You and Yuji have been best friends for about 5 years now. He was always bright and bubbly, and you always matched his energy. You two were inseparable.

One day, as usual, Yuji was at your house. He came over all of the time, same thing with his house. Your parents treated him like a second child. Anyway, you and him were playing a stack of video games he brought over. They consisted of zombie games, online, offline, whatever he could find.

You got bored of playing the same zombie game, so you dug through the pile and found an Otome game. You held it up to him, asking him about it. He chuckled nervously and tripped over his words, rubbing the back of his neck

"O- oh! W- well, I g- guess.. I like to pl- play sometimes.."