Epilogue
“Man, this homework is taking forEVER!” shouted Runa from the other side of a folding table from me in my room.
It was the last week of August. The late summer heat was still intense, and we had the AC on in the room.
On the table was a mountain of English homework that still needed doing.
Our two-week stay at Chiba had ensured that our parents recognized our relationship, so we were spending every day this week studying together to finish our piled-up homework.
Since I lived in an apartment building, our combined kitchen-living-room was on the other side of the wall, and my mother was there too. It wasn’t like we could do anything naughty.
“It sure was fun in Chiba...” said Runa with a sigh, trying to escape from reality. “Granny Sayo said we can come again next year if we want.”
“Me too?”
“Yeah. Said we should come take a breather in summer at least, even while we’re preparing for university exams.”
“I see...”
I was grateful for Sayo-san’s consideration. It also made me happy to think that perhaps she’d approved of the idea of me dating her great-granddaughter even a year from now.
“Next year, huh...” uttered Runa.
I sighed too as I pictured in my mind next year’s dark summer of intense studying—it would be a crucial time to prepare for university exams.
“When that time comes...I’m sure we’ll already be...” Runa said quietly all of a sudden. She peeked at me with upturned eyes as if checking my reaction. Her cheeks were pink. “...much closer than we are now, right?”
“Huh...? Y-Yeah.”
I’d ended up imagining something lewd, but taking what she’d said literally, there was nothing to be embarrassed about.
However, Runa didn’t let my state of discomposure slide. “Ah, you’re all red, Ryuto! What were you thinking just now?”
“Come on... I’m sure you thought it too, Shirakawa-san!”
“Aah! You’re calling me by my surname again!”
“S-Sorry, Shirak— Ah, Runa.”
“Now you’re practically using my full name,” she quipped with a smile.
“W-Well, setting that aside... Come on, let’s get back to our homework.”
“But I just don’t get it... Oh! I get this, though!” Runa cheerfully said, starting to write something smoothly with her pen all of a sudden. “Wow, it’s amazing!”
I took a look at her homework to check it. Written there, in English, was...
He is the last man to tell a lie.
“It’s about you, so I wouldn’t forget it.”
Runa was smiling happily in front of me.
“Runa...”
My girlfriend had previous romantic experiences.
But such a thing wasn’t all that important.
Bit by bit, I was slowly coming to think that way from the bottom of my heart.
“Ah, but I don’t get this part, though,” she said.
“Which one?”
Runa pointed at a different problem and I looked at her homework again. Then...
“Gotcha!”
As Runa leaned over the table, something warm touched my cheek and I heard the sound of her lips making contact with my skin.
“Ehe he. I love you, Ryuto.”
Seeing my girlfriend smiling like a successful prankster, I went red in the face and had no comeback.
It seemed the end of my summer homework was still far away.
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