12. A Date for Adults (2)

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After running into each other repeatedly, we grew comfortable together in our own way.

As we grew comfortable together, I began to like him.

That feeling, planted like a seed, took in time and blossomed into fluttering excitement.

Until, in the end, we even came to do the lewd act compared to birds chirping in the morning.

Among the relationships between men and women that I often saw in novels, there was usually a device like this at work.

It appeared often not only in the genre commonly called romance, but sometimes in more unexpected places as well.

Because this is only natural immediately before having sex.

Because men and women feel excited by each other. In crude terms, reproductive urges arise, driving them to go so far as to do such filthy things.

I'd heard it so often in sex education that my ears had nearly grown calluses, so I remembered it clearly...