Yuta wiped his face with a hand towel. He had just finished Tennis practice and was about to take a shower, but his plans were interrupted.
"Hey dude! Phone call for you! I hope it's a girl this time!"
Yuta yanked the phone out of the hands of a boy with a weird, half shaved, floppy haircut. What a way to spoil a perfectly good afternoon.
"Yo."
"Saa, Yuta! I miss you!"
Yuta twitched. His annoying, protective, girly man of an older brother was at it again.
"I don't want to talk to you."
"I know you don't mean that. So, lets catch up. I haven't seen you since winter break and you didn't come home for the last few. How are you? How are classes? Are you passing? You'd better be. So how is tennis coming along? Well I hope. We need to play against each other one of these days when you come home. You are coming home aren't you? Yumiko, mom, and I feel sooooo alone without you here."
Yuta closed his eyes and longed for this "check up" to be over with.
"So Yuta, have you found a girlfriend yet?"
"Wha?!"
This question caught him off guard. A noise behind Yuta made him nearly jump out of his skin.
"Nfu nfu nfu nfu nfu nfu nfu!"
"Aaah! Hajime-Kun! You scared me!"
There was a long silence on the other end of the phone, and then Shusuke spoke.
"Is everything alright Yuta?"
"Yeah everything's cool."
"But you screamed…Do you want Mr. snuggles down there so that you can hug him and make it better?"
Hajime, who was standing behind Yuta twirling a lock of hair with his finger, yanked the phone away from Yuta.
"Nfu nfu. Hello Fuji, Shusuke. No Yuta does not have a girlfriend. Nfu nfu. I would know."
He handed the phone back to Yuta and slunk away giving off his pedophiliac chuckles as he went.
"Aniki? Are you still there? Are you alive?"
"Saa! Yuta, you never told me you had had a boyfriend! I must meet him!"
"I DO NOT HAVE A BOYFRIEND!"
"Oh come on now baby brother, it's nothing to be ashamed of. I mean, I have one and I love him very much. Yuta? Are you feeling alright?"
"I think I'm going to puke…"
"Well you know what I told you about cafeteria food. It…"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. So… You have a boyfriend as in same sex love buddy type of boyfriend or just a friend that's a guy? Girls call their friends girlfriends you know."
Shusuke giggled which irritated Yuta.
"No, no, Yuta, the first one. He's sleeping over tonight. In fact he's in the bathroom right now. Would you like to say hi?"
Yuta thought he would seriously throw up them and there.
"No, I don't want- "
"Kunimitsu! There someone on the phone who would love to meet you!"
"No!"
Yuta slammed the phone down on the receiver. Talking his brother's sex buddy who was "sleeping over" would give him nightmares for months. Hajime had no business telling his brother that they were together. It wasn't official yet!