This title is too long!:Volume3 Chapter1 2
Chapter 1-2 - May 22, I slept on him
I'm a high school girl and a rookie voice actress, currently strangling my classmate who is my upperclassman and a Bestselling Light Novel author.
This is my predicament at the moment.
Right now, I'm right on him, and he's lying face up on the bed.
My hands are on the sides of his neck, pressing down on the carotid artery.
Is he usually this hot?
Or am I usually this cold?
Or is it because I'm so tense, the color of blood is drained off from my hands?
Or maybe it's a combination of them?
Or was it all of it?
I could feel the heat coming from the skin on his skin, so hot that my hands were almost scalded.
How did it end up like this...?
I didn't want to do this.
I didn't want to do this again...
I had no intention of doing this again!
How did things end up like this...?
I start to recollect everything that happened till this point/
May 22nd.
It was a few minutes before the Limited Express reached the terminal, when I finally woke up.
Miss Akane is pinching hard at my right cheek, and pulls my away from my dream. She's always waking me up this way. No matter the occasion, she knows this is the best way to wake me up.
Whenever I wake up, I'll forget the dreams I'll see, but I'm sure that they aren't any good dreams.
After I woke up, I find myself in the racing train, my body tilted heavily towards the left. My left shoulder and head are resting on something back.
I straighten my body, and turn my head left, realizing what it is.
"..."
Sitting over there with his head slumped there is the boy who is my senior and classmate.
I was touched by the novel this person wrote.
I felt that I was saved.
And so, I wrote in a fan letter.
Without any shame, I revealed my weaknesses and tragedies, conveying my thoughts.
And so, I received a rely from his, words of encouragement.
Words cannot describe how delighted I was back then.
I always imagined how this person was like.
When I heard that an anime of the work was in the works, without any shame, I did whatever I could do to obtain the acting role of the character I admired.
And I defeated many people to obtain that role.
When I heard that I was able to meet him live during the first After Record, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep.
And then, I got additionally nervous during my first After Record, so much that this would be the one day in my life that I had most difficulty in maintaining my composure. I was really shocked to learn that he's only a year older than me. Till this point, the sensei I had always imagined was that he was probably male, around 27-28, graduated from college, with work experience, and became a professional author.
And that day finally came to an end--
During the next twelve After Records, I guessed that there might be a chance or two to talk alone. Until then, I wanted to introduce myself. Of course, I couldn't talk about everything. I just wanted him to know of the existence of this voice actress called 'Eri Nitadori'.
Having such thoughts, when I was done with my self-introductions during the new school term of my Sophomore year in high school, sensei, who was seated right before me, had turned his head around to look at me--I guess I got lucky that I didn't pass out at that moment.
And when I saw him at the platform that Thursday, I was really taken aback.
Before this, I had hopes that 'since we're headed to the same place, I might be able to meet him', but I never expected both of us to meet.
And thus, Time to Play.
I decided to act.
That's because I felt that I wouldn't be able to talk to him normally no matter what.
I would probably be so tense that my face would freeze, I would use overtly formal language that would have stunned anyone, and shocked sensei as a result.
But I couldn't let myself miss out on this opportunity.
Thus, Time to Play.
I decided to play as a female classmate who was being affectionate (to put it bluntly, being bold and acting too mature.
At the same time, I had a promise with him that we wouldn't talk to each other in school. That's because, if I wasn't careful, I might end up divulging my secret.
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