After pouring out their hearts to each other and learning each other's little secrets, Hagiwara Sayu and Shiina Mahiru looked at each other.
Suddenly, they laughed in tacit agreement.
Shiina Mahiru wiped her tears.
"If Lin-san sees the two of us crying together, he will definitely laugh at us."
Hagiwara Sayu smiled and replied, "No, Lin Xi is very gentle. I think he will touch our heads and comfort us."
Shiina Mahiru's face turned red.
"That… Sayu, are you and Lin-san dating?"
"Eh, why do you ask that?" Hagiwara Sayu showed a surprised expression.
Shiina Mahiru was a little embarrassed, but still explained.
"A few times when I went to the bathroom, I saw you entering his room…"
Hagiwara Sayu also blushed.
But she still shook her head, indicating denial.
"That's right, but I think… Lin Xi and I are not dating."
"Why?"
Shiina Mahiru was very puzzled.
They went to his room at night, they must have done bad things.
Isn't that a dating relationship?
Hagiwara Sayu smiled and explained, "Shiina, you forgot, I'm in a runaway state now."
"The relationship between Lin Xi and I is more like a relationship of needing and being needed."
"He took me home and saved me when I was most confused, and gave me a place to stay. I'm very grateful to him, and I like him very much."
"So, although I don't know why you misunderstood, I still want to say that if Lin Xi hadn't driven me away, I would never have left Sakura Manor."
"No, I should say that if he drives me away, death would be my only option."
"Don't think like that. He won't drive you away. He was clearly delirious with fever and still wanted to comfort you. He likes you too."
Shiina Mahiru quickly offered a word of comfort.
She hadn't even considered death.
But Ogiwara Sayu actually had such thoughts, which meant she had already made Lin Xi her everything.
If Lin Xi were to drive her away, she wouldn't be able to survive.
Hearing this, Ogiwara Sayu couldn't help but smile.
"Yes, precisely because he's so good to me, I want to be good to him too."
"Shiina-san, can you date Lin Xi?"
Ogiwara Sayu suddenly blurted out this sentence.
Shiina Mahiru stared at her in astonishment.
"Sayu, what are you talking about?"
"I'm serious, not joking."
Ogiwara Sayu earnestly grasped Shiina Mahiru's small hand and continued, "When you were taking care of him just now, did you see that?"
"Ah? See what?"
"Don't pretend. You know, the boy's... that thing!"
"It was super obvious, okay?"
Shiina Mahiru fell silent, her pretty face flushing red.
"Looks like you saw it."
Ogiwara Sayu glanced at her teasingly and continued:
"Although it's embarrassing to say, but... Lin Xi is too amazing. I don't think I can satisfy him."
Shiina Mahiru wanted to cover her ears.
What was this?
Ogiwara Sayu was telling her that her man was too amazing, and she was unsatisfied because she couldn't fulfill his desires?
"I'm not joking, I'm serious."
"I'll secretly tell you, Misaki Aoyama, the upperclassman on the third floor, got drunk last time and did 'that' to Lin Xi."
"In the end, the two of us together..."
"Still can't satisfy him."
Shiina Mahiru didn't know what to say anymore.
Should she say Lin Xi was a heartless scumbag?
Or should she say Ogiwara Sayu had lost her mind?
She and the upperclassman had already gotten on the bus.
And now she wanted to pull her in too?
"Well, I'm just expressing my attitude, Shiina-san. I don't mind you dating Lin Xi."
"I think Lin Xi has feelings for you. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so anxious and searched everywhere when he saw you hadn't returned home."
Shiina Mahiru's cheeks burned, and she subconsciously recalled the warm embrace just now.
"I'm sorry, Sayu. My mind is a mess, and I can't give you an immediate answer."
"I didn't ask you to answer immediately. I just hope you'll consider it."
"Of course, I sincerely hope to have a good sister who can make Lin Xi happy. I'm serious."
"For him, I'm willing to accept anything!"
Shiina Mahiru covered her face, speechless.
"Um, does he know about your thoughts?"
"He doesn't need to know. Men, after all, which one doesn't like beautiful girls? Shiina-san is so pretty, I don't believe he doesn't like you."
"Anyway, think about it carefully."
After Ogiwara Sayu finished speaking, she returned to her room.
Leaving Shiina Mahiru with a complicated expression.
She had never thought about dating a boy.
After all, in order to become a "good child" and gain her parents' love, she had always demanded excellence from herself.
Since she was an excellent student, she naturally couldn't date boys in middle school, and not in high school either.
But her mother's phone call had shattered her heart.
All her efforts over the years had been meaningless.
"Ugh, what is Sayu thinking?"
"Sharing a boyfriend with someone else, won't she be jealous?"
Thinking of this, she remembered Sayu's words just now, "I'm willing to do anything for him."
That sinful man, if he doesn't treat Sayu well, it would truly be unforgivable.
Was this Lin Xi's charm?
Even the upperclassman took advantage of being drunk to force herself on him.
"Ah, no, what am I thinking?"
Although she did have strange feelings for Lin Xi now, how could she possibly share a boyfriend with someone else?
She secretly cursed Lin Xi, despising him for not being satisfied with Sayu and also having something going on with the upperclassman.
Although he was passive.
But when it comes to matters between men and women, what's done is done.
Does it matter who initiated it?
Anyway, he didn't reject it, did he?
Scumbag!
Heartless scumbag!
After cursing him a few times, Shiina Mahiru remembered that frightening thing again.
Her cheeks quickly flushed red.
She suddenly understood Ogiwara Sayu a little.
She, a super beautiful girl, plus a fiery girl like Misaki Aoyama, together couldn't satisfy Lin Xi.
Ogiwara Sayu liked Lin Xi so much, so she would naturally feel guilty, feeling that she hadn't fulfilled her duties as a girlfriend.
That's why she was pulling in her, who Lin Xi had feelings for.
The more she thought about it, the more Shiina Mahiru felt her heart was in turmoil.
As a result, she went to school the next day with dark circles under her eyes.