Usotsuki Wa Dareda
Added to re-reads. said nothing about it Hair dresser guy runs into childhood best friend. Hair dresser guy had messed around when he was younger, when he was curious about sex. Him and another guy were making out in an empty classroom. They got caught by the hair dresser’s best friend and the hair dressers friend called him disgusting. this drove them apart, with hair dresser guy believing his friend hated him. They meet again when they are older. Hair dresser guy walks into his home and his childhood best friend is sitting in his house, talking to hair dresser guy’s grandfather. After some misunderstandings and struggling to figure out what they are feeling and struggling to express it, They make up. Turns out his childhood friend didn’t mean what he said back then. He had become furious seeing him with another guy. He hadn’t understood what he was feeling. They confess and make love. This story is short enough, sweet, and refreshing. It was nice to see the seme apologize for what he had said and bed for hair dresser guy to stay. I will be keeping this one in re-reads.
Metro Dog
This was really good, really chill. They are both older men, one being older than the other. Me identifying the characters as uke and seme wont work here because they switch. The dark haired man is the older one. He is a business man. The light haired man is a shop owner. The business man is drunk one night, walking with his head down. He finds himself walking into a shop. The man in the shop offers him coffee. They have a nice chat and the dark haired man wants to pay for the coffee. He learns that this is not a coffee shop, the man just happened to be making some and offered some to him. His shop sells tobacco products and antiques. The business man keeps coming back for coffee and the shopkeeper. They share conversations over coffee. The shopkeeper clearly likes the business man. The business man is divorced, but accidentally talks about his wife as if they are still together, leading the shopkeeper to believe so. One day the business man is at the shop and he falls asleep. The business man feels something touch him and awakens. He sees the shopkeeper and tells him that he's not a homosexual. This makes things a bit weird between them. The shopkeeper tells him that chances are he won't want to come back. The business man has a realization that the shopkeeper is special to him and that he does in fact feel love for him. And they smooch and make love. The end.
Soredemo, Yasashii Koi o Suru