Hayakawa Rou is a student at the school where Morinome Shinako teaches. They seem to have some kind of shared history.

Rikuo catches a cold after standing in the rain with Haru. She invites him to the movies as a way of apologizing.

Minato Kouichi was a classmate of Morinome Haru, and a student of photography. They run into each other at Rikuo’s workplace.

Shinako invites Rikuo over, but she chickens out, making a fragile friendship even more tenuous.

Rikuo’s friends want to invite him and Shinako over for Christmas. Rou has plans of his own.