I push the kid!

"I see. Well... I don't know the young lady very well." Hoshino Ai said.

"Why are you calling me Miss too?" She looked at Hoshino Ai, then glared at Makimura Taku, "Makimura, you've led Ai astray! She never called me Miss before."

"What does it have to do with me?" Makimura Taku replied indifferently.

"Your fault."

"Isn't it nice?" Hoshino Ai asked, "I actually think this name is quite cute. At first I even thought of it as a princess or something like that. How should I put it? A feeling of dignity and elegance?"

"Dignified and elegant?"

"No, no, no, Makimura called me that because he definitely thought I was being rude and unreasonable." Ogura Tomoki said slowly, "I know him too well." She looked at Makimura Taku, "No?"

"You totally guessed it."

"Look."

"That's not right, Makimura."

"Like she said, no problem."

Ogura Yuki said: "This idiot has no nice words in his mouth, it's so easy to understand."

Taku Makimura closed his eyes and took a sip of coffee, not commenting on this statement.

Hoshino Ai's gaze moved back and forth between the two of them, finally stopping on Ogura Tomoki's face.

She smiled and said, "Although he always says he is honest, Makimura does lie sometimes."

Makimura Taku looked at her, and Hoshino Ai showed an innocent expression: "Is that so?"

"It's hard to say."

“That’s a lie!”

"I understand, I understand." said Tomoki Ogura.

"Right." Hoshino Ai continued to smile beautifully.

Makimura Taku put down the empty cup and asked Ogura Tomoki: "Are we leaving now?"

"Yeah, that's why I drank the coffee so quickly." Ogura Yuki pointed downstairs, "The driver should be here soon. I should go downstairs now."

"Yes." Makimura Taku nodded, "Then be careful on the road."

"Be safe~" Hoshino Ai repeated.

Ogura Tomoki was stunned for a moment, and his expression clearly showed that he did not expect Makimura Taku to say this to him.

Her fingers seemed to have nowhere to put, so they rested on the junction of the black stockings and thighs. She rubbed it repeatedly for a few times, then said, "I understand, and left first."

"I'll be back." When she was almost at the entrance, she suddenly added, "I'm just going to take care of a few things. I'm not not coming back."

"Okay, okay." Makimura Taku answered.

The door slammed shut with a gentle bang, and the faint sound of rain came in through the gap in the door that had just been opened, and quickly disappeared.

The footsteps could no longer be heard after the door was closed. The sky outside the glass window was hazy, like dirty water with the sand filtered out, and the raindrops were clearly visible falling diagonally.

You can't see the birds flying by, and it's hard to notice the clouds drifting away.

The slender branches and leaves swayed in the rain, it seemed that there was some wind.

The lights in the living room were on, and the light was as white as snow.

The grapes, green grapes and apples on the table still had traces of water from being washed. When exposed to the light, their colors immediately became brighter, and they looked more delicious.

The unfinished cup of coffee still had some white steam coming out of it. There was no wind at all around, and the smoke was rising straight up.

"It's so quiet." Hoshino Ai said, "It feels like we are the only ones left?"

"We are the only ones left."

"I mean the whole world."

Makimura Taku coughed lightly: "Well... this world is too small."

"Yeah," Hoshino Ai swung her legs and said lightly, "It's so small."

Taku Makimura was afraid that she would feel bored, so he asked her if there were any books she would like to read or any variety shows she would like to watch.

Hoshino Ai pondered for a moment, then looked up to think.

She had stopped swinging her legs and was now sitting virtuously and obediently, supporting her thighs covered by her long skirt with both hands:

"There's nothing I want to see. I can't think of anything right now."

"Are you just going to sit there and do nothing?"

"It's not that unpleasant this way." Hoshino Ai smiled.

"I don't hate it." Makimura Taku admitted.

Hoshino Ai leaned on the sofa, swaying her body slightly, and making umm sounds with her mouth, as if she was making some difficult decision.

But his face was as calm as water, and his eyes were always looking at the straight line connecting the ceiling and the wall.

Taku Makimura glanced at her profile. Her eyelashes looked even straighter and longer from the side, and her nose was small and unique.

Her lips look redder than before, I don’t know if it’s because of the lighting or because she applied lip gloss.

She suddenly turned around and looked at Taku Makimura, who looked away.

He felt that his behavior was like voyeurism, even though he had never thought of it that way before.

"Haha, why are you turning your face away, Makimura?" Hoshino loved to laugh at him.

"Everyone would have the same reaction if you suddenly turned around," explained Makimura Taku.

"Shy?"

"No such thing."

He looked at Hoshino Ai again. The girl's white and tender hands were still pressed on her thighs, and there was a pure smile on her face.

She is dressed so gently today, like a wife.

It's rare for Taku Makimura to not want to look other people in the eye.

He has never cared about anything, whether it is opinions or looks.

Perhaps it was because he had never seen anyone who could touch his heart as much as Hoshino Ai did today.

He felt the fragrance around him becoming clearer and clearer, as if he was putting a blooming flower to his lips and sniffing it.

"Wait," Hoshino Ai blinked, "Are you blushing? Makimura."

"How is that possible?" Makimura Taku felt nothing.

"Really," Hoshino Ai said, "You're so fair, I can tell at once."

Makimura Taku said, "If I blush, I will definitely know it myself."

"You're obviously blushing." She suddenly reached out and touched Makimura Taku's face.

Makimura Taku didn't react at all. Hoshino Ai smiled and said, "See, it's not obvious, but it's still a little hot~"

After saying that, he took his hand back.

"…It's normal human body temperature."

"What's normal?"

"Your hands are so cold."

"Really? I'm fine." She touched herself.

Taku Makimura didn't say anything. He needed to go to the bathroom because he drank too much coffee.

He stood up from the sofa and just took half a step when Hoshino Ai suddenly grabbed his hand from behind: "What's wrong?"

"No." Makimura Taku said, "I'm going to the bathroom."

"Is that so?" Hoshino Ai said, "Then go quickly and come back quickly."

"You can't force this kind of thing."

Hoshino Ai let go of his hand, and Makimura Taku left the living room and came back two or three minutes later.

Hoshino Ai picked up the grapes from the plate and put them in her mouth like a kitten, then spit the skins and seeds into a black trash can.

He walked over, Hoshino Ai patted the empty seat on the right and asked him to sit down quickly, and Makimura Taku did so.

Hoshino Ai laughed and stuffed a grape in his hand into his mouth: "Please have it!"

Makimura Taku looked at her, then at the grapes, then took a bite and said vaguely, "Isn't it boring?"

"Absolutely not."

“Even I’m bored.”

Hoshino Ai smiled and said, "It happened before, we stayed in the same room. You read under the lamp, and I sat by the stove and fell asleep."

"That's right."

"Yeah~"

"A long time ago."

"I can't count how many days it has been."

“It seemed like it was over in a flash.”

"Oh, I know, that vivid feeling!"

She was an exceptionally lively girl, and this feeling grew stronger every day after she and Makimura Taku reunited.

"I like you."

"Next time you tell me, at least give me some notice first, right?" Hoshino Ai was stunned, pretended to be angry and said something, then laughed, "But I don't hate you, I like you too."

She held Taku Makimura's hand, as if she was used to this action, and even Taku Makimura felt so.

But that was still a lie. How many times has this happened?

"If I don't say it, I'm afraid I'll forget my feelings."

"Forgot something?"