[Sour Cherries🍒] Morio Uri: If I Could Meet You in a Dream

"Last night, you know, I was listening to the radio.

The voice on that radio sounded just like you, Uri-kun.

I fell asleep while I was listening to it.

And then, you know,

I had a dream about you, Uri-kun!"

Recently,

I had been rejected twice by Ayako, whom I thought was a sure thing,

and I learned firsthand that

there is no such thing as a sure thing in this world,

but unexpectedly, I also realized that

the truth is often

right beside you.

The one who said she had a dream about me was

my classmate, Tetsuko Komuro.

Since she sits in the same row ahead of me, we are close,

and we've had chances to talk from time to time,

but we had never really talked that deeply.

Only once,

on a night after school,

By chance, at a convenience store near my house

we had met.

That night, Tetsuko

had a slightly different vibe.

Even then, it was Tetsuko who

said with a smile,

"Good evening!"

I still haven't forgotten how my heart skipped a beat when she did.

To dream.

It means that my existence

inside her brain

is filling it up.

How embarrassing that is.

In the dream, I wonder,

what exactly are we doing?

Could it be...?

When I think about that,

it didn't take long for my feelings to surge.

"I had a dream!"

Ever since I was told that,

I've remembered various things.

Come to think of it,

Every time I passed the distributed handouts to the back,

I would often make eye contact with her

when she turned around.

Even when I went to the restroom during break time,

we often passed each other in the hallway.

And then,

the night we met at the convenience store near my house.

All the dots connected into a line.

What a dense guy I am.

I'm such an idiot, such an idiot, such an idiot.

While trying to hide the grin forming on my face,

I gazed at the scenery outside the window.

Perhaps this is,

what they call fate.

However,

Ayako's "big plot twist" is also

I had just experienced it.

To be more certain,

I wanted to fill Tetsuko's brain

even more with my color.

Just in case,

I considered going to consult

with Ms. Chaho in the infirmary,

but since it hadn't been that long

since Ayako rejected me twice,

I decided against it because it would be too embarrassing.

From then on,

no matter where I went,

I made sure to always cross in front of Tetsuko.

I made sure to enter her field of vision

so that she would burn our school life together

into her brain.

As the trendy actor

in Tetsuko's mind,

I was desperate to increase the number of times I appeared in her dreams.

Are you ready yet?

Not yet!

Are you ready yet?

I'm ready now~

Inside me,

the bells of celebration rang.

Finally,

I secretly handed Tetsuko a small letter,

and asked her to meet me at the school pilotis after class.

As I waited for her at the pilotis,

Tetsuko came jogging over.

Sorry, what's up?

Tetsuko was beaming with a full smile.

What a happy atmosphere it was.

I was already,

convinced that this was it.

Her mind was probably already,

a world colored in Uri.

I realized that this,

was something I shouldn't just keep inside my head,

but something I had to

make a reality.

Alright,

I'll tell her.

"Tetsuko, I...

um,

uh,

t-,

I really

like you, Tetsuko♡"

I was so nervous I looked down,

but I gathered my courage,

and met Tetsuko's gaze.

"What,

no way, no way, no way, no way, no way...

Why... we're

just classmates, aren't we?"

From Tetsuko's face,

The broad smile vanished.

I don't remember much

of what happened after that.

Before I knew it,

I was

standing in front of

the infirmary door, dazed.

~To be continued~

<This is the Tetsuko Komuro who appeared this time!>

It seems she is from the back alley.
I just met her too, haha.

TK-san left a comment on my article😊.

"Hello, this is TK, who joined you on the radio with Ayaka-san the other day. Nice to meet you🙇‍♀️. As soon as I saw this project, I got goosebumps and felt so excited✨. My creativity is bubbling up, wanting to try writing a story for the first time in a while... I'm not sure yet how I can participate, but I'm looking forward to it♪"

Thank you so much😊.

So,

I had her appear in the article,

and confessed to her.

Sorry for doing that without asking🙏.

I never thought,

I would get rejected, though... haha.

I heard she also recently started on Stand.fm!

<I'm jumping the gun on my creative activities, haha>

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