What Do You Do When You Have Two Childhood Friends in a World Where Childhood Friends Are Couples?

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Equilateral triangle: Hagiwara Kenji + Matsuda Jinpei + Naomi (you). Any one of the three has feelings for the other two, with both BL and BG pairings. Most of the time, it's just the three high schoolers hanging out and being affectionate, the kind of everyday life where passersby see you walking down the street and wonder, "Why are those three so weird?" A very chaotic pile-up of relationships.

Hagiwara had actually been a little afraid of Naomi for a very long time.

Ever since he was very young, Hagiwara had been able to act at ease around girls. Naomi was the one exception. Matsuda could sense, more or less, that when they were kids, Hagiwara didn't like being alone with Naomi when Matsuda wasn't around. For instance, when the three of them lined up to pay at a convenience store, Hagiwara would choose to stand last. When they went out together, Hagiwara would always come find Matsuda first, then go look for Naomi with him. And whenever something involving Naomi came up, Hagiwara liked asking Matsuda to handle it. In turn, Naomi almost never spoke to Hagiwara of her own accord. Matsuda was caught between the two of them, like a human telephone.

Later, Matsuda Jinpei vaguely guessed one reason for this: perhaps Hagiwara's apparent frivolity, and the way the girls in their class used to crowd around him, reminded him too much of Naomi's mother.

Theme: Old haunts are worth seeking out, but when there is nowhere left to search, all that remains is the heart of youth.