Hi everyone! Since my other fanfic (Comfort Food, shameless plug) had taken a more serious tone, I've been comforting myself by writing something funny and filled with fluff, and here it is. If this goes well, I may write more chapters than originally planned. The next chapter will be postd in a few days since it's almost done, I just have to check it for errors. I hope you like this!


"Just wait for a couple of more years ok? Anyways this is just a warning because the two of you are clearly too young to buy an R-18 book like this," Sousuke said while holding a BL book in his hands.

"We're sorry! G-Goodbye!" and the two high school girl started running.

"Hey, you forgot your… Never mind," Rin huffed. He then turned to his partner, "Sousuke, do something about your face. You're scaring people."

Sousuke frowned, "I didn't mean to scare them!"

"Thank you very much for your help, officers! Can I have the book back?" the store manager asked.

'Oh, so that's how it is, huh?' Sousuke thought.

"Sorry sir, we'd have to keep this as evidence. If that's all for today, we'll be heading back now. Good day." Before he could see the reaction of the manager, Sousuke turned around and started walking towards the patrol car.

"Hey! Why didn't you just hand the book over? We don't really have to keep it as evidence anyways," Rin asked as he followed Sousuke.

Sousuke did not reply. Instead, he sat the passenger's seat of the patrol car and slammed the door shut. Once Rin got inside the car, he answered, "Rin, are you dumb? Didn't you realize what the store owner wanted to happen?" He pulled up the receipt from the paper bag and shoved it at Rin's face, "Those girls already paid for the book. The manager already has their money before he called us. Why would he want to take back something that was already paid for? He's clearly planning to sell the book again."

"Oh yeah, he is an asshole," Rin nodded while reading the receipt.

"Let's drive around town and see if we could still find those girls," Sousuke took the receipt back and slipped it inside the paper bag with the book.


They went around town and after an hour of driving, they decided to give up and just go back to their station.

"Who's keeping this?" Sousuke asked as he studied the book.

"You are. Haru's going to kill me if he finds me with that kind of book," Rin answered.

Sousuke growled and tossed the book on the dashboard, "No way!"

"But it's a book! You like books, right?"

"Yes I like books, but not THAT kind of book!"

"Fine," Rin grunted. "Hey, you are coming tonight, right?"

"Where?" Sousuke raised his brow.

"You know, to Seijuuro's bachelor party. I already told you about it."

Right, Seijuuro's bachelor party. "Rin, you're some kind of a sadist, are you? You're just going to make me and Sei uncomfortable."

"C'mon it's been a long time! The two of you had clearly moved on from each other."

"Three months, Rin, just three months. That's not a long time. It also doesn't mean I'm already comfortable in going to my ex-boyfriend's bachelor party. It's like rubbing the fact that he moved pretty fast from me to my face."

"There'll be strippers."

"Rin, seriously…"

"Male strippers."

Sousuke looked at Rin in utter horror, "What kind of fucked up bachelor's party is that?! That's not how bachelor party works!"

"Well everyone's gay, except for Sei and Momo who's bi, so I think hiring male strippers make sense. Gou knows and she's fine with it."

"Jesus! It's basically a group of gay men gathering and hiring male strippers under the pretense of a bachelor's party! It's just weird."

"Shut up, I know you'd love it."

"I'm single Rin, not desperate," Sousuke sighed in defeat. "Who's coming?"

"There's Seijuuro, Momo, Ai, me, and you. Yes, I already counted you. Then the Iwatobi guys like Haru, Makoto, Nagisa, and Rei."

"Wait, Makoto is also gay?" Well, that's news to him.

"Yeah, you didn't know?" Rin quirked his brows.

"Well, of all your friends, the only one whose shenanigans I haven't heard of was Makoto's. I haven't heard Nanase mention if Makoto was gay or something too, so I always assumed he was straight, or just not interested in relationships at all."

Rin leaned closer, "Dude, this is just between you and me, alright? I heard from Nagisa that Makoto had always been in love with someone since high school. Unfortunately, that person is already in a relationship. I think the person he's in love with is Haru. I feel sorry for the guy."

Sousuke just hummed and nodded. He thought it was such a waste that Makoto had remained single for such a long time, he was a good-looking guy. Also, from what he knows so far, he's also has a good personality.

Rin suddenly straightened his back and grinned, "Hey, I have an idea."

Sousuke turned his head away from Rin, "No."

"Shut up, just listen first! Why don't you try to get to know Makoto and maybe ask him out? I mean he's the best boyfriend one can have! I know you like big, muscular guys. He also has a good, steady job as a grade school teacher! Have you seen his back muscles? God, you're going to love it! Imagine staring at it while he's bent over in front of you," Rin bit his lip then waggled his brows.

"Enough," Sousuke covered his face with his hand as he felt his face heat up a bit. Well maybe, just maybe, he did kind of imagine the bent over part. "I don't know Rin, I'm not sure if we'd get along."

"You don't know that! Makoto is the easiest person to get along with! You're definitely going to be the problem if the two of you don't get along. Just try, ok? You and Makoto are the only ones who are still single among my friends. I just want to see the two of you happy."

"You're just afraid of Makoto stealing Haru from you. Because I'm sure he totally can if he wanted to."

Rin shrugged, "That, too."


Sousuke toweled off his hair after taking a shower. He then plugged the blow dryer and dried off his hair while thinking of what he should wear. Well, look like he was going to the party anyways.

When he entered his bedroom, he searched for his phone to check if he has any message. Unable to find his phone, he then went to check his bag which was on his study table. Rummaging through his bag, he was able to find his phone and noticed that there are two books in his bag.

Which was odd, since he only carries one book with him.

He pulled out both books. The first one was the one he owned. The second one was the BL book. Well, that fucking bastard! Rin must have slipped the book in his bag! He read the title of the BL book, Confessions of a High School Teacher; that was the cheesiest book title he had ever seen. He flipped it and read the summary at the back of the book.

"The story is about the steamy affairs of Hiro Akiyama, a 25-year-old high school teacher, who was blackmailed by a 17-year old student named Shinji Yamada who has a secret he's desperate to keep. With his career on the line, Hiro succumbs to the insatiable desire of the young teen."

"Who the hell reads this kind of shit?" He tossed the back to the study table as if it had offended him.


The plan for the evening was for the group to have dinner at a family restaurant first (since no one volunteered to cook), then head to Nagisa and Rei's apartment for the bachelor's party using Sousuke's, Haru's, and Seiijuro's car.

Much to Sousuke's relief, Rin, Haru, Nagisa, and Rei were already there when he arrived at the restaurant. He was afraid that Seijuuro was the first one there and he would be forced to be alone with him and awkwardness would ensue.

When Seijuuro arrived with Momo and Ai, he clapped Sousuke's back in greeting. Sousuke was rather proud of how calm and collected he was. He was over Seijuuro, he was certain of that. Tonight, he was simply going to relax and enjoy himself.

Makoto was the last to arrive, apologizing profusely as he had to attend a meeting which ran longer than expected. He sat beside Sousuke (much to Rin's excitement, and Haru's chagrin), and they were able to exchange pleasantries and ask about each other's lives. The topic of their conversation somehow steered towards what happened to the call they responded to in the morning.

Makoto frowned after hearing what the store owner did, "Those poor girls, they were robbed of their money. You did the right thing by not handing the book over."

Sousuke smiled and nodded, "Yeah, I just wish I was able to find those girls. Rin was an asshole and slipped the book in my bag. Now I'm stuck with a book wouldn't even dare to open. "

Nagisa suddenly leaned from right across them with his eyes sparkling, not even sorry for eavesdropping, "Neh Sou-chan, you said that it was a BL book, right? What was its title?"

Sousuke frowned and rubbed his chin, "I think the title was Confessions of a High School Teacher." Of course, how could he forget such a distasteful title?

Nagisa's eyes widened, "Oh, I've read that! It's the best BL book I've read so far! Next is Lascivious Justice by the same author."

Who the hell came up with those titles?!

"I don't know, I'm not really into that kind of stuff," Sousuke rubbed the back of his head. Well, he had read some book with a bit of smut. However, he never actually read something that was downright porn.

"Try reading it! The story is cool despite all of the sex," Nagisa said as he bounced on his seat.

Sousuke turned to Makoto and saw how pink his ears were. Was Makoto not used to those kinds of things? Well, Rin did mention that Makoto never had a boyfriend, not even a fling or something. Basically, Makoto was a blushing virgin, which was cute.

Nagisa grinned and leaned closer when he saw Makoto's reaction, "Neh, Mako-chan, you should also read those kinds of books so, you know, you'd know what to do when you already have a boyfriend."

"Nagisa!" Makoto's covered his face with his hands while his ears went from pink to maroon within seconds.

Rei pulled Nagisa back to his chair, "Nagisa, please don't tease Makoto-senpai. He is a respectable adult, unlike you."

Nagisa frowned and crossed his arms, "Well, if I wasn't like this, we wouldn't have such a great sex life, you know?" Rei just exhaled and shook his head.

Sousuke looked as Makoto lowered his head, hiding his face, and felt sorry for him.


Sousuke likes men, of course. What he doesn't like are scantily clad men who were gyrating in front of him pretending to be policemen (gee Seijuuro, I wonder why you chose these costumes?) with their groin merely inches from his face.

"I'm just going to step out a bit," Sousuke said to Rin, who merely nodded since he was too distracted with the dancer's abs which glistened with oil.

Sousuke stepped out of the balcony with a beer in hand. Once outside, he leaned on the rail and closed his eyes. He inhaled the cool air and looked up at the stars in the evening sky. It was a lovely evening. He would have preferred to just stay at home and curl up with a good book. From the corner of his eye, he noticed something faintly glowing at the corner of the balcony.

He turned to look and found Makoto, sitting on the floor with his legs stretched in front of him, staring at his tablet, wearing earphones.

Sousuke squatted in front of Makoto and waved. Makoto screamed and flailed his arms, nearly dropping his tablet on the floor. He tore the earphones off of his ears, "Don't do that! You scared me!"

Sousuke chuckled, "I'm sorry, I don't know how I could get your attention without scaring you." He moved to sit beside Makoto, "What are you doing here? Didn't you like the performance inside?"

Makoto shook his head, "No, I'm not really fond of those kinds of things. I just decided to sit out here and read something."

"Me neither," Sousuke tried to peek at Makoto's tablet, "What are you reading?"

"It's A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I've been a fan of murder mystery books, so I thought I should read something from the best-known author of that genre."

Sousuke brightened at Makoto's response, "You like to read books?"

Makoto nodded, "Yeah, I used to only read Japanese literature. But now I decided to try Western literature, too. Do you also like reading books?"

"Yes," Sousuke answered a bit too enthusiastically. He then cleared his throat, "If you want to try more Western books, I can recommend some books to you."

The two of them talked about books for hours, only taking a break when Sousuke went back inside to get them drinks. Sousuke stared at Makoto with fascination as the other energetically talked about all the books he had read so far. Why didn't he think of getting to know this man better in the first place? He was perfect! A bookworm with a hot body! Whenever they get together, Makoto had always been present. But now that Sousuke's attention was not focused on Seijuuro, he realized how much he actually missed out.

Rin peeked out from balcony door, "Oi, we'll be wrapping up in a few minutes. Are you guys sleeping over?"

"No, I'm sorry, I still have some things to do, so I'll be heading home," Makoto smiled.

"Isn't it too late? There aren't any trains at this hour," Sousuke looked at his watch. It was already 2:00 AM.

"I'll guess I'll just call a taxi," Makoto said as he started to gather his things.

Sousuke stood up and dusted the back of his pants, "No, I'll drive you home. I'm not sleeping over anyways."

Rin quietly left the two alone on the balcony with a wide grin on his face.


For a few minutes, Sousuke and Makoto drove in silence. Sousuke was thinking of what topic to open, but Makoto was the one who broke the silence. "Sousuke, I hope you don't mind me asking, but are you ok?"

Sousuke quickly glanced at Makoto, then back on the road, "Huh? What do you mean?"

Makoto twisted his hands on his lap, "I didn't know that you and Seijuuro broke up already until I got the invite for the bachelor's party. I was a bit worried that you would be uncomfortable in attending the party. I mean, I don't think I can be as calm as you were if I were in the same situation."

Sousuke smiled, "It's been months since we broke up. It's fine. I've always had this feeling that we were never going to last." Makoto stayed silent, so Sousuke continued, "Sei and I got along well in the beginning, but I felt that there was something missing in our relationship. Towards the end, I feel like we just grew apart. It's like every single day that I wake up; I would wonder if that was the day that one of us would decide that it's over. The break-up didn't hurt that much, it's the reason why we did that pissed me off."

"What was the reason, if you don't mind me asking?" Makoto asked.

"Gou's already pregnant. Sei and I broke up 3 months ago. Gou is 4 months pregnant, do the math."

Makoto stared ahead and counted with his fingers, and then his jaw dropped and looked at Sousuke with eyes full of sympathy.

"Yep, now you know. I would have been fine if he broke up with me simply because he's sick of me. However, doing something like that behind my back, not to mention with someone who I treat as my sister, that sucked." Sousuke shook his head and snickered, "Hey don't tell Rin about this, ok? Sei, Gou, me, and now you, are the only ones who know this. I promised them that I wouldn't tell anyone else about it, but I don't know, I just find it so easy to talk to you."

Makoto's nodded, "You can trust me, I'm not the type who would accidentally blurt out something this important. I'll never break your trust."


When they reached Makoto's apartment complex, Makoto unbuckled the seatbelt as he prepared to get out of the car, "Thank you so much for driving me home. I don't know how to thank you."

"I have an idea," Sousuke grabbed his phone from his pocket and unlocked the screen, then handed it to Makoto. "You can thank me by giving me your phone number."

'Smooth,' Sousuke mentally patted himself on the shoulder.

Makoto looked at Sousuke with wide eyes and pink cheeks before taking the phone and saving his phone number on it. He then handed the phone back to Sousuke.

"Oh, um, I was thinking of buying books this weekend. I still don't have a lot of Western novels. Do you think maybe you could help me choose? Are you available on Saturday?" Makoto asked while scratching his cheek with his finger.

Sousuke smiled, "Of course! I could pick you up on Saturday afternoon. We could try to visit the bookstore where I buy my books from. Maybe we could also have dinner afterward."

"Saturday afternoon would be great. I'll text you then," Makoto got out of the car. "Good night Sousuke, take care."

As Sousuke drove away, he peeked at Makoto from the rear view mirror. He could see Makoto waving his hand while watching his car drive away. He was so cute! Sousuke allowed himself to grin widely since he was all by himself in his car. It had been a long time since he felt excited about a date. He was going to make sure that they would have the best date ever!