Chapter 13: Kudo Shigeru’s apology

My bias’ manager came to our house with bags full of clothes, shoes and accessories. I thanked him and apologized to him since he had to take many round trips from his car to the apartment front door to bring all the bags. 

I personally was at a loss with what I should do with all the items that Kudo Shigeru bought for me since my future dad already gifted me a lot of similar products. I didn’t worry for long since I decided to store all those gifts in an unused closet room. 

My bias’ manager then forced Hifumi Tooru to go to work and I told him to go and to not worry about me anymore. He worriedly looked back at me and the manager nonchalantly told him that he should go earn money for my mom and I.

When he was out of sight, I closed the front door and took my school uniform and bag to my room. I changed my dress to comfortable clothes and started studying. But since it was almost lunch time, I quickly stopped working and went to the kitchen to cook myself some food. It wasn’t long before that I started enjoying my meal, alone at the dining table, and with my phone in my hand. 

I remembered that Kudo Shigeru turned off my phone and so I turned it on while preparing myself to be bombarded with notifications. It wasn’t a surprise to see a lot of text messages and missed calls from my bias.

My heart warmed up when I was reading what my future dad sent me. I could feel how worried he was for me and I thought that I’ll soon be allowed to call him “dad”. 

I then read the messages that Kudo Shigeru texted  me yesterday night. I blew it off that time, thinking that he was joking, but now that I found out that he was serious about meeting me, I felt kind of bad about jokingly accepting his suggestion. 

“I guess I was kind of leading him, huh”, I thought. “But that doesn’t mean that he should just take me to a place I never went before and not tell my mom or even Tooru-san!”

I remembered all the events that irritated me today and without even thinking, I sent a complaint to Kudo Shigeru and soon regretted my actions.

I tried to quickly delete my message but he already saw my text and was replying. It would feel weird to delete my text at such a timing so I anxiously waited for his reply.

His reply was shocking. He apologized to what happened to me today and honestly replied to all my questions.

I thought he would again fool around and maybe give me an answer here and there but I never thought that he would be so straightforward with his answers. 

My bias didn’t even need to ask about Kudo Shigeru’s thoughts since I got it right here. 

It generally seemed like Kudo Shigeru only had good thoughts about meeting me alone (even though he was hella suspicious) and only wanted to talk to me about my mom and Tooru-san to him and to the other members.

He really didn’t think that me missing a day at school was such a big deal since it was nothing compared to him and the other two members having the same day off. It was a perfect  opportunity for them to host a mini fanmeeting for me. 

Kudo Shigeru explained that he didn’t tell my bias about today’s plan because he knew Tooru-san wouldn’t like it if I accidentally spilled some juicy private information about his relationship with my mom even though he was aiming for that tea. 

He apologized to me again and he told me he will do so again when he’s going to personally meet me.

Now I felt even more bad for him, since I know my future dad wouldn’t think that such a reason was acceptable for him to kidnap (and I also think the same) and Hifumi Toory might never forgive him.

I stared at my phone screen and was lost in thoughts. I thought about how I should make my future dad reconcile with Kudo Shigeru.

I looked at the time and mentally calculated the hours that I’ll be left alone in the house.

I then decided to boldly send a message to Kudo Shigeru,

If you really feel sorry, bring Asata-san, Nakatomi-san and yourself right now to Tooru-san’s place.

I then closed my phone and peacefully resumed eating my meal.