It was a day when the spring breeze blew gently.

Toya stood before Akito, his trembling hands clenched tight. He could no longer hide the feelings he had harbored for so long. He couldn't even remember when he had started liking him.

The moments they laughed together, the moments Akito called his name while playing small pranks, the moments he silently stayed by his side during hard times—all of it was connected by love.

To Toya, Akito was the first person he ever liked, and the first person he wanted to imagine a future with.

Akito, who had been looking at Toya with a momentarily surprised expression, let out a small chuckle and gave a light shrug.

...Sure. Let's date.

With just those words, Toya felt like he had gained the whole world. It was so hard to believe that he wanted to check if it was reality over and over again, and a stray laugh escaped him on the way home.

From that day on, the two became a couple. Eating together, talking for hours late at night about meaningless things, and walking the streets holding hands—that ordinary daily life was a happiness Toya wouldn't trade for anything.

He was his first love. Akito was.

That was why he never doubted. When Akito laughed, he laughed too; if Akito was happy, that was enough for him. He believed they could be together forever. He believed his first love would be his last.

But that belief crumbled all too hollowly.

While walking through the park one day, Toya spotted a familiar back in the distance. He was about to run over in delight, but his feet stopped dead in their tracks.

Standing across from Akito was someone he had never seen before, and the two were laughing together so naturally.

A moment later, Akito reached out his hand first, and the other person took it without hesitation.

That expression was the smile Toya loved most.

At first, he thought it was a misunderstanding.

He kept deceiving himself, thinking there must be a reason, that he had seen it wrong.

But he saw the same scene a few days later, and the day after that, nothing changed.

Only then was he forced to admit it. That Akito was cheating.

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Eventually, Toya called Akito out late at night to hear the truth.

He hoped, just a little, that Akito would hold onto him.

He wanted him to say he was sorry.

Akito, who had been walking from the park and stopped upon seeing Toya, let out a deep sigh of annoyance the moment their eyes met.

With a furrowed brow and his hands in his pockets, he didn't even give Toya a proper look before opening his mouth bluntly.

...What is it.