　Today is the graduation ceremony of my senpai of my dream.

　I waited for the graduation ceremony to end and grabbed the letter to hand it to her, but it was soaked in sweat and became soggy. The letter was a once-in-a-lifetime love letter that I had written late last night. I had prepared it by folding the letter paper I had written and putting it in a slightly fancy patterned envelope I had bought at a hundred-yen store.

　I stretched out the creases of the letter and held it up again.

　As I was standing in front of the auditorium waiting for the graduates to arrive after the ceremony, the doors opened at once . The parents came out of the auditorium, followed by the graduates with ribbons on their chests, lined up in two rows, male and female, in order of class, walking toward us.

　There was my senpai!　Now.

　When I spotted my senpai with her long black hair braided back and tied up with a red ribbon, I started running, completely oblivious to everything around me except her.

　And then I stumbled.

　I tripped grandly. And I even turned one revolution. I managed to get up from the asphalt ground and started running towards my senpai again.

　As I fell, I must have cut myself somewhere on my forehead, and the blood dripped into my eyes, making it even harder to see my surroundings, and I stumbled again. I managed to get up, grabbed the tattered letter one step at a time, and approached my senpai.

"Caw!

　Those were my senpai's last words to me.

　Then, from behind me, I heard a loud laugh. I didn't even need to look at his face to know whose voice it was. Of course, the owner of the voice was Kyoko Hanazawa.

　The western sun was shining through the window of the infirmary.

　My palms and face are covered with bandages. When I touched my head, I found bandages on it.

　I went to the infirmary with Hanazawa, who was laughing hysterically, and after being treated by the infirmary doctor, I must have fallen asleep while lying on the bed.

"Matsuda, it's after school. If you're awake, go home.

　I thanked the nurse and opened the door of the nurse's office to find Kyoko Hanazawa standing there with my bag in her hand.

I opened the door of the infirmary and saw Kyoko Hanazawa standing there with my bag.

"Here is your bag. It was very heavy.

"Oh, thank you.

"Say "Thank you, Hanazawa-san!"

"Thank you, Hanazawa-san. I said.

"Good. Also, buy me a juice or something on the way home.

(A juice would be a small price to pay.)

”I know I said I wanted you to buy me a juice, but I don't.

　What's with the wind blowing?　I'm afraid something might happen.

"In return...

　I knew it.

"Instead, since Yusuke is in the homecoming club, why don't you join the student council from next month?　There is one more slot left for me to decide.

　Here it comes.

"I'll buy you a juice, but don't tell me anything weird. If someone like me joined the student council, it would be frowned upon, right?" I said.

"I think that's not true. Yusuke's grades are reasonably good. Your grades are worse than mine, but that's normal, so don't worry about it.

　That's a lot of words!

"......

"By the way, Yusuke, when you fell down last time, you dropped this, didn't you?　I picked it up for you. You should be grateful.

　I had completely forgotten about the love letter.My mind seemed to have gone blank with the last "Aah! But this really helped me.

"Thank you very much, Hanazawa-san.

　The gratitude I felt this time was genuine. If I make a mistake here, I'll be in big trouble.

"Good. Anything else?

"What?

"So, is there anything else you want to tell me?　You do. Oh, you don't have anything?　Then I'm not giving this back to you.

　What does this girl want with me in the student council?　Does she want me to be a scullery maid?　However, it's not good if that letter gets out to the world. It's very bad. I think I have to kill myself here.

"All right, all right. Just do it, right, Student Council?

"Oh?　I don't like the way you said that.

"I understand, Miss. Hanazawa. Please let me join the student council!

"Good. Okay, then.

　I took the letter that Kyoko handed me and put it in my pocket. When I got home, I had to tear it into small pieces and throw it in the trash.

"Huh...

　I sighed. Next month I would no longer be in the homecoming club.

　My heart was broken before it even started, and I think my feelings were almost healed by then.

　After leaving Kyoko, I trudged back to my house, expecting my mother to ask me about my uniform, but she didn't say anything in particular. The only thing she said was that I should pack up my uniform, which had blood on it and was worn out around the elbows and knees and had holes in it in some places, and that she would mend it and send it to the cleaners.