Our Dating Story: The Experienced You and The Inexperienced Me - Volume 5 - Chapter 2.5

Chapter 2.5: A Private Conversation Between Akari-chan and Mia

Two girls were sitting in a certain café in Tokyo.

“Don’t worry, Akari-chan. Calm down,” one of them said to the other. She kept nervously looking around, seeming to mind the eyes around her while the other was sprawled over the table between them.

“No waaaaay... I caaaaan’t!” shouted the second girl, whom the first one had called “Akari-chan.” She kept kicking her legs up and down. “I’m such an idiot! Ijichi-kun even bought the clothes I picked for him and they looked ridiculously good on him, so why did I have to act like that?! I’m always thinking about him when I’m not doing K-pop stuff, and the whole reason I was able to pick those clothes out was because I kept thinking about what sorta stuff would look good on him, so why...?!”

Akari-chan let out a stream of lamentations without pausing at all, as though she were casting a spell.

“I’m sooooo done with myself! People got over tsundere heroines in the early 2010s! I know it’s not in fashion these days! I just thought I really couldn’t let him find out I like him, but then this feeling flipped around and got dialed up to the max and before I knew it, I was one of those rude tsungire girls from the 2000s!”

“There’s nothing you can do about that now... Why not start fixing things tomorrow, on our school trip?”

“There’s no way I cooould! After what happened, there’s just no way I could change my character back to normal!”

“I’ll help, so let’s do our best, okay?”

“I just caaaaan’t! Also, I don’t want Ijichi-kun to fall for you, Mia, so actually, don’t help me!”

Even “Mia” seemed exasperated at that. Leaning back in her chair, she sighed lightly. She appeared to have already given up on minding the eyes around her and was defiantly calm.

“Has Ijichi-kun really not noticed how you feel?”

“Of course he hasn’t! He was super scared. Creeped out, even. I’m such an idiot! I wanna go back in time to when I was born and start fixing things from then!”

“He’s so thickheaded... How does he not notice when you make it so obvious...?” lamented Mia, then took a sip of her royal milk tea.