Enter the tsundere country boy Take. Nozomu's just trying to be nice but now he finds himself part of a childhood love triangle...
This is a romcom in a magazine for boys and Take is Sou's childhood fr(enemy) so he's definitely losing by the usual unwritten rules. Sorry, bud.
If this was in a magazine for girls Take would have a better chance once they're high school age, 'cause he'd definitely become that blond bad boy archetype that's so prevalent there while Nozomu gets to be the black-haired rival senpai (he'd be the teacher if he were a little older).
If this was in an H magazine, well... going by the tropes "gyaru-oh" is a thing, Take is tanned, Sou is a bonafide tomboy and Nozomu is black-haired... sounds like a recipe for disaster even if Inuchiku's now-deleted Pixiv art has Nozomu "winning" in certain ways.