Chapter 1- The Unanswered Question
*Riiiing riiiiiing riiiing*
"Who could it be, calling this late at night?"
As I rubbed my tired eyes, I got up from bed and stretched like I always did.
I walked down the stairs which creaked as my feet pressed down into them. My mood wasn't all too good due to having been woken up at 2 in the morning. I don't usually pick up the phone if the caller happened to be calling in this hour, but since it was summer vacation I figured that I could catch up on my lost sleep later in the day.
Upon reaching the loudly ringing phone downstairs, I picked it up with drowsy and unsteady hands.
"Hello, this is the Gokou residence."
"YOU CANNOT BELIEVE WHAT JUST HAPPENED!"
I took the phone away from my ear since the annoying voice on the other end almost managed to cause me to go deaf.
"Be quiet! Don't you know what time it is? I need to get my sleep too you know?"
Feeling not in the least bit interested in what the person on the other end wanted to tell me, I considered hanging up on her. But, I rethought about it and decided to lend my ear for now.
"What is it?"
I nonchalantly asked without the slightest hint of curiosity in my voice.
"I was playing an eroge, -Onii-chan no Ijiwaru-*, and guess what just happened? Mai-chan just moved away to America! I thought she loved me! Uuuugghh…Mai-chaaaan…"
I heard sobbing noises on the other end. Despite my drowsiness, I asked Kirino one last question.
"Just why are you telling me this you insolent sow? Did you think I would care about the worthless events going on in your game?"
However, this event in the game triggered a memory of Kirino doing just the same to me and Saori just a few weeks ago.
"Haaah, why don't you just tell her to come back? Or did the game already end in a bad end?"
Since I've already woken up I might as well help her with her idiotic situation.
"Th-that's right isn't it! I mean, of course I thought of doing that! But, unfortunately, there is no choice to tell her to come back. The only available choices on the screen are "Become friendly with the other imouto, Kyoko-chan" or "Give up on Mai, it's already too late". Which one do you think is the best choice?
What a weak main character….
"I don't know. Both are useless. But, I guess you should pick moving on to Kyoko-chan…"
"Yeah, I guess…"
There was a moment of silence that lasted only a few seconds, but felt more like five minutes. I wanted to ask her why she didn't think as hard about the problem between us when she decided to leave as she did about a stupid event in a game.
"You know…"
"What is it?"
Kirino sounded a little irritated.
"Why didn't you consider the problem as much when you left me for track and field?"
"Hah?"
My face flushed red and my ears felt as though they were burning. I tried to cover my embarrassment by looking downwards even though I knew she wouldn't be able to see me anyway.
"I…I don't really know."
So she couldn't come up with an answer after all, huh?
"Whatever, I don't really care about it too much anyway. I only wanted to provide a topic of discussion between us."
"Oh, is that so? Well then I'll see y-"
"Wait!"
"What is it?"
It looks like she was a little surprised at me suddenly yelling out.
"D-do you want to come over tomorrow? Since it's summer vacation I can't find anything interesting to do."
I didn't want to leave my question unanswered and needed more time to get her to spill.
"Sure, how about we meet up at the station? Since I've never been to your house before, I don't know the way."
"That's fine with me."
I answered after regaining my composure. We both said our goodbyes, and I went to bed feeling more exhausted than when I had woken up.
Author's note: *Onii-chan no Ijiwaru is not a real name of any eroge. I just came up with it on the spot. In case you don't know what it means and are curious, it generally means "Big brother, you meanie". And, in case you missed it in the description, this novel is going to be a yuri. Thanks for reading the first chapter, and I hope you will continue to read more of this piece.