I go back to my room and look at the bookshelf.
The types of books stored there are really miscellaneous and unorganized. Among them, I look for books that focus on romance.
This, this, and this.
I picked up three books and sat down on the bed.
All of them are masterpieces. (For me)
Even so, there aren't many stories where love is the main focus. For example, there are many stories in which love is also involved in the story while putting the spotlight on the performance, but there are only a handful of works in my collection that have a story that revolves around love.
Later, when I picked up a romance novel again, I realized that most of the works I own were written by female authors and had male protagonists. Well, if you could call it a hobby, that's it. If there's a reason why I like it, it's probably because it depicts men who like women.
Maybe if a man were to read it he would think, ``This is not the kind of person I am,'' but that's the same for both of us. Besides, since it's a fictional character, it doesn't really matter if it's there or not, and moreover, a character that's too realistic won't fit into the story unless it's written very well.
The conversation went off in a big way. I was currently choosing a book to introduce to Hayasaka san.
Hayasaka-san probably isn't the type to read many novels. Judging from her past conversations and the feel of the room, I think that assumption is almost certain. In that case, it would be better for her to recommend something that is somewhat easy to read.
The criteria for this differs from person to person, but I personally think that a work is easy to read if the text on the first page is not too long. It is especially preferable to start with one or two lines. For readers who have not yet fully entered into that world, sentences that continue from the beginning to the end will cause them to lose concentration.
It is preferable that the explanatory text does not continue immediately after the start. I once browsed through a book that had an endless description of the town in which it takes place from the first page, but I closed the book within seconds. Maybe my training wasn't enough. That's not to say that such books are bad. It's just that it was still too early for someone as inexperienced as me.
Although I have put together a number of theories, it is all just an afterthought. I was trying to guess why it was so easy to read later, and it just occurred to me. In other words, what I'm trying to say is that I had decided from the beginning which books I wanted to recommend to Hayasaka san, and all my thoughts up until now had been like putting together the answers.
After all, this is the only option.
If my favorite work is released in paperback, I will buy it without hesitation, even if I have it in hardcover. This work is definitely one of those books.
"Living together with my classmate". When I hear that, it feels like a recent thing, but as I said earlier, this was released twenty years ago, and that genre probably didn't exist at the time.
Although this work itself is part of a series that continues beyond this volume, it is enough to enjoy just the first volume. In fact, I've been reading just one volume over and over again. It's not that the second volume is bad, but for me, the first volume was the best, and the other volumes were just good.
In the end, I ended up recommending what I like. That's my bad thing. That said, this work has a relatively refreshing love theme, and there aren't many elements other than love. In other words, this is the only book suitable for recommending to Hayasaka san. This is the only option.
Okay. If I decide to do so, I will contact Hayasaka san.
Actually, on the way home, I exchanged LINE IDs with Hayasaka san.
Before that, I feel like she gave me a typical tsundere line like, ``It's not like I want to exchange anything,'' but maybe that's just my imagination. Perhaps I was so happy to be able to exchange IDs with Hayasaka san that my memories of the time before and after were mixed with delusions.
This is why I'm an otaku. It's completely confusing.
Operating my smartphone I tapped on Hayasaka-san's icon.
Well, what shall I send?
The content has already been decided. The problem is how to convey it.
I'm already not good at things like this, but having Hayasaka-san as my opponent makes it even more of a problem. In the first place, I still haven't been able to accurately measure even the usual sense of distance, so there was no way I could know what was the correct sense of distance in the text. Should I just go with something like a spoken word here? Or is it a polite honorific? Hmm...
"I have decided on a book that I would like to recommend to Hayasaka san, so I will give it to you on Monday at noon.''
After much deliberation, I ended up choosing the former.
It's kind of weird to use honorific language only in sentences, and it's embarrassing when people realize that you're nervous. Well, since we are classmates, this choice is probably not wrong.
"thank you. I am looking forward"
Next, a stamp of an excited bear was sent to me.
"--"
For some reason, I am moved by that.
After all, Hayasaka-san sent me such cute stamp... Somehow, I feel a feeling that cannot be put into words. Happy, cute ,love. It was a feeling that was a combination of all those things, something that even I couldn't describe.
At least I should send something back.
I send Hayasaka san a stamp with a cat excited about it.
That ended the conversation between us.
I clutched my phone to my chest and fell back onto the bed.
Go to the other person's house, exchange lines, and borrow books. What is this...
"We're like friends."
No, it's still too early to get excited. The reason I went to Hayasaka san's house was to reassure Hayasaka san's mother, and the reason we exchanged LINE was to lend and borrow books, and the reason I borrowed books was to study.
So, when will it be okay for me to float around? I don't know. But I feel like I'm getting closer to Hayasaka-san little by little. After that, continue doing this...
I suddenly remembered the children I became estranged from after graduating from junior high school.
There has been no contact from the other side. It's a shame because I haven't done it either, but I just didn't have the courage to do it myself. What should I do if someone wonders what I'm contacting you about? I don't think we are friends anymore. Those negative thoughts are in my head.
What exactly are friends?
If you don't do well, you may never find the answer.