Life Is So Wonderful

A collection of short stories.

1. [Crossover] I'm Really a Hopeless Romantic!

* A talented, oblivious athletic girl × boys who think she's only trying to learn new skills from them [First person]

Blurb:

I'm extremely prone to falling head over heels.

By the time I turned sixteen, I'd liked so many people I could barely count them on both hands.

To date the people I liked, I was willing to swallow my pride, lower my voice, and suffer in silence as I approached them again and again.

Unfortunately, one thing or another always went wrong, and I'm still single to this day.

When my friends heard me confess this, they just gave me strange looks. "So when you like someone, you get close to them and learn a new skill from them...? If you hadn't said anything, I would've thought you were after their special talents!"

I weakly tried to defend myself. "...I only did that so I could spend more time with them, okay?"

"And then you surpassed their decade-plus of experience in just a month?"

"Is it my fault that I pick things up after only trying them a little?"

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Later, I found out that everyone I'd ever liked thought I'd only approached them to learn new skills...

Confused... shocked... and hurt!

I didn't get close to those people just to learn new skills, all right? I'm really a hopeless romantic!

Theme: On sunlit, beautiful days