Let's Stay Like This a Little Longer... Just a Little...

“Ugh….”

The headache hit as soon as I woke up. Holding my head, I slowly sat up and stared blankly at the bottles of alcohol scattered around the room.

…Ah, right. I drank last night.

Was this the price I had to pay for a loner joining in on the popular kids’ exclusive Truth Game and ending up drinking?

‘But it couldn’t be helped.’

When you’re actually faced with the class president’s relentlessly positive attitude, it’s incredibly hard to say no.

I wasn’t very good at talking to people or figuring out how to handle them, so I decided I’d just been caught in a natural disaster and started picking up the bottles one by one.

We were students, after all. What if the teachers saw the bottles just lying around like this?

I put the bottles one by one into the black trash bag I’d brought just in case, tied it up neatly so no one would see what was inside, and went straight out to throw it away.

Maybe it was because it was summer. When I’d checked the time on my phone earlier, it had only been around five in the morning, but the sky was already growing bright...