《Fall in Love at the First Sight》白音Miyomi

3、Chapter 2 — Engagement

　　Erika\'s home is in Hang City, not far from Qing State but also not close, so she decides to live in the school and becomes a dormitory student. However, to be honest, living alone — especially the unbearable loneliness — usually makes her very uncomfortable…
　　Fortunately, Miyomi’s new house is just packed up by the housekeeper, and she is about to move away from the hotel where she is temporarily staying into the house she bought before coming to Qing State. Erika thinks that she might be able to help Miyomi with some of the leftovers and also helps prevent Miyomi from being too lonely, so she readily agrees Miyomi’s invitation.
　　\"Hey, Miyomi-chan is so slow~\"
　　Just as the two are packing their belongings, Yuzuki flashes out from behind at some point, takes Miyomi into her arms, and blows a few strands of hot air towards her neck, making her heart itch. Miyomi squints, struggles for several times, and finally is set free from Yuzuki\'s hug.
　　A trace of imperceptible jealousy flashes in Erika\'s eyes, but it was soon overshadows by curiosity.
　　Miyomi remembers that Erika and Yuzuki has not met before, so she introduces: \"Erika, this is Yuzuki, my best friend and playmate when I was young.\"
　　\"Hey! It\'s nice to meet you, Erika~” Yuzuki shows a sweet smile and stretches out her right hand towards Erika, \"Miyomi is so amazing, how can she actually hook up with such a beautiful girlfriend at the first day of the school?\"
　　\"What!\" Miyomi retorts with a blushing face, “Yuzuki, please! Really, don\'t talk nonsense—\"
　　Even though Yuzuki does not actually mean that, Erika frowns upon hearing the word \"girlfriend\". \"If it\'s the true case, that I am Miyomi’s girlfriend… it must be very good, right?\" She looks at Miyomi, who is entangled with Yuzuki, and thinks to herself.
　　Suddenly, a delicate and gentle voice comes from the behind of everyone: \"Yuzuki, I\'m here to find you~\"
　　Miyomi turns around and sees a girl in a school uniform one size smaller than herself and Yuzuki, who is smiling sweetly and greeting Yuzuki.
　　\"Yeah! It\'s Minuo! You have changed a lot since last year — apparently getting more and more beautiful~\" Miyomi rushes forward, hugs the girl tightly and rubs her smooth blonde hair.
　　\"Hey—Miyomi, I can\'t breathe!\"
　　\"Miyomi, let her go! Minuo is mine, you are not allowed to touch her!\" Yuzuki angrily pulls the two apart and says to Miyomi.
　　“Huh, to be honest, none of us know what Minuo\'s mind is. Probably she likes me more than you?\" Miyomi bypasses Yuzuki’s obstruction and sways to Minuo again, “Tell me that it is the truth, Minuo-chan, you must love me more than Yuzuki right?—“
　　\"Hey, don\'t say such strange things to Minuo! You are somehow her sister anyway… But you really doesn\'t look like a senior! Not to mention that there are so many people watching—“
　　\"Tsk, it\'s jus because Minuo is too cute.\" Miyomi pats Minuo\'s head incessantly, and then looks for Yuzuki to glare, \"Okay, okay, don\'t be so stingy~\" She turns to Erika, \"This is Minuo, Yuzuki\'s younger sister.\"
　　\"Huh? Nice to meet you!\" Erika has never seen Miyomi\'s active side, and is immersed in her thoughts when she is suddenly awakened by Miyomi\'s calling, \"I\'m Erika.\"
　　After a while of conversation, everyone gradually becomes familiar with each other. Miyomi shyly and euphemistically tells Yuzuki that she is going to take Erika home tonight, which causes Yuzuki making a strange sigh of noise: \"Oh~ Miyomi is so secretive that she abducts a beautiful innocent girl back to home on the first day of school? It\'s really incredible—“

　　Ernest College closes late due to heavy workloads. After a few people walks out of the school gate, the last glimpse of the sunset has quietly disappeared, and the sky is gradually dimming.
　　\"Speaking of which, our head teacher is very interesting.\" Yuzuki holds Minuo’s hand and walks at the front of the line, “Aliva, who is said to be the heir of a rich clan.”
　　“Then he must be super rich.\" Minuo says with some envy, \"But given his conditions, there is absolutely no need to come here to be a teacher, right?\"
　　\"Tsk, you don\'t understand this~\" Yuzuki says proudly, \"Although he claimed that he came to be a teacher to train his ability, but to be honest...\" She deliberately prolongs her tone, lowers her voice, and pretends to be somehow mysterious, \"Usually according to the plot in the novel, this kind of person is secretly coming to the school because of a marriage contract — they cannot stand tempt and therefore secretly comes to see his fiancee in advance, using the excuse of being a teacher~\"
　　\"But... that kind of thing doesn\'t exist in reality, right? This is modern society?\"
　　Before Erika finishes speaking, she sees Yuzuki and Minuo turns around to look at Miyomi in tacit understanding at the same time.
　　\"No, no... Miyomi has a marriage contract, really?\"
　　Yuzuki sighs softly and explains, \"Actually, most of the students in Ernest College were set for marriage when they were young. After all, most of the students in this aristocratic schools have family businesses to inherit. It is very common for heirs to enter into marriage contracts in seeking for cooperation.\"
　　Erika frowns slightly: \"Has Miyomi met her engagement partner?\"
　　\"Not yet... Generally speaking, the two of them won\'t meet before they reach adulthood. He keeps communicating with me by letter, although I have never responded to him…\" Miyomi explains.
　　The little light that flickers in Miyomi\'s eyes slowly dims, and a thin mist is attached to her ink-colored pupils. Ever since she mentions the engagement, the lovely vigor she has always exudes is gradually replaced by a deep coldness.
　　“That is the reason… Because there won\'t be a meeting arranged between marriage partners before they become an □□, so that people like Aliva would sneak into the school to secretly get to know his fiancee in advance.\" Yuzuki receives, \"I\'m sorry, Miyomi, I Shouldn\'t have brought this up...\"
　　Erika and Miyomi are not very emotional, so she says softly and comfortingly: \"It\'s okay, Miyomi. Don\'t force yourself. If you don\'t like him, you can simply refuse the arrangement.”
　　She shakes her head and denies Erika\'s conjecture: \"There\'s no way... I know Erika may find it difficult to understand, but...\"
　　\"Born and raised in such an environment, Miyomi has learned to accept this.\" Yuzuki adds the second half of Miyomi\'s unspoken sentence.
　　Erika nods, does not say anything, but just makes up her mind secretly in her heart to bring true and free happiness to Miyomi in the last hours of high school.
　　At this moment, she suddenly understands why she has wanted to take care of this little sister-like girl ever since she sees Miyomi for the first time.
　　\"This feeling is called, love, right?\"

　　Miyomi and Yuzuki lives very close to each other. Their mansions are both in the downtown villa area about fifteen minutes away from Ernest College and are only three or two blocks apart.
　　At the branch of the road, everyone is about to separate and go in the opposite direction.
　　\"Then, see you tomorrow?\" Yuzuki waves to Miyomi and Erika. Minuo also smiles timidly by the side, then turns and leaves with his sister\'s footsteps.
　　Erika looks at the backs of the two of them from afar and disappears into the distance with the last rays of the sunset, and says to Miyomi, \"Then let\'s go home too?\"
　　\"Go home?\"
　　\"Well, go home.\"
　　\"I don\'t have a home.\" Miyomi\'s thoughts are still immersed in confusion about the future marriage contract, and she responds with a heavy heart, \"A house where you live alone is not called home at all...\"
　　\"But now...you have me.\" Erika\'s throat trembles, she swallows hard, and finally makes up her mind: \"Why don’t we form a family together?\"
　　Yue Lao’s (a lunar God in Chinese methodology who is responsible for creating love between couples) red rope seems to connect the hearts of the two of them tightly, and the pounding heart in her chest also affects Miyomi\'s heartbeats.
　　\"Is this... a confession?\" Miyomi turns around and looks into Erika\'s eyes, with a lonely, wry smile on the corner of her mouth, just as she meets her slightly trembling outstretched hand.
　　Erika bows her head shyly and does not respond.
　　At the end, Miyomi smiles again. But this time, there is less sadness in the smile, and a little more happiness that is almost imperceptible.
　　She picks up Erika\'s outstretched slender white palm with her left hand, placed her right hand on it lightly, using her fingers to gently pet on her arm supportively
　　Their fingers ends up crossing and holding together tightly.
　　“Let’s go.” She pauses and adds, “Go to home~\"
　　The sun at the sunset, the end of the day.
　　Is has no warmth of the morning sun, no enthusiasm of the noon scorching sun, but with a little faint golden light, it brings out the most beautiful passion through the entire day.
　　Delicate warmth swept across the faces of the two along with the warm breeze.
　　Feeling the warmth of each other from the palms of each other, Miyomi and Erika raises their heads at the same time.
　　The burning gaze seems to penetrate the bodies, hit the souls directly, and deeply shock the spirits.
　　\"Actually, I like you, Miyomi… I mean, I love you” Erika says in her heart, her mouth shape also changes, but in the end she restrains herself and does not say anything...