“Hey, did you hear? Manami and Hiroki from our class had sex!” I had never imagined that Natsumi would talk about stuff like that.

We've always gone to the same school and our houses are right next door to each other, so we're childhood friends. Everyday we would go to and from school with each other.

“Well, unlike you, Manami seems a little more grown up, you know?” “You can't talk, Yuuya! As far as I, your childhood friend can tell, you haven't even had a single girlfriend yet! (Hehe)”

They were words that tumbled out of my mouth on the spur of the moment, words that I said to keep her in my daily life. (“Classmates who have sex are more special,” I said…)

Whether she intended to do it, or whether she didn’t know what she was doing, she did something very bold. When I finally came to, my thoughts came to a complete stop. At that time I had no idea that she was doing her best to be courageous.