Ai opened her schoolbag and took out clothes wrapped in a plastic bag.
She tore open the packaging and pulled out a black pleated skirt and a white sailor uniform.
Ai held the sailor uniform in front of her, matching it to her body, and asked Hiko, "Hiko-kun, don't you want to see me in this outfit right now?"
"Yes!" Hiko replied without hesitation.
"Then wait until tomorrow ~" Ai said with a playful smile, as she folded the sailor uniform neatly and put it back into her schoolbag.
"Eh?" Hiko sighed in disappointment. "Never mind, I'll see it tomorrow. It's just a shame, a shame I can't be the first one to see you in your new clothes."
"Then let's go home ~"
Ai's face remained smiling as she heard these words and suggested they leave.
But as she picked up her schoolbag and walked to the classroom door, she suddenly turned back and said to Hiko, "Can you wait for me in the classroom for a bit? I just remembered I have something else to do."
'Where are you going now?' Hiko instinctively began to guess what she intended to do by saying that.
He hadn't heard anyone else in the classroom make plans with her earlier, and a normal teacher wouldn't keep a student at the office so long after school.
Moreover, Ai had just been chatting and laughing with him, and after saying they'd go home together, she immediately said she had something to do.
These two contradictory statements were a bit strange.
Why would she take her schoolbag to do something?
Wouldn't that be troublesome and inconvenient?
Hiko also remembered that Ai had just put her clothes into her schoolbag.
'At this time, no one was looking for her, so she is probably going to change clothes, right? She just asked me if I wanted to see her.' Hiko pondered in his heart.
To avoid his guess being the truth, he couldn't voice his thoughts; if he guessed correctly, Ai might get shy and not proceed with it.
So Hiko came up with a plausible explanation for Ai: "What are you going to do? And with your schoolbag? You're not planning to sneak home by yourself and leave me in the classroom, are you?"
"I wouldn't leave you here and go back alone." Ai seemed uncomfortable with the idea of leaving someone to wait, abandoned, and then added, "I'll be back very quickly, I definitely won't leave you alone."
Ai finished speaking, holding her schoolbag to her chest, looking at Hiko.
Hiko looked back at her and replied, "Then go quickly and come back quickly, I'll wait for you."
Hearing Hiko's words, Ai left, hugging her schoolbag.
"Boring… changing clothes, huh, I'm still looking forward to it." Hiko took a coin from his wallet and tossed it around.
Ding ~
He flicked the coin on his hand with his thumb, and it made a crisp sound.
Maybe he shouldn't have guessed where she was going when she took her schoolbag and said she had something to do. As a result, he immediately guessed that she planned to go change clothes and come back now.
When he should have gotten a sudden surprise, it was gone now.
'However, if I hadn't just figured out her intentions, I probably would have followed her.' Hiko thought idly to himself, then propped his face with one hand and looked towards the classroom door.
'Should I try to sneak a peek?'
Hiko waited for two minutes, hesitating in his heart. Would doing that make her dislike him?
It would be almost like reading her mind.
'For now, I'll just wait patiently.' Hiko finally decided to remain still for now.
Time passed, minute by minute.
This time, however, Hiko felt the speed of time passing was incredibly long. He was practically staring a hole through the classroom door.
Suddenly, he saw Ai walking back.
Even though she had only changed clothes, her aura and atmosphere had completely transformed.
Her long, cascading hair fell loose, with a rabbit hair accessory on the upper left side, tying a small bundle of hair with a red ribbon. A bright smile graced her face, her cheeks slightly flushed, making her already fair skin look incredibly alluring.
The girl was wearing the white sailor uniform she had just held in her hand and measured against herself. The white clothes accentuated her beauty even more. The red bow at the collar was subtly lifted by a slightly bulging part. The black pleated skirt covered part of her thighs.
The girl walked into the classroom, closed the door behind her, and walked back to her desk to put down her schoolbag.
"Ta-da ~" The girl struck a cute pose in front of Hiko.
She had originally intended to wait for him to praise her, but after waiting a while, there was no reaction.
Only then did she realize Hiko seemed to be staring blankly, so she reached out and wiggled her five fingers in front of Hiko's eyes, looking at him with a beaming smile and gently asking, "How is it?"
"I now feel like you are like Polaris, blooming with dazzling light in the night sky; you are so brilliant."
Hiko couldn't help but sigh in his heart; proper dressing and grooming were truly too important.
Although he had always thought Ai was naturally beautiful after meeting her, she never cared about her clothes or appearance, dressing casually, which made her outstanding looks less striking.
Compared to the dazzling her in his memories, she was too dim.
"Your attitude has changed too much..." Ai could clearly feel Hiko looking at her with an intense gaze.
'Calm down! Calm down! Calm down! You need to calm down!'
Hiko constantly tried to cool down the boiling thoughts in his mind, suppressing his excited feelings, and said, "It shouldn't be too much, right?"
"Not too much?" Ai leaned in closer, then whispered in his ear, "But I feel your… gaze is completely different from before…"
"I can't help it… you're naturally beautiful, and if you wore white stockings… just by… changing into pretty… clothes, you've… After changing into pretty clothes, you are incredibly charming now."
Hiko thought in his heart that Ai would definitely look great if she wore white stockings now, but then he suddenly realized he had accidentally blurted out part of what he was thinking. He quickly changed his words, but as soon as he spoke, he saw Ai lean in even closer, even speaking in his ear, and he immediately stumbled over his words again, only able to try to cover it up once more.
The person he already liked, dressed in beautiful clothes and whispering so close, the impact was truly too great.
Hiko kept taking deep breaths, trying to calm his overly agitated emotions.
"You're speaking in fits and starts; I can't understand what you're saying." Ai still understood that Hiko was praising her.
But it also seemed like he wanted to see her or wanted her to wear white stockings.
"Can you speak more clearly? What do you want me to wear?" Ai took a small step back, looking at Hiko up close. "Maybe I'll wear it for you, you know?"
Hiko, who had almost calmed down, heard this sentence and immediately lost his reason, blurting out, "I want to see…"
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