Tied Together [Book 2]

Chapter 26: Duo

Third Person View

"Just go in already!" Hitomi pushed her friend into Nagisa's classroom, not really making a difference.

"W-what if she hates me!? What if she thinks I'm weird!?" Nakano protested as she looked at Nagisa's group, about to head to the rooftop for lunch.

"She won't! Haven't you seen how nice she was yesterday!?" Hitomi shot back.

They continued arguing in front of Nagisa's class.

Yamaguchi, who was listening to them the entire time, looked at Nagisa and said, "Shiota-san, you have visitors." He was also with his group.

Hearing what he said, Nakano became shocked and stood frozen in place.

Nagisa looked over to them and walked towards the door with her friends. "Nakano-san, what's up?"

Nakano acted like how she usually does at school, trying to keep her other self inside. "U-um, I'm here to give back your pencil. Reimu forgot it yesterday, right?" She spoke with her soft voice as she nervously smiled.

Nagisa smiled at her and took her pencil from Nakano, "Thanks!"

Nagisa looked at Nakano, "Do you want to join us for lunch?"

"Can we!?" Hitomi appeared from behind Nakano.

"Sure! You too, Hitomi-san." Nagisa exclaimed.

Arisa, Chiyuki, and Sasahara all thought, "There was someone behind her!?"

"E-eh!? Um, sure!" Nakano stuttered.

Hitomi dragged Nakano, "We'll be getting our bentos now!"

"Nakano-san and Hitomi-san, was it?" Arisa asked. "We'll be waiting at the rooftop!"

"Yeah!" Nakano exclaimed as she was dragged away by Hitomi.

Once they were far away from them, Nakano smirked, "See? I told you she would be cool with it!"

Hitomi started hitting her repeatedly.

The two went to their classroom and grabbed their bentos. They proceeded to go to the rooftop.

Once they got there, they opened the door and walked in. They saw Nagisa sitting alone on the side.

"Nagisa-chan! Where are the others?" Hitomi asked the bluenette.

Nagisa looked at them, "They're buying some stuff from the canteen."

"Oh, okay!" Hitomi sat next to Nagisa. Nakano sat next to Hitomi.

Nakano looked at Nagisa and said, "U-um, Shiota-san... About yesterday..." She covered her the side of her mouth with her hand.

Nagisa said, "Oh, that? Don't worry, I won't tell anyone." She sweat dropped.

"R-really?" Nakano whispered.

"Yeah." Nagisa smiled.

Nakano released a sigh of relief before Nagisa looked at her. "You know, you can just be yourself whenever you want." Nagisa pointed out.

Nakano faced Nagisa with a smile. "Well, you see, I come from a pretty notable family. I've always been taught to be proper since I was small."

Her voice was different from her soft one. "My parents don't allow me to act like that with other people. I guess it's for our reputation? I dunno..."

She looked at Hitomi, "Well, Reimu was the first to find me out. We ended became friends since middle school."

Hitomi smiled at her friend.