Kissing My Student, It's Over if We're Caught-Chapter 2Volume 1 .9 - Things I Dislike: Cheating, Thieving Cats

“My father doesn’t really have much to do with me, but I don’t have much to do with him either. It was my decision to live on my own.”

Kirihara continued her story.

“Both of my parents have been unfaithful since I was little, always.”

I was at a loss for words initially, but she kept talking.

“They both blame each other for starting it… But I think it was my father. He’s a city council member, you see. His job involves putting on a good face everywhere, so there are bound to be various entanglements. That’s probably why… But my mother isn’t innocent either… No matter how you look at it, I feel like she would have ended up sleeping with another man.”

“Do your father and mother not love each other?”

“It’s not like that… I think. It’s just that their sense of affection or romantic feelings are sort of bugged. They’re just a bit off from what’s normal, those two.”

“Is it hard, being their child?”

“It’s not fun, that’s for sure. I’ve come to terms with it now, but there were times when our house felt like a cold war zone.”

“Did they ever talk about divorce?”

“I think they did. But they were concerned about public image and decided against it. I was told not to meddle in adult affairs, so I wasn’t given many details. I don’t really know… Sorry.”

I had sensed there might be complexities in her family life, but it seemed even more tangled than I had imagined.

I felt the complexity of the situation was something not easily intervened in.

“My father has apologized to me before. But at that moment, something about it just made me snap. I told him if he was going to apologize, he should let me do as I please. I said I didn’t want to live in a house with the two of them together. That I’d rather live alone. Then, they actually let me.”

“So that’s how it came to be.”

“My mother seems to have rented her own place too. Maybe my living alone gave her that idea. Now, our family is scattered, but it seems to work out best that way. As long as I don’t get calls like last night, I’m free from weird stress. It’s more comfortable.”

“Is that really true?” I wondered inwardly.

“If that were the case, you wouldn’t have gotten so angry.”

“…”

After a few seconds of silence, Kirihara sniffed lightly.

“I think I understand why Kirihara becomes lonely.”

Was it too presumptuous of me to think that her getting fiercely angry at sensing another woman around me was triggered by her parents’ infidelity?

“Don’t be too kind to me, or I might attack you again.”

“Liar. You’re not in the mood anymore.”

“…You know me well.”

“We’ve spent enough time together.”

“Yeah. …Ah, this sucks.”

As she said that, Kirihara sneezed again.

“You should take a shower. You’ll really catch a cold.”

“…I will. You going in first?”

“I’ll go later. I’ll bring your clothes to the dressing room, so make sure to put them on, okay?”

After seeing Kirihara off, I took the clothes we had discarded earlier to the dressing room.

When I came back to the bedroom after my shower, Kirihara was already asleep in bed.

No wonder. It was past two in the morning. I was at my limit too.

“Kirihara?”

“…”

She was deeply asleep.

But there were traces of tears on her closed eyelids.

I gently wiped them away before getting into bed myself.

Wrapped in a single towel blanket, we lay down side by side.

The next day, when I woke up, Kirihara was in my arms.

Facing me, she stared intently with her eyes. After saying good morning, she called me softly.

“Have you been using your arm as a pillow for me the whole time?”

“…Seems like it.”

My arm was numb, completely devoid of sensation.

“Is that so? Hehe.”

Kirihara smiled happily and gave me a quick kiss.

Just a fleeting touch, then she pulled away. A light kiss was all it was.

“Thank you.”

Her gesture was purely endearing.

I hadn’t felt this way last night, but my usual sense of crisis returned. A slight feeling of panic arose.

…But well, maybe today it’s okay.

“I’m hungry.”

“Shall I make something?”

“Yeah.”

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Afterward, i spent a leisurely day off with Kirihara.