Exercise in Pairs!

On the way to school, Asuka confessed her love to him, in front of the classroom, Chika announced that she would live in the same house with him, and many other things have happened since this morning.

(At this rate, a lot of crazy things may happen one after another while I’m at school……?)

Toru thought seriously that he might not even be able to go home with Aino safely.

However, after entering the classroom, it was relatively peaceful.

A few people in the class seemed to be interested in the fact that Aino and Toru were so close.

However, with the exception of Asuka, none of her classmates were friendly enough to step in and ask. The only thing that frightened him was the way Asuka looked at him, but once he glanced at her, she turned her head to the side.

During every break time, Aino would come to Toru’s seat and talk to him happily. It made Toru happy and attracted attention, but that was all.

The problem was the PE class in the second period of the morning.

Even though PE was held separately for boys and girls, it was held at the same time on the same field.

And for the preparatory exercises, they had to do pair stretching, so they had to do it in pairs.

Toru didn’t have any close friends. But he was always paired up with a good-natured and eccentric guy named Oki during the PE class.

However, it seems that Oki is absent today.

I’m in trouble, Toru thought.

Without Oki, the number of boys would be a disproportionate number.

In other words, Toru is a surplus.

Just as he was about to ask the teacher for advice, he was tapped on the shoulder from behind.

When he turned around, he saw Aino in her gym clothes.

“Toru-kun, are you alone?”

Aino smiled smugly.

In the past, Aino was a distant presence for Toru, and he had no interest in her.

This was the first time he had seen Aino in her gym uniform.

The white gym uniform on the top half of her body clearly shows the shape of her breasts, and the navy blue shorts only cover the top of her knees, so her white legs are dazzling.

Aino blushed and looked up at Toru.

“Oh … you can’t look at me like that at …… school, okay?”

“Sorry, sorry. Aino-san is so cute that I couldn’t resist …….”

When Toru said this, Aino’s face lit up with happiness. And then she giggled with a proud expression.

“I forgive you. Once we’re back home……, you can do have all kinds of naughty things to me. Enjoy?”

“Well, that’s … I’m looking forward to it.”

When Toru gave up and said honestly, Aino nodded happily, “Mm-hmm.”

And then Aino clapped her hands.

“I didn’t come here so that Toru-kun could look at me in gym clothes in a naughty way, did I?”

“Well, I guess so.”

“You know, Tohru, if you don’t have a partner, why don’t you partner up with me?”

“Huh?”

“One of the girls is absent, too. So I thought, why not?”

It seems that Aino was also left out. It’s not that it’s forbidden for men and women to do prep work together.

He glanced at the gym teacher in charge of the boys and he gave him a look that said, “I don’t care.”

It was a good thing for Toru, because he was in trouble.

He was worried about being in close contact with Aino during the exercises, but it was too late to worry about it.

Toru nodded, and Aino smiled.

“Then let’s do it.”

The first thing to do is flexibility exercises, where Toru sits on the ground and Aino pushes his shoulders with her hands from behind.

“You have a flexible body, don’t you, Toru-kun? ……!”

“Yeah, I guess so …….”

Toru was too distracted by the feeling of Aino’s palm to pay attention to it.

This time, Toru took turns with Aino.

Aino sat down, and Toru helped Aino with her flexibility exercises.

When he put his hand on Aino’s back, Aino shivered.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh, no. It’s nothing. It’s just that I thought …… your hands are big.”

“I’m a man, after all.”

“That’s true.”

Aino looked embarrassed and ticklish.

They went through a series of preparatory exercises like this (although he was a little bothered by the fact that Aino was touching his body more than necessary).

In the middle of this, Aino glanced at the female PE teacher in charge of the girls.

Her name was Tono, and she was still a young teacher, Toru thought. She must have been in her mid-twenties.

He wondered what she was looking at, but then he saw something shining silver on Tono’s ring finger.

Aino, perhaps noticing Toru’s gaze, blushed and whispered to him.

“I heard that Tono-sensei got engaged recently.”

“Hehe. That’s why she’s wearing an engagement ring.”

“Yeah, it’s pretty. Engagement ring……”

Aino mumbled quietly, then looked up with a puzzled look on her face.

And then she shook her head.

“Wow, I know we’re not ready for …… this, but it costs a lot of money, and I don’t mean that I want it.”

“But you’re interested?”

“I’m interested in ……. My father and mother didn’t get along well, so ……. Isn’t it nice to be able to show that we care about each other so much that we always wear engagement rings and wedding rings like that?”

“I guess I can understand that.”

For as long as he can remember, Toru’s relationship with his parents has been on the rocks, and he has never seen them wear wedding rings.

Of course, wearing a ring doesn’t mean that you love each other, and there are couples who don’t wear rings and still get along well.

However, it is certainly a symbol.

“I hope we can wear the same ring when we grow up.”

Aino whispered into Toru’s ear with a sly smile.

Toru nodded and replied, “Yes, you’re right,” and thought about it.

(When we grow up or ……)

Toru wished that would happen, and was surprised at his own thoughts.

Being engaged to Aino is becoming natural to him.

But he doesn’t know if his fiancée relationship with Aino will last until then.

The Konoe family, Aino, and Toru himself are all changing rapidly. He has no idea what will happen in a few years.

However.

Toru decided to do what he could for Aino now.

After PE class, Toru took out his phone and made a call.

It was to secretly make a request to Fuyuka, the secretary of the Konoe family.

It was something he had to do for Aino, and something he had to keep secret from her.