Chapter 58: In Exchange of that ‘Agreement’
Weekends were supposed to feel relaxing.
Weekends were the days when you could get your well-earned rest after a gruesome work or school week. It was the time we always looked forward to.
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Sure, there were weekends when you would brood over trouble at work or something, but this… I wasted the whole weekend brooding over this…
I love you…
The words that Umi whispered to me when we parted last time. A lot of things happened during that day. This and that led to that moment.
“Ah, jeez, Umi… What’s with that timing?… Because of that I can’t spend my weekend in peace…”
Those words convinced me that our feelings were mutual. After all, the timing, the atmosphere, the gesture she made, she didn’t seem to be teasing me.
“That was a confession, right? …I’m not deluding myself, right? …She did say ‘I love you’ to me, right?”
I mulled over it again and again, trying to convince myself that it was indeed a confession.