I Became Friends with the Second Cutest Girl in My Class (WN)

Chapter 1 – The Second Cutest Girl in My Class

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Sometimes, I wonder what exactly makes a friend, a ‘friend’.

 

Could two people who were in the same class and talked with each other often be called friends? Or maybe, two people who went to the school cafeteria together and had lunch together often?

 

No, right? Wouldn’t that make them classmates? Acquaintances at most.
I was still a student, so I might just be reaching by saying this, but I don’t think those cases would be different from talking or having lunch with your colleagues at work.

 

With colleagues, while you might call them ‘acquaintances’, you would never call them ‘friends’ nor ‘buddies’.

 

Personally, I think you need to have a more personal relationship with someone before you could call them a ‘friend’.

 

Like hanging out somewhere after school or planning to meet up during our days off.

 

Only after crossing that line could an ‘acquaintance’ become a ‘friend’.

 

With that thought in mind, the number of people that I, Maehara Maki, could call a ‘friend’ or ‘buddy’ was close to zero.

 

Well, considering I was that kind of guy who would think about those things from the wee hours… From back when I was still in grade school until now, when I’ve already entered high school, every day I would go straight back home after school and would spend my days off playing video games at home unless I had something else to do.

 

Of course, this rule also applied to my seatmate.

 

“Good morning, Maehara-kun.”

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“Mm, good morning, Ooyama-kun.”

 

I did have a classmate who would talk to me like this.
My seatmate, Ooyama-kun, we often made small talk like this because our hobbies matched.
But, he had a friend from his middle school whom he had been hanging out with for lunch, so we never hung out during that period.

 

Well actually, he had asked me to do exactly that once or twice before this, but as you could see, I wasn’t the most sociable guy, so I just made the atmosphere awkward for everyone.
Since then, I’ve mostly eaten my lunch alone.

 

We’ve been classmates for a while now, but we still called each other with our surnames and ‘-kun’ attached to it, that should give you a rough picture of our relationship.

 

“Haah… I’m tired… I hope Saturday comes soon.
You’re with me right, Maehara-kun?”

“You act like this all week long… Well, it isn’t like I disagree with you.”

 

I said that, but it wasn’t like I would do anything special on the weekends.
On weekdays, I would go to school, immediately go back home after it was over, then, I would play games or read manga until I fell asleep.

 

On weekends, just erase the whole ‘go to school’ part and that was how my days went.
That was why I’ve never looked forward to weekends.

 

…Well, that was how I used to think…

 

“Everyone, good morning ~ ! Everyone is tired of Monday because the weekend just ended, but still, let’s do our best together this week too ~ !”

 

As everyone languidly walked into the classroom one after another, a single cheerful voice echoed throughout the classroom.

 

“G-Good morning, Amami-san.”

“Yo, Amami.”

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“Amamin, morning ~”

 

As soon as she walked into the classroom,