Synopsis
Orikawa Hisanobu and Shijonawate Rinen had been childhood friends for as long as either of them could remember, growing up in houses right next to each other, keeping that same comfortable half-distance between them the whole time. Wanting to finally move past that, in the last summer of middle school, he confessed his feelings to her — this girl who had always felt more like family than anything else — hoping to push their relationship somewhere new. Her answer was a rejection. She told him he wasn't boyfriend material to her, because to her, he was family. That was that.…
