My elite romantic comedy is wrong, as I expected.

VOL 1 Chapter 16 Movements

I am sitting on a bench on one of the paths as I wait for my guest to arrive.

She arrives and looks at me with the same coldness as always.

Horikita: Well, what do you want?

Hachiman: Come on, come on, why don't you have a seat? I don't think this conversation is going to be short.

Horikita looks at me suspiciously, but still sits down next to me with an arm's length, lifting me up to bring her a green tea.

I handed it to her and started talking.

Hachiman: I've heard that you've been rejecting Kushida-san.

Horikita: That's none of your business.

Hachiman : Of course it is my business, as a class leader, two of my sub-leaders not being on the same page makes me worry about the direction it might cause in the classroom.So tell me what's going on.

I see her shudder, thinking logically the only way for a team to work is communication, Horikita's weak point. She is hesitating a lot but finally speaks

Horikita:...... I don't trust her, she and I were in the same high school although in different classes, but I heard a rumor, she was the center of a nasty event that completely separated her class, and seeing her here with her attitude makes me want to vomit.

Hachiman: heeeee, I see.

Horikita: I don't see you surprised.

Hachiman: Well, I knew she was hiding something, so I'm not that shocked.

Horikita: How do you do it?

Hachiman: It's not really that impressive, it's just that when you are alone for too long, you start to observe every detail of people, so it's easy to identify a mask when you see it.

This sinks Horikita into his thoughts.
Hachiman: Look Horikita, I'm not telling you to go shopping with her every time the opportunity arises, just maintain at least a polite relationship and don't snap at her every time they talk.

This lecture is something necessary for Horikita to mature sooner.

Hachiman: I hope you understand your situation, although you are both leaders of , the only thing that keeps you afloat is my recommendation, on the other hand Kushida-san is someone that the class trusts, I give you an example if one day you and Kushida-san -san fight, who will stand by your side, maybe the only ones would be Ayanokouji and me, but we would not be able to face the whole class the two of us.

I speak slowly trying to engrave my words in her head. She remains silent, she knows I'm right. She is alone at the moment.

Hachiman: Horikita I'm going to tell you one more time, you need allies who can have your back and you have theirs.

Horikita: Yes you said it, but it's not easy, I've always depended on myself, so I ended up thinking it's useless to interact with others.

Hachiman: I like that part of you, Horikita.

Horikita: W-w-w-w-what's that all of a sudden?

Horikita blushes at what I just said, huh? An unexpected reaction from the ice queen.

Hachiman: I mean you show yourself as you are, without pretensions, without expecting to please anyone, I guess that's why I can talk to you more fluently despite the content of our conversations.

Whenever we meet, it always seems more like a fight than a friendly encounter. Horikita is speechless, she looks quite nervous and says to me.

Horikita: Hikigaya-kun, you once told me that you wanted to be my friend, that you wanted to believe in me, is that true?

I don't know what's the point of me asking that, but she gathered enough courage to say it.

Hachiman: Yes, it's true, but you don't have to force yourself, there's no need to force yourself to think of me as your friend, if you don't like me, no problem, after all you can't be friends with someone you don't like, and as far as I know for a friendship it takes two, even if I consider you a friend as long as you believe otherwise, then we are nothing, well, that's my opinion.

Horikita: Hehehehehehehehe, you really are someone very peculiar Hikigaya-kun.

This day is getting stranger and stranger, I hear a little laugh from Horikita, not only that, a smile is on her face, which makes me think she is beautiful, she looks like an elegant fairy out of a fairy tale.

Horikita: What's wrong?

Look was too much on her face, which makes her look suspicious.

Hachiman: Nothing, then I think I finished what I had to say, Kushida-san will ask for your number tomorrow, I hope you won't refuse her.

Horikita: Okay, but keep in mind that I won't trust her, I'll only talk to her for class matters.