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

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If I couldn’t help him, I could just say so, no big deal.

 

I hope that his group won’t gang up on me if I refuse his request though…

 

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After school, I headed to the meet up location alone.
Before I headed over, I notified Umi about this.

 

Seki-kun told me to not tell her about it, but I knew that even though she appeared like she was giving all her attention to Amami-san, she was actually paying close attention to me.
Even if I kept silent, she was bound to find out about this and I don’t want to cause her unnecessary worry, so I decided to let her know.

 

[Maehara: Umi.]

[Asanagi: What is it?]

[Maehara: I can’t go back home together today.]

[Maehara: Got some business to take care of.]

[Asanagi: Hmm…]

[Asanagi: Are you meeting up with someone?]

[Maehara: Well, yeah…]

[Maehara: I can’t tell you about it though.]

[Maehara: They told me to keep quiet.]

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[Asanagi: Got it.]

[Asanagi: It’s Seki, isn’t it?]

 

She knew.

 

She probably saw Seki-kun talking to me… I felt a shiver run down my spine.

 

[Maehara: I don’t think anything weird will happen, don’t worry.]

[Asanagi: I know, but still…]

[Asanagi: Fine, I won’t do anything, but please take care of yourself, okay?]

[Maehara: Don’t worry, if anything happens, I’ll let you know.]

[Asanagi: Okay.]

 

Umi was being overprotective.
It was proof that her past still tied her down somehow.

 

It wasn’t like she doesn’t trust me or anything, she’s probably feeling uneasy about this somewhere in her heart.

 

Well, there wasn’t a lot I could do about it but to help her get over her past little by little.

 

Anyway, I went to the promised place.
Seki-kun was ahead of me since he left as soon as the class ended for his club activities.

 

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I’ve never gone to the club building since it was always crowded, and it was also on the opposite side of my favorite spots at school.

 

There were two buildings there, one for keeping the sport’s equipment and one was the actual club building.
I went to the former building and saw that Seki-kun was already waiting for me there when I arrived.

 

“Yo, Maehara.
Sorry to call you out to a place like this, but I had to take care of the equipment or else the coach and the upperclassmen would scold me.”

 

I guess they assigned chores like this to the freshmen.
He was polishing the dusty pitching machine and some balls.
It seemed like he didn’t cut any corners since everything that he cleaned looked as good as new.

 

In class, he looked really lazy, but he seemed to take his club activities very seriously.

 

“So, what’s up?”

“Right.
I still have more work to do, so I’ll just get straight to the point.”

 

He bowed to me.

 

“Maehara, please.
I need your help so I can get closer to Amami-san before the Christmas party begins!”

“…I knew it…”

 

I knew that he liked Amami-san, so I kind of expected this.

 

Well… Let’s hear him out at least.