A day when Miyagi and I am unable to be alone collectively — 225

Translated by KaiesV

Edited by KaiesV

「Sendai-san, this isn’t what you promised.」

Miyagi stops when she is about 5 minutes away from Utsunomiya’s home.

「What I promised?」

「You mentioned you wouldn’t put it in a ponytail.」

「I don’t bear in mind saying I wouldn’t.」

「You promised you wouldn’t. I’ve been telling you since earlier than we left dwelling, untie that hair.」

Miyagi, who had solely let me hear her low voice since we left dwelling close to night, tugged at my arm and wrinkled her forehead.

Her eyes had been sharp as she checked out my hair in a ponytail, and it was exhausting to imagine that immediately was December twenty fourth. It’s extra becoming to be advised that we’re on our approach to do away with individuals who get pleasure from Christmas than to be advised that we’re on our approach to our associates’ homes to get pleasure from Christmas.

Valentine’s Day, Halloween, and even our birthdays.

Miyagi doesn’t get excited on days when everybody else is unconditionally excited. I feel the calendar in her thoughts is clean. It’s made to cross solemnly from January to December. So Christmas, which most individuals are so enthusiastic about, is simply one other day like yesterday for her.

「I’ll take into consideration whether or not or to not put it in a ponytail, as a result of that’s all I mentioned.」

I right my mistake with a white breath.

It wasn’t a white Christmas, however it was chilly.

I could have made a mistake in carrying a skirt.

「Unfair.」

Miyagi makes the bottom voice of the day.

「It’s okay. If anybody asks in regards to the earrings, I received’t inform them I bought them from Miyagi.」

I received’t say that I disapprove of Christmas Eve spent with Utsunomiya and the three of us, however I’m not solely dissatisfied. A ponytail is what I have to fold these not-so-good me up small and preserve them in a drawer in my thoughts.

It’s simple to satisfy Miyagi’s needs, however I wish to be sure that the blue stone that’s my coronary heart’s stronghold is seen for all to see.

「If Maika asks you, will you inform her you got it your self?」

「Sure. That’s why, don’t fear.」

A pat on Miyagi’s hand, which is connected to my arm, causes her forehead to crease.

Apparently, I’m not trusted.

「I’m not going to do something that may embarrass you, Miyagi. I’m going to place you in a great temper.」

I gently contact the plumeria earrings on Miyagi’s ears.

「…it’s not very good, however I’ll take it as a great factor.」

Miyagi says reluctantly, as if she actually doesn’t wish to say it, and walks away.

I wish to say in entrance of Utsunomiya,「Miyagi gave it to me,」however I can’t say it, excited about what is going to occur after I say it. If I break my promise, I’m more likely to be advised like a schoolboy that we’re on hiatus or that I’ll by no means converse to her once more, and I’m positive she’ll truly do it.

I stroll subsequent to her in order to not be left behind.

After about 5 minutes, we arrived at a protracted, slender house constructing and took the elevator right down to the second flooring. In entrance of this room, I pressed the intercom button and the door opened.

「Welcome. Are available, you two.」

We each returned「Sorry for intruding,」to Utsunomiya who greeted us and took off our coats and footwear on the entrance. Coming into the reasonably air-conditioned room, the three of us collect round a desk with Miyagi within the middle.

「Shiori, you’re not carrying a Sendai-dress immediately. You’re not carrying a skirt.」

Utsunomiya, sitting diagonally in entrance of Miyagi, says in a cheerful voice.

Ready in a heat room, Utsunomiya herself is carrying a knit and skirt in Christmas colours. Her hair, a bit of longer than Miyagi’s, can also be properly set immediately with loosely curled ends. A fast look tells me that she was trying ahead to immediately, so I consciously preserve the corners of my mouth turned up.

「I advised you, skirts and Sendai-dress don’t have anything to do with one another. Additionally, it’s chilly immediately, and there’s no approach I’m carrying a skirt or such.」

I hear the identical dialogue I heard this morning and I take a look at Miyagi in her corduroy pants.

I needed her to put on a skirt, however I had no selection.

She’s a chilly particular person and I don’t need her to catch a chilly by forcing her to put on a skirt.

「Talking of which, Sendai-san. It’s uncommon to see you with a ponytail, isn’t it? It’s a special picture.」

Utsunomiya’s voice flew in from throughout to me, and I shifted my gaze from Miyagi to her.

「It’s Christmas, so I modified it up.」

「It actually fits you, you’re actually fairly.」

「Thanks.」

「Did you modify your earrings too? Didn’t you say you had been very connected to your previous earrings?」

Utsunomiya’s gaze stung my ears.

Ahh, how might I not discover?

I make as smooth an expression as I can and utter the strains I’ve ready.

「I had lots of emotions about it, however I needed a brand new one, so I purchased it.」

「Oh, actually. What sort of stone is that?」

「Sapphire. I believed I’d dwell a lifetime of integrity.」

There isn’t any approach that Utsunomiya would assume that the sapphire was worn as an indication that I belonged to Miyagi, however it will be simpler to keep away from suspicion if there was a believable purpose.

「Integrity?」

「The stone language for sapphire.」

It’s not a lie.

Sapphire is the birthstone of September, the month Miyagi was born, however it additionally has the stone phrase for sincerity, which might be the rationale why this blue stone is on my ear.

「Heh, that makes such sense.」

「I’m simply attempting to be a extra severe faculty scholar.」

I reply with out Miyagi, although there needs to be little doubt.

「That makes it sound such as you’ve by no means been severe.」

「I’m severe, very severe. It’s like, let’s be much more severe. And I like blue.」

I didn’t notably like blue, however the earrings made me prefer it. I’m not mendacity, so I feel I needs to be forgiven.

「Sendai-san, you look good in easy issues like that.」

「Thanks.」

「Talking of which, didn’t Shiori purchase earrings? She was on the lookout for them the opposite day after we went to observe motion pictures.」

「Miyagi, had been you on the lookout for earrings with Utsunomiya?」

My voice comes out by itself.

I take a look at Miyagi, who’s diagonally in entrance of me, nearly wrinkling her forehead, and he or she rapidly seems away from me.

I slowly contact the blue stone on my ear.

Utsunomiya appears to know nothing about this earring.

The earrings weren’t given to me on the day she returned from the film, and Utsunomiya’s phrases point out that she didn’t select them at the moment. However provided that Miyagi had taken the time to pick out the earrings, it’s not shocking that she had consulted Utsunomiya about them with out telling her who they belonged to.

Miyagi mentioned she didn’t need me to inform Utsunomiya who gave me the earrings, so I don’t assume Utsunomiya ought to have something to do with my earrings. And but, the small undeniable fact that Utsunomiya is aware of that Miyagi was on the lookout for the earrings makes me uneasy.

The earrings that handle me shouldn’t be combined with something aside from Miyagi.

I get together with Utsunomiya, however I belong solely to Miyagi.

「I wasn’t on the lookout for it. That was simply me glancing. Let’s get able to go. Pizza’s speculated to be right here quickly.」

Miyagi says in a intentionally cheerful voice.

Maybe Miyagi was my earrings.

——To make the plumeria earrings I selected completely different earrings?

I ask myself the query and clench my palms.

I feel it shouldn’t be that approach, however I’m unsure. I can’t imagine that Miyagi would ever make a special pair of earrings from the plumeria earrings I selected.

「Shiori, you’re too impatient.」

Utsunomiya’s voice is heard, adopted by the intercom ringing.

「Oh, it’s there. Simply keep nonetheless.」

Utsunomiya will get up and heads for the door.

I stroked the blue stone with my fingertips and appears at Miyagi.

「Your earrings, had been you pondering of adjusting them?」

I ask in a small voice in order that Utsunomiya, who’s on the door, can not hear.

「I’m not going to alter this one. I used to be simply trying on the earrings.」

Her curt voice responds, and I loosen my grip on my hand.

「I see.」

I pull my earlobes and take a look at the doorway. I see Utsunomiya holding what seems like a pizza and rise up.

「Want some assist?」

I’ve some issues on my thoughts, however I ought to change my thoughts now.

「Then I would like you to get the juice out of the fridge.」

Utsunomiya’s voice echoes within the one room, which isn’t small however not spacious both.

「Okay—」

As I used to be getting juice out of the fridge as I used to be advised, Miyagi arrived and very quickly in any respect, tonight’s feast was on the desk.

「Let’s take an image earlier than we eat.」

After I approached Miyagi and Utsunomiya, Utsunomiya mentioned,「Nice,」and caught with Miyagi. I smiled and picked up my cellphone, saying,「Miyagi, you’re within the center,」earlier than Miyagi began to say one thing bothersome about photos being taken later or that she didn’t wish to.

Flash.

A single photograph of the three smiling folks is saved on the cellphone.

I’d fairly have an image of Miyagi immediately than preserve excited about these earrings.

「Properly then, cheers!」

As I referred to as out to them, two glasses poured with cider and one glass poured with orange juice collided and made a noise.

「I suppose let’s eat.」

Utsunomiya mentioned calmly and reached for the pizza. Miyagi and I additionally take a pizza on our plates, and the three of us say to one another, “Itadakimasu.”

Eat pizza, munch hen, take photos.

Miyagi casually glares at me as I seize Miyagi and Utsunomiya on my cellphone, snapping away between meals, however I don’t care. Utsunomiya can also be taking photos, and Miyagi would by no means complain if she pointed her cellphone at her now.

I needed to spend Christmas Eve alone with Miyagi, however I feel it’s not unhealthy to get along with the three of us like this. I’m pleased to have extra Miyagi on my cellphone, completely different from the college competition.

「When will we alternate items? Earlier than or after the cake?」

As extra photographs had been taken and the feast on the desk was nearly gone, Utsunomiya checked out us, as if remembering.

「Isn’t it okay now? Sure, that is for you, Maika.」

Miyagi offers Utsunomiya the present she introduced.

“Thanks,” a cheerful voice echoes in my ears, and I forged my eyes down.

What we do is so commonplace that it will be unusual to not have it, an integral a part of the Christmas occasion. I’ve achieved this present alternate factor many instances up to now, and I do know that that is one thing that has no deep that means, however I don’t actually wish to see Miyagi giving Utsunomiya a present.

Nonetheless.

I’m grateful to Utsunomiya.

If this had not occurred, Miyagi wouldn’t have ready Christmas presents for me.

I let loose a small breath and gently touched the earring.