Old Fiat
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Chapter TwoAtobe stood there with his mouth open.
"Am I dreaming?" he asked. "Is Sakaki-sensei SERIOUSLY blushing?"
Oshitari hit him on the arm.
"Ow!" he turned towards the tensai and rubbed the sore spot. "What was that for?"
"You aren't dreaming," said Oshitari with a shrug. "Otherwise you wouldn't feel that." He pushed up his glasses with his middle finger (on purpose, no doubt).
Sakaki shook his head, trying to rid himself of his out-of-character moment.
"Let's stop looking at this," he said, reaching for the book but Shishido stopped him.
"No way," he said simply. A large grin formed on his face. "We're looking at EVERY PAGE."
So they all turned back to the large scrapbook.
The next three pages held news articles, HUMILIATING photos and a couple of comments made by old friends or something. Those pages passed with laughter and embarrassment. Finally, they reached a VERY SPECIAL picture.
At first they were just going to turn over the page, but something caught their eyes.
It was a photo of two men. Both were average in height, weight and pretty much average in most ways. One had a larger nose, short (but PUFFY) dark brown hair. His eyes were round and his clean white t-shirt (that was cut low enough so he could see he had a small amount of chest hair) was tucked into tight jeans, which were, in turn, tucked into socks. And the socks were covered by… Dun dun dun DUN—espadrilles!! He also wore a zip-up, brown leather jacket and a little gold hoop on his ear.
The other had bleached hair that was puffy, arranged in that 'thing-sticking-out-the-front' way and was so clearly originally dark. His nose was normal-ish sized and he also had a little gold hoop on his ear. His white t-shirt (again, cut low enough so you could see the small amount of chest hair) was tucked into cropped jeans. He also wore a leather jacket, but it was black and snapped. His feet were covered with ESPADRILLES!! YAY!
"Oh my God," said Atobe. "Those men each have ONE earring."
Oshitari (daringly) slapped him. "Way to miss the point!"
The photo was signed:
To Taro, from George and Andrew (1). Wham!(2) Wishes you the best of New Years.
Chotaro gasped. "You have a photo signed by 'Wham!'? That is so cool!!"
Everyone stared at him.
"Chotaro…" muttered Shishido. "Don't…"
"Why?" questioned Chotaro. "I like 'Wham!'."
"Wham! are really gay…" he whispered. Unfortunately, because he leaned REALLY close to Chotaro, everyone thought he was perving-out.
"Wham! weren't gay," said Sakaki, his magic ears catching all sound. He sounded aggravated. "Andrew Ridgeley (1) is straight and George Michael didn't figure it out until later. (3)"
"Wait," said Hiyoshi, looking kind of confused. "That other guy in Wham! had a name?"
"No duh," said Sakaki, looking very annoyed.
"You're gay," said Oshitari. "Aren't you?"
"NO!" he half-screamed. "God! Look, I'll show you!"
They turned over the page to reveal a photo of Sakaki and the man earlier identified as Giuseppe kissing—not a friendly kiss either. They were half making-out. Christy (who is bizarrely a man) was clapping and some of their other friends were cheering as well.
"Ha," was all Oshitari said as the rest (including Sakaki, though he was half covering his face with a hand) continued to stare at the photo in disgust.
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I reached the 5 reviews mark! I need it to reach that again for the next chapter though! Here's a brief explanation of some stuff in this chapter:
(1) If you know who Wham! are, you'll remember there was another guy in the band, however unlike George Michael, he didn't go on to have a famous career. His name is Andrew Ridgeley.
(2) Wham! were a band in the 1980s. The way they're described in this chapter is the way they looked at the early stages of the band. Here is their wikipedia entry: http:// en. wikipedia. org /wiki/ Wham21 (remove the spaces and add a percent sign after the 21.)
(3) George Michael (who went on to have a famous single career) came out… at some point about being gay.
Please review!-Old Fiat s. Italy