Heaven Or Hell
One morning, I regained consciousness from my sleep. That said, it feels like it is still before 6. I stayed in a snooze since it was still too early to start making breakfast.
The sunlight is coming in from the curtain’s gap when I turn my head to the left. It seems the rain last night has already let up.
As I was about to change my posture from facing upward to lying face down, I felt an out-of-place feeling on my right arm. Yae’s face was over there when I turned my head to the right, wondering what it was.
“Nn……”
For a full 10 seconds, my thought process stopped, unable to understand what was going on. I wonder why Yae is sleeping in my room.
The drowsiness I had felt until now vanishes all at once, and my consciousness is aroused in one go. And then the reason for the out-of-place feeling on my right arm was Yae hugging my right arm tightly.
“Yae”
“……”
I call out to her gently with a glimmer of hope, but Yae does not wake up. Just when I thought of maybe waking her up with a slightly louder voice, Yae’s blissful-looking sleeping face entered my eyes.
It is a time in which she would still be sleeping normally. I was unable to do something like wake up the Yae who was making such an innocent sleeping face on top of that.
“……nn!”
I had no choice and tried to pull out my arm in a way so as to not wake Yae up. However, perhaps the sleeping Yae wasn’t pleased about it, I ended up being hugged with even more strength. I had an epiphany of my failure at this moment.
Something soft presses on my right arm that is being hugged tightly. I end up noticing that sensation thanks to having directed my attention to my right arm, and the throbbing of my heart becomes even faster.
I wonder how many years ago the two of us last slept together. It was a given for us to sleep together in the past, but we came to sleep separately roughly before becoming middle school students.
In other words, comparing the past and present, both my mental age and Yae’s proportions are different. I suppose it is inevitable for me to end up getting strangely nervous.
“Kazu-kun……”
“What is the matter?”
“Ehehe……”
I thought that maybe she had woken up because she called my name out of nowhere, but Yae was still in her dream. I do not know what kind of dream she is having, but her cheeks are forming a smile.
As I was looking at the sight of Yae smiling without knowing my nervousness and whatnot over here, I started feeling silly. I gently pat Yae’s head with my empty left hand.
“In any case, I guess we will be staying like this for a while”
The wall on my left side, and Yae on my right side. Furthermore, in the situation where my right arm is being embraced, it is impossible to escape. In a state where I cannot move recklessly, I came to spend a Heavenly and Hellish time.
