Chapter 2134: Past Photos

When the dust settled down and the calm returned in the room, the girls, starting with Eri, started laughing at the foolishness that transpired. After that, Eri and her curiosity once again brought up the topic of what we did before coming upstairs.

Even though the answer should be pretty clear for them already, Eri couldn't be satisfied with a vague answer of 'we sweated so we changed into a new set of clothes'.

I thought I should narrate it for everyone to prevent an awkward or uncomfortable situation but Fuyu herself stepped up or rather slid forward as she slotted herself in the space between my legs as she started sharing our intimate moment or at least, the abridged version that Eri, and maybe Futaba, was curious to hear.

There's really no running away from it, after all. Either we reveal it or we won't be able to move forward from this situation.

Using me to funnel courage and mask her embarrassment, Fuyu looked at the tomboyish girl squirming at her place with excitement.

"Eri, you're the one who asked for this. Don't say Onoda-kun is being shameless, okay?"

"Un. I know!" She swiftly answered along with a nod.

Then, Fuyu turned to the girl next to her, confirming as well.

"What about you, Futaba?"

"... Just get it over and done with. It feels like you're flaunting your relationship with us but this girl won't be satisfied until she hears it. Besides... there's no point crying about shamelessness anymore. Onoda-kun has been doing so ever since he tickled us." Futaba acted disinterested but when she looked at me and brought up the tickle, her calm disposition visibly rippled as she unconsciously averted her gaze.

If I caught that, there's no way Akane wouldn't.

And with that, instead of Fuyu, my silly wife called her out.

"Heh. You call that shameless but you asked for another one."

"That's... I only did that to confirm something! It wasn't because I wanted to experience it again!"

"Oh... Okay, we believe you. Husband's touch is really different. If any of you need some relief, you can ask him for a massage."

Futaba tried defending herself by lying through her teeth but she only sounded like a tsundere there.

Fuyu shook her head and didn't say anything while Akane also didn't press further, instead, she advertised my massage skill...

Uh... I don't think it's good enough for everyone but then again, I've only started doing the massages because of Satsuki... Now, I'm getting practice with all of them. Wait, is that another path for me? Uh. Scratch that. That's just a skill to relieve my girls' stress or fatigue. Among the two, Eri reacted positively to it as though she's already put of asking me for a trial massage into her to-do list. Futaba, on the other hand, could only continue acting disinterested.

And with that, Fuyu finally got to narrate her abridged version of what we did.

In summary, she just said that we did more than kisses which resulted in us getting sticky and sweaty. After that, she revealed that we showered together to wash away our sweat.

Of course, Fuyu left out a lot of specific details like how we pleasured each other or how many times we climaxed. We left that to their imagination.

Ah. Right. She also emphasized that we haven't crossed the line yet but she pointed out that it's only because I'm holding back for her - to treasure her and assure her that my love for her isn't superficial but true.

When they heard that, even Futaba couldn't help but look at me in approval. As for Eri, she even clapped and praised me by doing a 'thumbs-up' directed at me.

Somehow, that reaction from them sealed their approval of my relationship with Fuyu. They wouldn't question it again and accept that I was dating their best friends.

"Onoda-kun, you got Fuyu head-over-heels for you. Treasure her properly! Do you know? Ever since Akane mentioned getting back together with you, we often teased Fuyu. Asking her when she will get a boyfriend of her own. She never showed any liking to any guy and all that's in her head was us and tennis. That's until you appeared before us."

"Hehe. I had a feeling back then that her fixation on you was more than just her concern for Akane. She kept complaining and yet she also couldn't help but accept that you're doing a great job taking care of Akane."

This time, although there was still a hint of playfulness in her voice, Eri was sincerely wishing for her friend's happiness with me.

And so, I accepted that with a smile while I tightened my embrace on Fuyu. who's already flustered from hearing Eri's words.

When I asked her if that was true, she reluctantly nodded before hiding her face by burying it in my chest.

After Eri, Futaba also said something. It's quite similar to Eri but she added a little interesting detail, "Actually, it's not hard to figure out her feelings for you, Onoda-kun. You're the only guy whose full name she bothered to remember. Also, I think I'm the only one who noticed this but there are a few photos she's keeping where you're present in the background." "Huh? What do you mean? I don't have those kinds of pho-"

Fuyu hurriedly pulled out her phone and tried to check but before she could finish her words, she stopped on the folder from a year ago. Upon opening it and loading the photos stored in the memory, she became tongue-tied.

Yeah. The first one was a shot in our middle school's tennis club. It's a photo of Fuyu with other members of the club. But in the upper right corner, there was my figure.

She then loaded the other images and at least 1 out of 3 photos that she saved as 'memories' contained me in the background.

As for some of the recent ones... she had a photo of us when I ran into her and Fubuki-chan on the train. It wasn't a stolen shot but something she took because Fubuki asked her. Also, there's one when I picked her up after her loss against Michiru-senpai. That one was a stolen shot when we were already on the bus.

"... Futaba, how did you know? I'm not even conscious of them." Fuyu said. Judging from her expression of utter shock, she was genuinely not aware of that habit...

That's quite amazing, no? She's unconsciously stalking me. Was that even possible?

In any case, since we already established the fact that she had been bottling up her interest in me for so long because of Akane, it wasn't unusual anymore if she truly unconsciously took those photos whenever I was around.

"Soz, Fuyu. I looked into your phone once and I noticed the figure of the shameless guy who kept rejecting our Akane so I got a little curious." Futaba cutely stuck her tongue out before hiding herself behind Eri as though afraid of Fuyu hitting her for fiddling with her phone. Well, nothing of the sort happened, Fuyu completely melted in my embrace as she tried to come to terms with that detail.

After she recovered, we started looking at those photos at Akane's urging which made Fuyu get more embarrassed when she started recalling the moment she took those photos. "I'm not going to lie to you, Fuyu. I'm jealous. You took a lot of photos of husband and you didn't show them to me! Look here, isn't he cool? That's during PE, right? He scored a goal for his class during the Sports Festival! And then there's that one during the cultural festival in their haunted cafe! When I went there, he disappeared somewhere."

Akane pointed out more photos and each one brought laughter for everyone. Somehow, despite saying she was jealous of Fuyu, she also managed to smoothen out her current state of

mind.

When we were done going through it, Akane then declared.

"Okay. As a commemoration of this sleepover night, let's take a photo right now! All five of

us!"

Eri happily complied and immediately moved over. Futaba was a little reluctant but she also did the same. And lastly, Fuyu who was still hiding in my chest lifted her head and smiled at

the camera.

Along with Akane's count, the sound of clicking noise as the photo was captured echoed.

We then looked at it together and laughed for the nth time.

Yeah. This situation is so comfortable. And although it's weird, it feels like I really became a

part of their group.

After that, Eri and then Fuyu also took a photo for themselves. Only Futaba opted out to do the same. But at one point, I noticed her stealthily taking a photo of us. Mhm. The girl was trying so hard to act indifferent when she was also having fun with us.

Anyway, the night continued after that and soon enough, it became my turn to be put on a hot seat. Just like what she said earlier, Eri wanted to know more about me. Or at least, how I was

doing in another school.