Don't you guys dislike me?

The door was closed. Logically, the rooftop was not open to students, but today the door handle was loose.

Just twist it and it opens.

The girl was sitting on the bench with her legs crossed, holding a yellow book that she never got tired of reading. The breeze blew through her hair, making her long hair flutter.

Yuichi closed the door and looked around. The rooftop surrounded by iron nets was like a cage. Although safety was the first priority, it was still a bit depressing. At least for Yuichi, it was somewhat disillusioning.

When he came to the other side of the bench and just sat down, Kasumigaoka Utaha stuffed a bag of bread into his hand and kept her eyes on the book, which made people confused.

"For me?"

"Help me unpack it."

"Oh."

Then she handed over another bottle of drink. Youyi unscrewed the cap and handed it back.

"That bottle is for you."

"……Thanks."

After Kasumigaoka Utaha had eaten and drunk her fill, she closed the book and asked softly:

"So... why did you ask me out?"

Yuichi leaned on the iron net behind him, looked up at the leisurely floating clouds, and replied lazily:

"Nothing special... I just feel like things around me have been a mess lately, and my mood has been disturbed."

"Want to talk to your sister about your troubles?"

"I don't have that plan... You are also part of this mess." Her purple eyes drooped, looking a little dim: "But it will be much better than the others."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but she swallowed it back. Now she needed to play the role of a good sister.

"Stop lying. If you want some quiet time, wouldn't it be more comfortable to be alone? Why did you come all the way to find me?"

The girl revealed Yuichi's thoughts in a calm tone.

"Maybe."

He echoed Kasumigaoka Utaha listlessly.

The gentle breeze passes by casually, and the leisurely clouds float as they please, making people forget about time and everything slows down.

Yuichi fell asleep at one moment, and woke up at the next. The feeling of his head falling down was not good. After all, he was half leaning.

"Are you sleepy?"

The voice, half asleep and half awake, was a little vague: "Well... a little bit."

"Then lie down?"

Yuichi barely managed to open his heavy eyelids, and his crossed long black silk legs had been brought together at some point, as if waiting for his arrival.

After hesitating for a moment, he lay down obediently. It was soft, fragrant, familiar yet strange.

"Thank you... and I'm sorry."

"Why are you apologizing to me?"

"nothing……"

He raised his arms to cover his eyes, not sure if it was to block the bright sunlight or because he didn't want to look directly into those smiling red eyes.

After a moment's silence, Kasumigaoka Utaha couldn't continue reading the book. Both the weight on her thighs and the unique smell of him made her feel itchy.

"Why did the scumbag lie to Katsura-san?"

"What?"

"You don't go to work right after school, do you?"

"Um……"

"Why didn't you tell her the truth? The child just wanted to spend more time with you, right?"

Youyi raised his eyes, looked at the red moon dodging above the mountains, and said in a deep voice:

"You're right, I didn't tell her the truth. As for the reason... maybe I was tired?"

"For Miura?"

"Why did you suddenly mention Yumiko?"

Facing Yuichi's question, Kasumigaoka Utaha's answer seemed awkward and awkward:

"Because Miura works part-time with you, right?"

"Well...it has something to do with her, too."

Kasumigaoka Utaha continued to ask questions, and her calm surface gradually fell off. When she was about to get the answer she wanted, she couldn't help but feel a little anxious:

"Didn't Sister Yangcai give you money? Why do you still want to work? Don't you hate this kind of trouble?"

"I remember I said that, right? The working environment is pretty good. I don't want to give up halfway. It's normal to earn some money and buy the things I want, right?"

Being stared at by Kasumigaoka Utaha, Yuichi, who was lying on her lap, couldn't move. The feeling of touching the hot hem of her skirt with his face was indescribable.

Perhaps she realized that Yu was at a loss, so Kasumigaoka Utaha came back to her senses from her obsessive questioning, but she still had too many questions piled up in her heart:

"Then why did Sister Yang Cai suddenly come to our house for dinner? Don't you dislike her when she's drunk?"

He felt his thighs lighten and made a move to stand up. He finally couldn't stand Kasumigaoka Utaha anymore, but just when he was halfway up, his shoulders were supported.

"It's okay if I don't ask, right? You can't just sleep with me and leave me so heartlessly~"

The ambiguous warm wind blew past his ears, melting his heart and even Yuichi's waist softened a little.

He frowned slightly, but finally lay back down, with the remaining warmth still there.

"Don't be angry like a child. Not everyone can lie on my legs."

"Aren't you also asking questions like a curious baby?"

"Then we're even."

……

The afternoon on campus is full of laziness, and the wind blowing through the campus seems to be infected by this laziness, becoming slower and slower.

Kasumigaoka Utaha was reading a book quietly, her eyes moving down from the lines of text, and finally pausing on the boy's peaceful sleeping face. The angular face lost some of its coldness because of the closed pair of gorgeous purple eyes, and the outline modified by the messy hair added some softness.

The girl carefully held up her falling hair and slowly lowered her head...

……

……

In the afternoon, when the Chinese class is over.

Horie Tomoya turned around in vain and told Yuichi what happened to Katsura Kotonoha in the afternoon.

Tomoya raised his eyebrows slightly, "Find a chance to talk to her?"

Youyi pouted his head, responded, and looked at his friend strangely:

"Fatty, you are not a pure person."

Tomoya shrugged, picked up a pocky and waved it:

"I am telling you this as a friend, but it is up to you whether you want to do it or not."

"Well... talk to her over the weekend."

……

School in the afternoon.

Youyi was packing his schoolbag as usual, and just as he walked out of the classroom, he heard uneasy footsteps behind him.

His sleeves were gently pulled, and a fragrant breeze blew towards him, as if trying to keep him.

"Yuichi, are you going back today too?"

Those tender green eyes were dancing with complex light crisscrossed by messy thoughts, and the beautiful golden hair seemed a little dim.

"Well, shall we see each other later?"

Youyi wanted to retract his hand, but the soft hand was unexpectedly strong.

Yumiko Miura's makeup today was a little heavy, as if she was wearing a heavy shell, hiding inside it and sobbing quietly. The lipstick she applied was a hot and fake red.

"Yuichi, have I ever done anything to make you unhappy?"

The girl's eyes were filled with withered and haggardness. She opened her mouth but swallowed the words back as they came to her lips. She thought that even if she said it out loud, the girl wouldn't understand, so she better not embarrass herself.

Yuichi shook his head:

"No."

128. Yumiko gradually realizes that something is wrong

The soft cuffs were pulled back, and his fingertips felt slightly numb. Yuichi didn't explain anything and just left without looking back.

Yumiko Miura looked at his back in a daze, a little at a loss, holding her arms with her little hands, standing quietly there.

A few days ago, she was holding Yuichi's hand and having a sweet dream that she didn't want to wake up from. Shouldn't their relationship be further developed? Why... did it turn out like this?

When did that sense of distance appear? Miura Yumiko still has no answer. At that time, she only cared about her own happiness and seemed to be completely unaware of Yuichi's feelings.

But... she was really happy. She could let go of everything and laugh with all her heart, but when she looked back, it turned out like this.

When she was rejected by Youyi, she simply couldn't understand. They were obviously having so much fun, so why didn't he go with him?

She went to ask why, mustering up the courage to ask, but...Yuichi didn't answer.

Thinking back to Youichi's hesitant look, it seemed as if there was no point in saying anything. So what was that? Aren't they friends?

He won't even answer such a simple question...what kind of friend is he?

……

……

The sun was hidden behind the clouds, the sky suddenly became dark, and the shadow of the sycamore tree became very long.

Time passed as Gui Yanye hesitated. Looking at the stairs going up step by step, she was afraid to take even just one step.

At this moment, the phone in her bag vibrated. She took it out and saw that it was a message from Qianhe.

——Student Gui, I have something to do today, you go back first.

The brevity of the words made Katsura Kotonoha inexplicably feel a little serious. In the past, Chizuru would always follow up her messages with an emoticon, but today she was unusually so, making people subconsciously feel that she was dealing with something very important.

Katsura Kotonoha walked out of the teaching building and replied to Amemiya Chizuru under the shade of the paulownia tree. She then turned off the screen and stared at the entrance not far away in a trance.

Two delicate hands held the phone, and her eyes fell on the students coming in and out, searching and lost.

I don’t know how much time passed, but she finally gave up after all the students had left.

As soon as she came out of the shade of the trees, the remaining warmth of the setting sun still made her feel stuffy, and the fiery red glow lowered the girl's watery eyes, narrowing them into a slit.

A familiar figure walked into this limited field of vision.

"Amamiya-san?"

Gui Yanye trotted over and asked softly.

Chizuru Amamiya's body stiffened, and she turned back reluctantly:

"Hello, Mr. Gui..."

Chizuru Amemiya's school uniform was covered with dust, and her thighs were covered with bruises like an overturned palette. She walked with a limp in pain, and her face, the only clean part of her body, was slightly distorted.

"What happened here?"

Gui Yanye hurriedly supported her, looking worried and speaking in an anxious tone.