@ShibuyaDokiDoki school's a hurdle. D: You too!
This style is slightly different as compared to my usual.
The style also changes halfway, well, sort of.
Because it's a festive fic, please don't mind me. >_>
(KII stage tomorrow. ;_; I hope for manachuri! ;_;
Valentine's Day - [ManaChuri] She was never someone who would do something special for a day like Valentine's day all this while.
Every year, when she sees the girls in her class rushing around shopping, preparing chocolate, she would just look from afar and smile.
There was no need to waste so much time and money, right?
Buying a box of chocolate a few days before and passing them out to her classmates on the day itself was enough.
The same scene repeats itself every year.
The pink atmosphere the moment you enter the classroom.
The desk shoved with chocolates.
Even if she didn't want to accept them, there was no choice.
Those people just didn't get to receive the chocolates she gave out. That's all.
Mukaida Manatsu was this sort of girl.
Someone who didn't like talking or interacting with strangers.
She was satisfied with going to school on time, doing her homework, returning home punctually and eating her favourite strawberries.
No need for club activities.
That was what Mukaida Manatsu, age 12, thought.
But ever since she entered middle school, besides receiving chocolates, she would also receive strawberries.
That somehow tasted particularly good.
Included with the strawberries was a letter. It was short, cute and had drawings.
She feels that the person was someone who was good at drawing, unlike herself.
And that the person was also someone who was attentive, because even the envelope itself was handmade.
She once considered that if there was ever a day she could meet the giver, she would definitely ask where the person bought the strawberries from.
Because Mukaida really felt that somehow the ones she received tasted better than the others.
In all 12 years of her life, she never had strawberries this sweet.
But there was no name included in the letter.
One year.
Two years.
Three years.
Written in the third year's letter was this line.
Can we meet up during next year's Valentine?
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This year, for the first time ever, Mukaida was able to experience the same feelings as her classmates.
Nervous.
Anxious.
A few days ago, she asked Kizaki who was in the same class
"Can you recommend me a place to buy chocolate?"
"I don't know. I only eat them every year~ hehehe"
Mukaida refused to lend Kizaki her homework to copy for a week.
She asked Furukawa
"I know where you can get something good! My gift to Rena-san every year is from that store as well~"
In the end when they went to the place, she realised that it was a shop selling 2D items.
Ever since then, Mukaida never looked at Matsui senpai the same way again.
"Mukaida-senpai~"
Kimoto Kanon is an angel.
That was what Mukaida felt at that time.
They made plans to meet up to buy chocolate on Sunday.
I will work hard tomorrow!
－－－
"I like you"
This sentence was foreign to someone like Mukaida.
Besides her family members, strawberries and her dog, Mukaida Manatsu never thought she would say this to anyone else.
And it never crossed her mind that someone who say it to her either.
Definitely not from someone who was relatively shorter than her, and happened to look somehow like a bird.
How surprising.
Takayanagi who confessed to her got a shock.
Because she who always had a cool collected look on her face 24 hours a day except when eating, had a look of surprise on her face.
"I didn't know that my junior can look this cute when she's surprised!"
Juni...or?
She who is shorter than me by nearly a head, currently bobbling up and down, giving out the aura of someone childish, childish, and childish, is actually my senior?
I can't seem to tell.
But if she was really my senior, it would be rude of me to say that out loud.
Even though she was someone who didn't like talking to strangers, she knew how to respect her seniors.
And so she said this instead.
"Senpai?"
"Did you mistake me for someone else?"
"That can't be! You're Mukaida Manatsu right? Born on 10 May, blood type O, the first thing you do when you get home is eat strawberries, you walk your dog every thursday..."
Are you a pervert.
Why is it that you know so much about me.
I can't say this out either.
I can only stare at her.
It's been four years.
Is this what they call "chasing after a girl?"
This person who made me waste so much of my energy ?
How unromantic.
But that's not the problem now.
The bigger problem right now is how to reject that bird who hasn't stopped talking.
Even if I can't reject her, at the very least, I need to make her stop.
No matter how you look at it, talking very loudly on the school's roof about your junior's daily life isn't right.
"Senpai?"
Mukaida tried to talk again.
"I believe you"
Takayanagi finally stopped.
"The strawberries you gave were delicious. Thank you. This is for you."
The expression Takayanagi had now was worth praising.
She opened her mouth widely, and had both her hands on her head.
How amusing.
Mukaida thought.
"Can I... open this?"
She nodded.
Her face became slightly redder as she suddenly felt embarrassed somehow.
"I'm happy~ So happy that I can cry"
"Stupid bird. "
Ah. I accidentally said what I was thinking aloud.
But Takayanagi didn't seem like she heard anything.
She continues to open the gift excitedly.
"Why do you take so long to open it"
"I want to keep the gift wrapper! This is my first gift from Manatsu! I need to keep it as a souvenir~"
To not use the term junior, and instead call me Manatsu directly.
Do I know you that well. (that coming from someone who just called her senior a stupid bird
"Why is there only 4?"
"..."
I will never say that it's because both my attempts failed, and after Kanon saw how unsuccessful I was, she painstakingly helped to save this few pieces.
I won't say it.
I don't want a stupid bird to know about it.
"Don't be so picky about something I gave you"
"If you don't like it, then return it to me."
I can give it to someone else.
Like poison both Kizaki and Furukawa.
"Even though there's only 4, but I like anything Manatsu gives me~~~"
Then stop emphasizing that there's only four!!!
"I'm going to eat it"
Instead of calling Takayanagi Akane a dumb bird, we can always put it nicely and describe her as a very brave girl.
Brave enough to eat the entire chocolate that both Mukaida and Kimoto lacked the courage to try in one bite.
There was a strange look on her face. One that Mukaida never saw before.
I somehow lack the courage to ask how it taste.
Or hear her comments about it.
It's best I quickly change a topic.
"Manatsu actually went the extra mile to make this for me~~"
Too late.
"I didn't say anything, how did you know I made it"
"Because it tastes horrible~ I don't think shops sell such horrible tasting chocolate"
Is that something you should say to someone who you just confessed to and is still currently waiting for a reply from her!?!
To think I actually used so much time to make this, couldn't you have lied to me to make me happy!
Stupid bird.
Forget it.
I better ask her now.
"The strawberries you gave me yearly was delicious. May I know where exactly did you buy them from?"
"I'll tell you only if you accept my confession~"
.......
"Okay. I accept."
"It's from the supermarket near our school."
There was a very awkward pause.
Mukaida Manatsu who can differentiate the different types of strawberries when blindfolded, was actually stumped by the strawberries that was bought from the supermarket for the entire 4 years.
For that moment, Mukaida turned to stone.
"Then why is it that it tastes so differently from what I usually buy!?"
"Because the strawberries had my love~~"
"Ah, by the way~ Manatsu~~ I heard that mouth-to-mouth strawberries taste different~ Let's try~~"
This is the story of Mukaida Manatsu, then age 17.
Tricked to start dating Takayanagi Akane.
For the sake of her beloved strawberries.
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