"We are neighbours? What the hell? The coincidences are getting scary at this point!" – said Hayami-san
"Look to who you're telling that…" – I muttered.
"Wow! You really are neighbours! Guess you can now start acting all buddy like! Imagine the scenarios that are possible! One night…raining like never before…cold like the Artic… but oh… Hayami-san can't find the key to her apartment! She has to ring to Ishi-kun's doorbell and ask him to stay the night! As the two of them get really close throughout the evening they eventually have to share the same bed! The tension is building up through the roof! As both of them approach each other and share a fated, passionate and secret kis – OWWW!" – ended Makoto abruptly as Hayami-san clobbers him in the head, putting an end to that delusional fantasy of his.
"Makoto-kun! What the hell are you saying? I have like 3 spare keys to open the door!"
She is mad because of the lost key part of the story? I think that she should be mad for the rest of the fantasy…
"Well, yeah dude… And I have a futon in my house, just in case I have visits…" – I replied while scratching the back of my head with the same usual poker face.
"Is that an invitation?" – Makoto asks sarcastically.
At that moment, me and Hayami-san stared at each other, just for a second, then both of us looked at Makoto.
"You are really something, are you not Makoto-kun?"
"I want to believe that I am in fact special, Ishi-kun!"
At that point, Hayami-san bursted out laughing, it was the first time since meeting her that she laughed so hard, she seemed like another person.
"Are we going to stand outside all day? Come on both of you, feel free to enter!" – said Hayami-san as she invited us to enter her apartment.
"Thank you for having us!" – exclaimed Makoto in a high tone voice while I said the same with my classic monotonic voice.
Her apartment was very similar to mine, excluding some things that are exclusive for the most part of the girls. Her bathroom was way more organized than mine, with a ton of beauty products, her kitchen was very clean and the bedroom slash living room was all tidy-up. She had a little table at the center of the living room where both me and Makoto sat down by.
"Just a minute Makoto-kun and Ishigami-kun, I'm gonna change clothes and prepare something for you!"
"Thank you Hayami-chan! The same as always please!"
The same as always? Is Makoto used to hang out with Hayami-san? Can they be in a relationship? Am I here just to hold a candle for these two? But they don't seem like that at all.
"Uhm…Makoto-kun…" – I was going to start questioning when he interrupted me.
"That's no good! Call me Junpei, Ishi-kun! After all, I'm already calling you by your first name!"
"Oh…so…Junpei, what is your relationship with Hayami-san? Did I just came to be in the middle of something?"
"Oh…so it's like that! Perhaps you feel jealous, Ishi-kun?"
"Don't be an idiot…"
"Ahaha! Sorry! No, we aren't like that at all! We're just really good friends, back at high school we had a group of friends in common, so we are used to be together all the time. But since we were the only ones that came into this college, we are the only ones left from that group in this area to hang around like old times!"
"So that's how it is…"
"And what about you Ishi-kun? Tell me things about yourself, what do you like to do? Hobbies? Where are you from?"
"Uhm… nothing special really. I like movies, manga, anime, light novels, watching some sports, nothing out of the box. I used to live by the countryside with my parents before I moved into Yokohama. At first, I was aiming to go to Tokyo but I didn't manage to achieve it, so I ended up coming here."
"Maybe it was for the better…at least you've met us!" – said Junpei, while smiling at me.
"Oh… and one more thing, before you act all surprised, Hayami-chan maybe be a little more that you were expec—PUM!"
I hear a door closing quickly. As I look, I see Hayami-san dressed with a large sweatshirt and with mini shorts, her hair was tied with a black ribbon and she was wearing a pair of blue glasses, she smiled at us while holding a pack of beers.
"It's time to get to the fun part now!"
"What is happening…?"- I asked with a monotonic surprised voice, if that even exists.
"You are about to meet the real Hayami-chan… or must I say the real Haru-chan!" – said Junpei with an expression of "sorry to have dragged you into this…".
What a drag…