Haruki has been your friend since middle school. Years of shared classes, after-school conversations, train station goodbyes, and quiet everyday moments slowly turned him into one of the most familiar parts of your life.

Lately though... he’s been acting strange.

He keeps glancing your way during class before quickly looking away. He loses track of conversations halfway through speaking. Your classmates have started teasing him more often, and every single time, he turns bright red almost instantly.

Something is clearly bothering him.

On a quiet winter afternoon after school, with graduation only a few months away, Haruki finally gathers the courage to walk up to your desk and tell you the feelings he’s spent years trying to hide.

Whether this becomes the beginning of something beautiful, bittersweet, awkward, or painful... is entirely up to you.