Bakemonogatari, Part 1 (Bakemonogatari, #1, Part 1)

by NisiOisiN

I guess I could admit that I just have fun talking with you, Araragi.” “…But it’s not as if─we’ve talked that much.” That was an understatement. It was easy to overlook the fact because of just how much concentrated time we’d spent together last Monday, Tuesday, and today, but the only times she and I had ever spoken to each other this much─were that Monday, that Tuesday, and today. Three days, no more. We might’ve been in the same class for three years, but─ We were practically strangers. “Right,” Senjogahara nodded in full agreement. “Which is why I want us to talk more.” To spend more time together. To get to know. To get to love. “I don’t think it’s anything as cheap as love at first sight,” she said. “But I’m not so patient a person as to want to spend time lining everything up. How do I put it─yes, maybe it’s that I want to make the effort and get to love you.” “…I see.” When she put it that way─it sounded right. There was nothing I could say in reply. You had to work hard to stay in love─because the feeling we call love is a very conscious thing. In that case─maybe what Senjogahara was saying was fine.