Ordinary I and Extraordinary Them

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“What kind of book, were you reading…”

It was not wrong.
While it was certainly not wrong, it was different between a brother and sister.

More than being pleased, I felt embarrassed.
Kaede seemed delighted, brushing my hair gently with her hands left and right.
Brushing it off, I raised my body.

“Let’s sit, after all.”

“Since one will become a cow, if they lie down immediately after eating.1”

I corrected my posture after sitting.
While the two of us were sitting shoulder to shoulder intimately, I decided to appreciate the uninteresting morning programs being broadcasted on TV.

I watched the morning drama which had been popular recently, but since I don’t watch it usually, I wasn’t able to understand anything.
But it was a good way to kill time.
In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed while following the drama.

“Should I change my clothes soon…”

“Then I would also finish the work I need to, before going out.”

I temporarily went back to my room for changing clothes.
Kaede, for the sake of finishing several tasks before shopping, went to the bathroom first.

I went to the closet in my room and among the few western clothes, I picked one that had been prepared by Kaede previously and changed into it.
Afterwards, I picked up my smartphone from near my pillow.

When I checked my phone to see if there was any form of contact while it had been left in the room, I found two mails.
One of them was from Yuuto, giving the same information regarding tomorrow, he transmitted via the call this morning.

Similar to what Kaede said, “Cafe in front of station, meeting at 9 AM.” was written.

The other mail was from Kirasaka, who had somehow gained my mail address during the ball game tournament.
Actually I had requested something of her, few days ago and the mail was regarding that matter.

Only a single sentence, “No problem” was written.

Seeing that, I felt a sense of relief and replied back with “Thank you”.
After replying, I put back the phone in my pocket.

Aside from changing clothes, I put on my wristwatch and grabbed my wallet.
I was finished with everything, in under 5 minutes.

Most of us had started setting our hair and taking care of appearances since becoming high school students.
But in my case, the minimum I checked in front of mirror was if I didn’t have any bed hair and wouldn’t do anything else afterwards.

Occasionally, there were times I would try taking care of it properly, but since I don’t do it usually, I was not skilled at it.
I had not even touched any hairdressing products, recently.

After checking today as well for bed hair in front of the mirror, I called out to Kaede, who was cleaning the bath.

“I have finished getting ready, but is there anything you need help with?”

“It is alright! I am already finished.”

Cleaning the foam in bathtub with shower, Kaede came out of the bathroom.
There seemed to be laundry as well but since there were also underwear, I was barred from helping.
I went back to the living room again.

“…Free time.”

Since I had already changed clothes, I didn’t feel like lying down.
But on the other hand, there was not enough time to go to convenience store alone to pass time.

By process of elimination, I went towards the big window in living room which connected to the garden.
Opening it, I decided to watch the growing condition of the flowers on the flower bed, mother and Kaede had been raising since childhood.

T/N: I am back now but since I have increased workload now, I won’t be updating daily.

Footnotes

1.
Basically a Japanese proverb meaning, one will become lazy.