Kyou mo Watashi no Koto Kau

"They say she'll do anything... as long as you pay." Those rumors have always surrounded Mio Hazuki, the girl who sits next to me in class. But she doesn't seem like that kind of person at all. She barely speaks above a whisper, rarely says a word, never makes eye contact when someone talks to her, and looks like an ordinary, unassuming girl. I was convinced the rumors were nothing more than gossip. Then, one day after school, I saw it with my own eyes. In an empty classroom, Mio was meeting a man for compensated dating. But what shocked me even more was the way she acted. She was nothing like the timid, expressionless girl I knew from class. Instead, she wore a sweet, affectionate smile—as if this weren't a paid date at all, but a genuine date between two people who had just fallen in love.