Culture Festival Preparation

there's one day left until the Culture festival, I've been busy this last few days working on my class and the literature club while helping Hiragi-senpai after school

honestly It's so exhausting that I thought many times about pretending to be sick and avoid all the things I had to do, but in the end I forced myself and did everything.

"I didn't expect you to be good at cooking Sawano-Kun!"

"yeah, I had to cook my own food for a while"

inside the classroom I was preparing food so Suzuki can make sure it's good enough to be served

girls were practicing serving while the boys are decorating the place to look like a real cafe

"are you sure you can take Makoto-kun's duties too?"

"yeah he has other things to do, more importantly when did you start calling him by his first name?"

I can't believe the shy Suzuki got this close to Makoto, and she didn't need my help at all to do so.

is Chi-senpai trying to take my place as a wingman? I can't allow that!

"Kiriyama-san and Chi-senpai were doing it s-so I thought I should do it too"

she tried to hide her red face from embarrassment, well I don't mind enjoying her cute behaviors but I need to go help Hiragi-senpai now

"if you don't anything I'll be going now"

"Thanks for your hardwork"

I left tge classroom and went to check on Makoto's progress

"oh Arucchi come come!"

the first one to welcome me is Chi-senpai, just by taking a look around I can see the exhausted Emma and Makoto smiling

"did you finish?"

"yeah we just finished"

there is more books then we decided to do though, I'm worried if they're even going to be sold

"don't worry Arucchi everything is sponsored by the Emma-sama herself!"

I don't think it's fine to waste money like this...but I'm glad Makoto finished writing his first novel

"it's really is a great experience"said Emma with a smile

Emma is having fun too so I guess everything is fine, Makoto stood up suddenly and turned to me

"by the way thank you for covering me in the class, I'll repay you sometime"

"Don't worry about it I'm also a part of the club so consider this my way of participating"

"now now, should we go home together?"

***

after separating from Makoto I entered my house

"welcome home Sawano Aru"

"it would have been better if you called me darling"

the girl waiting inside of my room is Hiragi-senpai, she wanted to practice after school but her father will bother her whenever he hear her talk alone

it was hard to explain it for my mom, but she just accepted with a smile

"by the way aren't you getting too used to a boy room?"

a girl is sitting on my bed right now, there's no way I won't have weird thoughts

"it's not any boy's room for me, it's the room of someone I trust"

the way she's saying it feels like she's trying to shatter any wrong ideas I have, which definitely worked well

"I asked the class about the last scene"

the last scene was supposed to be a kiss between the two protagonists of the story, of course it's going to be a fake one but Hiragi-senpai didn't like the idea

"so? what did they say?"

"they didn't mind it"

well that was a reasonable request, but they didn't think she would accept the role at first so even if she asked for something unreasonable they won't refuse.

"why did you accept it?"

"..."

"it's fine if you don't want to talk"

I'm not that curious anyway, I already decided to help her.

"I wanted to go outside of my comfort zone and try new things, at first I rejected the idea but when a girl asked me for a reason I couldn't come up with anything"

she's not the type to go out and try new things so every experience she can get is a precious one

"I'm so used to rejection that I didn't think before saying no, that's why I wanted to try it"

her determination reached me, I know exactly what I'll do in the culture festival.

"shall we start?"

the main girl of the play is a cold princess who rejected everyone and closed her heart, but she meets a young knight who melted her heart and they get together after defeating the witch.

as expected of senpai her performance in the first part of the story is perfect, the problem we faced is the second part

"I still don't understand the princess"

Hiragi-senpai isn't familiar with this type of stories so playing the second part is way harder than the first.

"ummm it's hard to explain since I don't understand girls feelings either...it's not even real so don't think about it"

most of the training time is me trying to explain why does the characters act the way they do.

after wasting time like this for a lot of time Hiragi-senpai finally reached a good enough level to not ruin the entire play

"thank you again Sawano Aru"

"no problem, My mom would be happy if you joined us for dinner"

"No need to do that"

***

the day of the festival is finally here, I left my home early in the morning to finish preparing

"Don't overdo it and hurt yourself okay?"

"don't worry about me Mom I'll be fine, just make sure Airi won't come"

"Hmph I didn't want to go at all"

you can hate me now, but someday you'll know that I'm trying to protect you!

after reaching the school I strengthened my heart and moved to the classroom with a smile on my face

I can finally see thd girls in the maid outfits! I worked hard for it so it's better be worth it!

I opened the classroom's door slowly as I enjoyed the sigh-

"that's underwhelming"

"say it again"

the guy next me is Tachibana, we didn't notice each other before because of the excitement but...I don't think it's seems normal

"I really overestimated the maid outfits!"

after entering the "cafe" with a bad mood I heard someone calling me

"Oh Aru...I mean, Welcome home Master"

a blonde maid with a perfect smile, Watanabe Emma is standing right before my eyes

"yeah, it's worth it"

it's not about quantity it's about quality, that will be this cafe's motto!

"I was worried because you didn't look good before but after looking closely you are fine"

"don't worry about me I'm in the best condition possible"

Suzuki who just finished wearing her outfit looked cute as well, especially how shy she is.

"w-we are going to open soon everyone get ready!"

Makoto isn't here yet but it doesn't matter, as our leader announce it, The culture festival begins.