Kasamatsu's black silk

Put the luggage in the designated room, and the boss told me in detail about the time and content of the daily work.I mainly help in the kitchen, get up at [-]:[-] in the morning to prepare breakfast, then clean up the canteen and tableware, clean the room and corridors when the students go to the gymnasium, prepare lunch before noon, tidy up things in the afternoon, and the same at noon in the evening.

Basically, by the time they've had dinner and packed away, my day is over.

As the boss said at the beginning, although it is very busy, it is not a difficult job.

But today, because I came a little late, I didn't find out that the preparation for lunch was over after I entered the kitchen, and all I had to do was wait for them to come to the cafeteria to distribute the meals for the day to everyone.

Because of this, the position I was assigned was in the interior far from the kitchen window, and I couldn’t see it clearly for the students who came to receive lunch like the window. Fortunately, I probably looked out from the inside The view is still very good.

I put on the sleeves, washed my hands, and waited for the moment to meet Kasamatsu-san in a state of anxiety.

Not long after that, the door of the cafeteria was pushed open.

The first person to walk in was a black-haired boy in an orange-and-white sportswear. His face was reddish and he was sweating profusely. From his face and his unsteady breathing, it could be seen that he had just had a strenuous exercise.Obviously being covered in sweat on a hot day would only make people feel sticky, but the boy's playful expression made him look much refreshed.

"I'm starving to death~" The boy with a clear goal walked to the kitchen window in a few steps, "Today's dishes look super delicious! I always feel that eating time every day is the motivation to finish those hell training gone."

"Takao, correcting your mentality is one of the things you need to do, that's why I said you can't do it."

A strange man with green hair and glasses appeared after the black-haired boy—the reason for saying this is because I clearly saw the bandages wrapped around his fingers. Wouldn't it be inconvenient to move around like that?While thinking about it, I moved my five fingers subconsciously, and immediately stopped feeling a little stupid.

I took my eyes off the word [SHUTOKU] on the chest of their sportswear, and then more boys in the same uniform poured in from the entrance, and the noisy conversations echoed constantly, but I didn't have the heart to listen.

Not Haichang.

Not someone I know.

...I thought I could see Kasamatsu-san.

I don't reject my complaints about this in my heart, but I knew that thinking too much would lead to no results, so I simply focused on the work in hand, adding rice and distributing side dishes according to the process I was told just now.

In this way, it is very simple to empty your head, and it feels good not to have to think about anything, at least you can not let your mind be full of Matsukasa Matsukasa Matsukasa Matsukasa - that kind of state is not different from the state of emptying your head. It's big.

Then, suddenly—

"Don't stand in front of the smirking hippie face, there are still people waiting behind, take it and go to the seat to eat!"

Yukio Kasamatsu's voice was heard.

The emptiness in my mind seemed to be split open by someone. The shock was bigger than expected and my body trembled involuntarily. Before I could focus my eyes, I hurriedly turned my head to look at the window. Captured Kasamatsu Yukio standing behind Kise Ryota.

seen.

I swallowed.

After a week, since that night, I finally saw him.

——Kasamatsu-san.

His voice was stuck in his throat, and he couldn't even utter a single syllable. There was an abnormal heartbeat beating in his chest. The frequency and strength were so intense that it seemed that he was about to pop out, and he felt a little painful.

Kasamatsu-san and I are still separated by some distance, and we are in a state where I can only see him from one side, so we are so nervous. What will happen if we face each other directly? This is a picture I dare not imagine.

What's more... I miss him more than I imagined, and it's completely beyond my expectations.

I really want to call his name.

I really want to rush over to give him a hug.

I really want to...

"Huh? Isn't that... Tangerine?"

The fact that someone called my name pulled me back from the thought that I was almost running away, and my eyes that were once slack were focused again. After I saw the surprised expression of Kobori Hiroshi, I immediately met Kasamatsu who was standing in the first place. The classmates looked at each other.

His eyes widened for a moment.

Then, turn your face away and look away.

It's definitely not an illusion or delusion, I was indeed avoided by Yukio Kasamatsu.

Is it hated?

...Sure enough, he was hated, right?

I couldn't hold back the negative emotions I shouldn't have. I tried my best to suppress the chill that made my breathing ache. I lowered my head and continued the work in hand.I could hear Hiroshi Kobori calling Kasamatsu's name in a puzzled and flustered voice, but I didn't even dare to look there.

It was the first time I felt so scared—just looking at Yukio Kasamatsu's back, I would probably die of anxiety.

I told myself over and over again that I am here because I have to work, and don't be distracted by other superfluous things, so I managed to hold back the inexplicable feeling of wanting to cry.

However, after that, until the meal was distributed to everyone and I watched them move their chopsticks and start eating together, I never managed to let my head empty again.

It's disgusting, shouldn't I be here?I thought that as long as I met Kasamatsu, I would be able to find a solution... Speaking of which, I just came here because I wanted to meet Kasamatsu-san. As for what to do after I got here, and what purpose I wanted to achieve, I didn't think carefully at all. considered.

And now this situation has given me a blow beyond my imagination.

Compared with being pushed away and sent home that night, it was a more fatal blow.

I squatted down in a corner of the kitchen and wiped the corners of my eyes with my sleeve.

—Woo...can't cry, it's too embarrassing.

"Xiaoju? What's wrong with you?"

"what……"

After being called by a strange voice, I looked up and saw that it was my aunt who also worked in the kitchen. Because I hadn't remembered her name, I stood up and nodded to her with apology.

"I am fine."

"really?"

"Well, it's really okay." Feeling the tenderness from the person I've only been with for less than two hours, I tried to put on a relaxed smile to reassure her, and tried to change the subject, "Is there any work that I need to do?" Do it? Just say it, although there are still many unfamiliar places, but I will work hard!"

"No, no, the work at noon has been finished just now, and the work in the afternoon will not start until later. Now is the rest time." As she said, the auntie put her hands on my shoulders, she smiled, and with a little force on her hands, she Turning my body around, I turned to the side where the kitchen window was - "Someone is looking for you."

Very few people come back to me in this place.

Because the only people I know are Haichang’s classmates and the owner of the hotel, so the only people who can come to me are these people. In fact, it is not beyond this range, but I still see clearly the only person standing there. face, shocked.

It was Yukio Kasamatsu who turned his face away when he saw me just now, and made me wonder if the other party already hated me.

Huh?

Why?Why did Kasamatsu-san come to see me?

The questions that came to my mind didn't stop my legs that were involuntarily approaching that side. After walking a few steps, I felt that I couldn't breathe well. I stood at the closest distance to Kasamatsu-san across the bar table, and I He took a breath and tried to look at his face but didn't dare to look directly into the eyes.

"That...why...?"

"That's what I want to ask, right?" He showed a helpless expression of wanting to laugh, "Why are you here?"

"I, I just happened to come here to work!"

"By chance?"

"Hmm..." I turned my face away with a little guilty conscience, and swallowed all the rebuttals that came to my lips, "I'm sorry, I came here to work because I found out that Kasamatsu-san is sleeping here... I'm sorry."

"You don't have to apologize, and I don't blame you for coming here."

Kasamatsu-san scratched her hair in distress, and the tone and volume of her next words dropped a lot.

"If you want to come, tell me more or less in advance... I didn't know anything, so I was shocked."

Startled?

The image of Kasamatsu-san turning away from the previous exchange of gazes emerged in my mind.

"So that's when you... avoided it?"

"what?"

"No, nothing."

I feel intuitively that if I said that I was worried about whether I was hated by Kasamatsu-san just now, he would be angry and unhappy, just like when I was in Kasamatsu-san's room that night... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thing!I shook my head hastily, and opened my mouth in a panic to cover it up: "Because the matter of coming here to work was decided yesterday, and I was in a hurry, so I didn't have time to talk to Kasamatsu-san, and what should I say? I also want to give Kasamatsu-san a surprise... "

Although it seems that there is indeed surprise, it is hard to say joy...

The more I thought about it, the more frustrated I felt. I couldn't help puffing out my mouth and making whining noises, while my mind was desperately thinking about how to recover from my failure of doing something wrong (?).

However, what he blurted out in the next second was what he had been thinking about, but never thought about saying it.

"We haven't seen each other for a week, and I want to see Kasamatsu-san no matter what, so I...!"

That's why I was hooked by my friend's plan, which was obviously a trap.

As long as we meet each other, it will be fine, no matter how uneasy things are, as long as we can meet Kasamatsu-san's eyes, they will disappear.A certain part of my heart believes so firmly, and it is true.

I took a deep breath, and this time, I really let myself look into his eyes.

"Stupid, stupid, you! What did you suddenly say loudly..."

"It's telling the truth."

Well, do I have a bad taste?

When faced with Kasamatsu-san who was flustered, blushing, and incoherent, all the emotions that had been churning in my body until now disappeared, and I, who was incredibly calm, calmed down instead——By the way, it seems that this is not the first time this has happened. ?It's like this every time, when Kasamatsu-san messes around, I'm not afraid of anything.

Even, I still have the idea of ​​wanting to play tricks on him a lot.

Leaving aside some inner changes that I couldn't look directly at, I carefully observed every subtle expression and reaction of Kasamatsu-san, and guessed what he would say next.

Probably because our voice was a bit loud, the students who were still in the cafeteria, including students from other schools, also booed.

As a result, Kasamatsu-san's face became even redder.

He looked around in a panic, then looked at me again, opened his mouth to say something, but finally closed his mouth giving up.I was somewhat surprised that he would complain a few words, but what happened next was even more surprising to me.

Kasamatsu-san beckoned to me, motioning me to get closer, I didn't think too much about it, but with some doubts, I took a step forward and raised my head to approach Kasamatsu-san.

With his cheeks still slightly red, he looked around, then quickly approached my ear.

"I also... want to see you very much."

Pound, thump, thump—

My heart beats in an instant.

Pulling a little distance away, I saw Kasamatsu-san suddenly burst out laughing after seeing my expression.

Well, although there is no mirror in front of me, judging from the high temperature on my face, I can guess that my face must be terribly red at the moment, but it's not my fault—I covered my face and avoided myself—it's all because Kasamatsu-san's lines were too foul.

But, so happy.

I feel so happy from the bottom of my heart.

Because I know that I am not alone in missing the other party and wanting to see the other party.

For the first time, I had the real feeling of being liked by Kasamatsu-san, and I couldn't help but be happy.

"The lunch break is almost over, and I'm going back to the gym for afternoon training..." Kasamatsu paused as he spoke, then he reached out and patted my head, his voice became much softer again. "You...well, how late do you have to work?"

I recalled a little bit what the boss had said to me, and I was not sure about the answer.

"Eh? Shouldn't it be all over after you clear up the dishes after dinner?"

"After you're done, come to the entrance on the first floor. I'll wait for you there."

Leaving this sentence behind, Kasamatsu-san didn't give me a chance to react, and turned around and left, with a slightly faster pace than usual.When I think back afterwards, I always feel that Kasamatsu-san at that time gave people the illusion of fleeing - but at the time I was so full of other things that I didn't notice it at all.

I am such a happy person~

Thinking about it this way, when I knelt on the wooden aisle with a basin and a rag in the afternoon to wipe the floor, I uncontrollably leaked a few syllables that didn’t form a melody. If you want to describe it more vividly My own mood, I can probably think of something like "I thought I could get a candy reward, but I accidentally got a big bag of candy and told you that there are other sweets that you can choose from the sweet tooth control"!

No, maybe a winged sweet tooth would be added, because I always feel like I can fly into the air with a little flick of a feather - even though I don't have such a thing.

"Oh no, I'm happy to patronize myself."

After wiping the whole aisle and moving to the second floor with the water basin in hand, I suddenly remembered that I should report the situation to my friend who provided me with such good conditions to make sure that there was no one else around. Li took out his mobile phone, summed up what happened today in a few short sentences, and pressed send.

It didn't take long before I got a reply from a friend.

[Why are you so happy about this shit, you idiot. 】

"Too much!?"

What is this crap!It's only natural to be happy!

I shouted angrily in my heart.

As long as it is about Kasamatsu-san, even a single expression, gesture, or word will make my mood fly to heaven or fall to hell. This point must be understood by friends who like Kise Ryota, but she is so Tell me, it's really sad.

"You still call me an idiot, damn it, don't you think it's a bit rude to use words for a girl!"

"It's because you are an idiot that I scold you like that, what a shameless guy!"

The voice of a friend who shouldn't exist here sounded from the front.

At the same time, there was the sound of the wooden lattice sliding door being pulled open forcefully, with a bang, I could hardly tell which sound was louder, maybe it was the same sound——while I was thinking about it, my friend Already standing in front of me, but two steps away, arms crossed.

She raised her chin slightly, exuding an aura that made me want to kneel down and worship for a moment.

"You won't forget what your purpose of coming here is, right? Tachibana Tsu."