Genshiken
PG-13 for swearing
The original idea was a little too pat, wasn't it? Childhood companions reunited as lovers—yeah, that only appeals to freaks like his friends. Maybe you thought, maybe you blushed as a little kid and caught yourself daydreaming every now and then as you grew older, maybe, maybe—but to hell with it! The last thing you want is to be like those creeps. He'll do either way, right? He's hot, which you like very much when you can tear him away from those goddamn video games. You look good together. He's a nice guy. And you'll change him, slowly but surely.
Uh-huh. You already know it, deep down, and just don't want to be the one to say it. He'll never change. Video games are shaping up to be the big love of his life—with your luck, he'll end up in the industry. And you'll nag and scheme for a slice of his time and he'll never sweep you off your feet like you thought once.
Except that he will change—not in the way you're hoping for, hell no, and not so that you'll notice. But he'll change a little, and you'll grow on each other, and then…
And you? You, change, after all the grief you've put him and his friends through? Of course not! Except that you'll change so slowly and so damn fast that one morning you'll wake up in a cramped little two-room apartment, sleeping on a double futon and you'll want to scream Hold on waitaminute here! (But you won't, because it's a bitch getting the baby back to sleep.)
And there you'll be, you and him, and he'll drive you nuts and you'll return the favor and neither of you will ever think about being anywhere else.
So turn it on its head, shake out the damn pocky crumbs and the cigarette ash, and take a good look—love, this is life.