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

Prologue

“Do I wanna do it with you?”

About half a minute had passed since Runa had asked me that shocking question. It’d happened in that shop with photo sticker booths we’d gone to at the end of our Harajuku date on Valentine’s Day.

I was petrified and freaking out on the inside.

“Do it?” Do what? Obviously, she meant...sex.

Wait, you’re telling me Runa might want to have sex with me?! And why’s she asking me that?! How would a virgin like me know?!

Runa tilted her head in confusion. She seemed to be waiting for my answer.

We were currently standing inside the booth behind its plastic cover. There were roughly three centimeters between us, meaning that was how close Runa’s miraculously cute upturned eyes were to my face. And being enveloped in her floral-or-fruity scent was enough to make me lose my calm by itself.

The words she’d just said to me repeated endlessly inside my head. My heart was pounding hard enough it hurt. I couldn’t think straight.

In the end, the only thing I could say was...

“I-I dunno...”

Runa looked a bit disheartened and averted her eyes. “Okay...”

As I walked her home from Station A, silence hung between us. The streetlights placed here and there along this narrow residential road dimly illuminated the asphalt.

When we’d just started dating, I’d made sure she’d be home by 6 p.m., but recently, that had been extended to 8 p.m. We were already a little past that today. She wasn’t required to be home by any specific time—that had simply been where I’d been drawing the line.

Normally, if we wrapped up one topic in our conversation, Runa would bring up a new one right away. I glanced beside me, wondering what she was thinking, and I saw that she looked deep in thought with her eyes pointed at her feet.

I could sense her warmth from our linked hands as always, but it felt like her heart was out of my reach. It was frustrating.

I made up my mind. “Runa?”

She looked over to me with a start. “Hm? What is it?”

“Oh, uh...” I got flustered since it wasn’t like I had anything to say. “I mean...I was just wondering what you were thinking.”

“Well...” Runa shook her head slightly, looking a bit stuck. “I was thinking more about what I said back there.”

“Huh?”

“At that shop...”

What she’d said at the shop...

“Do I wanna do it with you?”

“Oh, right...” I said.

What more was there to that topic...? I could tell the subject had shaken me up enough to make my face hot.

Good thing it’s dark out here.

“Wait, wh-what do you mean by that?” I asked in a fluster.

Runa looked confused. “Sure, I don’t get how I feel, but I don’t get how you feel either.”

“Huh?”

“Like, do you really wanna do it with me...?” she asked.

There was something gloomy about the look on Runa’s face. It made me panic a little.

“What...? S-Sure I do.”

I figured it was best to tell the truth here, but I was worried I’d creep her out if I sounded too enthusiastic. But as a result, you couldn’t tell what I was emphasizing by the way I’d said it.

“So you say. You said that at that café too.”

Was she talking about the chocolate place from earlier today? She’d made a fuss asking me about what kind of porn I liked while we had been there.

“Still, though... You turned me down once,” Runa pointed out.

“Huh?”

“The day we started going out... You decided not to do it back then,” she said. It looked like she was sulking a little.

“Well, uh, that was...” I began, disconcerted. “We’d only just started dating and I kinda wanted to treasure our relationship...”

“I know. Even I felt a little relieved when I realized we didn’t have to have sex right away just because we were dating,” Runa said as she cast her eyes downward. “But I’ve come to love you so much... These days, when I imagine doing it with you, I’m worried if you even wanna have sex with me in the first place. I mean, wouldn’t it be pretty pointless to worry if I wanna do it or not when you don’t wanna?”

We came to a stop, having just arrived in front of Runa’s house.

She went on. “You’re the serious type. You don’t bring up sex even when we’re alone together. So I was wondering, like, maybe you don’t really care about all that stuff as long as our hearts are connected... Like, maybe you don’t need sex...”

“What...?! W-Wait, uh...!” I sputtered.

Being a guy (and one who, in fact, thought about dirty things pretty often), I’d been talking to Runa like it was a given that guys wanted to have sex. So when I’d told her I’d wait until she wanted to, my words had carried the implication that I was up for it whenever. I hadn’t talked to her about sex out of consideration for her as I knew she tended to go with whatever her boyfriends wanted to do. I didn’t want to bother her about the subject without a good reason.

I’d never expected it to backfire in such a way. Perhaps, in Runa’s mind, I’d become something of an ascetic, someone devoid of lust. Come to think of it, this might’ve been the reason she’d been so eager to test the waters on the subject of sex today...

“I-I do want to do it. You don’t need to worry,” I replied. Embarrassing as it was to say, I needed to clear up this misunderstanding.

“Are you just saying that for my sake?” she asked. “Like, since I’m starting to feel like it, are you figuring that you might as well roll with it?”

“It’s not like that...!”

Did Runa think this way because she’d had sex with her exes out of consideration?

“Maybe you love me as your girlfriend, but I don’t arouse you all that much because I’m a gyaru. Maybe you’d prefer a pure and proper girl like Maria after all...”

“N-No, I wouldn’t. And why would I even confess to a girl who didn’t arouse me?” I replied, interrupting her. My feelings weren’t being conveyed correctly and it was starting to make me impatient. “I’m hornier than you think, okay?”

I didn’t know why I had to stress this to my girlfriend while standing in front of her house at night, but seeing a persistent look of uneasiness on Runa’s face was making me feel desperate.

“I read dirty manga and watch porn like anybody else. And when we’re not together, I keep thinking about when I’ll be able to do it with you. In fact, by now I must’ve used you about five hundred times as... Oh, never mind.”

I hurriedly stopped myself—I was getting caught up in the moment and had been about to go into the raw details about how I spanked my monkey. I hoped she hadn’t caught on, but now, a puzzled look appeared on her face.

“Huh? You used me five hundred times as what?”

“Uh, well, it’s...”

“Oh! Do you mean...?!” Runa turned as red as a tomato in an instant, seeming to have hit upon a realization. She opened and closed her mouth repeatedly. “Wait, we’ve been dating for about eight months, right? So if there’s thirty days in a month, eight times three is twenty-four, so two hundred and forty... You did that at least twice a day?!”

I was speechless. “Huh? Um...?”

It wasn’t like I’d had an accurate count of times in mind before I’d said that, so I’d rather she didn’t think about the specifics. Wait, she wasn’t good at math— How was she running the numbers so quickly?! She couldn’t do that normally!

“You do it that much...? To me...?”

She quickly turned so red that I could tell even in the dark. I’d never seen her like this before.

“Um... Yeah...” I replied. Awkwardness came over me too, but since I’d said it myself, I couldn’t just take it back...

What the hell am I telling her...?

“So yeah... I always want to do it with you,” I added in desperation, trying to make myself crystal clear.

As I stood there with a flushed face, Runa gazed back at me with an even redder one. “No way... I’m so embarrassed...!” she said quietly, as though the words were leaking from the depths of her heart.

And then...

“Waaah, I can’t take iiiiit!!!” Runa shouted suddenly and disappeared into her house in an instant.