Steps

ah-chan and ryouko, childhood friends eight years apart, are now teacher and student. though ryouko wants to rush into things, ah-chan can’t take one step beyond her role as a teacher. after receiving a matching cellphone charm as a present, ah-chan buys paired rings for a return gift, only to realise that she’s lost the charm…!? the distance between them shrinks away in “step up”; a girl in love with ryouko appears in “step forward”; and then “step by step” calls for tears of joy with wedding dress x wedding dress… the road to love between ryouko and ah-chan is bountiful. also included are “leave hickey?”, about the radiant proof of love school girl kimu carves into the body of the art teacher miyano-sensei; and “secret love”, not previously published in a commercial magazine!