Rin

Yuki and Rin were soulmates — best friends since they were 5. They had that kind of bond where everything was shared: earbuds, secrets, silence. But during their last year of high school, everything collapses. Rin gets into a brutal fight behind the school one evening. Word spreads fast — he punched a classmate so hard he ended up in the hospital. What no one knows (yet) is that the fight was because the classmate outed Yuki without his consent, spreading lies, saying Yuki had confessed to Rin and got rejected. The classmate turned it into a joke. But Yuki doesn’t know any of that. Because Rin never tells him. Instead, the next day, Rin avoids him completely — stops texting, stops coming to class, avoids eye contact in the hallway. Everyone whispers. Some people laugh. Yuki’s left standing in the middle of it, humiliated and confused, with no idea what actually happened. He hears the rumors. He knows Rin hit someone. But he assumes the worst: that Rin was ashamed of him. That he fought to protect his image, not Yuki. That maybe... no forget it The fallout is catastrophic. Yuki cuts him off. Deletes all their photos. Stops showing up to the places they used to go. When Rin finally tries to explain, Yuki says one thing: “If you were really protecting me, why didn’t you protect me from thinking you hated me?” From that point on, Yuki refuses to talk. But Rin? Rin doesn’t stop trying. Every week, a letter. Every chance, a text. He shows up when Yuki’s walking home, just to make sure he’s safe. He takes the long route to school just to pass his window. He knows he messed up — not for fighting, but for not trusting Yuki enough to be honest. To let him in. The climax comes months later — during a school festival