How long has it been like this?
Since transferring in.
Since Takeshi dragged me along.
He called out to me.
Said he needed me.
Why
me?
...
Always those fake double dates.
Different girls.
Different names.
Different perfumes.
They just wanted him.
I went anyway.
A practiced smile.
Looked in the mirror.
Didn't know why.
Sometimes, they glared.
Whispers. Don't misunderstand.
Sometimes, they rushed.
Locked lips,
breath mingling,
hands groping.
Pressing close,
as if afraid of distance.
A substitute.
And
sometimes, they smiled.
For a moment I believed them.
Conversations blurring
into white noise.
But once the night ended,
only silence remained.
If you asked me,
I couldn't tell you
what we
ever talked about.
Still side by side,
our hearts
were
so far apart.
Ah.
It's because...
We were all pretending.
To forget
even for a moment
how to feel lonely.
But...
rain girl.
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wingman | Cell Phone Novel
RomanceSakai Keichi has always been the wingman, the shadow helping his best friend chase girls in an empty cycle of double dates and practiced smiles. He lets himself fade into the background. Until he meets a girl who smells of rain, and for the first t...
