pFrom kindergarten to sophomore year, Sunakawa had been able to avoid thinking critically about his feelings on romance./p
pBut, Yukika Amami had forced him to think about it./p
pShe's a nice girl. Unlike every other girl to confess to him, Yukika is nice to his best friend, Takeo. Which means, Sunakawa couldn't reject her on that basis. And it's not like she's rude, or a bad student, or tried to hurt someone; no reason big or small to reject her. Even the stalker thing has never imposed on his life; she just watched from afar./p
pYet Sunakawa rejected her. It's the first time he felt guilty rejecting someone. And he felt even guiltier thinking on it. Because he just didn't feel that way about her. He didn't have a reason other than the fickle feelings that controlled both of them./p
pHe hated it, and felt some hate for her because of it. Not anything substantial, more like annoyance because he was forced to be confronted with this part of himself./p
pSunakawa was not interested in romance. That is what he had to realize./p
pHe had known since the middle school birds and bees talk that sex was never going to be a part of his life. But so many people, his best friend included, felt so strongly about romance; about it being this majorly important thing, that he couldn't just brush that off the table./p
pHe thought, maybe even hoped, that getting to know this girl would magically make him finally feel like that for isomeone./i/p
pBut there was nothing./p
pNot a single drop of romantic affection./p
pNot even the tiniest of butterflies in his stomach./p
pAbsolutely nothing./p