Dropping sand and dust in the bath, Zhou left his body on the couch to let himself be left to his unique comfortable tiredness after exercise.
The horseback riding battle was a strong hit for the discerning enemy team.
Well, I expected it, but it bothered the gateways quite a bit because they would aggressively bump into each other.
Shu just had a belligerent grin that he was happy to say, "This is also youth," so perhaps Shu likes these competitions in general.
At the end of the day, I couldn't stay on too much of the enemy team's offense until the end, but the top nine fought better to take away the other team's bowl rolls than I thought.
Nine active, but I could see the midday I was watching on the enemy team looking around and smiling.
That's how the afternoon club manages to end and get the closing ceremony, and after the event I'm at home after the routine cleanup.
There was so much going on today that I was physically and mentally exhausted, but that's not the end of the day.
(... I need to tell you)
That's all Midday had the courage to go public with Zhou and choose to relate to Zhou.
It wouldn't even be possible to put it on the wind of a man to postpone it without responding to that thought.
(What should I say)
I am determined, but when I confess again, Zhou is told that confusion and hesitation arise.
As for Zhou, I naturally worry because for the first time in my life I seriously like him and confess.
As a woman, I'm still more than happy to be given a romantic atmosphere, or how would I be happy to be able to communicate my feelings, or when all the troubled but seemingly unanswered things go around my head.
Yeah, but not like this. I was holding my forehead down and thinking - from the front door, there's an unlocking noise.
I shook my body because the sound indicated that the girl who was the owner of the key and troubled Zhou had visited this house.
Never before have I pointed my nerves so hard at the sound of things coming from my front door.
The door closes and there is a locking noise.
A slippery, air-containing sound of stepping on the floor... a familiar flax haired girl emerged from the hallway leading to the front door.
"Zhou-kun"
Thin red lips deflect softly, creating a soft look.
My heart twitches and beats faster at midday when I smile somewhere sweeter than usual, as usual, that doesn't even make me feel the remnants of the disturbance at school.
Knowing or not the upset of the circumference, I drop my hips next to the circumference as usual at midday.
Distance from each other, not even one fist goes in.
If she tries to correct her posture, her hair looks soft rippled and she tells me if this is still the scent of chavon.
Apparently he bathed first to sweat like Zhou. If you look closely, the smooth milky white skin was also better blooded than usual.
I smiled beautifully at midday around my body stretching with extra nervousness at midday in the bath.
"Zhou-kun, maybe Zhou-kun would like to say a lot or ask me something...... can I say one thing first?
"Ooh?
Suddenly, I bowed my head at midday to the circumference where I stood.
"I apologize for blocking the escape route and gathering a less favorable gaze for Zhou Kun. I'm so sorry."
"Huh?"
"... because I knew this would happen."
Understand what Midday was worried about when Midday raised her face and told her that she was uncomfortable.
I know my influence at midday, and that's why I've always been careful to behave like I'm loved by anyone.
That midday showed Zhou as a loved one in front of the public. Confusion was visible, and Zhou knows what he is doing at midday and with knowledge.
"Well, I knew I was doing it at midday."
"Aren't you angry"
"I don't have that, though."
"Really, good"
Rather, as for Zhou, I was determined because I was ready for midday, and I don't think one thing I don't like because I knew how serious she was.
"I was aware of something that made me somewhat more forceful. I'm sorry if I didn't like it. But if you don't, Zhou-kun won't understand."
"Ugh..."
Zhou groans when he tells me to turn away at midday.
Of course I'm aware of that, but it was something to my heart to be told directly by someone I admired.
If you reluctantly look into your midday eyes, you have a pranky glow.
So the kind of glance you'd expect is asking you to step into the perimeter.
Slowly throat and slowly open your mouth.
"Um, midday."
"Yes."
"... do you like me at midday?"
"Yes. I like it.... I like Zhou-kun. As a man, I like him."
In an inquiry of fear, midday laughed small and affirmed.
The answer was to the habit I expected, I was realizing that my heart would burst loudly and my blood would reach every corner of my body that got hot.
I'm feeling it thinly, but I've missed my eye, a favor from midday.
That hit the perimeter directly, so the joy and excitement would be natural.
As he solidified with such a sense of extra joy, he grinned bitterly at what midday thought when he looked around like that.
"It's not like I want you to respond right now."
"Huh?"
"I wanted to tell you I was ready. I like Zhou-kun and I want to stay with Zhou-kun.... I was just told and so far I am satisfied"
Apparently Zhou mistakenly thought he was confused, and at midday he grinned as though his worries were clear.
"From now on, you just have to make me fall in love enough to blow Zhou-kun's hesitation away"
Perhaps, Zhou reaches out to her and pulls her in, as midday came up with a confident look that he had never seen except Zhou.
(- I don't want to be a pathetic imitation of not responding by letting me say this so far)
At midday, when he respected Zhou's will to be only slow, Zhou swung hesitation to envelop her body.
You understood that your luxurious body was tense in your arms and then held around you. You lost much strength.
At midday riding on the leg of the circumference because of a sudden pull, he looks up at the circumference, also leaning against his chest.
In the caramel colored eyes, the color of surprise, confusion, and then slight expectations, peered.
"You know what? It's the first time I've really liked people. I mean, I didn't think so.... I didn't think I could."
"... is it because something happened back in the day"
"Oh, yeah"
I nod small as I held him tight so he wouldn't let go of midday.
Somewhere in my heart I hesitated to say that Zhou liked it so much, and refused to recognize that he liked it, probably because the word of betrayal from a friend who was in middle school had been stabbing me like a wedge in the back of my chest the whole time.
"It may be boring... but I was betrayed by people who thought we were friends. They laughed that I wasn't worth anything to myself.... I was the only one who thought I was a friend, and I was just being used by them. I think it's funny."
Zhou's parents were known locally for their relatively wealthy families.
It wasn't enough to hire a housekeeper like a midday house, but at least the income was better than other households, and Zhou himself never made any tease of it, but the quality of his belongings was good.
You were jealous of it or you tried to use it - probably both - but a few of your classmates stopped by the side of the perimeter.
"I think we'll find out somehow at midday.... when parents are wealthy, they want something financial around them. And I was wondering if you'd like to take advantage of me."
"... Yes"
They were loving and intimate. Though from the middle of middle school life, we got along well enough to fit in and be best friends.
Going to high school would keep us dating, as close as I could think.
When I saw them cursing themselves like that, my heart almost broke.
"I didn't see their nature. I was stupid, and I didn't get it. I know that. Even though I knew it, I was afraid to believe in people."
I was afraid that if I believed, I would be betrayed in the same way again.
"I know not everyone does. Other than those guys, they were probably purely friends with me. But -... once you sprout suspicion, it's not something you can shake off easily, is it?
"... Yes"
"So I left town. I wanted to be quiet where no one knew about my parents."
Of course, my parents encouraged me to get back on my feet, but it would be hard to stay in the area with a scratch on my chest, so my parents sent Zhou to Shudo's alma mater.
I met midday where I lived alone worrying about two people I couldn't leave for work.
"... stupid people, who betrayed Zhou-kun. Zhou-kun is so sweet and nice."
Zhou also grins lightly at midday when he reached out to Zhou's cheek and smiled sadly.
"So you didn't think you'd ever like people wholeheartedly.... Though I didn't expect to be completely overshadowed"
Again, stare at midday.
It will probably be the first and last time in the middle of the day that my chest is filled with a twitchy warmth just to capture it in my sight and a sense of invisibility and love.
That's all, Zhou was in a hurry at midday.
"... at first, I thought you weren't cute."
"I know. I was told to face it."
"I'm sorry about that verse, really.... When we met, we weren't honest, we were cold, we weren't cute, and we thought we could have a mutual interest.... Soon I began to think it wasn't enough"
It was only in the beginning that I didn't want to get involved in vain.
When did that change?
"I'm starting to want to know more. I started wanting to touch it. I started to think from the bottom of my heart that I wanted to take care of it. I wanted it, I thought. It was my first time, like this."
"... Yes"
"All this time, I've been patient. I don't know. But... he told me you were good, and I was worried about how I could catch up with you instead of just giving up. Well, before I did anything, midday stepped out."
"Hehe.... I was patient, too. Zhou is so cool, I was wondering what I would do if someone else took it from me, and I was wondering if you would like me."
"You're the only one who likes that stuff."
"Mm. I'll say that again..."
It was an unsatisfactory midday when he was despised again, but he repeatedly blinked at the floating expression of the circumference.
The current circumference was not the pitiful face that midday always wasted, but a serious glance and expression ready.
"... so from now on... I'll try to stop liking that stuff"
"Huh?"
"You'll be a good man to hang in there so that people won't tell you that they like things at midday. Don't be inferior at midday... you don't have to go until you can stretch your chest."
I'm going to be a fine man so that I can stand with my chest up next to midday so that I won't let anyone complain.
Not only for midday, but also for myself. Even to feel confident in yourself.
The first step in that would be to start with these words.
"I like midday.... will you hang out with me?
Staring at the clear, caramel-colored eyes and whispering slowly, the clear eyes wet like a strained membrane, but Shizuku does not spill, just leaning around.
I closed my eyes to hide them and smiled around at midday.
"... yeah"
At midday, when he conveyed his acknowledgement with a trembling voice, which played small enough to only be heard by Zhou, no matter who else was there, he buried his face again in Zhou's chest.
The hand that goes around your back does not let go by clamping your circumference vigorously.
Zhou also turned his hand firmly to his little back in the middle of the day, feeling somewhat overwhelmed that he seemed to be told he would not let him get away with it anymore.
(- Never, never let go)
I want to take care of it. I want to be happy. I want to love you.
That was the first feeling I felt at midday and through my heart.
"I want to make midday happy"
"Because it's not a promise?
Slowly raised his face, Midday inquires like a prank, so Zhou laughs and leans his lips against Midday's ear.
"This is my wish. Because I want to be happy with my hands. If you say it with determination... I'll take care of it and make you happy, never."
"... yeah"
In plenty of feverish vow words, midday I nodded with a sweet smile as if dissolved in heat.