Dreaming Boy Wakes Up

Chapter 5: Shy girl

"The line between love and hate is often blurred, and that's where the heartbreak is."

-Anonymous

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Another regular morning came and I had done all my exercises, took a shower and was ready to walk to school. Of course I'm not one to complain about what I have since I know it's a lot but I often dreamed of what it would be like if my mom or sister cooked me breakfast every morning.

It'd be amazing.

Sadly we live in reality.

In reality I'm left with eating a banana because of the fact that my mom doesn't have time before work and my sister doesn't feel like cooking.

(She says that but I'm pretty sure she just doesn't know how.)

Whatever I was heading out when suddenly my sister called out to me.

"Ah, wait a second, Wataru."

"...Huh?"

'I'm going with you', is what Big Sis said, so I was forced to wait for her. With this event that had never occurred so far, I couldn't help but feel restless. She might actually be a bro-con and just can't hide it anymore.

Ha impossible.

I wouldn't hate it though.

Yeah, not happening. There's no way that audacious and insolent Big Sis of mine would be a bro-con. I can't think of one compliment she's giving me my entire life.

I don't even get what's going on. I don't think it has happened ever since I moved up to middle school. I honestly didn't like the idea of going to school with Big Sis either, to be honest. She draws a lot of attention because of how attractive she is.

I mean to other guys of course she's literally my sister.

"I'm leaving."

"Okay.."

I figured that she wouldn't say anything like that herself, so I took the bullet, to which she joined in with a quiet voice. Right now, she might be much more calm and collected, but back when she started attending high school, she was in her so-called gal period, acting out rude behaviour like not telling our parents when she left. Seems like there's still some remains from that time. She was like a female gangster.

"...So? Why'd you suddenly want to go together?"

"Huh? I only said I'd go with you."

"...That's literally the same thing."

We're talking about a mysterious life form called 'woman' here. If this was any other attribute besides being my older sister, I might just call her a tsundere and be secretly happy. Why did she make me wait for her then, I don't get it. In the end, I was forced to just follow her, only for her to abruptly stop not even a few meters later.

"Huh? Why'd you stop?"

"...That girl." Big Sis used her chin to point in a direction.

...Really? With your chin? Following her gaze (?), I spotted the back of a familiar girl standing right at the corner of the street. It's not that she was necessarily waiting for anything, but rather carefully peeked around the corner.

What were you up to Aika?

"......"

"......"

"Hey, you know her, right? Don't just stay quiet, and talk to her. We need to walk past her anyway."