The Next Day
The day after the tournament ended. There was the sound of the door opening as I was making breakfast. The figure of Yae was there when I stopped what I was doing and looked over to the sound.
“Good morning”
“Mo, morning”
“I’m making breakfast now, so please wait a bit more, alright”
“Nn, got it”
Yae plops onto the chair obediently. Her movements are probably stiffer than usual because she ended up remembering what happened yesterday.
“Sorry to keep you waiting. It is bacon-and-eggs today”
“Kazu-kun, err”
“In any case, let’s start eating first. It will be a waste if it gets cold since I went through the effort to make it well”
“Ah, un”
“”Itadakimasu“”
I ended up interrupting Yae, but it cannot be helped. I know what she wants to say, but she doesn’t have to be that nervous. That’s why I wanted her to have her meal and relax.
“Ah, delicious”
“Isn’t the soft-cooked state just the best?”
“Un!”
Today’s bacon-and-eggs is of the quality that enters the top three even amongst all the ones I’ve made thus far. Both Yae and I prefer our sunny-side-up eggs soft-cooked, and I think today’s where the yolk feels like it comes out viscously is perfect!
“Ah, so, Kazu-kun”
“Forget about what happened yesterday, is it?”
“Eh, ah, un. Yeah”
“Nope”
“Eh!?”
She is surprised, but it is not that I won’t forget about it because I’m being mean. In the first place,
“We know tons of things about each other that we don’t want anybody to know since we’ve been together since the past, don’t we. Having one more doesn’t make a difference at this point in time”
“……true”
“So I won’t tell anybody, but I won’t forget about it”
I have been with Yae for about more than 10 years; both of us have numerous adorable blunders when we’re young and mistakes derived from our youth. And they have pretty much been exposed to each other. If I have to say something the most recent, what happened during the golden week is also a dark history inside of me.
“Fine then. I’ll expose the Kazu-kun’s classified notebook’s content if you say it”
“Didn’t you promise not to talk about that!”
“It’s fine if I don’t talk about it”
“Kuu, things like these are why childhood friends are a nuisance huh!”
“That goes for both of us”
The classified notebook is a notebook I had made when I was a second-year middle school student. The content is a secret, but I think it’s something any guy would make. It was something that I had made and was secretly laughing in satisfaction alone, but Yae found it……and I already forgot what came after. That’s right, I decided to forget it!
Yae teases and smiles faintly. Let’s give her a little payback.
“Since the weather is good today, shall we go to a picnic or something?”
“Picnic?”
“Yes. It is pleasantly warm after all”
“Sure”
“Ah, but is it okay to go outside with such swollen eyes?”
“No way!?”
“Really”
It’s a given for them to be swollen. She wiped that many tears on my shirt yesterday after all. But Yae is panicking because it seems she didn’t realise it.
“Picnic is a no-go since Yae is like that huh”
“……you didn’t intend to go from the start, right”
“What are you talking about”
, I played dumb, but of course, it’s a joke from the start. It’s simply a hoax to make Yae panic while I tell her about her eyes.
“In any case, let’s relax at home for the whole day today, shall we. I’ll bring a wet towel or something over later”
“I’ll beat you up into a pulp in the game”
“Ple, please go easy on me……”
