(Un) Fortunately the Yandere is Not After Me

The Past, Present, and Future of Love

"This sounds like a nice family moment." Hine spoke up, hearing them. "If you'd like, we can give you some privacy."

"Oh no, if anything. You're all welcome to hear our story too." Great, he thought. He's waited all his life to hear this, and everyone else just gets it for free. "I guess I should start at the beginning...."

The first meeting. It wasn't a fun one. She had been working at this exact restaurant, when he walked in. More accurately, ran in. He had been watching some neighborhood pets when they had gotten loose, causing a ruckus in the business.

"Are there just a lot of animals around here?" Arata commented. Seemed like most people he knew only found it because of that.

"I guess so." She said. "The food must be what attracts them." His mom laughed.

At the time, she was really mad at him for causing her so much more work to do. His dad was forced to help clean up once the animals were rounded up. It wouldn't be long after that, when they'd meet again.

It turned out that he was a new transfer student at school, whose family recently moved in due to his father's job. They were even in the same class, though at the time, she could've lived with not being forced to sit next to him.

Arata's mother, when she was younger, was a lot more meaner then, being quite standoffish to other students. She thought that the other teens her age were stupid, and he was no exception. His father, on the other hand, was the opposite. He always wanted to meet new people, make plenty of friends, have lots of fun.

It wasn't long until he was fairly popular, especially with the girls. Yet despite all that, he always tried to be friends with her. She never knew why someone like him, would want to bother with someone like her.

The second major moment, would definitely be when they were part of the school's famous May dance. It was no surprise that he was voted in, and she was probably put there because the students thought it would be amusing.

"Hold on, you two were in the May dance?" Arata stopped the story.

"Oh yeah we were." She answered. "We never told you because we thought you didn't care about that type of stuff."

"Are you not aware that your son was one of the dancers for it this year?" Misei asked.

"What?! You were?"

"Haa... I was hoping to keep that a secret." He replied nervously. His school escapades were not a topic he wanted to talk about at home.

"I wish you told us, then we could have taught you. After all, your father and I won the whole thing ourselves." She bragged.

"Actually, he was the winner from the boy's side." Misao responded. Arata really wished they'd not bring this up about him.

"You did?!" Her excitement burst out again. She jumped over the table, and grabbed him. "Who'd you win it with?! Who's the girl that I'll call my daughter-in-law?"

"Mom! Please... Not again!" He pushed her off of him, so that he could catch his breath. "Come on, we all know that's just a legend, it's 50-50 at best."

"Yeah, he's right." Hine spoke up. "It's no surprise that Arata and Erina won, I was the one to teach them after all." Why won't they stop telling her, he thought. His mom grabbed Erina's hands.

"Please marry him!" Erina pulled her hands away and turned from them. She covered her face to hide her bright red cheeks.

"I-I couldn't possibly..." She muttered.