Haruka swore he could see heat waves lingering in the air around him, distorting his eyesight just a fraction. But just a fraction was still something.

Like the feelings he had for Makoto. They were something.

At the thought of the olive-haired boy, Haruka groaned and sat up, feeling the damp stickiness of his sweat on his back. He turned to glare at his fan, which was spinning at top speed, sending out cool air in quick blasts. He stared for quite a long time, under the impression that his fan might just work harder to relieve him of the scorching heat if he stared long enough.

Yes, Haruka was going quite insane.

If winter was one of Haruka's most detested seasons (most places that held water would either be frozen or too freezing cold to swim in), summer was the runner-up. For one, Haruka hated the heat. He also burned as easily as a dry leaf if he stayed under the sun for too long. It's not that he didn't want to get tanned, it was that he couldn't get tan. His porcelain white skin would not turn brown. Instead, pale greyish-brown freckles, big and small, would start to form all over his body, making him look like he had a skin disease. Since that one fateful day; after he had swam in the ocean under the searing heat of the relentless summer sun and a little kid had ran away from him after seeing his body that was spotted enough to put a leopard to shame, Haruka swore he would never bask under direct sunlight ever again.

Anyway, back to the present; where Haruka was feeling more than just a little annoyed. The sweat drops rolling down his neck were annoying him. The shirt sticking to his torso was annoying him. The sweat-soaked hair that kept falling onto his face and getting into his eyes were annoying him. His sticky hands and thighs and the humidity of the air around him was—uuuuuuuurgh. Just one more little thing to trigger his annoyance, and Haruka swore he would snap and break something.

It's so hot..I wish I had some cold watermelon to eat. I could go out and buy some but I'm going to fry like an egg under that crazy sun. I probably shouldn't have thought about cold watermelon... I'm dying for some now oh god. And did I keep my natto in the fridge? Agh screw it. Screw everything. I don't give a damn about anything anymore gah just make this heat stop!

Haruka clasped his head in his hands, gripping at his hair. He swore he was dangling on his final thread of sanity when his phone rang, cutting through the deathly silence of his house.

Haruka was, to say the least, stunned. He never ever received phone calls. There was that one time Nagisa had tried to call him and Haruka stumbled with his phone to answer it, until he eventually got frustrated with the endless ringtone he had never personally set and the vibrations that were making the nerves in his hand go bonkers, and he threw his phone against the wall in a rage.

Needless to say, it smashed into little bits and splinters, and was sadly unrecognized as a former mobile phone in its untimely death. Haruka, barely fazed by the loss of his mobile phone (considering he never used it or acknowledged its existence), swept it up and dumped it into the trash can. He had no intention of getting a new one, until Nagisa found out and started pestering him days on end to go get a new one ("But Haru-chan; the new model of Semseung is just out!") until Haruka finally gave in, and nodded with an exasperated sigh. His sighs to Nagisa were always either exasperated, or simply chocked full with annoyance. Regardless what kind of reaction Haruka gave, however, Nagisa would always be just as happy—as long as Haruka had agreed.

Which brings us to the present. Haruka's new phone was ringing. (Nagisa had insisted on naming it Beepo simply because he found the beeps the phone made funny, but Haruka wouldn't hear of it.)

Haruka, having spent quite some time getting used to his phone after that tragic incident with his former one, answered the call successfully. It was an unknown number, but Haruka had never saved any contacts in his phone anyway, so he didn't really notice.

"Hello?"

The voice that spoke came out in a drawl, almost—it was deep and the tone wasn't too smooth. Of course, not nearly as smooth as Makoto's voice. Haruka gulped at the thought of Makoto—it was weird for him since he had never thought about someone this frequently before in his life. He pressed his phone to his ear, his thoughts roaming free once again.

"..thinking about Makoto?"

"...nnnh."

Haruka had barely realized the sound of agreement escaping his throat until he heard the caller chuckle, and even then he had to calibrate his thoughts to a few seconds back in order to remember what he had said; simply because he was riding his high-speed thought train again, and back-tracking was quite a task. It took him awhile, but he got it eventually and when he did, boy did he blush. Haruka was glad nobody was around at the time, otherwise he didn't know what excuse he would come up with for his redness.

Haruka cleared his throat once.

"Who are you?" he asked bluntly, not hiding the annoyance in his voice at all.

"You're an idiot, Haru." the caller said, "You really can't tell?"

"Okay first off, don't call me whatever you want; especially since I don't know who you are!" Haruka huffed, annoyed. "And secondly no, I don't know you. Just tell me your damn name already."

There was a guffaw, and it was so familiar that for a split second, a light bulb flashed in Haruka's head.

"It's Rin you dumbass."

Haruka paused. Of course.

"Oh. Rin. Hi."

Rin couldn't help but smile.

"Hey Haru-chan." said Rin ("Stop using -chan!") "How's summer going for you?"

"It's hot." Haruka said, as if that was that and THAT was an obvious problem. Rin nodded behind his phone understandingly, until he realized that Haruka wouldn't be able to see him nod.

"Yeah. It really is."

There was a pregnant pause.

"So. You free this afternoon?"

"..I don't think I have any plans. Why?"

"Nah I was just wondering. Say, you wanna hang out?" Rin said, a bit too quickly.

Haruka couldn't hold back his tiny chuckle.

"Your two sentences contradict each other, Rin." Rin swore he could hear the smile in Haruka's voice as he spoke, but kept silent.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever brainiac," Rin said in a scoff. "So you game for it or what?" There was the tiniest glimmer of hope in his voice, and Haruka could sense it.

"Just the two of us, right?"

Rin's line went silent for a while.

"Yeah of course." Another rushed sentence gushed out of Rin's mouth. He quietly cursed to himself for messing up, but he was careful not to let Haruka hear his anxiety. Rin tensed up a little in suspense, waiting for Haruka's reply. He gulped when Haruka stayed silent. Uh-oh. Haruka hadn't seen through his lie, did he?

"Okay then. See ya." There was the sound of Haruka turning his phone this way and that, trying to find out how to end the call, before the line finally went dead.

Rin could hardly believe his ears. He lowered his phone from his ear, an enormous grin spreading across his face. He got up from his bed, and shuffled over to his wardrobe, grin unmoving.

And here I was, thinking Haruka was the sharpest little fox on Earth. Pft! He'll never have guessed my little plan.

And so Haruka, completely in denial, was rummaging through his cupboard—separating his countless swim pants from his few casual wear and picking out what he liked best.

He had no idea that at that moment; Makoto was doing the exact same thing.

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