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 Yamada Ryosuke was always certain of what he wanted. He knew that what he wanted, he would get, no matter what. So when he was certain that what he was feeling towards his then best friend Nakajima Yuto was in fact, love, he wasted no time in planning his moves. Namely, to make the taller dense boy to notice him. 

Which is kind of awkward considering that they are best friends. Yuto noticed him; of course, when he thought that no one was looking when he put that supposedly anonymous letter in the other's shoe locker. 

Well, that and his hand writing were very much recognizable because they had been together since kindergarten. Yuto had been kind enough not to mention that he had in fact seen Ryosuke stuff that letter inside the locker, but he could not ignore the handwriting and the inadvertent way Ryosuke had signed his name at the very bottom, the way he always did when he wrote any kind of letters. He was rather proper about things like that. 

Yuto only said, "aww, I like you too," and patted Ryosuke's head like he was six and not ten years older. Ryosuke could only smack himself inside his mind.

The second attempt during an afternoon excursion at the rooftop was interrupted by their senpai Arioka Daiki who dragged Ryosuke off for something or other -- the details had been lost when he returned to see a girl confessing to Yuto and then Yuto saying with an awkward face, "I'm sorry, I have someone I like already."

That had occupied his thoughts for the next several days, putting his plans on hold. Who is it that Yuto liked? When did they meet? How did they get close? The look on his face during those days was so scary that their classmate Chinen Yuri declared that Ryosuke must have been possessed by an evil witch. That had successfully earned him a shriek from Chinen as he chased the smaller boy with a broomstick around the school.

What Ryosuke had not noticed, is that Yuto is most definitely not as dense as he thought. Surely he isn't, if he was able to reject the girl properly, and saying that he likes him too in response to that mishap of a letter?

Oh well, let's keep this bit secret from Ryosuke for now, since he was still thinking rather hard on how to confess to the person that he loves. Never mind that the straight 'I love you' would have been sufficient. Perhaps, and this is a big perhaps, Ryosuke is afraid of a straight out rejection like what the nameless girl had received.

Back to his third attempt; he learned calligraphy with his senpai Yaotome Hikaru, and tried to convey his feelings through it. That might have worked, except he misspelled Yuto's name. And that the mistake was pointed out by Yuto, therefore rendering him speechless and then a dull thunk as his forehead collided with his desk. Yuto took the paper home nonetheless, framed it and hung it near his study table. Again, this is a secret from Ryosuke.

Valentine's Day approaches, and he frowned as he thought of a clichéd way to confess – through handmade chocolates. The very thought that he had to wrestle with girls in order to get his chocolates to Yuto on that particular day made his stomach ache and he spent almost every day of the week before Valentine in the infirmary. 

After all, girls are extra-extra-extra (did I mention extra?) scary on Valentine's Day. 

But Ryosuke is not one to give up, and so on the day before Valentine, which falls on a Friday, he had a batch ready, in different sizes, all in the shape of a heart, and he was wondering on what message to put and which size is adequate when the doorbell rang, and the one and only Nakajima Yuto put himself on the Yamada doorstep announcing a surprise sleepover.