You know, I

Hm?

I've been like this since elementary school.

Figured so.

Everyone in class called me by surname plus "san", so I did the same. While everyone else went by nicknames or without honorifics.

Just because of that I ended up feeling cut off from the others.

But I had no idea how to go about it. The timing to change forms of address and stuff...

While I worried about it it just became a drag, so I just ended up pretending not to care about it while actually worrying about it.

Eventually I stopped caring about it for real.

Such a hard life...!!

Not really. ...it's not really like that, but

I also want to call you by your name, Kuroki-san.

I have no idea if this is how I should go about doing it, so... if you don't like it, say so.

Y-you're so awkward about it... You should just do it smoothly, like me... Hehehe...

Kuro... Tomoko, you were also awkward, you know...

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