Chapter 1: The Second Cutest Girl in My Class
Sometimes, I wonder what exactly makes a friend, a ‘friend’.
Could two people who were in the same class and talked with each other often be called friends? Or maybe, two people who went to the school cafeteria together and had lunch together often?
No, right? Wouldn’t that make them classmates? Acquaintances at most. I was still a student, so I might just be reaching by saying this, but I don’t think those cases would be different from talking or having lunch with your colleagues at work.
With colleagues, while you might call them ‘acquaintances’, you would never call them ‘friends’ nor ‘buddies’.
Personally, I think you need to have a more personal relationship with someone before you could call them a ‘friend’.
Like hanging out somewhere after school or planning to meet up during our days off.
Only after crossing that line could an ‘acquaintance’ become a ‘friend’.
With that thought in mind, the number of people that I, Maehara Maki, could call a ‘friend’ or ‘buddy’ was close to zero.
Well, considering I was that kind of guy who would think about those things from the wee hours… From back when I was still in grade school until now, when I’ve already entered high school, every day I would go straight back home after school and would spend my days off playing video games at home unless I had something else to do.