Iris Winterbourne, a 16-year-old girl like me, I thought she was a cold girl who was reluctant to interact with people. But that wasn't the reason, on the contrary, she had invisible social anxiety and people actually thought she was a cold, grumpy girl.
Well, I also initially thought she was like that. Turns out she's a very emotional girl. Warm and gentle.
"Umm.. every time I look into someone's eyes, I get scared. That's why I put on a blank face so I don't look them directly in the eyes when talking." Iris said, blushing shyly. She indeed had eyes that seemed cold when looking into people's eyes.
"Hmm, how have you managed to make friends all this time? During the dodgeball game, if I'm not mistaken, you were on the same team as Falencia Darcia and that hoodie girl, right?"
Iris nodded slightly, the ice cream and sweet corn soup she ordered were already gone.
"Actually, Falencia invited me to her team, and the hoodie girl was already on her team."
"So you haven't had any friends all this time, Iris?"
Iris nodded slightly. I felt sorry for her, she was like a hedgehog unaware that her quills were always standing upright. Making people afraid to approach her.
No wonder during class, Iris always spent her breaks in class without talking to anyone. Alone.
It must be sad to be ostracized because misunderstanding of the wrong impression shy girl like her. Even Emma, the class president who is also shy, isn't as bad as Iris.
"Don't worry, I'm your friend. But even so, it doesn't feel right to see you always alone in class."
With that, when we left the cafe, the next day is weekend, I planned to invite Iris to go somewhere with my other friends.
But one thing I didn't expect was that hanging out with friends ended up being a trip with the entire my stepfamily.
When Iris arrived at our meeting place. She saw many unfamiliar faces.
Starting with my stepmother, Violet, who was wearing a tight bodycon dress that matched her hair color. The black bra she was wearing peeked out from her dress, which could barely tightly wrap around her plump proportions in two areas. The sexy line in the middle of her chest and the curve of her large, soft hips were clearly visible. My stepmother's waist was slender, a stark contrast to her full top and bottom. Like an hourglass.
My first perverted stepsister, Vivian, was wearing a half-length white tank top with a leather jacket and jeans that could barely cover the entire surface of her butt. I was confused by their tight clothing choices.
Valian more or less had a metal rock style. Cross earrings in her ears, an oversized black skull-printed white t-shirt that was cut in half, slipping off one shoulder, and the bottom fabric of her shirt was lifted by a plain black fabric bra that wasn't too tight to hold her chest mounds. She wore tight black belted shorts and black stockings. Yet she walked in flip-flops. Unlike her family who wore snickers or heels. Busy chewing gum, not caring about her surroundings.
Vittoria, she was wearing a cute half-thigh length skirt dress. A brown checkered dress and dark green striped white socks up to mid-calf. She even wore a headband with red rose flowers? And walking shoes. She also wore a thigh strap on her right thigh.
Vani, she was already cute as she was. She came wearing a bunny hoodie pajama and walking shoes.
Beside them was Aria, who was more or less wearing similar clothes to Vittoria, just a different type of dress and color. She wore a white ruffled half-thigh length skirt dress with lace and no shoulder sleeves. Her shoulders were clearly visible and the side of her chest was open. She wore a white ribbon decoration on the side of her head. Smiling proudly, feeling her appearance was better than Vittoria's. But her smile faded when she saw Vittoria's sisters and mom, who looked like the most famous magazine models in the world.
Gregor. He also came and was already waiting in knee-length training shorts and a plain orange t-shirt. There was nothing special about him except for the mismatched flip-flops he was wearing. And his perverted grin at my stepfamily.
Iris, she was wearing a simple long-sleeved dark blue dress. Wearing elegant heels. And carrying a small bag in her hand.
I, as usual, was in a red t-shirt and long black trousers. Wearing walking shoes like Vittoria and her little sister.
Iris looked at me confusedly, trembling with fear at the crowd of people waiting for her.
"Don't worry, they're my family, except for Aria and Gregor." I tried to smile as I explained, but Iris looked at me with shivering eyes as if she had just been scammed by a loan shark and couldn't pay it back.
"Good morning, Iris! I've always wanted to talk with you since we were in the same class, but you seemed to have an impenetrable ice wall. I hope today we can have fun as close classmates!" Aria, with her friendly girl instinct, approached Iris and extended her hand to befriend her.
But Iris just stayed silent and looked at Aria with a look that told her to disappear.
Aria became a little confused and scared seeing her.
"Iris." I reminded Iris to take her hand and look Aria directly in the eyes.
Finally, after twenty seconds of Aria and Iris staring at each other, so much so that Aria couldn't stand it and wanted to pull her hand away, Iris managed to raise her hand and accept Aria's handshake.
The cheerful girl with long pink hair put on her bright smile again.
"Nice to be friends with you, Iris!"
"Y-yeah." Only that word came out of Iris's mouth as she turned her face to me. I could see a blush on her snow-white cheeks.
"Ara~ so we're all here to walk together, little Iris? Vincent told us about the beautiful little Iris. That's why we came. So let's have fun together~" Violet said softly to Iris, who was still frozen in fear. Seeing my stepmother's gentle, warm, motherly smile made her stop shivering and melt a little. Iris nodded slightly.
"Muehehehehe~ you're not bad, Vincent. She's as beautiful as a royal princess in fairy tales. She's like Snow White who was gang-raped by seven dwarfs and ate an aphrodisiac apple and had sex with the prince while she was fast asleep." Vivian smiled pervertedly at Iris while wiggling her fingers like a spider. That made Iris shiver with fear.
Bonk!
Vittoria and Valian hit perverted Vivian's head.
"What kind of deviant fairy tale are you reading, perverted sister." Valian pulled Vivian away so she wouldn't do anything obscene to Iris.
"You'd better not get close to her, Iris. My sister's perversion truly has no limits." Vittoria sighed, representing the shame Vivian should have felt. Iris didn't know what to say except to nod slightly and look bewildered.
"Wow, I didn't expect you could invite the princess Snow White to come, Vincent. Your potential for a harem is truly beyond the weather forecast." Gregor stood beside me, watching the girls naturally approach Iris, who was starting to accept their presence.
I shrugged. "Honestly, I didn't expect this to happen. Bringing my entire stepfamily was completely unplanned; they came with me of their own accord."
Vani and Iris looked at each other. They stared at each other for a very long time without saying a word while the others were busy with themselves. Vittoria with Aria arguing whose appearance was the best, Valian with her sister Vivian who was trying to grope Iris's breasts. My stepmother trying to calm them down.
Gregor and I watched Vani and Iris, who were just silently staring at each other.
"You... Like big sister Aria. Carry me."
Iris was confused, but she squatted down and let Vani sit on her shoulders without realizing it. The two of them then walked a few steps before Iris became exhausted and fell while carrying Vani on her shoulders. Making all attention turn to the two absurd girl.
"Your youngest sibling seems to have a talent for bossing people around." Gregor commented.
I turned my head, furrowing my eyebrows.
"Strangely, I can't argue with that."
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