My thinking is that the double-date offer is to show (prove?) something or other to Sakuragawa, although I'm not quite sure what. It's rather hard to know exactly what she's thinking at this point. Sayori is shown to be someone who prioritizes her choice of college and the approval of her parents over Mizuki, and there isn't exactly anything solidly tying her to Mizuki, whether physical, social, or emotional (besides S), so it's hard to imagine that she's trapped against her will in an abusive relationship with someone who lives off in an apartment somewhere and has no excuse to see Sayori, someone who lives with her parents. So something else happened. Sayori's also a rather crafty person. I think she has something to say that words can't convey.
On my second reread right now I remmebered how in my first read of the chapter, I read "All that could make the flowers more beautiful is if senpai were laying here" as something incredibly yandere, aka her saying "if senpai's senpais corpse was laying in the flowers" here, before understanding what she actually meant...or maybe was my initial read correct? I also didn't realize how possessive the following pages actually were until now.
Nnnnno... The very next panel shows her mental image of Mizuki laying in the flowers in a completely normal, playful, and notably alive way. I don't really see anything more possessive than what this manga has shown an S relationship to be, although I'll give you that something can be said about how obsessive that is in general. I wouldn't say yandere but there's somewhat of a creeping saccharine darkness over the whole story.
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