theme # 17- fade
Hiro's feelings for Ayaka didn't disappear right away. They faded, slipped away through his fingers like sand. He let it go easily, knowing that the world wouldn't end if he didn't love her for ever and ever.
Hiro's feelings for Suguru, though, were a totally different matter, but still quite alike. They just suddenly didn't come into matter. They grew and formed slowly, like a flower.
It began as a simple working relationship; acquaintances, if you wanted to stretch the term. But it morphed into friendship, and ever so slowly they continued to morph. they hid themselves away, hiding beneath the pretense of friendship.
But, still slowly, Hiro came to realize what those feelings were. And he hid them away still.
Finally, though, he acted on them. And things were well.
He caressed the face buried in his neck and Suguru shifted in his sleep.