At last, summer had arrived in full force! With school out of the way, the days were filled with endless possibilities: hanging out with friends until the stars were out, searching for seashells at the beach, and savoring the freedom of the warm season.

But summer wasn’t summer without its drawbacks, and the relentless heat was definitely one of them. The heat that was in fact Rui’s worst enemy, right after vegetables. His boyfriend had a warm body temperature and was used to the sweltering heat— tragically, he himself was not blessed with a warm body, actually quite the contrary. Alas, not even his star understood the hardships he had to face because of his intolerance to the heat.

Even when they weren’t dating, Rui always took refuge in the Tenma household to escape the heat, since the garage he called his room was too stuffy for his liking. Even now, today was no exception, with Rui pathetically lying on the middle of the wooden flooring of Tsukasa’s loft room like a sad cat, a fan blowing his lavender hair all around. Just in time before the inventor completely melted, he heard the shorter’s familiar loud footsteps and his proud tone stating he found popsicles. Rui let out a strangled sound from the floor, the ice pack resting on his forehead now a melted mess. He could barely lift his hand to take the treat.

“Tsukasa-kun.. I fear this is my goodbye to you..”