I work as a teacher at a girls' school in Tokyo

Chapter 69 Gossip, Gossip Again

A room on the second floor of the hotel.

"Hitomi, where are you going?"

Hitomi Takao opened the door of the room, turned around, and looked at Kaoru Inaba poking his head out of the bed.

"Thirsty, go downstairs to buy a drink. Are you going?"

"Hey, buy a drink? I'll go too."

Kaoru Inaba got off the bed with her mobile phone and put on her shoes.

The two walked out of the room together.

"What do you want to drink?"

"I wanted to drink coffee."

"Coffee? It's so late."

"So I can't drink anymore." Hitomi Takao said casually.

"Yes, I won't be able to sleep." Kaoru Inaba agreed, "It's almost ten o'clock."

"uh-huh."

Answering, the two walked in the corridor, heading for the stairs.

When you reach the stairs, prepare to go downstairs.

"Hey--"

Suddenly, Kaoru Inaba poked her lightly with his elbow, and whispered in his mouth.

"what happened?"

Hitomi Takao turned her head to look, but found that her eyes were looking elsewhere.

So they looked over with puzzled eyes:

In that direction, she saw Teacher Ogasa standing in front of a room and knocking on the door.

"Teacher Ogasa?"

She lowered her voice in surprise.

"Yes." Kaoru Inaba confirmed, "It is indeed Mr. Ogasa."

"..."

"..."

After a while of silence, the two looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and agreed——

"What are you doing?"

Hitomi Takao hid in the stairwell, just stuck his head out and looked at the corridor.

"Um……"

Kaoru Inaba poked his head out, stared at Suzuki Ogasa, and thought for a while, "Is that Mr. Hirakawa's room?"

"Are you sure?"

"Well, definitely. Mr. Ogasa's room is connected to that of Mr. Hirakawa." Kaoru Inaba nodded with certainty.

"Look, the door is open."

"Ms. Xiaoli walked in."

"The door is closed!" Hitomi Takao couldn't help raising his voice.

"..."

Shocked for several seconds, Hitomi Takao retracted his head, and pressed his body against the wall in the stairwell.

"Xun, it's ten o'clock, right?"

"...Mmm." Kaoru Inaba took the same pose.

"Are you sure it's Teacher Hirakawa's room?"

"Absolutely."

"..."

The two looked at each other.

After a long time, Kaoru Inaba asked doubtfully, "What is Mr. Ogasa doing in Mr. Hirakawa's room so late?"

"And closed the door." Takao Hitomi added.

"It can't be—" Kaoru Inaba blushed suddenly.

"Maybe." Takao Hitomi said in a hesitant tone, and poked his head out to take another look.

The door of Mr. Hirakawa's room was still closed.

"Tell me, if we go to the door now, will we hear strange noises?" Takao Hitomi retracted his head again, looking at Kaoru Inaba, his tone a little excited.

"What kind of strange sound, I don't know." Kaoru Inaba covered his face with his hands, "Besides, Mr. Ogasa will definitely hold back in such an occasion—ah, no. I don't have anything Say!"

"..."

Hitomi Takao looked at her and blinked: "Xun, you don't look like you don't know."

"I just don't know." Kaoru Inaba turned his head away from Hitomi Takao's gaze, "I'm still a child."

"I think you know." Takao Hitomi said with certainty.

"No, I don't know."

"You just know."

"I don't know, I don't know, I just don't know." Kaoru Inaba covered her face, turned around and went downstairs.

"Hey, don't go."

Hitomi Takao stared at Kaoru Inaba hurriedly going downstairs, and was stunned for a moment.

She turned around, hesitated, and finally chased downstairs helplessly: "Xun, wait for me."

-

The first floor of the hotel.

Hitomi Takao saw Kaoru Inaba on the seat next to the drink machine.

"I have no idea!"

This was the first sentence Kaoru Inaba said after meeting her.

"...Ok, okay, you don't know." Takao Hitomi's tone could have been more perfunctory, "Maybe Mr. Ogasa went to Mrs. Hirakawa so late to discuss matters about the performance department."

"Yeah, that's it. Of course, it's also possible that Mr. Hirakawa is learning wind music from Mr. Xiaoli."

"Learning wind music, yes." Hitomi Takao gave a subtle thumbs up expression.

Kaoru Inaba stopped looking at her and looked at the drink machine.

"I want yogurt, where—"

"Okay, I invite you."

Hitomi Takao puts a coin into the drink machine.

After a while of operation, Takao Hitomi took out two bottles of drinks from the outlet of the beverage machine, and then handed the yogurt to Inaba Kaoru.

"Seriously, Mr. Hirakawa and Mr. Ogasa, would it be that kind of relationship?"

Hitomi Takao sat down beside Kaoru Inaba.

Kaoru Inaba shook the yogurt, then took the straw and inserted it into the yogurt package.

"Ms. Hirakawa, aren't you with Mr. Hisata?"

She drank yogurt and spoke indistinctly.

"That's right, this is what we saw with our own eyes."

"We just saw it with our own eyes."

"So..." Takao Hitomi guessed, "Teacher Hirakawa, are you on two boats?"

"No way?"

"Who knew, Teacher Xiaoli is so cute."

"Hata-sensei is also very cute."

"Ms. Hirakawa is also very handsome." Hitomi Takao said, "That's the problem—handsome people are generally scumbags. That's what my mother said."

"It's still hard to believe... We kept secrets for Hirakawa-sensei and Kuta-sensei before. It's really not worth it for Kuta-sensei."

silence.

After a long time, Hitomi Takao spoke again.

"Xun, tell me, did Hirakawa-sensei get together with Kuta-sensei first, or with Ogasa-sensei first?"

"I guess it's Mr. Hisata?" Kaoru Inaba took a big mouthful of yogurt, "Look, Mr. Hirakawa suddenly joined the performance department this semester, which means that they must have been together this semester. As for Mr. Hisata——"

Takao Hitomi took over the words: "There were rumors last year that they were together."

"Yeah, obviously Hirakawa-sensei and Hisada-sensei seem to be a good match."

"Then, do you think Ogasa-sensei knows about Hirakawa-sensei and Hisada-sensei?"

"Surely you don't know, right? Teacher Xiaoli is so cute." Kaoru Inaba chewed on the yogurt.

Hitomi Takao didn't answer, drinking Coke.

After about 10 minutes, the drink was gone.

Kaoru Inaba finally sucked the yogurt vigorously, and the yogurt box screamed "drained".

"Let's go."

Throwing the yogurt box and the coke can into the trash can, Hitomi Takao said to Kaoru Inaba who was still sitting on the chair.

"……Um."

After some inexplicable hesitation, Kaoru Inaba stood up and walked up the stairs to the second floor with Hitomi Takao.

When they reached the stairwell on the second floor and were about to step into the corridor, the two looked at each other.

'have a look? '——The message came from the eyes.

So, the two leaned against the wall and poked their heads out.

"The door is open?"

Hitomi Takao noticed it all at once.

"It's over?" Kaoru Inaba asked in surprise.

Then, they saw Teacher Xiaoli walk out of the room.

The two retracted their heads in fright.

The heart was pounding.

"Haven't been found?"

"Probably not." Kaoru Inaba was also not sure, "If we are discovered, we won't be silenced, right?"

"...that's an exaggeration."

After calming down, a few seconds later, I heard the sound of closing the door, followed by the sound of swiping the door card, and then another sound of closing the door.

"Ms. Hirakawa has closed the door, and Mr. Xiaoli should have returned to her room."

Hitomi Takao said with ears pricked up.

"Yeah." Kaoru Inaba nodded belatedly and breathed a sigh of relief, "By the way, Mr. Hirakawa and Mr. Xiaoli are too bold, aren't they? There are so many students from the performance department living here."

"Maybe some kind of special hobby? Thrill-seeking?"

"..."

Inaba blushed and dared not answer.

Hitomi Takao looked at Kaoru Inaba's face.

"Xun, you know—"

"I don't know." Kaoru Inaba shook his head reflexively.

"No, I just want to ask—do you know how long it took for Ogasa-sensei to come out?"

"...Let me take a look." Kaoru Inaba took out his phone and glanced at it, "About 10 minutes."

"10 minutes." Takao Hitomi repeated, with a delicate tone.

Kaoru Inaba's face suddenly turned redder.

"Do you know what 10 minutes means?" Hitomi Takao asked Kaoru Inaba.

"I don't know..." Inaba Kaoru's voice became much quieter.

"You know."

"Ugh—I don't know." Inaba Kaoru felt his face a little hot.

"Explanation—" Hitomi Takao said in a long voice, their faces were pressed together, and the tips of their noses touched.

Kaoru Inaba dared not speak and closed his eyes.

She is still a simple child who doesn't understand anything.

"It shows that Mr. Hirakawa is a genius of wind music, and he learned it in just 10 minutes."

Hitomi Takao said that with a smile he couldn't hide.

"Eh?!"

Kaoru Inaba opened her eyes in surprise, facing Hitomi Takao's amused gaze that was pressed tightly in front of her.

"What's your expression, what do you think I'm going to say?" Takao Hitomi asked back.

"No, no, I think so too." Kaoru Inaba stammered.

"Xun, stop pretending, you must have been thinking just now—"

"I didn't." Kaoru Inaba turned her face away.

Hitomi Takao sighed helplessly, looking at Kaoru Inaba who refused to admit it.

"Okay, so now, what are we going to do?"

"..."

Kaoru Inaba didn't know how to answer, so he kept silent.

"Pretend not to see?"

"But Mr. Kuta..."

"Yeah, it's really difficult, why do we always run into this kind of thing?"

There was a long silence in the hallway.

"Let's go back to the room and think about this kind of thing later."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)