“I’m sorry. I need to head to the shrine after the club activities are over. I will become uneasy if I don’t go there every day after school. Maybe we can do it next time,” I say to her. Haruka seems disappointed at first. But she knows about my reason for wanting to go to the shrine. I want to pray for dad’s safety. We didn’t hear anything from him since the last time he sent a message to us in the chat app. So, the only thing I can do for now is to pray for his safety.
I’m glad that my excuse is convincing enough for her. I hope that she won’t come and bugs me to go out with her again. But I underestimate how persistent she is. Haruka is still insisting me to go out and have fun with her. She’s even willing to wait until I already finish with my business in the shrine. Now I have a prob
