You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story 5th Date (Light Novel) (eBook)

Makiko Nagaoka (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
250 Seiten
J-Novel Club (Verlag)
978-1-7183-0982-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Continuing right where the last volume left off, the big night for Runa and Ryuto is finally on the horizon. With Maria peacefully out of the picture, Ryuto and Runa enter a new stage of their relationship. With one final push, it seems Runa will overcome her feelings of embarrassment and bring the main couple to do the one thing they'd decided to put off on their very first day together.
Not everything is so simple for their friends, however. Sekiya Shugo is about to receive his college entrance exam results that will determine the future of his currently postponed relationship with Nicole. Akari, too, is reaping what she sowed after harshly shooting down Icchi...only to have a change of heart!
What awaits each couple during and after their school trip to Kyoto?

Textauszug

Chapter 1

Later that week, I’d gone to cram school after classes at my normal school had ended.

“I need your advice on something, Sekiya-san...” I began, out of breath, as soon as I saw him.

“What is it this time? Everything’s settled between you and Kurose-san now, yeah?” he replied.

As usual, we sat at a table in the cram school’s lounge located on the top floor. There was still natural light coming into the room at this time of day. Students who had yet to take their shot at college entrance exams were starting to gather here now since their normal classes were over, but I’d already made sure that Kurose-san wasn’t among them.

“I told my girlfriend I wanted to have sex and she was like, ‘I can’t take it,’ and ran away...”

Sekiya-san sighed, seeing me speak as I maintained a pose like Ikari Gendo. His reply was half-hearted. “It’s so nice to be in your second year of high school. You still have time to worry about stuff like that.”

Judging by the way he acted, he’d yet to get a passing grade on any exam.

“If she ‘can’t take it,’ then you’re shit out of luck. Just throw in the towel and break up,” he added in an offhand manner.

“I-It wasn’t like a rejection or anything...” I hurriedly said.

“Then what was the issue?”

“It was like she was too shy.”

Sekiya-san sighed at that.

“And she ran away from me,” I added.

“Oh yeah?”

“When do you think we’ll be able to do it?” I asked, returning to the Gendo pose and sighing.

“How would I know...?” Sekiya-san said. He sounded like he really didn’t care one bit.

Looking in front of me, I saw him reclining all the way back in his chair. He was staring up at the ceiling. Once he noticed that I’d looked up at him, he stood up.

“I can’t take this,” he said. “Can’t take you. You’re getting on my nerves too much. Get lost.”

“Isn’t that a bit much?!”

“Don’t you have your answer already? Her ‘I can’t take it’ means ‘I’m embarrassed,’ right? So all you gotta do is either wait until she’s not feeling that way anymore or make it so it’s no longer embarrassing for her.”

“H-How would I do that?” I asked.

“How would I know?! I don’t have time for this right now.”

There seemed to be genuine irritation in his voice. He had a sharp tongue even on a normal day, but perhaps this was indicating just how dire things were with his exams. I’d assumed he had contingencies and simply hadn’t told me that he’d secured a spot at a college or two that were easy to get into, but it looked like he really hadn’t gotten into anywhere. And that meant he wouldn’t be getting in touch with his girlfriend, Yamana-san, anytime soon. I started to feel bad for talking to him about this subject.

“Besides, you’ve been dating for, what, over half a year? Maybe almost a full year? Either way, it’s unbelievable to me that you still haven’t had sex after all this time,” Sekiya-san added, his tone now calmer. “Doesn’t being with your girlfriend make you wanna bang? Even if you’re not dating her just for sex.”

“W-Well, it does, sure...”

“I get it, okay? I get that it ended up like this because there’s something more important to you than sex. But I wouldn’t understand something like that, so I can’t give you any advice there.”

As I sat there with nothing to say back to him, Sekiya-san looked at me with sincerity. “Well, since you’ve managed to hold out this long, is there really a need to get impatient now?”

“Huh?”

“You wanna marry her, no? All married couples stop fucking eventually anyway.”

I blushed at the sudden appearance of that strong word.

Sekiya-san continued, looking unconcerned. “You should see my parents. They’re the fakest married couple around. Always have been and for as long as I can remember. Dad’s been cheating like there’s no tomorrow since forever and Mom gave up on him long ago. She doesn’t leave him since she apparently doesn’t want to abandon her status as the wife of a private clinician.”

The muscles in my face went stiff as Sekiya-san suddenly revealed his family’s circumstances.

He went on, not looking at me. “Just a few months ago, it came to light that Dad had his hands all over a receptionist and that girl lost her job. That guy’s such an idiot. His wife’s close with an old lady working in his office—of course she’d find out if he got himself a mistress at the clinic. He even did it with a nurse before.”

“I-I see...” I said, finally managing to say something in response.

This was quite the story. Between his and Runa’s family circumstances, perhaps married couples cheated on each other more often than I’d thought. My parents weren’t exactly all over each other, but as far as I knew, nothing like that had transpired between them in all the years they’d been together. It made my heart pound to have people close to me talk so normally about situations I’d expect to find in a soap opera.

“Ever since I was a kid, I respected my dad as a doctor...but I didn’t wanna be like him.”

When I saw Sekiya-san say that with a distant look in his eye, something occurred to me. When he’d gotten into high school and became popular with girls, he’d dumped Yamana-san for a strange reason: he hadn’t wanted to two-time her. If you were to ask me, it was just a “Just don’t, then?” kind of situation...but perhaps his peculiar fastidiousness on the subject came from the way he felt toward his father.

“What were we talking about, again? Anyway, you’re just talking about your wonderful love life like always. Go to hell,” he said.

Despite his foul language, Sekiya-san had given me something resembling advice, so I figured he was a good person at heart.

I sighed. “Sorry,” I said, trying to dispel the increasingly heavy mood.

Sekiya-san frowned at me. “You’re not really sorry, are you?”

“I am, although I might do this again...”

“That means you’re not sorry.”

“Good to know.”

“You messing with me?”

It was a little relieving to see him smile again. I couldn’t help but wish for spring to come soon, along with the day that his smile would be directed at Yamana-san.

***

But I couldn’t afford to be wishing for others’ happiness all the time.

During homeroom at the end of classes one day at the end of February, we were given career aspiration surveys.

“As you’ve been told before, your answers on these surveys will be used to assign you to a third-year class. Please take this seriously,” said the teacher in charge of our class.

I could hear students around me reacting.

“Seriously...?”

“It’s too early...”

I looked down at the survey on my desk. Under the “higher education” and “employment” areas, there were three spots for us to write down a prioritized list of the colleges or jobs we were aiming for.

If I put “Houo University” there, would they believe I was being serious?

As I sat there in nervous contemplation...

A sunny girl sitting in front of Runa turned around and said, “Hey, Runa, what’re your plans for the future?”

“Well... I haven’t decided yet...” Runa replied, appearing to be thinking it over.

We were walking our own paths, facing forward and aiming high, but it seemed like we were looking at a steep climb to become our ideal selves.

***

On Sunday later that week, Runa and I were studying at McDonald’s near Station A. We were preparing for our final exams, which would be starting the next day.

I had my eyes mostly pointing at my notebook, but I stole glances at Runa across the table from me. She sat there and stared down at her textbook.

Sekiya-san had accused me of talking about my “wonderful love life,” and he’d been right—I didn’t see Runa having said that she couldn’t take it as something all that serious. I more saw it as her having seriously considered what it would be like to have sex with me and having gotten too embarrassed as a result. It was probably what had actually happened.

Still...

“Need help with anything?” I asked.

Runa glanced at me for a moment. “Huh?!” She then immediately averted her eyes and her cheeks grew flushed. “N-Not really... I’m okay... Okay, maybe not...”

“So you do?”

“B-But if I start asking for help, I’d need help with too much stuff...”

“Let’s go through things one by one, as long as they’re things I understand myself. Can you show me?”

“Oh, nah, it’s okay... C’mon, I’d feel bad to distract you from your studies!” Runa said, flustered and red in the face. Her eyes wandered all over the place.

“But we’re studying together, so might as well. What do you need help with?” I asked.

I got up and sat next to Runa. As I did, our elbows lightly touched through our uniforms.

“Ahh!” Runa cried out.

She...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.10.2024
• Reihe/Serie: You Were Experienced, I Was Not: Our Dating Story
• Illustrationen: Makiko Nagaoka
• Übersetzer: Makiko Nagaoka
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Coming of Age • first girlfriend • Gyaru • high school drama love story • Light Novel • modern day romance • the experienced you and the inexperienced me
• ISBN-10: 1-7183-0982-1 / 1718309821
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7183-0982-1 / 9781718309821