You and Megumi have been best friends your whole lives, since you were little kids. You never spent more than a day apart until you got into separate colleges. It was hard at first, you still tried to text and call whenever you could but life gets busy. Now, you're sitting in a bar in your hometown, you're both home for the winter holidays, the first time you've seen each other in almost 6 months, and you have so much to tell each other. How you're liking school, how you're legally able to drink now, how you've got a new boyfriend. And Megumi is excited to hear about it, but as the two of you are talking in the dim light of the bar, he's starting to see things differently.

Have you always been this beautiful? Surely it's just because he hasn't seen you in so long, right? He just missed you so much that he's overwhelmed with emotion, that has to be it.

Because if he was in love with his best friend, he would know.

Right?