Atobe Insists on Dating Me

[Waiting for the Prince of Tennis otome game to launch so I can fill in the blanks! When will it finally come out...?]

[Third-person narration]

I have a childhood friend. His name is Atobe Keigo.

Sure, he's tsundere and narcissistic, but I swear, Kage is the most perfect person in the world! I'll defend his dignity with my dying breath!! (Very loudly)

Atobe Keigo: ...

His expression turns strange. “You... I... Never mind.”

I don't get it, but I think I must have moved him!

But after we started middle school, I realized he was acting weird.

He always wanted to stick close to me, and when I went out on dates, he kept finding ways to tag along.

I snapped: Can you stay out of your childhood friend's private life?!

Atobe: ...

Mini-scene 1

Oshitari interviews me: “Rinka, what do you think about dating Atobe?”

I answer seriously: “A childhood friend is a childhood friend. A childhood friend can't become your boyfriend. If he became your boyfriend, I wouldn't be able to casually put my arm around his shoulders and chat with him anymore... So a childhood friend can't be your boyfriend!”

Oshitari struggles not to laugh. “Ahem... And what does Atobe think?”

Atobe sneers. “Hmph.”

Mini-scene 2

The day I realized I had fallen for my childhood friend, I felt like the sky was falling.

I sobbed: “We're so close, how is this any different from incest?! Waaah... Keigo, I'm so sorry!!”

Atobe, expressionless: “My mother has only one child. Me.”

I kept crying: “I understand... I'll forget you as soon as I can and find another boyfriend...”

Atobe held back. Atobe couldn't hold back any longer.

“I told you, I don't have any siblings. Suzuka Rinka, date me!”

Me: ?!

I was horrified. “Date? Who? Us?!”

I trembled. “I'll go to the eighteenth level of hell for defiling a family member, won't I?”

Atobe snapped: “I told you, there's no such thing!!”

Mini-scene 3

A one-line review of Rinka and Atobe Keigo.

Oshitari: Childhood friends who like each other but keep trying to one-up each other. Idiots.

Shishido: ...We're all just part of their game. (Strange expression)

Gakuto: Even if I get punished with extra laps, I have to say it: two idiots who nearly had their partners stolen.

The guy who tried to steal her away: “Hehehe, Suzuka is quite interesting. As for Atobe, well...” (Smiles without saying a word)

Atobe Keigo: ...

Me: ?

Reading Guide

#From the start, they're first-year middle school students (may change)

#They secretly like each other, but one is stubborn and the other hasn't figured it out

#No one is trying to steal anyone away

#An introverted but cheerful and clingy heroine x an extroverted, narcissistic hero

#Probably a story of two hopeless romantics falling for each other?

#I'll add more as I think of it

Theme: A sweet life