My Girlfriend Was a Quiet and Kind Girl

My ex-girlfriends are chasing after me even though I’ve been dumped twice. I, Mizumori Akito, fell in love with a girl who was always reading books in the library after school during my third year of middle school. She was Takahashi Ayano, a slender girl with shoulder-length hair who wore glasses. We entered the same high school and were in the same class during our first year. I thought we would continue to deepen our relationship, but Ayano gradually became more beautiful and started to attract attention from others. From around that time, Ayano and I began to spend less time together. In our second year, Ayano and I were placed in different classes. At the beginning of the first semester, we still met as we did during our first year, but gradually Ayano started to avoid me. One day, when I was about to go to a bookstore, I saw Ayano entering a hotel with Shiraishi Katsumi, a boy from her class. The next day, I was so shocked that I skipped school. But my misfortune didn’t end there. When I returned to school the day after skipping, my friend since middle school, Nakajima Masanori, approached me out of concern. When I told Nakajima about what I saw on Sunday, he gathered information about Ayano from his girlfriend, Imaizumi Kaoru, who was in the same class as Ayano. Shiraishi and Ayano were close in the classroom, and Ayano hadn’t mentioned me at all. I decided to give up on Ayano. She stopped coming to the library. While I was reading alone in the library, Ichijou Sayaka from my class approached me. We became close, studying and hanging out together. She was proactive, so at the end of summer vacation, we ended up doing it. In our third year, I was in the same class as Sayaka, but Ayano was also in the same class. It seemed that Ayano had broken up with Shiraishi and was pressing me to get back together, but I refused. However, Ayano used Shiraishi to forcefully take Sayaka away from me, and she used a video taken at that time to threaten and prevent Sayaka from dating me. Thinking I had been dumped again, I focused solely on my studies, climbing to the top of my grade and even ranking within the top twenty in nationwide mock exams. With Sayaka distancing herself from me, Ayano began to pursue me. However, a new development awaited as Shiraishi was caught by the police.