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Tomy-chan seemed excited by our conversation; her cheeks were pink, and her... breasts... erect nipples were visible through her clothes.
It seemed that the mere mention and "ero-ero" intonation made my dear childhood friend awaken.
"And so... I wanted to know..." I slowly swallowed my saliva. "About the old beggar... what do you think of him?"
Tomy-chan, who had a bright gaze, seemed confused for a second. She brought her hand to her chin and made a thoughtful face.
"I pity him..." She looked at me with a strange look. "He's very... unkempt... and weird..."
I held my breath slightly. She was talking about something I... didn't care about.
I want to know... if something changed in her...
"Oh, right, it's sad living alone and all that..." I pretended to go along with her idea... "...but now we're keeping him company."
"Mi-kun is so good~" She gave a slight smile. "Doing charity like this... I would never have done it alone!"
I slightly swallowed my saliva... yes... charity...
"But do you think what we're doing is... enough...?" I ended up entering the topic because of the way she looked at him.
She shook her head negatively.
"He stinks!" She held her breath with one finger and waved the other hand in front of her face. "When we're there... so as not to be cruel, I pretend not to notice..."
She gave me a look of 'do you know what I'm saying?'
"But it's really bad to smell him up close!"
I held my breath again... it was getting closer to where I wanted to go...
"True! He's always so dirty..." I spoke, slightly encouraging her to continue talking.
She nodded as if pecking the air. "Uh-huh! Uh-huh!"
"The smell is so bad that I get dizzy!" She looks at me with a look of 'how doesn't he notice'.
... I suppose he's focused on other things...
"When he gets close... the smell of sweat and..." she seemed thoughtful. "...I don't know what, it feels like a slap in the face!"
That was true... the moment he got close, the smell was nauseating... to the point where I thought of...
"Exactly! I even thought about taking him to take a bath..." I said, fully agreeing.
Tomy-chan made a surprised face and clapped her little hands. "Hō~"
"You're right, Mi-kun!" She jumped up as if the idea made sense. She smiled at me. "As expected of Mi-kun! Always so smart!"
I had a bad... strange feeling... she wouldn't do that... would she?
"Good idea... let's do it! Take him to your house, or mine, and let him take a bath!"
Glup. I swallowed a mouthful of saliva...
I suppose that at some point this could happen... but the thing is...
I'm absolutely certain that she is not ready for what would happen in such a scenario...
A million possibilities ran through my mind... of things that could happen... and all the ideas...
were bold and... too intense...
I looked at my childhood friend, who was making a face of 'why didn't I think of that?'
"Haha, well, maybe someday..." I faked an uncomfortable laugh.
"Hee~" she made a confused face.
"Why not today, or now? Like... right now...?" She tilted her face to the side... she looked cute...
I pinched her little nose. "Because we have other things to do..." She smiled while I held her nose.
"Let go, or it will grow and I'll be deformed!" She joked.
I let go of her nose and smiled at her. "Another time, another time~ I'm busy these days." I tried to look busy; the only thing occupying me these days was Rey-chan's fan club.
Tomy seemed to remember the events I was scheduling.
She fell silent and then spoke cautiously. "... If Mi-kun wants... if Mi-kun wants..." Her voice seemed to get very weak. "I can take him to bathe alone..."
Her face screamed 'I don't want to do this, but if you want to...'.
She, as always, was trying to do something just because it was my idea...
I reacted quickly: "No, no, never..." I stopped before sounding rude. I had no intention of letting Tomy-chan interact with the beggar or whoever it was while she was alone.
NEVER.
"That's not reasonable... he might think I'm avoiding him..." I tried to change my tone and guide her thoughts... "And also... I don't want Tomy-chan to be alone..."
Before I finished speaking, Tomy threw herself at me and hugged me.
"Heheh, Mi-kun is jealous~" She smiled foolishly as she squeezed me in a gooey hug.
She was... right... I never... I don't want her close to anyone without me...
Because... Because besides me not seeing what might happen... bad things might happen...
Besides... I looked at Tomy-chan, who was smiling and hugging me.
Tomy-chan is my best friend... and no one can steal her!
"I won't~" She smiled, looking at me. "Only with Mi-kun along~"
Fuuuh~ I let out a relieved sigh that I didn't even know I was holding.
I looked at her and made a serious face.
"Never leave my side!" I held her little face with both hands. "Tomy-chan is only mine!"
Tomy's face turned so pink... her eyes shone so brightly that she couldn't even speak.
"Heheh." She laughed foolishly.
She's always mushy... I smiled happily... this was the cute Tomy-chan I always liked...
My sweet and dear childhood friend.
"...And so he stinks and makes you uncomfortable..." I returned to the subject... "...But what do you think of him... I mean, as a person."
Tomy-chan, still laughing. "He's weird! Ugly! Very ugly! And very old too!" She hugged me tightly, still focused on me. "I don't like him... but I don't hate him either..."
"But he's so weird! I would never go to him alone." She kissed me on the cheek, still ultra excited by my 'boyfriend' moment. "Always touching... always doing weird things... if Mi-kun hadn't been there, I would have kicked him and left, but Mi-kun was... and seemed to like the charity... so I stayed."
I swallowed hard, listening to her narrate her feelings unfiltered.
"His hand is rough and rude! His body is too hot and sweaty! And that thing that's too big... between his legs!" She looks at me with a look of 'he's weird'.
"He's grotesque and disgusting! Everything out of sync with..." She squeezes me tight. "So different from Mi-kun that it makes me hate him!"
I understood where her mind was... but I also wanted to know...
How her body reacted... what the touch felt like on her skin... the sensation...
Did she care that... his dick was big...? I mean, mine is cute! Superior!
But...
"How horrible... but it's charity, right?" I tried to be reasonable within the role I had taken for myself... "But what is the sensation of his touch... of him being... weird, right?"
Tomy-chan trembled slightly and gave a look of 'oh, that...'.
"His hand... is rough and seems to scrub the skin... and... when he squeezes my breast... it feels like he's going to tear it off... his body glued to mine... why stay so close...? It's uncomfortable... and..." She pondered slightly.
"Ah, look! Mikio-san, Tomomi-san!" A voice came from the other side of the shelter we were using for shade...
"Ah!" Tomy let out a low gasp and looked at me, shocked.
I swallowed hard.
I looked and saw a skinny old man with a kind face... he was...
"Tanaka-sensei!" our former gardening teacher...
He smiled slightly and came over to us. Tomy-chan hid behind me.
Tanaka-sensei looked between the two of us and smiled more.
"It looks like you two haven't changed at all!"
He was our teacher in elementary school.
"It's good to see you, Sensei! Sensei is still young and strong as ever!" It was a lie; the weight of age was evident in his appearance.
We talked lightly for a while until we said goodbye... Of all the places we could have stopped...
"It was Sensei's house..." Tomy-chan spoke restlessly and looked at me for help.
...
"...H-he... S-Sensei didn't hear..." She looked at me, her face turning pale and her lips trembling. "...D-did he hear something...?"
I didn't know, I had no idea...
I was so focused on Tomy that I didn't pay attention to anything else...
Sensei could have heard... the confession of the "ero-body"... of the charity... and the physical touches...
If he heard Tomy's confession about her body... what could that represent...?
Could he think she was a tramp...?
I looked at Tomy-chan, who had always been the image of chastity and serenity...
No... he knows she isn't...
The charity... I suppose there's no problem... right? It was something commendable... if it were real...
The... the physical touches... he probably wouldn't understand... I hope not...
And what if he heard from beginning to end...
"No, he has terrible hearing..." Tanaka-sensei used to pretend not to hear at school...
Tomy-chan let out a sigh of relief. "True..."
But the truth...
I couldn't answer, I just pressed my lips together and quickened my pace.
The smell of sweat and cicada now seemed more oppressive and sweet.