The Princess Sitting Next to Me is a Sweet Girlfriend Only in Front of Me
“Don’t make such a serious face, Heim-kun. I’m Fia, so you can treat me normally, okay?”
“Ah, ah… Right now, in this place… that’s how it is, right?”
“You worry too much, Heim-kun.”
Princess Stellafia — Fia, was smiling as she always does.
It seemed my overly formal bow as her subject amused her quite a bit.
Honestly, I didn’t expect myself to react like that so quickly, so even I was surprised.
“But how is it? Don’t I look more like a princess now?”
Fia spun around cheerfully, hopping as she turned.
Her long golden hair fluttered behind her, and indeed, it was a beautiful sight — but…
“No… When you do that, you’re completely the usual Fia.”
“Moo! At least give me a little praise!”
— Even her reaction to my response was completely normal.
And then, at that moment,
As Fia was spinning around,
“Oh!”
“Huh?”
— She caught her foot on a cabinet in the archive room.
Suddenly, the books that had been stacked up came raining down toward Fia.
Startled by the sudden turn of events, Fia froze.
The moment I saw it, my body moved reflexively.
“Look out!”
“Eh, kyaa!”
I pulled Fia toward me.
Since it was an awkward position, we both ended up falling to the ground — but at least we managed to avoid getting buried under the avalanche of books.
“Umm…”
“Uh…”
I ended up pinning Fia down.
Of course, my hands weren’t anywhere inappropriate.
Though I did end up on top of her, I managed to brace myself enough so that Fia didn’t fall painfully.
Still, my body was on top of hers, and my hands were placed just beside her face.
“……”
“……”
This was bad.
Our faces were too close.
The face of Princess Stellafia, who was said to be a treasure beyond compare — the face of the usual Fia — was far too close.
Her face turned bright red, and her eyes darted around nervously.
Honestly, I was no different.
Looking directly down at her, my gaze couldn’t help but focus on Fia’s face.
“Uh…”
“……S-sorry.”
Fortunately,
There was no mood to speak of due to the suddenness of the situation.
Both of us felt incredibly embarrassed, but thankfully, it was just embarrassment.
At least, for now.
— If either of us made the wrong move here, we might end up doing something unthinkable.
We both clearly understood that.
Neither of us thought about things like who should move first or how…
None of that crossed our minds.
But depending on what we did next,
We might commit a grave mistake.
That thought flashed through both our minds at that moment.
And in the end…
— The chime signaling the start of homeroom brought us back to reality.
By the way, we somehow managed to clean up the scattered books together after school.
