<h4>Chapter 295: Short Story 2 : Shiina Hiyori SS– Sprouting Feelings</h4>


    Everyone in our ss was doing their very best working on the Kimono Café for the school festival.


    Ryuuen-kun had warned that those who tried skipping would get punished and that seems to have worked, I guess.


    I was the cashier so I didn''t have a lot of things to actually do.


    And that is why, as per usual, I read another book I had borrowed.


    Then a student entered the ssroom with a casual and light stride.


    It was Ayanokouji-kun.


    He, was the one Karuizawa Kei-san was dating.


    I wanted to hide myself somehow and hid behind my own book.


    I should have known. My curiosity won out in the end and I took a quick peek.


    Ayanokouji-kun looked as if he had witnessed something unusual and walked towards me.


    "... Good day."


    I couldn''t ignore him, so I said that.


    I''m not sure I managed to act like usual.


    "Long time no see. I hear you haven''t turned up at the librarytely?"


    "That''s not true. It''s a bit, I mean, I''m there at a different time now."


    It was my sense of thoughtfulness to avoid meeting with Ayanokouji-kun, who also loved reading.


    Seeing someone like me talking with her boyfriend may make any girl worried, I think.


    "So, you are going to work at the store as well?"


    "I am just working at the cashier. I''m not especially good at talking with people... nor with walking around. I have practiced carrying the trays with food, but that didn''t go well."


    I thought I was going to do better to be honest...


    "By the way, Ibuki-san is also participating."


    "Ibuki? But she''s not the kind of person who would ever wear that outfit, right?"


    "It seems she made a bet with Ryuuen-kun to bepletely exempted from the student festival."


    "And she lost."


    Ibuki was kinda cute when she stamped her feet in frustration.


    It was really fun to talk with Ayanokouji-kun like this after all.


    I... wanted to meet him at the library again.


    That feeling grew within me like a sprout.


    ...It should be fine... right?


    "I will be at the library againter, so please doe."


    She shouldn''t be angry with me if I meet him as just a friend, right? Surely...