Christmas is coming again this year.
How many times such a catchphrase Christmas song is repeatedly broadcast on TV CM, and even in carbonated beverage CM, Santa Cosplay's grandfather broadcasts free drink distribution services to children with a full grin.
In the mall, besides the pure wishes of the children, there is also news of the mischievous half teenage girl's desire-waste leak, which passes in front of a message board with its message card affixed to it, even though she thinks she can kill 30 minutes of her time.
The meeting place with a certain person is in front of a garment store opposite the aisle entering the usual shopping district.
Always, if asked, it would be the latter entirely because they are told to act five minutes ago, or because it is the person in sight more than you who is meeting.
Novembers passed quickly, and today, entering December, the outside temperatures dropped all at once, making me want to hibernate in my own room if I didn't weave my thick jacket.
Look around in front of the desired garment store in a simple white down jacket with jeans and a configuration that has no need to use your brain at all when choosing an outfit.
I rarely see her privately, such as in personal clothes, so sometimes I don't really know what outfit she usually acts in, and I move my neck so much that I look a little suspicious to see who stands nearby.
But there's no one to meet there.
I thought it was impossible to be late for time, but was it my assumption?
I was just trying to get my smartphone out and check the time, and I get slapped on the shoulder from the rear.
"Hey, did I make you wait?
"That's a classic line for a long time... I just got here"
It was our student chairman who touched his shoulder behind him... No, he was the former student chairman and senior Shuxi.
There was also a muffler wrapped around his neck with a black coat.
Reminds me of a conversation I had with the chairman I exchanged a few days ago, glimpsing a swedish boot and a lovely side.
"Christmas present..."
A few days after Yudo spoke up under the palace, and Shizukuru and Kirasaka also agreed that there would be a Christmas party at home, Yudo suggested while attending school.
"Yes, because I'm in high school, expensive stuff is difficult, so how about I prepare it for everyone to the degree of feeling?
Think about Yudo's words, who more aggressively than anyone else will present a proposal about the day.
At this point, I don't want to say anything about the fact that we're supposed to get together on Christmas Day.
Damaging the atmosphere by wasting time alone creates more negative effects.
So I appreciate what you are proposing yourself, but I have no experience of attending this gathering of hands.
Always, if you realize it, at the time of year events, various gatherings are held, and it is up to you to unknowingly end them.
And sometimes I don't want to participate myself, and I've never deepened my knowledge in any way.
So if people say that gift exchange is generally a rule, I don't want to snort.
"Then why don't we go buy it over the weekend...... where are we going, shopping mall?
"No, no, it wouldn't make sense if you went with me."
There was nothing in it this weekend, so I tried to prepare it in a similar way while appropriately referring to Yudo's proposal, but he shook my head sideways with an instant answer.
I just kept the contents of Yudo's gift a secret, and I don't think it's okay because I feel bad about something, but he seems nonsense.
If there is nothing else to buy personally, ask the person within you which one to choose… or ask the person you don't see on the day.
If I asked Maple, he would make a tasteful choice, and I went down the road to school with Yudo's story appropriately circulated, imagining weekend behavior patterns in my brain wondering if I should go shopping when I asked my mother about her dinner dedication.
And after school that day.
Take a trip to the student council room after class for student council activities.
Shizuku had business in the staff room, and Kirasaka said she would return the books she had borrowed in the library room before visiting them. When she arrived in the student council room one foot away, there was only one chairman in the room.
"You're early."
"Originally, I'm already an outsider... I'm free because my class was half a day today, so I was studying here."
The Chairman single-handedly says a text for self-study.
It's a half-day class day for third graders...
Third graders whose exams are now imminent are spending a different schedule than other grades in the pathway relationship.
The chairman seems to be deciding to go to a local university on the recommendation of a designated school, and I've only heard a little before that there's not much need to do self-study for the exam.
Still, there is no way this person can neglect his studies, and if he seriously finds time, he sees himself studying in silence in the student council room in this way.
When I put my stuff in my seat, the chairman makes me a warm cup of tea without saying anything, and I bring a chair next door and sit back.
"One thing about Christmas, did it make any difference?
"Speaking of which, you didn't say that we were going to host what would be a Christmas party at my classmate's house for once..."
The chairman unexpectedly zeroes his voice when he wraps his yukata with his hands and tells him as he warms his cold palms.
And I said I'd smile.
"Well, that's a good thing. I hope you enjoy it."
"Well, they're gonna exchange presents and stuff, so I don't know what to buy."
I tried to find out using the smartphone during the rest of the day, but there is sometimes an overwhelming lack of judgment material to determine whether it can be pelican or not, which is lacking in the decision-maker.
At the very least, if I could find out what Yudo would buy, which is not a group of women, I would buy something from it that has something in common.
When I boycott him, the chairman turns his notebook back in one hand as soon as he returns to the desk where his baggage is located.
Looking at that figure with one hand of hot water, he closes the notebook that should have been patterned and opened.
"Well, let's go shopping with me this weekend, of course I don't mind if it's something I thought would be good to see"
So before this one said no, I decided on the time and time of the meeting place, from what to what destination, and I couldn't even create an atmosphere of rejection, so I had a weekend...
"Why pancakes first?"
The first visit was to the store previously referenced during the opening of the Student Union at the Cultural Festival.
In a pancake shop rich in Japanese themes, I sit face to face with the chairman at a store that seems to be popular with women.
Now, isn't this like a date?
Asking the troubled chairman, who drops his gaze on the menu with his non-eating face, the reply returns as soon as possible.
"I wanted to come with you, I was just hungry."
Did the chairman already decide what to ask for, or give me the menu he had?
When I said no and said "with the same thing as the chairman," I asked the clerk who called nearby for an order.
"Where are you going today?
Ask as you moisten your throat with cold until the item on the order arrives.
The chairman began explaining whether he had prepared some candidates or not by showing the screen of his smartphone.
"The choice is what to wear, figurines, what to eat, which to make."
That said, when the chairman stops his finger manipulating the screen, he makes a picture of the exterior of the store that he has seen several times.
"It's a shop that deals with small, privately owned goods, because it doesn't have the appearance that women's products are the focus and men go in alone, so Ohara can't choose here either."
"Sure... if you have a chairman, I can come in."
In unintentional circumstances, there is no hand in missing this opportunity.
Even in a shop that's hard to get into by itself, if you're with a woman's chairman, you're fine.
A person's mood is an interesting thing.
In the course of time, I have been able to create just a little room in my mind for the situation alone with the older woman, and while the conversation goes as usual, I indulge in the sweets I have asked for before heading to my destination with the chairman.
The exterior is certainly adorably decorated with feelings such as a small goods store for women, and the interior also gives the impression that men are hard to come close to.
If you're alone, you'll never come.
I get the impression that many people are in their early twenties or so from college students depending on the age group in the store, but the age range of the products handled is wide.
If you're choosing a gift for the women, you won't have any trouble shopping...
"... aren't there many people?
"It's that time of year, because women have a natural custom of giving back to each other."
"It's tough"
Especially in monetary terms.
What a hassle if it is between people in close proximity, if payback may be inevitable but is also mandatory to the degree of acquaintance?
I guess it's a different way to hang out with a woman than with a man because her mother used to be a jerk too.
Stepping into the store after the chairman, he checks the display shelves one by one.
The price is also cheaper than I had imagined, and I can afford this enough to buy three women and plus Yudo's share.
The question is what to buy, choose from people who are easy to judge.
"This is Yudo, Miyashita... can I use this mug?"
Show the chairman by choosing a mug inspired by the glass finishing accessories and calves of your chosen penguin.
The reason I made the choice was because I intuitively liked it when it came to figurines, so I meant to pick something that was not obvious because I didn't know the preference under the palace itself when it came to mugs.
The problem starts here.
Think about which products to pass to Shizukuishi and Kirasaka after going around the store for now.
"What would the chairman like...?
I first thought if I chose to look at a woman, I asked the chairman who looked at the same shelf next door.
Um, so worried, the chairman points to some items.
"The two of you would be more than happy to wear a gift from you, hair decorations and hair rubber...... and then"
Think imaginatively of the person you will hand over, listening to the Chairman who will point you one at a time and make a proposal.
I guess feelings like this matter, so maybe it's not a good idea to worry too much about the contents.
But it's hard stuff.
There are only so many times in my life that I can count, such as giving people something.
"Can I just look around one more time?
Ultimately, it's going to be the form the chairman chooses from the one he chooses for me, but I want to look around the store just one more time after the final confirmation.
When I told the chairman to that effect, I felt that the gaze and expression directed contained an intriguing emotion.
Did I say something that strange?
She muttered in a gentle voice as she turned her eyes to the chairman next door and asked for a reaction.
"I thought it was a summary interruption, but only the two of you get lost in your gifts"
I don't know how I feel, but I get squeaked and ask questions, and my arm stops to take the product.
... If you ask me, why am I only choosing the two gifts so seriously?
Properly...... it's not strange to compromise with products that may have a narrative but are not obvious, and to be home early after shopping, etc.
That must have been a good way to spend some time.
Is something changing without realizing it and without knowing it?
The chairman spins his words gently to teach him the doubts he has.
"Now I want you to take care of that slight discomfort"
I thought in a corner of my head that the words I was told looking into my eyes were blindfolded by invisible weights and strong aspirations, and that the chairman was speaking with foresight of the problems I would have to face in the future.