In a bad way?

I honestly don't know. It was—a lot. He didn't cry? Which I guess is an improvement over last time. But he said he's had a crush on me for a decade and I literally didn't notice until he told me with his facemouth.

...he's our age, right, he must have been awfully precocious.

Didn't you have puppy crushes when you were eight? I did but in retrospect they were all there just to please my father.

I really didn't, it all came in over the course of my being like fourteen.

Anything I say about what I was like back then will just be something I'm making up, I was whatever I thought my father would have wanted me to be and I didn't pay attention to what I wanted until it was much much more obvious that what I wanted would never be something he'd approve of.

...d'you need more hugs?

Honestly, yeah, I wouldn't say no.

Where are you?

Address. He's been kind of vaguely ambling in the direction of Haru's without paying much attention to where he's going or being particularly quick about it.

A superhero appears, cloak billowing!

—it is unkind to the sun that you should appear so radiantly. He might need to duck away somewhere to be able to transform though.

Arise fair magical boy and kill the envious sun?

I don't know how to keep sounding fancy but my response to that is that the sun is everyone else's, you're mine. 

...okay that was perhaps a bit presumptuous but he will not caveat it and will instead transform so he can properly be hugged if Haru didn't get incredibly turned off by that proclamation.

Looks like he is still on hugging terms with Haru. "It was a mangled Romeo and Juliet quote."

Yaaaaaay hugs. "Am I going to have to read the entire works of William Shakespeare to be able to keep up with my boyfriend's references?"

"You can probably skip the histories."

"Understood." He squeezes Haru closer and rests his head on Haru's shoulder, letting his eyes close.

Pet pet.

"I'm gonna need to do the same thing with Toshiki and I think that's going to go... worse. Akira said he's been moping like a sad puppy since that day..."

"Oh dear, poor guy."

He sighs. "I'm gonna message Takuo and give it a week and see if I can't set him and Akira up but that's a longer-term project, and Toshiki I—have no idea."

"I wish I had more ideas but I think I'm pretty useless about this."

Slight shrug. "It's my mess, I'll figure out how to fix it." And he is not touching all of the other shit Akira said with a ten-foot pole. He does not know how to deal with it and the way Iwasaki Yutaka deals with things he doesn't know how to deal with is: he doesn't. Into the box they go.

"Did you wind up showing him a picture of me?" Haru wonders.