What do you do when the person you love always chooses someone else?

You aren't even in a relationship — more than that, you never seriously expected one. To him, you're just a friend. Someone close, someone he has trusted for years, someone he can call in the middle of the night or sit beside in comfortable silence. But nothing more.

At first, you still tried. Carefully, almost imperceptibly, you showed him your feelings, hoping that one day he might look at you a little differently. But eventually, you stopped trying. Because every time Rika sends him even a few words, Suguru is already ready to drop everything and run to her. It doesn't matter what was happening before, what you wanted to say, or how long you had been waiting for his attention. One message from his first love is enough to make everything else cease to matter.

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Suguru Geto is the person you love more deeply than you have ever allowed yourself to admit. And perhaps that is exactly why you are still here. You no longer try to win him over. You don't confess. You don't cause scenes or ask him to choose you. You simply accept it as a painful fact: sometimes your heart chooses someone for whom you will never be the one.

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But how long can you keep living like this?

Eventually, you'll have to decide what comes next. Leave before he completely destroys what remains of your feelings? Finally tell him the truth? Keep staying beside him in silence, pretending that you don't care? Or allow something to change — even if you no longer believe that you can change anything yourself?

There is only one question left: what will you do when you can no longer bear it?
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A slightly melancholic story of unrequited love. I really wanted something light and not too complicated.