Convenient Semi-Friend ch6

p1
>It's...

>It's all over~

>The teacher caught on that I slept all through yesterday's lessons,
>Don't fall asleep this time.
>and I keep getting isolated from everyone's cold glares.
>Who's that?
>Isn't she the crazy chick from yesterday?
>There's no hope left for me in this class...
>*She reaped what she sowed.

>I'll do my best starting next year.
>Is it time to change classes yet~?

>>You've only just enrolled. Class changes won't be for another year☆

>>On days when you want to cry, you need someone to touch.

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>To think high school life would be this depressing...
>Ruka-san's been acting strange after she came back from the toilet yesterday too.
>She seemed really upset for some reason.

>This morning, I feel like she gave me the saltiest response yet...
>You sure get up early, huh, Ruka-san.
>...ood morning...
>...Not really.
>Mornin'.

>She didn't talk much to me on the way to school either...
>U-Um, did something happen...?
>...Not really.

>Oh man.
>It feels like my heart is breaking...

>At this rate, we'll stop talking, things will get awkward in our room, and she'll break off our friendship.
>Even though she's my first friend...
>...Um.

>Fwah?
>Erm, Kuruma-san... right?
>I sit at the desk behind you...
>Sh-She spoke to me!?

>Actually, I've been curious about you ever since you enrolled.
>She's been disturbed by me ever since I enrolled?
>I was worried about whether to speak to you or not...
>She had trouble deciding what complaints to throw at me!?
>I-

>I'm sorry for bothering you!!
>Eh? Wait!?

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>Waaaah~
>Someone finally came to talk to me and I ran away!
>*Fast walking

>But there was a 99% chance she was just gonna be frank with me.
>Huh? I can't see her anymore...
>If she were to directly say things that would make me aware of my shortcomings, my heart coudn't take it.

>For now, it'd be awkward to go back right away,
>so I need to go somewhere I can be alone...
>Woah.

>...Suuna!?
>Ayeeeeee!!

>Wh-Wh-Wh-Why is Ruka-sa-sa-sa-sa
>You're acting like you saw something dangerous.

>...Well, whatever. The timing's perfect.
>I have something I wanna say to you.

>D-Don't come near me!
>Huh? Why not?
>Not right now!
>What are you saying?

>I'm just a bit emotionally unstable right-
>Ah.

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>...That was close.

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>Hey.

>...
>Are you okay?

>...
>...Suuna?

>SUUNAAA!!

>Uuh... I'm sorry. After going through the trouble of saving me...
>...It's fine.
>I'm just glad you're not hurt.

>I've troubled you yet again...
>You should've just let me melt into nothingness...
>...

>Okay, I'm going.
>Eh...? Didn't you just say you had something you wanted to say?
>...I did.

>But if I tell you now, the shock might cause you to evaporate...
>Just what were you planning to say!?

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>...Then
>do you mind if I... say something real quick?
>...I don't mind.

>Ruka-san... you were, um... frustrated... just now, right?
>!?

>Eh? Why would you think that...?
>Is she an mind reader or something?
>Yesterday... I had a dream... where you were complaining about not being satisfied...
>*See chapter 3.

>...So you thought I might be thinking the same in reality?
>Yes...
>It was a dream!?

>I did consider... that it was just a dream.
>But you've been gentle with me ever since our first night, Ruka-san.
>Work on your phrasing.

>I was the only one... getting some good memories out of it...
>so yesterday... I wanted to do the best I could do, but...

>You've been acting kinda weird ever since then, Ruka-san...
>I didn't think you were that much of a total pervert.
>Not really...
>Uh... That was...

>You were in a BAD MOOD, or rather you had a BAD ATTITUDE, or rather you were acting KINDA CREEPY.
>Don't say that~

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>Well, you're right about the bad attitude at least.
>Sorry.
>Ah!
>No, um, I'm sorry! I'm running my mouth off again...!

>Haha
>It's fine.
>I see. That's what you were thinking back then.
>So your behavior back then... Ah~ I see~
>I see, I see...
>...Hey.

>I wanna stop playing sefure with you.

>...is what I was going to tell you earlie-... Wait, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey!
>Calm down. I'm speaking in the past tense.
>I beg your mercy...

>Y'see, at times like those,
>I normally like things to move at my own pace,
>so I'm not good with chicks like you who I can't tell what the hell they're gonna do.

>I was scared of things not going my way.
>I thought about running away, but
>A chick she can't tell "what the hell" I'm gonna do...
>I decided not to.

>Once I realised
>"this chick doesn't have an ulterior motive, she's just stupidly honest",
>I was kinda relieved.

>Haha
>It's kinda like, since you talked to me, Suuna,
>I wanted to talk a little with you too?
>...Well,

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>I may
>have said a little... too much.

>Aha... How embarrassing...
>I've been hooked by you yet again...
>Th-...

>That's not true!
>I'm... happy that you spoke to me, Ruka-san!
>That so?
>Good to hear.

>Ehehe... I'm glad we made up(?)!

>...Hey, give me your hand.
>? Like this?

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>!?

>U-Um?
>You can do your best with "hand relations", right?
>A-Ah...

>I-I guess I said something like that?
>Why are you phrasing it like a question?
>I-I was kinda going on impulse back then...
>What the heck?

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>It's a little ticklish...
>and warm...
>But if we're gonna be sefure from now on,

>you're gonna have to get used to things like this<3

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>Ah...
>Hyesh... I'll... do my besht...

>Come on. Try squeezing my hands back.
>Uweh!

>...

>Ahaha. Your pulse is crazy and your hand are so sweaty@
>!!
>L-L-L-L-L-Let's stop already!!

>? Something wrong?
>Let's go already.
>...No, it's nothing.
>Sorry. I'll be right with you.

>...

>>mumble...
>I need to do something about this...

>>A girl with her eyes on Ruka and Suuna. Just what is this "something" she needs to do...?