Pittosporum by Shino Mikami

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Hisaya Yano has trouble with his roommate, Sono Odajima, at the boarding school. He breaks curfew and brings female students into the boy's dormitories. Sono is having intimate relations when Hisaya walks in and is left confused and aroused. Sono forcefully helps him deal with his erection. Made fun of for being "a serious model student", but in fact he finds himself in a jumble of romantic feelings that he can't tell anyone about, combined with his emotional trauma.

My Rate: 8 (www.ebookrenta.com/renta/sc/frm/item/146205/)

I have a little bit of mixed feeling about this one. I understand the attitude towards sex of Sono is a way to react to his juvenile trauma, but I really didn't like how he used his female friends as substitute of Yano. True, he was never claiming it was something more than sex, and on the other hand, he was always very attentive towards Yano, almost protective, so he wasn't a complete negative characters. Yano instead was really naive, maybe a little too much to be able to understand Sono's trauma and help him fix his trouble. But well, they are teenagers, and apparently their love is sincere. Sono wants also to be open and honest with Yano, so the future for them seems nice. Overall it was a good one.