This had a collection of short stories. The first one was about a guy who once saw a gay couple at the beach. They acted like they were in their own world. They didn't care that people could be watching. Then its the guy and his friends on the beach and he's dating a dark-haired tall guy in the group, but his friends don't know. The dark haired guy doesn't wanna hide anymore. The blonde guy recalls the gay couple he saw when he was young to his partner. He later agrees with his bf that he can tell people about them. The next story is I believe the same characters from the beach one but how they met. The blonde guy was seeing a man who wants to get married to a woman but still keep the blonde guy around. After he tells him, he stops seeing him. I think they are in college. The dark haired guy has a curry club and asks the blonde guy to join. The man the blonde guy was seeing shows up at his school and tries to get him to stay with him. The tall dark-haired guy sees and says something like "homos?" Before the man was holding his hand, but when the dark-haired guy made himself known, the man let go of his hand. When the dark-haired guy finds out that the blonde guy is gay, the blonde guy is surprised that he still wants to be around him. They hang out more and one day the blonde guy agrees to check out his curry club. Turns out the curry club is just the guys house, and him, and no one else. They go into his house and then the dark-haired guy calls the other guy dense and then he steals a kiss from the blonde guy. The dark haired guys says that he's been into him for awhile. That one was good. Then There's one about a guy who goes to see the guy he had a crush on ten years ago. He thinks that the world is going to end because the Mayan calendar is ending. He shows up at the guys house and explains this. This one was a lot more emotionally deep than the other ones. The guy talks about how its been so long and how he has someone, but he hasn't been able to get over the person that this guy once was, and that he's been searching, looking for parts of the version of him that he loved in him. The blonde guy who thinks the world is going to end seems to be growing on the dark-haired guy. The dark-haired guy asks the blonde guy to cut his hair. He makes it look like how it used to; the hair of the person he loved. He starts to cry, and the two of them kiss, and in the morning the dark haired guy finds a note from the blonde guy that says he went to work. There's no hint that they will meet again or that any real relationship has formed. Its as if the guy kissed the dark-haired guy's past self and was then able to move on. I don't even really recall what else there was and I just read this.
Ringo ni Hachimitsu