I texted with Chikara until midnight. It was fun talking to him, but now I'm facing the consequences of my actions.
With my head down on my desk, I listened to the sounds of the classroom. I hear people chatting, chairs squeaking, and pencils on paper. I stay in that position for a while until I feel a finger poke my shoulder. I ignore it, but it keeps poking my shoulder and forces me to look up. It's Machiko-san.
"Yes..?" I ask, groggily.
She fidgets for a while before leaning down towards.
"Can you please help me get with Densuke..?" She says, quietly, and quickly looks around to see if any heard.
With a sigh of relief, she turns back to me.
"Why me?" I'm not known as a matchmaker or even as a social butterfly.
"Please, Shirabu-san!" She pleads. "I really need your help!"
I sit up straight and sigh. "Alright, but we're gonna need to tell Taichi. He should know more on what to do than me."
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" She smiles happily.
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"So.. let me get this straight. You like Hayashi-san.. correct?" Taichi asks Machiko and she nods. "And you want to confess to him.. so you decide to ask Shirabu, who has no relationship knowledge or love knowledge." I roll my eyes at Taichi's comment.
Machiko quickly nods. "That's right!"
"Any ideas on how you want to confess?" Taichi asks and Machiko looks deeply in thought.
"Well.. I don't know, that's what I've been stressing about.."
"You know you don't need to confess today, right?" I ask her.
"Well I just.. feel like it's better to rip off the bandaid now than peeling it off slowly and painfully.." Machiko looks down. "Plus.. I've liked Densuke for a long time.. I really want him to at least know.."
"Okay, look, we don't really need anything fancy for this confession. Why not just do a simple 'meet me after school' letter?" I fold my arms.
"You're right, but.. I just feel like that makes it less special.." Machiko fiddles with her fingers, still looking down.
"Well what makes it special is his answer, right? So it doesn't matter how you deliver it, you can just do something extravagant during your relationship." At my answer Machiko raises her head.
"Huh.. I've never thought about that.."
"So it's just a simple letter?" Taichi asks and Machiko nods.
"Do you need us to help you with it or..?" I ask her and she shakes her head.
"No, it's fine, I can do it." And with that she leaves.
There's silence in the room after she leaves.
"Man, never expected her to like him back." Taichi finally says after a while.
I shrug. "Eh, could've seen it coming." And I look back to my assignment.
Taichi looks at me unconvinced. "Yeah, sure."
"Oh by the way did you hear?" Taichi asked me and I look at him. "Semi and the band finally did their gig today, people loved them. Semi was so happy, he literally cried."
I look back my assignment. "Good for him.." I mutter with a soft smile.