Chapter 367. Operation: Fatman (9/10)
“How was it?”
“It was a lot of fun. Sorry for messing up and worrying you though.”
“What exactly happened?”
“Well, I stuffed the two fat suits into the duffle bag and tried zipping it up, but the zipper got stuck. Rosa handed me the radio to hold so she could try to zip it up all the way. But when she passed it to me I accidentally dropped it. I was a bit flustered and when I moved to pick it up and accidentally tapped it with my foot and it slid under a desk in the room. It was hard to reach so it took a while to get it out from under the desk. Fortunately, we were still able to hear everything you were saying during that time.”
“I see, so that’s what happened. Well, as we said, anything could happen during a plan. Nothing’s perfect. The timing of that second cruiser was pretty awful.”
“Rosa was so cool. I’d totally fall for her if she was a guy.”
“You’re saying you wouldn’t fall for her just because she’s a girl?”
“If I said I would, would you be afraid I’d try to steal her from you?”
“Not at all.”
“Then I would still fall for her.”
“You swing that way?”
“No, but that doesn’t mean things can’t change.”
“You’re telling me you’d pick Rosa over the two guys chasing after you?”
“Do you think Rosa would agree to go with me to the graduation dinner and dance?”
“Hey, you’re not seriously planning to blatantly make a move on my girlfriend, are you?”
“Will you get mad if I do? Didn’t you say you’d help me get with the person I like?”
“Haaaaah. I guess I did. Are you saying you want to get with Rosa then?”
“Hmmm… for now, I think I’ll leave my options open and I won’t say for sure. I’d be a pretty awful person if I made you help me hook up with your own girlfriend when you’re helping me.”
“Why thank you for your consideration.”
Her arms tightened around my waist.
“Something wrong?”
“No. Nothing’s wrong. I just feel pretty happy right now. Life’s never been this way for me before. Graduating from high school, it feels pretty strange.”
“Enjoy that feeling while it lasts. Being an adult is pretty crappy. Just wait till you have to pay taxes. You won’t need to right away since you’re planning to attend university, but after university, it’s really going to suck.”
“Stop being such a downer. You’re totally killing my mood.”
“Haha. Sorry about that.”
We chatted as I drove for the next twenty minutes on the way back to the university. Thankfully, we didn’t run into any unexpected trouble. We were home-free.
“Where’s your place? Since it’s late, I’ll drop you off.”
“Sure. Keep going straight down this road. At the end of the block, make a right. It’s the fifth house down after the turn.”
“Okay.”
A few minutes later I came to a stop in front of a rather nice house.
“This is it.”
“As expected of a house near the university.”
“My father is a professor after all. He gets paid pretty well by the university.” Izora got off the back as she explained.
“Right, of course he does.”
“Well then, I should get going. I’d rather stick around and get chewed out by a father who gets angry at me for bringing his daughter home so late.” It was 10:45 PM already.
“Running away without even introducing yourself. Come inside, I dare you, coward. ”
“You expect me to come inside and get an earful along with you?”
“I’m... already 18, I’m old enough to be out this late on my own.”
“You still live with your parents and have to play by their rules.”
“I don’t play by the rules.”
“Haha, sure, sure you don’t. If you’re a true punk, you’d flick them off and tell them you don’t submit to the man.”
“T-That’s a bit…”
“Scary?”
“I’m not scared.” She removed her helmet with her eyes shut and an uneasy expression on her face.
“Then do it and record it. I dare you.”
She opened her eyes and conceded, “Okay, I admit it, it’s scary. My mother would kill me if I seriously went and said that to my father.”
“You're more scared of your mother than your father?”
“Yeah. My mom’s definitely scarier. Even father disappears and goes into hiding inside the house when she explodes over something.”
“That sounds like it’d be an interesting sight to see. Does your sister live with you as well?”
“She does, but she’s been looking to move out and get an apartment recently.”
“I see.”
“...”
“...”
We suddenly fell into a rather unexpected awkward silence where neither of us immediately said anything.
Izora was the first to break the silence, “Why’d you suddenly ask me about my sister?”
“Why? There wasn’t any real reason.”
“Do you have a teacher crush despite having Rosa already or something?”
“Definitely not.”
“What? You have some complaints about her? Are you trying to say my older sister doesn’t meet your standards?”
“Well, I do have some pretty high standards.”
“If my super-smart older sister doesn’t meet your standards, what about me? Do I meet them?”
“Why would you want to know that?”
She held her hand behind her back and fidgeted a bit with her left foot as she responded, “It’s just curiosity. Purely, out of curiosity.”
“Well, to answer your previous question, I think you misunderstood something.”
“What did I misunderstand?”
“Before I answer that, you should take your phone before we forget. Here.”
“Oh, thanks. I honestly completely forgot you had it. Now, what did I misunderstand?”
“Well… I may have said I have high standards, but I didn’t actually answer your question. As for your second question, if your sister meets those standards, you would too. Anyway, I’ve got to go. See you.”
I cranked the handle down and sped off without directly answering either of her questions.
“What’s with that nonanswer! Does she or does she not meet them!”
“Who knows? Hahaha!”
The dumbfounded look on her face when I drove off was honestly too funny to hold it in and I burst out into a bout of laughter as I left her behind.
I raised one hand and glanced back over my shoulder. She noticed it and waved me goodbye before she headed inside her place.
This probably wouldn’t be the last time we met considering she was going to this university. We’d probably bump into each other at university sometime next semester since I often visited it.
As for the graduation dinner and dance on Thursday, since she got along so well with Rosa, I figured I’d give Rosa the ticket and she could go. I could find out who Izora chose in the end through Rosa.
Rosa normally had Thursdays off, but she now had to take up an extra shift on Thursdays with me to cover for Alicia who’d be working with Yuna at the second store until this Swastika problem was resolved. I couldn’t talk to customers myself since I planned to stay hidden inside the mascot costume for the time being, so Rosa had to be there. For making her sacrifice her day off, meeting up with Izora at the graduation dinner and dance could serve as a bit of compensation. It was a chance to unwind a little after work.
I came to a stop along the curb by a traffic light and pulled out my phone. I turned it back on. There was a text from Rosa. I’d forgotten. I was confident in her to the point I hadn’t worried at all.
But the first message I read was… ‘Sorry, I got busted.’
I almost dropped my phone, but thankfully I noticed the message right after that said, ‘Just kidding~ did your heart skip a beat?’
I immediately texted her back, ‘Yeah, it stopped for a good few seconds actually. Don’t mess around, what if I read that while I was driving? I could have gotten in an accident.’
I got an immediate burst of responses back, ‘Jeez, about time you respond. Took you long enough.’
‘You’d get in trouble if you text and drive you know~’
‘But anyway~’
‘How’d Izora’s breasts feel on your back? I’m sure they were pleasant~’
‘No comment.’
‘Did you bang in the bush?’
‘How the hell would we have enough time to do that?’
‘Boring~ you should have~ I like her now, she’s got my stamp of approval.’
‘No thank you. I don’t want any more women to deal with. I have enough on my plate as is.’
‘I think she’s into you though~’
‘You’re imagining things.’
‘Am I though?’
‘You are.’
‘Well, we’ll have to see about that, won’t we? You took her first kiss after all and even did that~ in a washroom.’
‘Don’t make it sound more suggestive than it is.’
‘Would you like me to rephrase that? You poked her with your finger. Is that better?’
‘Stop reminding me. What’re you even bringing this up for now?’
‘... you did it with Yuna before you did it with me.’
‘... sorry… I was going to tell you when I got back tonight. Are you angry?’
‘Yeah, I’m very annoyed right now. I could accept losing when it was Irene. She’s just that skillful as an experienced older woman, but… to lose to Yuna when she’s a total virgin! I can’t accept this humiliating defeat at all! How could I let her get one up on me? How do you expect me to put up with her teasing me the next time we have a shift together? Ran, I can tell you’ve been trying to hold off on going all the way with me and Alicia until we graduate from high school because you don’t want to accidentally get us knocked up, and I appreciate the concern, but I’m not willing to wait anymore. Not when Yuna’s gotten one up on me. Prepare yourself, we’re going to fuck whether you’re ready or not.’
‘Uh… Rosa… we can talk about this?’
‘I’ll drag you up to the school roof and fuck you there if I have to. You can’t run away, I’ll use all the ‘anything goes’ coupons I’ve stockpiled up till now on this.’
‘You… wouldn’t.’
‘I will.’
‘Ugh… really?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Honestly… I lost count of how many I owe you by now.’
‘Well, if we fuck, all of them are gone.’
Honestly, it was probably best that I agreed. I really didn’t know how many of those coupons I’d handed over to her by now. They were like my own admissions of guilt I felt toward her for getting involved with other girls even if it didn’t bother her that much. It’d reached the point where anytime I handed one over with my head down dejectedly, it was implied I’d done something that went beyond what I considered the gray area with another girl. For example, the time involving Angela becoming my girlfriend, I didn’t exactly reveal it to her, but I gave her a coupon for it nonetheless so she at least knew I’d gotten involved with another girl.
Though, Alicia had probably already revealed my weird relationship with her in secret by now after she found out. Haaaaah.
There was also the time Ms. Gene kissed me. I gave her a coupon for that too. I did tell her about that one though. I’d naturally informed her of the time with Izora at university as well.
There were other times too, but keeping track of them all was annoying.
‘Well? Are you going to do this the easy way, or the hard way where I push you down and have my way with you?’
Chapter 367. Operation: Fatman (9/10)
“How was it?”
“It was a lot of fun. Sorry for messing up and worrying you though.”
“What exactly happened?”
“Well, I stuffed the two fat suits into the duffle bag and tried zipping it up, but the zipper got stuck. Rosa handed me the radio to hold so she could try to zip it up all the way. But when she passed it to me I accidentally dropped it. I was a bit flustered and when I moved to pick it up and accidentally tapped it with my foot and it slid under a desk in the room. It was hard to reach so it took a while to get it out from under the desk. Fortunately, we were still able to hear everything you were saying during that time.”
“I see, so that’s what happened. Well, as we said, anything could happen during a plan. Nothing’s perfect. The timing of that second cruiser was pretty awful.”
“Rosa was so cool. I’d totally fall for her if she was a guy.”
“You’re saying you wouldn’t fall for her just because she’s a girl?”
“If I said I would, would you be afraid I’d try to steal her from you?”
“Not at all.”
“Then I would still fall for her.”
“You swing that way?”
“No, but that doesn’t mean things can’t change.”
“You’re telling me you’d pick Rosa over the two guys chasing after you?”
“Do you think Rosa would agree to go with me to the graduation dinner and dance?”
“Hey, you’re not seriously planning to blatantly make a move on my girlfriend, are you?”
“Will you get mad if I do? Didn’t you say you’d help me get with the person I like?”
“Haaaaah. I guess I did. Are you saying you want to get with Rosa then?”
“Hmmm… for now, I think I’ll leave my options open and I won’t say for sure. I’d be a pretty awful person if I made you help me hook up with your own girlfriend when you’re helping me.”
“Why thank you for your consideration.”
Her arms tightened around my waist.
“Something wrong?”
“No. Nothing’s wrong. I just feel pretty happy right now. Life’s never been this way for me before. Graduating from high school, it feels pretty strange.”
“Enjoy that feeling while it lasts. Being an adult is pretty crappy. Just wait till you have to pay taxes. You won’t need to right away since you’re planning to attend university, but after university, it’s really going to suck.”
“Stop being such a downer. You’re totally killing my mood.”
“Haha. Sorry about that.”
We chatted as I drove for the next twenty minutes on the way back to the university. Thankfully, we didn’t run into any unexpected trouble. We were home-free.
“Where’s your place? Since it’s late, I’ll drop you off.”
“Sure. Keep going straight down this road. At the end of the block, make a right. It’s the fifth house down after the turn.”
“Okay.”
A few minutes later I came to a stop in front of a rather nice house.
“This is it.”
“As expected of a house near the university.”
“My father is a professor after all. He gets paid pretty well by the university.” Izora got off the back as she explained.
“Right, of course he does.”
“Well then, I should get going. I’d rather stick around and get chewed out by a father who gets angry at me for bringing his daughter home so late.” It was 10:45 PM already.
“Running away without even introducing yourself. Come inside, I dare you, coward. ”
“You expect me to come inside and get an earful along with you?”
“I’m... already 18, I’m old enough to be out this late on my own.”
“You still live with your parents and have to play by their rules.”
“I don’t play by the rules.”
“Haha, sure, sure you don’t. If you’re a true punk, you’d flick them off and tell them you don’t submit to the man.”
“T-That’s a bit…”
“Scary?”
“I’m not scared.” She removed her helmet with her eyes shut and an uneasy expression on her face.
“Then do it and record it. I dare you.”
She opened her eyes and conceded, “Okay, I admit it, it’s scary. My mother would kill me if I seriously went and said that to my father.”
“You're more scared of your mother than your father?”
“Yeah. My mom’s definitely scarier. Even father disappears and goes into hiding inside the house when she explodes over something.”
“That sounds like it’d be an interesting sight to see. Does your sister live with you as well?”
“She does, but she’s been looking to move out and get an apartment recently.”
“I see.”
“...”
“...”
We suddenly fell into a rather unexpected awkward silence where neither of us immediately said anything.
Izora was the first to break the silence, “Why’d you suddenly ask me about my sister?”
“Why? There wasn’t any real reason.”
“Do you have a teacher crush despite having Rosa already or something?”
“Definitely not.”
“What? You have some complaints about her? Are you trying to say my older sister doesn’t meet your standards?”
“Well, I do have some pretty high standards.”
“If my super-smart older sister doesn’t meet your standards, what about me? Do I meet them?”
“Why would you want to know that?”
She held her hand behind her back and fidgeted a bit with her left foot as she responded, “It’s just curiosity. Purely, out of curiosity.”
“Well, to answer your previous question, I think you misunderstood something.”
“What did I misunderstand?”
“Before I answer that, you should take your phone before we forget. Here.”
“Oh, thanks. I honestly completely forgot you had it. Now, what did I misunderstand?”
“Well… I may have said I have high standards, but I didn’t actually answer your question. As for your second question, if your sister meets those standards, you would too. Anyway, I’ve got to go. See you.”
I cranked the handle down and sped off without directly answering either of her questions.
“What’s with that nonanswer! Does she or does she not meet them!”
“Who knows? Hahaha!”
The dumbfounded look on her face when I drove off was honestly too funny to hold it in and I burst out into a bout of laughter as I left her behind.
I raised one hand and glanced back over my shoulder. She noticed it and waved me goodbye before she headed inside her place.
This probably wouldn’t be the last time we met considering she was going to this university. We’d probably bump into each other at university sometime next semester since I often visited it.
As for the graduation dinner and dance on Thursday, since she got along so well with Rosa, I figured I’d give Rosa the ticket and she could go. I could find out who Izora chose in the end through Rosa.
Rosa normally had Thursdays off, but she now had to take up an extra shift on Thursdays with me to cover for Alicia who’d be working with Yuna at the second store until this Swastika problem was resolved. I couldn’t talk to customers myself since I planned to stay hidden inside the mascot costume for the time being, so Rosa had to be there. For making her sacrifice her day off, meeting up with Izora at the graduation dinner and dance could serve as a bit of compensation. It was a chance to unwind a little after work.
I came to a stop along the curb by a traffic light and pulled out my phone. I turned it back on. There was a text from Rosa. I’d forgotten. I was confident in her to the point I hadn’t worried at all.
But the first message I read was… ‘Sorry, I got busted.’
I almost dropped my phone, but thankfully I noticed the message right after that said, ‘Just kidding~ did your heart skip a beat?’
I immediately texted her back, ‘Yeah, it stopped for a good few seconds actually. Don’t mess around, what if I read that while I was driving? I could have gotten in an accident.’
I got an immediate burst of responses back, ‘Jeez, about time you respond. Took you long enough.’
‘You’d get in trouble if you text and drive you know~’
‘But anyway~’
‘How’d Izora’s breasts feel on your back? I’m sure they were pleasant~’
‘No comment.’
‘Did you bang in the bush?’
‘How the hell would we have enough time to do that?’
‘Boring~ you should have~ I like her now, she’s got my stamp of approval.’
‘No thank you. I don’t want any more women to deal with. I have enough on my plate as is.’
‘I think she’s into you though~’
‘You’re imagining things.’
‘Am I though?’
‘You are.’
‘Well, we’ll have to see about that, won’t we? You took her first kiss after all and even did that~ in a washroom.’
‘Don’t make it sound more suggestive than it is.’
‘Would you like me to rephrase that? You poked her with your finger. Is that better?’
‘Stop reminding me. What’re you even bringing this up for now?’
‘... you did it with Yuna before you did it with me.’
‘... sorry… I was going to tell you when I got back tonight. Are you angry?’
‘Yeah, I’m very annoyed right now. I could accept losing when it was Irene. She’s just that skillful as an experienced older woman, but… to lose to Yuna when she’s a total virgin! I can’t accept this humiliating defeat at all! How could I let her get one up on me? How do you expect me to put up with her teasing me the next time we have a shift together? Ran, I can tell you’ve been trying to hold off on going all the way with me and Alicia until we graduate from high school because you don’t want to accidentally get us knocked up, and I appreciate the concern, but I’m not willing to wait anymore. Not when Yuna’s gotten one up on me. Prepare yourself, we’re going to fuck whether you’re ready or not.’
‘Uh… Rosa… we can talk about this?’
‘I’ll drag you up to the school roof and fuck you there if I have to. You can’t run away, I’ll use all the ‘anything goes’ coupons I’ve stockpiled up till now on this.’
‘You… wouldn’t.’
‘I will.’
‘Ugh… really?’
‘Yeah.’
‘Honestly… I lost count of how many I owe you by now.’
‘Well, if we fuck, all of them are gone.’
Honestly, it was probably best that I agreed. I really didn’t know how many of those coupons I’d handed over to her by now. They were like my own admissions of guilt I felt toward her for getting involved with other girls even if it didn’t bother her that much. It’d reached the point where anytime I handed one over with my head down dejectedly, it was implied I’d done something that went beyond what I considered the gray area with another girl. For example, the time involving Angela becoming my girlfriend, I didn’t exactly reveal it to her, but I gave her a coupon for it nonetheless so she at least knew I’d gotten involved with another girl.
Though, Alicia had probably already revealed my weird relationship with her in secret by now after she found out. Haaaaah.
There was also the time Ms. Gene kissed me. I gave her a coupon for that too. I did tell her about that one though. I’d naturally informed her of the time with Izora at university as well.
There were other times too, but keeping track of them all was annoying.
‘Well? Are you going to do this the easy way, or the hard way where I push you down and have my way with you?’
