Also, Gaudy Piercings, what was your real name again?
Break time came, and Gaudy Piercings’ group went out for lunch. As usual I had my bentou. After having a relaxing lunch, I had a skim through my textbook. I had already planned to have Marin-sensei help me catch up, but it wouldn’t hurt to try a bit on my own.
Coming back from his own lunch, Gaudy Piercings passed me a bag from a coffee shop. Confused, I looked inside and found a proscuitto and vegetable panino.
“This is for last time. I’m not sure if food like this would taste good to an ojousama like you, but if you’re okay with it then please take it.”
Ehhh!? Thank you! I love this stuff! What the heck! You’re actually a pretty good guy, Gaudy Piercings.
“Thank you. I will definitely enjoy it later,” I smiled brightly.
Smiles are cheap for people who give me panini. Gaudy Piercings seemed happy as well.
“Umewaka~ Lend me your electronic dictionary~” called Bobcut.
Oh, that’s right. Umewaka. Thanks for reminding me, Bobcut.
Umewaka-kun, who gave me a panino, went to give Bobcut his e-dictionary, and then happily played around with his phone.
Since that day, I started talking to Umewaka-kun a little more. He was oddly overprotective. Like, he’d ask if my bag was too heavy, or mention that it was hot today and ask me if I was okay.
And each and every time, Bobcut’s eyes would be lit up in jealousy. She was really easy to read. Sometimes she’d drop in a comment like,
“It must be nice, being a pampered ojousama~”
Really, really easy to read.
Umewaka-kun’s group of friends was made up of three guys and two girls. The other girl was the one who sat next to me on the first day, and it seemed like she was close with the brown-haired guy. Thanks to that, she didn’t seem to mind me as much as Bobcut did.
One day Bobcut caught me in the bathroom.
“You’re really girly, Kisshouin-san. Me, I’m more frank and chill, and kind of like a guy, so all the boys treat me like one.”
“I see.”
It’s also common-sense to girls that on the inside, the self-proclaimed frank, chill, and kind-of-like-a-guy women are actually the most frighteningly jealous women of all.
It was honestly a bother, so I just left.
Umewaka-kun continued to worry about me, telling me to be careful about the heat, or asking if it was hard keeping my hair tidy.
Once I was curious enough to ask him why he bothered with me so much. His eyes lit up and he said to me,
“Because my beloved Beatrice is just like you, Kisshouin-san!”
So I asked him who Beatrice was, and he pulled out his phone to show me.
It was a dog.
“See? Isn’t she cute? She’s an American Cocker Spaniel and she’s got the roundest, cutest eyes. And your hair is just like my Beatrice’s, Kisshouin-san. The first time I saw you from behind, I thought, oh my god! It’s my Beatrice! My Bea-tan is such an angel.”
Umewaka-kun’s beloved dog was one of the types with wavy long hair, and she was wearing a ribbon on her head too.
After that, even though I never asked for it, Umewaka-kun started showing me pictures of his adorable Bea-tan, one after another. Bea-tan running happily. Bea-tan rolling on the floor. Bea-tan asleep. One after another, he continued animatedly showing them off to me.
Umewaka-kun was a hardcore dog lover.
“Beatrice’s hair is really long and it’s so hard to get the kinks out. I make sure to brush her hair everyday, too. How do you take care of your hair, Kisshouin-san? It’s really hard maintaining Bea-tan’s sausage curls.”
The former Umewaka-kun, now revised to Dog Lover-kun, apparently wanted my advice on long hair.
Dog Lover-kun, I might look like this but I’m still technically a human.
“…You truly love dogs, Umewaka-kun.”
“Yeah. Oh, look at this!” he said as he pointed proudly to his earring.
Looking carefully, it was a silver earring of a dog paw.
He was an honest-to-god dog lover.
“This is my favourite one, but I’ve also got a bone earring too. Wanna see? I’ll show you next time, okay?”
He was an honest-to-god, maniac dog lover.
“I might not be a dog, but perhaps it would help to know that I use a brush that a salon recommended me. The teeth are very fine to avoid tangles.”
“Oh, my Bea-tan has an exclusive brush too.”
“I might not be a dog, but perhaps it would help to know that I visit a salon at least once a month for hair treatment.”
“My Bea-tan also gets a trimming once a month!”
…Really, can you just give up on this comparison already, Dog Lover-kun?
“Also American Cocker Spaniels get fat really easily, so I have to take care about her food and exercise.”
...We’re the same species!
I arrived home to find an invitation to tea, from Madam Kaburagi.
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