My name is Yamada Hiro, and I want to have an experience in love.
I am a 20-year old college student and still, I have no experience with love. All my friends, classmates and even people who are younger than me is being all lovey-dovey with their partners. As for the reason why I am still a person with no experience in love is that I am looking for the perfect heroine for my love story.
Well, that is a lie.
The real reason is that instead of going into mixers or go out with my friends and let them introduce me to some girls they've known, I am stuck in front of my computer playing online games all night long.
Well, I am sure that I had some time off but my guts tell me not to go so I made up some excuses of having a raid on a specific time that's why I need to go home as soon as possible.
"You want to hang out, Hiro?" Ishida asked me out of concern.
"No good, I need to pick up some groceries for dinner tonight." and that is my excuse for today for some change of pace.
Our class just ended and some are preparing to go home while others will hang out into a karaoke bar with some bringing their girlfriends.
Heh, I don't want to be a thin air into that tight space.
Due to my respond, Ishida gave me a concerned but sad smile.
Ishida is one of my classmates since kindergarten and even without having a girlfriend of his own yet, a lot of girls are flocking all over him since middle school. I wish I could be like him too, I wish I have more confidence to attend with my friends.
"Didn't I tell you, Ishida? He won't come whatever you do."
The one who said that is one of the most beautiful girls in our class in our 3rd year in High School, Momo.
I had feelings for her but suddenly, rumors about her start to spread about her having a relationship with different man simultaneously. I am a scumbag, that's for sure. Believing in those rumors even though they are not proven to be true, how low of a person can I possibly be?
How disgusting.
Each day, I am disgusted by myself every time I saw her because it made me remember how much of a scumbag I really am.
I stood up on my seat and pretending to be looking on my phone.
For paying off all my foolishness, I think I should let them have their way today since I am not really busy today.
I walked to them as they plan where to hang out, and I put my hands on Ishida's shoulder and said silently.
"It turns out, grocery has been done by mom so I have some free time." I forced out a smile on my face trying to hide my nervousness.
Just today, and in the next times, I won't be going.
An hour later - Inside a Karaoke Bar.
"ell, today was the first time we hang out with Hiro, so I think we should go all out today!" Ishida is indeed happy about me coming into one of his invites.
I cracked a nervous smile and awkwardly, the person I don't want to be seeing me having a nervous smile is sitting right in front of me. As soon as our eyes met, Momo chuckled a bit, and I realized that she knew that I was nervous. I have nothing to do but just to get out and offer them for me to get some drinks in the drinking station outside.
"Whew, that was nervewracking!" I exhaled those words with a sigh of relief as soon as I stepped out of the room.
On the other side, I saw a high school girl who is supposed to be underage, taking a beer in the beer station. I just looked at her and some of her friends accompanied her back to their room. As she was about to enter their room again, she just noticed that I was staring at her because, for a split second, she looked back at me.
"What a waste." is what I thought to say but I said it out loud anyway.
"So, is she your type of girl, huh?" suddenly a girl's voice passed through like a thin air behind me.
I was startled by it and I lost my composure for a second after that happened.
As I look who it is, it is Momo who is behind me with a grinning look in her face.
I was startled just then so I kind of stuttered as I was about to answer her question.
"Y-y-you're wrong about it! I don't like girls like her especially the fact that they are high schoolers makes it impossible for me anyway." I answered her with all the nervousness inside me exploding in just that moment.
"Hm... Is that so? Well, if they are not high schoolers, you would like them?" another question from her. As expected from her to tease me this bad.
"N-no! That's not the case. I need to go get some drinks so I need to do it fast." I hurriedly walked off her but before I reach the drinking station, she said something that made my heart skip a beat.
"Well, I am here to help you that's why I went out of the room."
Childish, right? Well, I can't do anything about that since my heart skipped a beat on its own.
My face went red and my body gets heavy and it made me hard to walk, of course, it will be obvious to her.
"Your heart skipped a beat, right?" she spurted out of nowhere.
I can't say anything so I just wave her off, telling her that she was mistaken. That's what I planned to do but she suddenly added to her question these words.
"Just kidding." then she took off and gets the glass and filled it up as quickly as she can. Everything went swiftly and she went back as soon as she gets the first batch. As soon as she was gone, I sighed another sigh of relief and returned to our room.
After that, everything went normal and the couples in our room avoided to get too much clingy and instead, they enjoyed the rest of the time as if everything was nothing. This experience was far off different from what I had imagined.
We parted our ways after that and I took the long road to our home by walking alone. As soon as I got home, I did not eat dinner first because they will be upstairs by the time I got home and as expected, I am just alone again because both my parents had overtime in their work. My little sister must be out with her friends again but I am sure that she prepared some dinner and put it in my table inside my room.
I am not wrong with that and a new thing appeared to me. It is a note left by my sister saying that she won't be coming home tonight, instead, she will be sleeping over her friend's house. I did not care anyway since she does that almost all the time even without having a written note.
I logged in to the RPG game I was playing and as soon as I logged in, I saw a notification that someone asked me to be her couple in the game.
I don't know what it's got into me but as soon as I read it, I laughed like a wicked villain in a comic book story after he defeated the hero in a long time crossing paths with each other.
"This is the kind of love story I was hoping for! Bwahahaha!"
At the end of the night, I accepted her proposal and we ended up getting married in the game.