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[Love Mode] Summer Days
fandom Love Mode
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It’s the first day of summer, but already the sun burns hotly, and the air feels sticky and heavy. Izumi lies on the sofa in a pair of shorts that look a size too small and nothing else, with his eyes closed so he can pretend not to notice Takamiya ogling him.

Takamiya flips another page of his book without the slightest clue what’s written on it, and he is happy to spend the whole afternoon like this, watching Izumi ignore him.

***

Kiichi stretches languorously in the sunlight, warm and content. Vaguely, he registers the fact that he’s lying on the tatami instead of a comfortable bed, and he almost expects a crick to appear in his neck as soon as he opens his eyes. The first thing he sees is a broad chest, however, rising and falling evenly, and in the same moment he realises that his head is pillowed on a firm shoulder and his neck isn’t hurting at all.

Still half-asleep, he ponders waking up all the way to tell Haruomi that he loves him. When the thought is interrupted by a wide yawn, though, he lets his eyes drift shut again, and he goes back to sleep with a smile pressed against Haruomi’s warm neck.

***

Ever since Naoya started university, he and Reiji have kept different hours that overlap for only a small amount of time each day, with Sundays being the only exception.

On Sundays, Reiji gets home in the early hours of the morning and goes straight to bed, and he sleeps until the sun is burning high in the sky. When he wakes up, Naoya has lunch on the table and a sweet smile on his lips, the one he shows only to Reiji. They eat and talk quietly, and when the meal is over, Naoya gets up to clear the table. Reiji grabs his arm, though, and pulls Naoya down onto his lap.

When they kiss, soft and hot and wet, Reiji knows that the pounding, almost unbearable feeling in his chest is happiness.

***

On a hot summer’s day, Tomoki chases the dog around the garden with a hose, until the dog growls and starts to chase Tomoki around instead. He laughs as he runs, and in the sunlight he is bright and young and beautiful.

When Seiichi opens his eyes, though, he’s alone in his bedroom, and the other side of the bed is cold.

That was happiness, and he doesn’t know if he’ll ever find it again.


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A/N: This is the first thing I've written in months. Except I started writing this in June. ;A;