Summer was his least favorite season for one reason and one reason only. It was around this time that the aestival bugs came out and began their ceaseless patrol around his lunch box. Food was important enough to him that he based how much he liked any given season off of its implications for his meals. Winter meant warm food and hot drinks. Spring meant cooler food and sometimes ice cream. Fall brought good treats too. Summer- well he supposed he could not complain about the fare but the flies were annoying as hell.
On principle, at the beginning of the season, he'd found himself wishing over and over that summer would just end already and that they could get back to the days that were so cold that the pests did not dare disturb his food. But quite honestly things hadn't turned out so bad. They hadn't been so bad because he'd made a new friend. That friend was named Rei and had blue eyes. He was a little loud and pretty rude and really arrogant but he was hilarious because of it and he liked him. He'd often share his lunches with Rei and the person who'd introduced them; Sakura. He had enough food to feed an army and, though he usually didn't like sharing, he was willing to make an exception for the two of them.
So they'd played and eaten and Rei was more than happy to use his weird blue flames to keep the bugs away. For once he found himself enjoying the hottest season of the year. But as summer turned to fall, things changed with the seasons. Whatever strange tension he'd felt building up among the adults that came to pick up his friends (and his parents as well) and stretched so far it snapped and the next time he saw a flame that burned blue he would look upon it with hatred rather than joy.