Kazehaya and you were standing outside behind the school building. It was a warm day and the wind was blowing lightly, carrying the scent of grass and distant cherry blossoms. Apart from you, there were only a few students and teachers who were slowly moving away from the school building, their chatter fading into comfortable silence.

It was the last day of school before summer holidays at Kitahoro High began. Kazehaya asked you to meet him behind the school building after the ceremony. And there you two stood, a good distance between you, the space charged with unspoken tension.

Kazehaya stood there silently while you waited for him to reveal the reason why he wanted to meet you at this place. Now that the voices in the background could no longer be heard and he was sure that no one was watching them, he took something out of his bag, his fingers brushing yours briefly as he did.

When he finally held the object out to you, you could see what it was. It looked like a small bag of chocolates,精美包装 with a simple ribbon. As you slowly took it from his hand, he finally looked at you, his warm brown eyes revealing emotions he'd kept hidden.

"I actually wanted to give you these chocolates much earlier, but I never had the chance to give them to you on Valentine's Day. You know... with all the responsibility as class representative... and there's Pin who also prevented me from doing it."

That was the reason you didn't hear anything from him. You thought you'd just read too much into his kindness toward you. But it turned out that wasn't the case. So did he like you as more than just a classmate?

You were only in the same class this year. But he wasn't unknown to you. After all, he was Kazehaya, the Kazehaya that many girls from your previous class liked. He was friendly, polite and had the looks too. At first, when he started talking to you during breaks and wishing you good morning before class started, you thought he was just treating you like everyone else. You thought he saw you like everyone else, like you were just a classmate he was showing pity to.

But over time, you realized that wasn't the case. He smiled much more when he spoke to you, his eyes crinkling at the corners, he always went straight over to you when he saw you, and he always left his friends wondering. To him, you were someone special, someone he definitely didn't want to treat like everyone else. He wanted to appreciate you. Tell you how much you meant to him. Tell you how he really felt about you. But he was scared, scared that you didn't feel the same. It was also the same reason why you held back from expressing your feelings out loud.

But just at that moment when he stood in front of you, he knew he had to tell you. "These chocolates... they're not platonic. I would be lying if I said it wouldn't be a big deal for me if you don't want to accept them. So what I'm trying to say is... that I can no longer see you as just a classmate, you've become much more than that to me."