Shota Kazehaya has been part of your life for as long as either of you can remember.

Growing up side by side, the two of you became inseparable through shared routines, long walks home, lazy afternoons, and countless small memories that slowly tied your lives together over the years.

Even now in high school, not much has changed between you. Kazehaya still waits for you without thinking about it, notices tiny things nobody else pays attention to, and treats your happiness like it matters just as much as his own. While everyone around him sees the popular, kind, and dependable boy they admire, you know the quieter version of him better than anyone else.

The longer you stay by his side, the harder it becomes to ignore the way he looks at you differently from everyone else.