GenderSwitchs Vol. 5 (English)

Chapter 1: The yukata and the maiden

It had been a few days since the Christmas party ended, and at that moment I was sleeping.

Or well, I was trying to.

As I listened to my alarm, which I forgot to turn off, I snuggled into the sheets of my warm bed, and felt the cold air running throughout the room along with the cold weather outside my window.

Starting to become more aware of the situation I was in, I decided to open my eyes, only to realize that I was in my room, all alone. I let out a small sigh, as I slowly recalled the strange dream I was having a few moments ago. I turned off my alarm, and lay face down on my pillow. When I did that, I remembered that dream again and couldn't help but hide my embarrassed face.

There it is again... It's been haunting my mind for days now. It's so... annoying and embarrassing...

I said to myself as I sank my face deeper into my soft pillow.

After the party, Atsushi stayed over at my request, but the next day, and almost deliberately, I gave Atsushi a kiss on the cheek as a "Christmas present", which I'm still not entirely sure if he was conscious about it or not. With a somewhat strange look on my face, I thought about it for the rest of the week, while hoping I could forget about it soon.

... As if I could.

It was impossible to get such a thing out of my head. Just by thinking about it made me feel strangely nervous. I assumed it was due to the enormous embarrassment I was feeling about the topic, while another possibility was that, hypothetically, that was my first kiss; a kiss for Atsushi.

I wasn't sure if my mind was starting to think more like a girl than it should, but it didn't really matter; at least, not at the moment. While shaking my legs and still thinking about that day, I realized that my heart was racing, and in a way, I was ecstatic, though I wasn't sure why I felt bad thinking that he didn't notice it. I wondered if what he said about not knowing anything about what happened was true or not, but if there was one thing I was sure of, it was that he was acting strange back then.

Lost in my very early morning thoughts, I heard that my cell phone had received a notification.

Who could it be at this time of the morning?

I wondered as I turned to my cell phone. Checking it, I realized it was a message from Atsushi.

At first, I didn't react much, as I was somewhat groggy from the embarrassment from earlier, along with the sleepiness I felt. It was moments later that I overreacted, getting out of bed and looking very carefully and excitedly at my cell phone.

Why am I getting so excited about this?

I asked myself as I slowly opened the message.

"Hi. Are you free tomorrow?"

"Hm?"

I replied to the message he sent me, as I looked somewhat nervously and confused at his message. It didn't take long to realize that he had already read my reply.

"It's New Year's tomorrow, remember?"

"Oh, right. I totally forgot."

"You... Anyway, are you free tomorrow?"

"Well, I've already finished my homework, so... I guess."

"In that case, how about we go to the temple together?"