Steps to Sex

Chapter 2: One Big Slip Up

Princess duties always took a toll on the boys, especially when it invovled keeping up the spirits of the student body. Exams were coming up soon, so the student counsil had organized a little bit of a show to get all the students up to the huge job of studying. The Princesses of course had the job of opening the show. Today was a day for lifting spirits, and it was also the day that Mikoto was going to have the biggest shock of his lifetime.

Backstage it was pretty much mayhem. Natashou-senpai was trying to get all the costumes for the show ready so as usual he was pretty much the source of the mayhem. It was during that time that he was dressing Mikoto, and Tooru, Yuujirou and Akira were addressing each other in conversation.

"So are you two sure about this whole thing?" asked Akira.

"The plan is perfect..." began Yuujirou "We're going to be the only ones behind the stage fifteen minutes before the show. You Akira, come to get Mikoto for an emergency conversation, and bring him back ten minutes before we go on. As soon as he comes back, he'll see me and Tooru making out, he'll faint and be out for about five minutes until Natashou-senpai comes back to wake him up and scare him to his senses and we'll be able to have a normal show, after which we sit Mikoto down and explain the whole thing!"

Akira and Tooru looked at Yuujirou in amazment. They had no idea that he could give this much precise detail to a small joke, but either way, it was going to be funny to explain afterwards. Tooru especially was excited to get this all out in the open to Mikoto, because as soon as that problem was put to rest, he could finally discuss that 'certain topic' with his ever dodging boyfriend.

"Showtime...!" yelled Natashou at the top of his lungs "Twenty minutes to showtime everybody...!"

Mikoto came over to the group of boys while covering his ears.

"That guy could scare the senses into anybody... so, Yuujirou, Tooru, are you guys ready to open the show?"

"We certainly are..." responded Yuujirou, with a tad too much evil in his voice.

"Fifteen minutes to showtime...!" yelled Natashou "Princesses on deck; everbody else to your dressing rooms...!"

"Time for our show to start..." whispered Yuujirou to Akira. As Natashou was scooting all of the other people from backstage, Akira grabbed Mikoto.

"Can you come over here for a second Mikoto... I need to talk to you..."

As Akira hauled a very confused Mikoto to the side, Yuujirou hauled Tooru closer to him.

"Just another four minutes Tooru... are you ready for this?"

"I sure am..." he took a deep breath, and then kissed Yuujirou gently. Slowly the kiss developped into a greater one, and at that point, for some reason, Tooru got a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach... like he knew something was coming...

"Hamma... hammma... T-Tooru... Y-Yuujirou... you... oh my gee..." was all that the two kissing boys heard before they heard a light thud and a whole audience worth of gasping... the only thing was that the whole audience worth of gasping was definitely not part of the plan.

Tooru and Yuujirou broke their kiss and looked to the side, only to see that the curtains had been opened and they had been revealed to to the entire student body. At that point, the blonde and blue haired princesses both felt a blush creep to their cheeks... now they were the ones who were on the verge of fainting. Natashou came running out from the dressing rooms.

"What has happened here!? Stage managers, where are you...!?"

While the curtains were being put up quickly, the boyfriends were still looking shocked out over the crowd, who had blank expressions on their faces. They could also see Arisada in the back row with a exasperated look. Finally the curtains were fixed and the princesses were in the cover of of darkness. Mikoto still hadn't come to, and suddenly they heard Arisada's voice over the speakers.

"Um, today's Princess segment has been canceled due to... technical difficulties. The show will resume in ten minutes!"

It was a quick cover to brush off the situation that had just passed. Yuujirou stormed off stage towards the back exit of the auditorium. Tooru was torn at that point: he didn't know weather or not to chase after Yuujirou or to stay and try to explain to everybody what had happened. He strolled over towards Akira holding Mikoto on the floor.

"Mikoto pulled down the curtains when he fainted... who could have calculated that happening?" he said trying to be cheerful and put a comical spin on the situation, but Tooru knew that the whole thing was anything but comical at that point. When he saw that Mikoto had not woken up yet and that the rest of the stage crew were setting up for the next act, he knew that he had to get going and set things straight with Yuujirou.

"When Mikoto wakes up..." explained Tooru to Akira "Can you tell him what happened and why please? I really need to see if Yuujirou is okay."

"Sure..."

And with that, Tooru ran off in the direction that Yuujirou took.

The blue haired Princess looked left and right, and he just couldn't find Yuujirou at all. It was amazing how fast that he traveled, but then Tooru figured there could only be one other place that he could be.

He ran up the stairs, and back to the dorm room, opened the door and...

"I finally found you..." he said as he came in and saw Yuujirou laying half dressed on the bed "Why are you half dressed?"

"I didn't feel like wearing those clothes anymore today..."

"..."

Tooru was at a loss for words. Usually Yuujirou has a lot of pride, and so this slip up must have really bruised his ego... that much was obvious.

"Yuujirou I..."

"I'm sorry Tooru... maybe we shouldn't have done that to Mikoto... look how it backfired..."

"Hey..." started Tooru as he sat on the bed next to Yuujirou, and then took his hand into his "...nobody could have counted for Mikoto knocking over the curtains, it was a simple mistake... and look on the bright side, now that the whole school knows about us we really don't have to hide our relationship anymore, so it should be fine right?"

"Tooru, do you even know what you're saying?"

Tooru's expression turned to one of shock.

"Honestly... we were seen by everybody, making out in our Princess costumes... to them, us Princesses are sources of fantasy and all that... if they think that we're seeing each other, the fantasy kind of goes out the window wouldn't you say? No more attraction means we're out of the job..."

"You couldn't possibly think that Yuujirou... I'm sure the rest of the students should be fine with this... that's kind of an over reaction on your part... not like you at all..."

"Just, whatever okay...?"

It was a tone of voice that Tooru had never heard from Yuujirou before, and for a split second, he even thought he saw a bit of a gleaming tear through the blonde hair that was covering his face...

"Yuu..."

Yuujirou let go of Tooru's hand and laid down while turning his back to the blue haired boy. Tooru had no idea why Yuujirou was acting like that, but what he was certain of was that he didn't like it at all... he didn't like it when his Princess was sad... and he was scared that this one slip up was going to cost him the best relationship he had ever had...

To be continued...