I was in a room overlooking the Bay Bridge with senior staff member Touko-senpai.
We were in a room at the Hotel Intercontinental Tokyo Bay.
The room was not what I expected, but it was a twin room.
We were sitting on the bed facing each other.
Incidentally, we knew in advance that the prize for the “Best Couple” was a hotel room voucher.
This was our plan.
And no matter what, The winner of the “Best Couple” was, the ticket was going to be in her hands.
We had predicted from the very beginning that the pairing of Touko-senpai and Kamokura would come in first place.
Touko-senpai has been playing with her phone for a while now.
My heart is racing.
What can I say ……
Excitement is a little different.
Impatience, close, but I don’t think it’s the same.
Anticipation, hmmm, still no.
Anyway, my heart was pumping so loudly that I was afraid Touko-senpai might hear it.
…… Calm down, Yu Isshiki. You’re not a virgin, what are you nervous about……
That’s what I tell myself.
But we are going to start …… from now on, with Touko-senpai and ……
With that, Touko-senpai, whom I’ve been admiring since high school……
It’s impossible to tell me not to be nervous, isn’t it?
“Oh, um, what are you going to do now?”
I couldn’t take it anymore, so I said the words.
Touko-senpai suddenly looked up.
“I guess we’ll just have to stay here until 12:00.”
…… until 12:00 ……
I looked at my watch.
Two hours to go.
But that’s not an option.
If you say you’re going to “spend the night” with me, but if you get pushed down the movement you walk in, there would be no mood at all.
Besides, it’s Christmas Eve.
Should I try to set the mood until then?
But I don’t know how to “set the mood”.
I felt the silence was getting too much for me, so I asked her.
“Um, …… are you sure this is the right thing to do?”
Touko-senpai looks up from her phone again.
“What is?”
“I mean, about Kamokura-senpai, about doing this here with me. ……”
I, for one, have no intention of forcing myself to spend the night with her without regard to her feelings.
The first condition is that she must be willing to do so.
If she has any doubts about it,……, I will go home quietly.
“I don’t have a choice about Tetsuya. I’ve already made up my mind to just ‘break up’ with him.”
But there was something that bothered me at that party.
It had been nagging at my heart for a long time.
“But you were lost at the end of the party, weren’t you? ‘Depending on Kamokura-senpai’s answer, I’ll tear up the accommodation ticket. Could it be that you’re still thinking about Kamokura-senpai ……?”
When Touko-senpai looked me in the eye, she smiled sadly and shook her head.
“That’s not true. But I kept wondering, ‘Do I really want to push Tetsuya that far? I could imagine how much Tetsuya would be hurt if I said, ‘I’m going to spend the night with you. Besides, my relationship with him wasn’t all bad. Tetsuya was kind to me and always had my best interests at heart. And we had some fun memories.”
Touko-senpai cut off her words once there.
“I still think we were wrong. I think we were both wearing too many masks. Even without this, I think we would have broken up in the end.”
Then she looked at me and smiled.
“So you, you don’t have to worry about it.”
“And are fine with me here?”
I hesitated, but then I mentioned it.
“That’s okay, too. I’ve been thinking since I first made this plan, ‘You’ll probably be the last person standing beside me, Isshiki-kun.'”