"Hey, hey, do you want to go to the cafeteria?"

I could hear how students were planning on how to spend their lunch break.

"Hey Chiaki-san, let\'s grab lunch too" Lately a lot of girls were spending their time with Matsushita. In this class, Hirata is the leader of boys and Karuizawa who is his girlfriend became a central figure of girls to some extent, however, It could be said that Matsushita is partly a leader of both boys and girls. The main difference between her and Karuizawa was that she was nice to boys and Karuizawa was mostly throwing them a disgusted expression. As for Kushida...well, she is liked by everyone but she isn\'t considered as a leader. She is like our class\'s mascot.

"Sorry girls but I can\'t go with you today, I already have plans for lunch break"

"Eeeh? I hope you aren\'t ditching us for a boy, Chiaki-san"

"Wha-? Of course not!" Matsushita blushed a little but denied it.

"Hmm...suspicious" All girls said at once.

What a synergy.

"Look, it\'s just one lunch, you can survive it without me" Matsushita said to girls and looked towards me and winked at me before leaving the classroom.

When I opened the door of the roof, I noticed Matsushita already sitting on one of the benches. She waved at me and I came to her.

"What took you so long?!" Matsushita asked me with a displeased expression

"Did you want me to go right after you? If yes, It would be easier to simply tell everyone that we are having lunch together here"

"Hmph! Alright, I will forgive you if I will enjoy the rest of the lunch break" (Matsushita)

Huh? I heard that women can be sometimes unreasonable but this is a whole new level. Is she angry because I took 5 minutes from our lunch break time?

"Come-on, Chiaki-chan don\'t be angry" I said with a teasing smile. If she thought I will become afraid of her then she is greatly mistaken. Might as well make her even angrier.

"Just sit down already! And stop calling me like that" She blushed when she heard my words but instead of getting angrier she calmed down her anger.

"Alright, your wish is my command" I chuckled a bit after seeing her reaction.

"Here you go" I handed her big bento box, however when she tried to take it from me our hands touched.

"Th-thank you!" She quickly took the box and blushed even more than before. I didn\'t really mind such a small accident but I guess it\'s different for girls.

"Why can you be so composed?" She asked me a question which made me a bit confused.

"What do you mean? Do you mean that small accident? I don\'t see any problem with it, don\'t friends sometimes touch each other by accident or intentionally?" I asked her with confused expression but my question made her become absent-minded for a while.

"Are you ok?" I tried to wake her up from her thoughts by waving my hand before her face.

"Ah! I am sorry, I just got a little shocked when you mentioned that we are friends" She panicked a little but covered it with a light laugh.

"What? You don\'t like to be called my friend? Haha" I laughed a little.

"It\'s not that..." "*however it could be something more than friends*" She denied it and then mumbled something which I didn\'t really understand. All I could hear was \'however\' and \'more\'

"What was that?"

"What do you mean?!" She panicked a little maybe she didn\'t want me to hear it but I will ask regardless.

"The sentence you mumbled, I didn\'t hear it clearly"

"It was nothing, don\'t worry about it. Can I ask you something?" She smiled and tried to change the subject.

"Ask away!" I answered her without thinking about it and started eating.

"What do you think about the girls from our class?"

*cough* I almost choked on food when I heard her question.

What the hell do you mean by that?

I almost had an impulse to say that I think nothing of them but I guess that answer wouldn\'t satisfy her curiosity.

"Er.........I don\'t know how to answer your question. Could you specify the question?"

Even if I thought that saying I think nothing of them is the wrong response I still didn\'t know what to say. I guess I sounded a bit pathetic. I should have answered as Ike would, \'A lot of cute girls with big bȯȯbs\'....Nah maybe my response wasn\'t that bad. Thank you, Ike, for giving me more confidence.

"Eh? Well, what do you think of Kushida-san for example?"

Devil inside little girl...that\'s how I feel about her, there is no specific reason I simply dislike her by instinct.

"She has good grades and is liked by everyone so she could also become a good leader"

"Ugh! I didn\'t ask about this! I wanted to know what do you think of her appearance and behavior" My answer frustrated her a little.

"...Will you believe me if I say nothing?" I didn\'t even like Kushida so there was no need to even think about her in such a way.

When she heard my answer she looked a bit surprised but then she started observing me with a suspicious look. I didn\'t falter in front of her glaring since I had nothing to hide anyway.

"...maybe...Do you really think nothing of her? What about the other girls?" (Matsushita)

"I really think nothing of her and as for other girls...I don\'t really know them well enough to make any opinion about them"

"Then what about me?" She asked with a weak voice.

"Hmm...I think that you are a cute girl with big potential. But I personally don\'t think you should care about what others think about you all the time or you might become a different person. By the way, you complained that I took away 5 minutes from your lunch break but you still haven\'t opened my box. You should start eating, lunch break ends in 10 minutes"

"Ah! You are right... and thank you" She blushed a little and started to eat.

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After 8 minutes

"Wow, you are a really good cook, where did you learn that? It was even better than more expensive food from the cafeteria! Although it feels kinda weird to me" Matsushita praised my cooking skill while rubbing her belly.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, shouldn\'t our roles be reversed? Isn\'t it usually a woman that wins over the man\'s heart through his stomach?" Matsushita said something interesting so I decided to tease her a bit.

"Does that mean that I won over your heart at the moment you ate my food?"

"Wha-what? Of course not! You will have to make more food of this quality and even better to win my heart! Hmph!" Matsushita looked in a different direction, trying to look angry.

Are you even aware of how many points I spent on this food? I heard that girlfriends are expensive to keep around but she isn\'t even my girlfriend and yet I already bled because of her.

"Right, right, but we should get moving if we don\'t want to miss a lesson." I reminded her of the time remaining of the lunch break.

"Ok, but could we meet up someday like today once again?" She asked me with a low voice.

Hmm, I don\'t see any problem with that but you won\'t make me bleed like this time.

"No problem, I personally think that it was a very refreshing experience, eating with someone" I agreed with a smile.

"Good! Don\'t forget your words, I will go ahead!" She said quickly and aloud and run away while covering her face with her hands.

I guess she got a bit embarrassed... I thought while scratching back of my head.