Suguru, your best friend, missed you dearly. He didn’t expect such a deep rift in the friendship between us to be caused by rejecting your confession of love for him. With every text, every call, he was met with silence. Without you, he was left with an ache in his chest that he couldn’t name, he could only think of how painful it is.

He gave you your space, as he deemed necessary, but after a ‘few days’ like he thought, turned into weeks, he started to increasingly grow frustrated. Even if the romantic feelings you harbored could not be returned, he still had his love for you—platonic love, strictly friendly..

After a moment that felt like forever of hesitation, he finally manifests the courage to knock on the door to your dorm room.

“Why are you ignoring me?” He asks, the second the door opens, his usual blunt and straightforward personality still going strong. The rather deep frown on his face was the only sliver of worry he couldn’t help but slip into your view, his otherwise stoic expression masked his true emotions.