Chapter 47: Literature Club
We walked down the hallway. It was getting pretty empty now, just a few other students heading to their own club activities.
I looked over at Nina. She was just walking, a small smile on her face like she was thinking about something funny. She must have felt me looking because she turned her head.
"What?" she asked, her smile getting a little bigger.
My brain stalled. I had a thousand things I wanted to ask. Most of them were about how to help Jake without making a complete fool of myself.
’Should I just ask her?’ The thought was right there. ’She’s a girl. She knows how this stuff works.’
No. That was a bad idea. A really bad idea. That’s what the clueless main character in a manga does. He asks the girl who likes him for advice on another girl, and then he’s shocked when everything gets weird. I was not going to be that guy. Even though she did not like me in that way.
"What’s your favorite food?" I asked instead.
The question was so random it made her blink. "My favorite food?" she repeated, like she wasn’t sure she heard me right.
"Yeah."
She thought about it for a second. "I don’t know. That’s a hard question."
"It’s not that hard," I said. "Mine is katsudon."