“Wait! I need… I really need to tell you,” I was eager.
He stopped walking, and then he finally turned around to look at me.
“… Nani?” his voice was deep and smooth like velvet, yet it sounded subtly hesitant.
I took a deep breath,
and despite how hard my chest ached…
“Suki desu, Tsukiatte kudasai! I like you, please go out with me!”
I let it out, I let everything out.
I didn’t imagine how hard and powerful those words were until I said them.
The weight that it carried, it was much heavier than I thought.
His immediate response was silence, just like the summer he found out.
But soon, he slowly walked closer to me, one gentle step after another.
Before I knew it, his arms --- wearing his navy blue uniform --- carefully wrapped around me.
It was a warmth that was similar to Kurosawa’s.
Ah, how do you describe it? A painful warmth.
Gomen.
Sorry, he said.
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Aiko's Courage「愛子の勇気」
RomanceKondou Aiko has liked the same boy since fifth grade. But ever since the summer he found out, she was determined to hide her admiration and simply love him from a distance. But when things involving Hatori Taiki, the boy she likes, starts to in...
