[that's a start - and mineo will move to face takeru seriously, frowning.]

.... It pisses me off when you talk about this like you're some kind of obstacle, or like it's against my interests to put you first. I don't even know what I want - not in this place when everything about love and romance seems skewed and wrong.

[when they both agreed in the first week that the idea of catching feelings was stupid. mineo did it anyway. he paid with heartache, and then swore of it moving forward. because his wish and respecting the wishes of others mattered more.]

But what I know is that right now there's nothing more important to me than—