If anyone else had made such a comment about her, she wouldn't have hesitated to slap them across the room and use her broom to finish them off. But because it was me, the person who she imagined as her little brother and the same person who she just had a great time with laughing out loud, she couldn't do so and just looked at me, wondering why I was acting this way.
She also noticed that even though I was glancing at her body, there were really no vulgar intentions behind my gaze, and it looked as if I were admiring a magnificent sculpture, which she really couldn't take any offence to, since, as tough as she was, she was also a simple woman at the end of the day who liked to be admired by someone she favoured.
"Kakfa, you...Why are you suddenly acting like this and saying such peculiar things?" Nina asked since she really didn't want to simply assume that I was acting like a hooligan and hoped there was actually some reason behind it all. She then continued saying, "Is it some joke of yours to get back at me?...If it is, then you better stop now since it's really strange seeing you like this."
"A joke?...No of course not...This is simply how I am and always have been, Nina."
I chuckled, telling her that I never changed from the beginning and that this was who I was, which made her give me a peculiar look and tilt her head like she was waiting for me to elaborate further.
"You see, ever since I was a kid, I had a habit of always being quite honest with my thoughts and never keeping them in for the sake of appearance...So if anything popped up in my head, I'd always say it out loud, even if it was a bad idea."
"...That's why I didn't hide my true thoughts when you exposed yourself, and I said what was running through my mind at that time." I explained my behaviour, which Nina carefully listened to since she didn't want to judge me immediately before giving me a chance to elaborate.
She also seemed to slightly agree with my take on being honest with one's thoughts, seeing as she nodded her head, since she herself didn't really like to restrict her own thoughts and thought life would be much more simple if everyone were more honest.
And just as she was about to go on a rant about how I was making excuses for my behaviour by bringing up unwanted topics, I simply smiled and said to her,
"Then what if I said that I was interested in you from the very first mention of you, Nina, and wanted to make you mine?...But after hearing that you were already married, I decided to back off and not show how I really feel about you...Would that make more sense to what I said earlier?"
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Nina was so blown back by my sudden statement that her brain stopped working for a moment, and she looked at me with her eyes wide and lips parted, like she was wondering if she should go for an ear check since she really couldn't believe what I just said.
She even quietly bit her lips as hard as she could to see if she was dreaming, and when she saw that I was still there in front of her even after she did, she realised that it wasn't a dream, and a kid who was still in school boldly said that he liked her...