GLERTLESKLETCH's manga / #Young Love(1)

Kurayami Ni Strobe

Complete | hayakawa nojiko | 2011 released

SO CUTE. The stories from this author have been so nice and refreshing. This one was about two childhood friends who live next door to each other. The blonde guy (who i think is the uke) has a business in school where he takes pictures of peoples crushes and sells them. His dad is a professional photographer and he learned photography from him. His black haired friend (the believed seme) plays basketball and is pretty popular with the girls. He gets confessed to regularly and his childhood friend is always around eavesdropping on the confessions. The seme always tells the girls that he is busy with basketball, and during one confession, while the friend is around, the uke's phone goes off. The next confession, the seme instead, tells the girl that he has someone that he likes. The seme walks out knowing that his friend was eavesdropping and he had known that last time too. The seme asks the uke if he wants to know who it is that he likes. The seme tells him that its someone that he has taken a photo of. In the seme's wallet is a negative of a photo of them together when they were kids. The uke blushes. After this their feelings are pretty much revealed. The uke grapples with the fear of being discovered and people finding out that he's gay. The seme deals with feeling a bit of jealousy, but in the end the two work it out. The story is marked as completed, but it seems like there would be more to it. The story starts to show the other two friends of theirs becoming closer. I thought that they might get together before the story ended, but they did not.