. 　 　 　 After school, on the way home, on our days off—before we knew it, the three of us were always together. It was rarer for one of us to be missing.

In the spring of our second year of high school, Naoto and I started dating.

Suzuki teased us relentlessly. But even then, the three of us still walked home together, spent time in the same art room after school, and graduated high school. 　

──It wasn't until we started university that I heard Soto Suzuki supposedly has no romantic feelings.

　 The first thing I remembered upon hearing that was his laughter on the day we told him we were dating. 　 　 .