I fell in love with the most beautiful girl when I was in middle school. Now, the person I like who went to a different high school asked me to become her bodyguard - Chapter 1

I, Masato Nakasuji, had my first love when I was in my third year of junior high school.

The other party was a girl who is said to be the school’s most beautiful girl. 

Her name is “Ayana Sairenji”

She has a well-shaped face, a good figure, and fine black hair with a bob cut that didn’t hang over her shoulders. She also served as the vice president of the student council.

The trigger of my love was something trivial.

We were in the same class then, and I was one of the boys who sometimes watched her from a distance.

I didn’t dare to talk to her owing to the fact that I was an otaku on top of being overweight. In my junior high school, there was a person in charge of each subject, and I would return the submissions for the subject I was in charge of to my classmates’ desks. When I put Sairenji’s notebook on her desk, she stopped chatting with her best friend, turned her body toward me, looked straight at me, and said, “Thank you.”. Her cute smile made my heart jump so much that I fell in love with her.

She was a perfect heroine who was cute, friendly, cheerful, as well popular regardless of grades and gender. She interacts with everyone without discrimination.

She belonged to the chorus club and led the club as the ace with her beautiful singing voice.

The members of the choir club at my junior high school were only girls. That’s why whenever there was a mixed voice competition, the music teacher scouted male students who could sing well as temporary members. Those students would participate in practice when the competition got closer.

It may sound like bragging, but I was also a member of the temporary choir. I fell in love with her singing voice during practice.

That’s all we had in common. It was not particularly a relationship to have many conversations, but I always looked forward to choir practice and putting back her submission to her desk.

In December, nearing the end of the second semester, the student council was performing a play on human rights issues at a school assembly. There was a climax scene where Sairenji, who played the female lead, confessed to the student council president, who played the main character. When I saw the confession scene, my chest was experiencing the strongest pain that I had ever felt.

By the way, the student council president was the basketball team’s captain until the summer. He was extremely popular with girls because of his height of about 180 centimeters, slender body, and handsome face. Most of the girls and some of the boys didn’t know that he actually had a flawed personality.

Some people may think, “They’re just acting,” but from my point of view, who never had much interest in love or even experienced it, it doesn’t matter if it’s an act or if it’s serious.

Still, when I saw Sairenji confessing to another man right in front of me, I was shaken up.

I’ve heard rumors that Sairenji is very popular, and a lot of guys confessed to her.

Various rumors were flying around about why she refused all of their confessions because she already had someone in mind, that she had a fiancé, and that she had no interest in romance in the first place.

It would be a lie if I said the rumors don’t bother me. Even so, if I don’t do anything, she won’t turn around or even get close to me…

Feeling anxious, I started a diet after winter break.

Although my height is 175 centimeters, I weighed 90 kilograms. In other words, I was large not only vertically but also horizontally.

I thought that even if I could get close to Sairenji with this kind of figure, she wouldn’t see me as a love interest. That’s the reason I made up my mind to start a diet.

However,  I didn’t have enough time to diet at that time because I had to study for an entrance exam.

In the third semester, as I was putting back their submissions on my classmates’ desks as usual, I overheard a conversation between Sairenji and his best friend, Chika Miyahara.

“I guess we will going to take the exam soon, huh… I think I’ll be fine because I’ve done everything possible, but honestly, I’m really nervous.”

“It’s okay. Chii has been studying hard this past year!”

“Well, Ayana-sensei helped me study, and it was funny to see the surprised look on your face as you saw my grades getting better and better every time I took a test.” Said Miyahara as she laughed.

Miyahara is a beautiful girl of a different type from Sairenji. She had long pale orange hair that was tied in a high ponytail. A tall girl with two large, floppy fruits and long, slender legs that make her not look like a junior high school student.

She looked like a gal. It would be much faster to search her test score if you counted from the bottom up until the second year. Immediately upon she became a third-year student, she must have felt anxious as the entrance exams came near, so she asked Sairenji to teach her.

By the way, my grades are below the middle.

“I was desperate to get into Takasaki High School with Ayana.”

Takasaki High School is a famous school about two stations away from here. A school with a fairly high standard score is also famous for being a school that focuses on both literature and military arts. It puts considerable effort into school activities

On the other hand, the high school I’m going to take the exam is Kazami High School, about three stations away from here, with a low standard score. 

I put their notebooks on their respective seats with a calm face, as if I hadn’t heard their conversation. As usual, I received a smile and a “thank you” from Sairenji.

Feeling sad that my high school would be different, I inwardly gave a smile, made a gut pose as thanks, and sat down after placing other classmates’ notebooks on each desk.

Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw Miyahara glancing at me.

I couldn’t hear their conversation because I was sitting far away from them, but I could barely hear Miyahara say, “Is it fine?”

No way, could it be she saw that I was purposely giving Sairenji-san’s notebook first just to see her smile and her thanks? Are you gonna stab me with a spear because it was disgusting?

The gal girl was scary. However, the other side didn’t take any action.

I was relieved that my enjoyment was not taken away.

After that, no further contact was made, even after the exam.

Of course, thanks to their efforts, not only Sairenji but also Miyahara was accepted into Takasaki High School.

By the day of my junior high school graduation ceremony, I had lost about 10 kilograms, and the ceremony went off without a hitch as I regretted saying goodbye to my close friends who were going to attend different schools.

In the end, I graduated without being able to get close to Sairenji-san until the end, and I kept this first love in my heart, lamenting that I seldom had a chance to meet Sairenji-san face to face. And then, I returned home with a car driven by my mother, who had attended the ceremony.

At that time, I never even imagined that my first love, which I thought was over, would start moving again a few months later…