems that I don't want to do it anymore, Yuejun, it's a pity, ohhahaha."

“……”

“……”

All in all, adults are a real nuisance.

Playing tricks on us simple-minded children in every possible way, don't they know that such an easy sentence is enough to keep us awake all night long?

I peeked at him.

He blushed and peeked at me.

To escape their teasing, we had to flee to his bedroom.

But as soon as I walked through the door, my mind went back to that weekend more than two weeks ago.

There seemed to be a female voice in his ears, and he could faintly smell him as a man on the tip of his nose.

As a result, the awkward atmosphere deepens and deepens.

"Why do you want to do that in a room?"

I was too brave to expose the things that the two of them deliberately did not mention as soon as I opened my mouth, so that the two weeks of pretending to be strangers were in vain.

"It's strange that junior high school boys don't do that kind of thing."

"Phew, nasty."

He bowed his head in shame, but I thought that his flushed expression was really seductive, and those girls in the school must have never seen him like this.

An inexplicable sense of superiority haunts me.

"If you really want to do that, there are so many girls who like the moon, it would be nice to have a relationship with any of them."

"How can you casually date a girl you don't like, I don't want to be a boy who hurts girls."

"Oh yo? It's quite principled. ”

Actually, I know that he is such a person.

It's been like this since elementary school.,In the face of a girl's confession.,Will seriously reject each other.,Maybe it's a little cruel.,But I just like his decisiveness and gentleness.。

"I really don't know what you think, it seems that you were confessed by the third-grade senior sister last week, and it was all spread to our class, and many people said that you actually like boys."

"Who's talking nonsense, it's too nonsense."

"Who told you never to socialize with people, you would still do that alone."

"Please, forget about it."

"Hmph. Next time, remember to lock the door, but luckily it was me who walked in. ”

"Lock by all means."

I'm going to do it again, huh...... I've heard that boys have that kind of idea, and I'm not a person who doesn't know how to change and don't look down on him.

"Then, if the object is me, the moon will ...... Want to do it with me? ”

"Huh?"

"No, no, nothing! I didn't say anything! ”

It's scary, how could I suddenly ask such a question.

“…… No, it won't. ”

When I heard his words, I couldn't help but freeze in place and look at him as if I had lost time.

Unconsciously, my eyes moistened, and I thought that he didn't mean anything to me in the slightest.

"Why?"

"What do you say, huh...... You, you see, if you really like someone, those lewd thoughts will disappear without a trace immediately.

"Well...... Probably...... That's it. ”

"Huh? That's ......"

I knew I wasn't a smart girl, and it took me four or five minutes to think about it before I came back to my senses and savored the meaning of his words.

"Anyway, can I take what I just said as a confession of the moon?"

"Hmm......"

"Can or can't?" I can't wait to ask.

“………… Well, you can. ”

I see, what a person who is not frank.

No, when it comes to not being frank, I'm the same.

I was reminded of the wish I made when I was three years old.

said that one day I want to be the bride of Yuejun, but I don't even know what it means to be a bride, I only know what it means to be able to be with Yuejun forever, and that's enough.

So, not long after, the age of the beginning of love.

We officially dated.

When they went to school and got out of school, they walked together in the intricate alleys of Freedom Hill, and they were shy of each other, and no one dared to take the lead in holding each other's hands.

At this time, we finally realized that we were different "individuals", but we still used chopsticks to pick up vegetables and spoons to scoop soup.

The first kiss I had with him was on the way out of school on Friday.

Deserted alleys, elegant winds, and the sound of passing trains.

It was my first kiss.

- And so did he.