I Became Friends with the Second Cutest Girl in My Class (WN)

T/N: That's all for the week! Also, like I said, this arc did both Amami and Arae's characters better than their actual arc.

Ooyama’s PoV

Why ‘him’?

I had been thinking about it since last autumn.

‘His’ name was Maehara Maki. For some reason, we have been in the same class since the first year. Even so, we barely exchanged words with each other.

For a while after school started, he had only been idling by himself in class. He’d go home without saying a word to anyone for the entire day. He spent his day pretending to be sleeping at his desk or going somewhere by himself.

He was the kind of guy whose existence you’d only remember once in a while.

Honestly, I never wanted to get along with him. I knew that our conversation would die down even if we tried to talk, so there was no point in starting a conversation with him to begin with. Aside from that, I didn’t want other people to look down on me for getting along with him.

‘I’m not like him.’ I, Ooyama Takeshi, had been living my life with that thought in mind. It was a relief knowing that someone who was lower than me existed.