A Veritable Garden Of Forbidden Fruit, Supposedly...

My alarm went off and I jerked awake to the sound of one of my favourite songs. For a moment, I thought about shutting off my alarm and going back to sleep for a few more minutes as I blearily stared up at my ceiling.

I didn’t immediately decide because I felt like I wanted to get up for something. Though, my morning addled brain couldn’t figure out what it was I wanted to do. So I tapped my alarm to shut it off and turned over to sleep for ten more minutes before my alarm would eventually go of again.

After a moment though something felt...off.

Something felt weird on my ear against the pillow. So, I felt around the side of my head that was against the pillow and touched something that left me baffled for a moment.

It felt like an earring. Weird. Did I have any ear—

I shot up from bed and I remembered what happened yesterday. Quickly taking off the earrings I stared at them in the palm of my hand.

It was real! It really happened.

I scrambled out of bed in my t-shirt and shorts, completely awake now. There on my desk was the notebook I wrote in last night. I opened it up to see all the normalities I had written just as I’d remembered.

I couldn’t help but laugh at the fact that it wasn’t a dream.

This was amazing.

I got dressed into my school uniform first before I did anything, then sat at my desk to go over my normalities again, making sure I would remember them. I even opened up the notes app on my phone and copied them onto there.

Just then my alarm went off again so I got up and turned it off completely.

I would leave my Normality Notebook at home so I put it in one of my draws out of sight. I then made sure I had my school bag and my phone was safe in my pocket before walking out of my room. On my way to the stairs I noticed that my sister’s room was open and that she wasn’t in there, so she must be up already.

I made my way downstairs and dropped my bag just outside the bathroom so I could go and brush my teeth before sitting down for breakfast.

While I was staring into the mirror at myself brushing, I couldn’t help but feel that I might have made up those memories of yesterday. What brought this on, I had no clue but it may have been possible that I bought those earrings and then fantasised about some kind of porn scenario. I wouldn’t blame myself after the mood I was in yesterday.

I might have to test the earrings again just to be safe. I finished brushing my teeth but continued to look in the mirror as I thought of some kind of test.

I remembered the test I used on Airi when I came home after school yesterday. Maybe if I did the same here. I could get her to kiss me on the cheek as a way of saying good morning perhaps? That’s not something she’s ever done, just like with kissing me once I’m home.

Yeah, I’ll go with that. “It’s normal for my sister to kiss me on the cheek as she greets me in the morning.” There. Now to see if it works.

Finishing up in the bathroom I made my way to the kitchen after picking up my bag. Walking in I saw that Airi was the only one sitting at the table spreading jam on a piece of toast. I didn’t see mom anywhere but the breakfast was already laid out on the table.

“Morning.” I said as normally as I could manage while inside I was a little apprehensive.

Looking up from her toast Airi smiled before getting up from the table, “Morning Nii-chan.”

She then leaned in and kissed my cheek. “You’re up surprisingly early today.”

“Uh, yeah, well… Koda wanted to meet up early for something.” I told her after trying to think up something believable. Trying to change the subject I asked, “So, where’s mom this morning?”

“Mom had to leave for work just after finishing breakfast.” Airi didn’t seem to pick up on my hesitation. That might have been the work of the earrings though.

“I see,” Is all I said in response before taking a seat at the table. I put my hands together and said, “Thanks for the food,” before chowing down.

Breakfast went by pleasantly enough, with some banter between me and my sister before we both finished up and got ready to leave for school.

Once I left and was on the road I tried to plan for what I wanted to do today. There were quite a few cute girls at my school. Even now while walking on the sidewalk I could see some girls up ahead in the uniform of my school. With these earrings, I could literally go up to them and make them mine. That thought got me a little too excited though, which meant I had to hide my growing boner.

Except, I didn’t have to hide it! Hah! Of course, I would forget that the earrings would make my boner normal. I’m such an idiot.

Even though no one noticed my boner, I could tell that a few of the girls walking down this street with me were occasionally glancing at me. There was nothing disapproving in their looks, just a curious, maybe wistful, expression. I thought that it must have been that attractive normality that I made yesterday. No one had ever looked at me quite like that before.

It was at that moment when I saw a couple girls from Otonokizaka turn into this street from a side street. I stopped dead in my tracks.

Now there’s an idea. Sure, my school had a lot of cute girls, but Otonokizaka was an all-girls school. No guys at all. A veritable garden of girls, who were most likely virgins, too.

So, abandoning my original destination I walked in the same direction as the two from the all-girls school. All the while trying to think of an appropriate normality for this situation.

In the future, even without the earrings, it would be nice to be able to go to other schools and not worry about getting told off by my school and the ones I’m visiting. So, if I said it was normal for me to skip school whenever I wanted to, that would deal with any repercussions for skipping class in my school. But what about other schools…?

What if I said, it’s normal for me to visit any school at any time? That seemed pretty simple and would work with any school. Yeah, I’ll go with these two.

I said them out loud and even recorded them in my notes app.

After a bit more walking behind those two girls I found myself walking down a road almost surrounded on all sides by girls in navy coloured blazers and blue pleated skirts. Quite a few of them eyeing me from time to time. Oh damn, the sight of all these girls and the knowledge of what I could do with them was making my pants very uncomfortable right now. I had to adjust myself a little just to make it easier to walk.

I eventually came to a road that was lined with cherry blossom trees all the way up to the gates of a school made of white stone and orange brick. Above the main buildings entrance was an elaborate cherry blossom symbol. It looked so prestigious and picturesque with cherry blossom petals floating to the ground. I couldn’t help but stare, it was that beautiful.

After a moment, I realised I was standing there for too long as girls just walked around me towards the gates. Some of them still looking at me as they passed. So, blushing for no particular reason I picked up the pace again.

Walking through the front gates and into the school grounds I had this strong feeling that I was entering some forbidden place. Almost every part of me was itching to turn around before someone called me out for being here. But no one so much as raised an eyebrow at my presence. Thank god for these earrings.

That feeling persisted though as I moved further into the grounds. But my excitement was through the roof as I walked among these cute girls as they talked amongst themselves, occasionally giggling at something and, of course, giving me the ‘once over’.

I made it into the entrance without issue. Looking around I saw girls changing into their indoor shoes at their lockers before moving further into the school. Seeing that, I wondered if they had any guest shoes for visitors. After eyeing up and down the rows of lockers I couldn’t tell if they did or didn’t, so I went up to a girl that was about to open her locker just to the left of me.

“Excuse me?” I asked.

The girl turned to me in slight surprise, her hand still on her locker handle. “Yes?”

“Um, I was wondering if there were any guest shoes I could use.” I said as I noticed the slight dusting of red at her cheeks.

“Ah, just over there next to the umbrella racks.” She said, pointing to the far left of the entrance where there stood a separate set of lockers, next to several racks where students would put their wet umbrellas on a rainy day.

“I see. Thank you very much.” I said politely before moving towards them.

The girl only nodded before turning back to her locker.

Inside the locker were a bunch of extra indoor school shoes and some indoor slippers too. I chose to go with the shoes instead of the slippers. Once I changed out of my shoes and into the new ones I put my outdoor ones in a corner of the locker and made a mental note to retrieve them at the end of the day. Not only that but I probably didn’t want to carry my bag around everywhere. So, I put by school bag in the locker as well. I had to shift over a few slippers, though.

“It’s normal for people to not be suspicious about my shoes and bag being here in this locker.” Hopefully with that no one would snatch them up. And I could probably use this locker again in the future. I wrote this new normality down in my notes.

Once that was done I walked the rest of the way into the school. However, I came to a stop when I couldn’t think of what to do first. Behind me was the entrance and to the left and right of me were hallways leading to classrooms.

While I was standing there mulling over my options I overheard some girls talking behind me.

“What do you think the assembly is about?”

“Dunno, probably just another speech about exams or something.”

“Ugh, if it is then I’m just gunna sleep through it. Mind being my pillow?”

“Won’t be my fault if you get in trouble.”

I heard one of them sigh before they moved further away so I couldn’t hear the rest.

An assembly, huh? Well I suppose I’ll have to check it out since all the girls will be there. Now that I looked, all the girls did seem to be going in a certain direction. So, I followed the crowd.

A few minutes later I found myself in a large gym with chairs lined up in front of a stage where the staff made announcements to the students.

While the chairs were filling up I looked at all the girls filing into the room. There were quite a lot of girls in one place, and since I had these earrings giving me so much freedom I was getting way too turned on at the sight of so many girls, so many skirts, so many slim pairs of legs.

I had to adjust myself once again while watching them filling up the room. Even though I was tempted to do something there and then I thought it was best to be a little patient for the time being. So, I decided to stand against one of the walls next to some of the teachers that were there to keep an eye on the students. The only difference being, they had chairs. It was fine though. I’ll just relish the better view. I also noticed that there seemed to be only female teachers, too. I guess that made sense in an all-girls school.

After about five more minutes the flood of girls became a trickle as it seemed that everyone found a seat. However, there seemed to be a lot of rows that weren’t filled up at the back, though. That seemed odd to me. But I didn’t think much of it.

Once everyone was seated one of the teachers on the stage got up from her seat and stood at the podium to address the audience. I guessed that she must have been the principal or chairman or something. She had yellowy brown eyes and long grey hair despite looking fairly young. She was also wearing a white dress suit with a black button up shirt.

What she told the room shocked almost everyone. And the empty rows of chairs suddenly made more sense.

Otonokizaka High will be shutting its doors once everyone graduated.

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I was wandering one of the halls of the school building. Kinda just meandering while thinking about the director’s news. I wasn’t too sure if I felt sad or whatever. It really just seemed like a waste. It was such a nice-looking school, too. It won’t be a veritable garden anymore. Why I was concerned about that of all things was strange. But still, an all-girls school with very few girls each year seemed pretty sad. The halls would seem so empty.

“You’re… you’re kidding…”

I stopped walking to see three girls huddled around one of the closure notices pinned to a notice board. When I saw them I couldn’t help but feel like I’d seen them before.

“They’re closing the school…” The one on the left said in a sad tone.

“In other words, this means our school will disappear.” This time the one on the right spoke.

Man, they seemed pretty upset about all this. I felt pretty bad for them.

Right after the girl with the blue hair spoke, the girl in the middle almost collapsed before the other two caught her and held her up.

My eyebrows shot up when I saw her face more clearly now. That was the girl from the restaurant yesterday. What was her name again—

“Honoka!”

That was it.

“Honoka-chan?”

Honoka and her friends, whom I tested one of my normalities on when I first realised what I had bought from that antique store. Oddly enough one of her friends looked like a miniature version of the director.

“M-my…” Honoka mumbled. I could see that this display was causing a bit of a scene with the other girls standing around.

“Honoka!” Blue-haired girl called again. Honoka didn’t seem to hear, though.

“Honoka-chan!” There goes grey-haired girl. This would almost be funny if it wasn’t so sad. That Honoka girl must be pretty devastated if she’s taking the news like this.

“My brilliant high school life…” Honoka managed to get out with a somewhat comedically sad face before fainting in her friends’ arms.

Wow. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone faint like that before.

“Honoka! Ah, she fainted.” Blue-hair said.

“What do we do Umi-chan?!” The other one said in a panic.

“Calm down Kotori. The only thing we can do is take her to the infirmary.” ‘Umi-chan’ said in a calm and controlled manner.

“Uh, un, you’re right.” Kotori nodded after finally calming down.

“Here, help me lift her a bit.” Umi told Kotori as she shifted a little so she could hold Honoka’s arm over her shoulder. Kotori moved to do the same on her other side.

Now, I couldn’t just leave these girls to carry their friend by themselves. After that whole display of hilarious despair from the downed girl, I couldn’t leave without wanting to help a little. So I stepped closer and coughed to make myself known.

“Excuse me. Did you need a hand getting her to the infirmary?” I asked.

“Ah,” Umi looked up in surprise at being addressed before her eyes fell on me and calmed instantly while simultaneously blushing, which was an odd expression to say the least. “Yes, if that’s not too much trouble…”

“I can carry her on my back,” I told them as I got closer before turning around, presenting my back while kneeling a little.

Getting the idea, the two girls helped lift Honoka onto my back and made sure she was secure.

“Thank you very much,” Umi said to me.

“Thank you,” Kotori repeated.

Both girls seemed a little timid in addressing me. But only a little. It was, after all, normal for me to be there. It was also normal for them to find me attractive and blush. But only a little because it was normal for me to be there…

Yeah. That’s a little confusing.

“It’s no problem,” I told them as the feeling of having a girl against my back washed over me. Why did it feel so nice? Were those her tits I could feel? And her thighs. So soft.

“The infirmary is this way.” Umi said, pointing down the hallway.

Hefting Honoka up a little to make it easier to hold her, I said, “Lead the way.”

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We had made it to the infirmary, both Umi and Kotori fussing over Honoka the whole way. After telling the nurse what had happened she told me to set her down in one of the beds so she could look her over.

Apparently, she wasn’t in any danger. Of course, I had a feeling that she would be fine even with the other two worrying. Now that the girls’ little existential crisis was averted they sighed in relief.

“Thank goodness,” Kotori breathed out, her hand over her heart. Umi nodded in agreement.

Now that there was no longer any urgency to the situation everyone calmed down. The nurse said she would look after Honoka so that Umi and Kotori could both go back to class. They agreed, exchanged a few more pleasantries with the nurse, thanked me again, while using that strange mixed expression of attraction and normalcy, and left.

Now I was alone in a room with a nurse who was at her desk and not paying attention to me, and a girl who was out cold. I wasn’t entirely sure what to do here, to be honest. I suppose I should just sit down. There was a chair by the bed after all.

I sat down and had a moment to think. I was wondering if I should stay or leave Honoka here. It’s not like I really had anything to do with the girl. I might have been a bit worried about her, but I was sure that she would be fine.

And yet I couldn’t bring myself to leave this chair.

So, despite my better judgement, and the call of adventure coming from my earrings, I stayed.

Looking at her sleeping face, I got the strange feeling that I wanted to stick around. Plus, she was really cute. So cute that I had to stop myself from staring. So, I opted to look elsewhere.

I sat there looking around the room and thought briefly about lying down in the other bed next to the one Honoka was in. As comfortable as it looked though, I’m sure I would have fallen asleep before I had the chance to do anything in this school. So I thought better of it. The rest of the room looked pretty much as you would expect from an infirmary. There were privacy curtains for the beds, a desk for the nurse with a bunch of papers and folders. There were some health apparatus around the room, some of them looked familiar but I couldn’t tell you the name of them. Health posters were on the walls depicting the typical health stuff like what to eat and how to exercise. Some other knick-knacks were here and there.

I was so lost in my observations of the room that I jumped when Honoka suddenly shot up in bed, the cover falling to her lap. She didn’t seem to notice me at all as she stared ahead.

“It was a dream?” She said with that blank stare.

I had to raise my eyebrow at this. You just woke up in the infirmary and you think you just dreamed what happened? Your dreams must be dangerous if they have you collapsing, girl.

“Oh.” She said in relief with a big smile on her face. And I was just there, looking on with a deadpan expression.

Seriously?

Honoka then promptly got out of bed, put on her jacket before the nurse could come over and check on her, and practically skipped out of the room, saying, “Thank you!” on the way out.

The nurse could only look baffled at the girl’s energy.

I could only shake my head. I suppose she really was fine.