This is the last part of this story. The great final at the dancing school.
It was 14.30 pm and Tai was standing in front of the dancing school, waiting for Matt and Mimi to arrive. At school Mimi had told him that Sora felt sick and was therefore staying at home. That had been good news to Tai, but he wasn't completely happy yet, as Matt would probably dance with Mimi all the time.. The thought of Matt and Mimi dancing with one another made Tai a little jealous. But he would have to put up with it. Or so he thought.
Finally, at 14.50 pm, he saw a blonde strolling down the pavement towards the dancing school.
'Oh, it's Matt. But where is Mimi? Has he decided to leave her at home to be alone with me? No.. It's stupid to even think that. He doesn't care about me like he does about Mimi.. I should get used to that.'
"Hello Tai" Matt greeted.
"Hi Matt. Where is Mimi?"
"She suddenly felt sick and gave me a call to tell me that she wouldn't be attending the dancing lesson."
"Those girls.." 'Are the best!' "They always feel sick when it's least fitting."
"Yeah.."
"You don't seem that disappointed.."
"We'll have plenty of time to dance during the next few lessons. It doesn't matter they aren't here right now.." 'Oh yes it does.. It means I'll get the chance to dance with.. TAI.. Three letters sounding like heaven..'
"You're right. We shouldn't let a little sickness spoil our fun."
"Hey. Seems as though it was time to enter."
"Yes. It's three."
The two boys walked into the dancing school, both very happy that their dreams were now so close.
As they entered, they almost bumped into a man that was coming towards them.
"Taichi Yagami and Yamato Ishida?"
"Yes, that's us."
"We were already expecting you. Usually the participants arrive a little earlier. But what matters is that you are here. By the way, where are Miss Tachikawa and Miss Takenouchi?"
"They both felt sick and couldn't come. Probably they'll be there next time.."
"If you would follow me now.."
"OK"
The three of them walked through a few corridors and down a few stairways until they arrived in a big empty room, in which a few tables with chairs were standing near the walls. Some twenty youths were sitting at the tables in smaller groups and happily chatting and all seemed very excited. Matt and Tai were the last participants to arrive.
The man that had led them to the room went to the center of the room and came to a halt there. He cleared his throat and then began to speak in a cheerful tone.
"Hi all! I'm glad to welcome you in this year's beginner's dancing class. I am Michael Gates, but you can call me Mike. I'll be your teacher during this class.
You will learn new dances and older ones, including some even your grandparents might know. But don't think of dancing as something old and dusty, a remnant of bygone times. It's a form of expression and physical closeness to others that is beyond compare.
But I don't want to bore you with the philosophic aspect of it, you're here to learn dancing after all. First I'd like you to just all stand up. I will now put on some music, and then I'd like you to just move like you would in discos."
The youths were standing in a big circle and all looking to its midst. The teacher went to a platform at the far end of the room and fumbled with some CDs and buttons at a mixing desk. After a few seconds, Madonna's voice echoed through the room as she addressed god in her song "Like A Prayer".
Tai and Matt were standing next to each other and slowly started moving to the beginning of the song. Then their pace increased and they were fully moving. Tai had never gone to discos because he had become rather shy and therefore it was something totally new to him. He tried to copy Matt's movements as well as he could, but it wasn't easy and Tai felt somewhat ridiculous. To his great relief, the teacher stopped the music after the song and went back to his former place to start the actual class.
"Now that you are warmed up, we can start with the class. Pair up in couples."
All the youths except Matt and Tai started to pair up, and finally there weren't any girls left. The teacher went to the two and said:
"As Miss Tachikawa and Miss Takenouchi aren't here, you'll have to dance with each other as the number of girls and boys was calculated beforehand. I hope you don't mind too much."
"It'll be alright." Tai said, and Matt agreed "Yeah." 'So it's going beautifully!'
The two boys stood in front of each other and Tai looked up to the slightly taller blonde. 'Those blue pools again.. I think I'll never be able to part from them..' And Matt was thinking very much the same thing: 'His eyes.. Chocolate brown.. He's so cute! If the teacher doesn't say anything in the next second, I'll have to kiss him..' But the teacher said something:
"Now the boy puts his right hand on the girl's shoulder blade and she puts her left hand on his upper arm. Then the boy stretches out his left hand for the girl to put her right hand on it." The teacher had paired up with an elder girl that was normally taking part in a higher class but was his dancing partner in this class to show how things had to be done.
"Like this." The two of them did as he had explained before.
"By the way, the shoulder blade is not here.." The teacher said, putting his right hand on the girl's ass.
"And it's not here either.." He said lifting his hand to the back of the girl's neck.
"It's right in between." He finally put his hand to the right spot.
Matt and Tai had in the meantime encountered a very basic problem: They were both boys. Therefore they had to decide who would take the girl's part. Matt decided that he had to be the man and told Tai so: "I'm the taller one and therefore I should be the man." 'This sounds so much like a macho – I Tarzan, you Jane..' But to his surprise Tai didn't mind at all. He said: "That's alright with me."
The blonde put his hand on Tai's shoulder blade and felt the other boy shiver under his touch. He didn't think about it any further and stretched his other hand out for Tai to put his on it. Tai did as the teacher had told them. Both boys were uncomfortable and they were standing a feet away from each other. The teacher came towards them shaking his head. "No no no! It doesn't work that way. You need to be a little closer to each other." As the boys didn't react, he stood in front of them and pushed them against each other. Both boys looked shocked and instantly went crimson, but they didn't dare get away from each other as the teacher was still looking at them. They looked so funny that way that the teacher couldn't repress a little laugh. Then he said: "You need enough room to move, though…"
The boys' blush went even deeper but they obeyed and were finally ready for the dance to start. The teacher went back to his dancing partner. And went back to his former pose.
He said: "This is called dancing pose. Whenever I ask you to take the dancing pose, that's the way I want you to stand, alright?"
"Yes" answered the whole class.
"For dancing, it's just like it was a few hundred years ago: The boy is the one to control it. That's important because otherwise, nobody knows when to start moving or turning or whatever. So even the more forceful girls should let the boys lead them.
The first dance you will learn is the disco blues. It's easy – it only consists four steps (and later some turns). First one step left, then one step right, and then two steps left. You don't change the spot for the two first steps. And for the two last ones, you need to put your right foot in front of the left one. Once you have done the four steps, you start again. Thus." The teacher and the girl did as he had explained and repeated the exercise a few times. "Now practice that. I'll count two numbers, three four one, for you to start with the beat. You have to start on the one. Alright?"
"Yes" the class answered once more. The girl held the man back from going to the mixing desk. She told him something quietly and then he started speaking again.
"Almost forgot. For the girls the steps are just the other way round. For them it's right, left, right, right. Otherwise you would be dancing in different directions…." The whole group laughed. Then the teacher went to the mixing desk and put on a CD. The song that could be heard a few seconds was "Overload" sung by the "Sugar Babes". It had been a hit the year before.
After a few seconds the teacher said into the microphone: "3…4…1!"
Tai and Matt had been concentrated and therefore started right in time. At first they were looking at their feet, but as they noticed it was rather easy, they soon started looking into each others' eyes. Both their hearts were beating like crazy. A few times their crotches touched each other, and suddenly Tai noticed that he was getting aroused.. 'Fuck fuck fuck. That can't be… Not now.. It's such a nice moment I'm sharing with Matt. I can't get erect now.. Not now..' What Tai didn't know was that Matt was experiencing just the same thing. His thoughts were very much alike. 'I hope he won't notice. I hope he won't notice. Oh god.. I beg you not to let him notice. I won't do anything sinful if you make this wish come true.. Please..' Both boys were concentrated on their own hard-ons far too much to notice the other's. After a while the music stopped, and so their movement did, too.
"This was pretty fun." Matt stated. Tai quickly agreed with him.
"Yeah.. I liked it, too."
"Always knew you were the girlish kind.."
"Say one more word and you'll have a girlish fist right in your face.." Tai said smiling.
"What? Is Miss Yagami getting angry." Tai softly hit Matt in the stomach without hurting him.
"Maybe I'm feminine, but I'm not such a blonde and blue-eyed moron like you." Matt hated it when people made jokes about blondes and his being blonde. But coming from Tai, especially from a smiling Tai, it couldn't make him angry.
"So next you'll practice something very very classical: The Waltz. The dance of the lovers."
'Dance of the lovers..' Matt thought. 'It's now or never…'
'How amazing it would be if Matt was my lover.. I wish he'd just tell me he was in love with me… But he'll never do that. He'll probably marry this bitch Mimi someday..' Tai thought sadly. 'But that won't spoil my fun. I'll enjoy it even though.'
The boys' erections has faded as quickly as they had come and so they could come closer again.
The teacher had again taken his dancing pose with the girl and was starting his explanations:
"The waltz isn't that hard either. This time it's three steps: Right foot forth, then left to the right's side, and then right foot close to left. Then left foot back, then right to left's side, and finally left foot close to the right. For the girls it's just the same, only the last three steps for the boys are their first three and vice versa. The Waltz is to be danced slowly and basically you make little squares which means that when it ends, you shouldn't have left the spot where you started. And again when you have done the first six steps, you start over again." Then the teacher did what he had described.
"If that gets boring to you, then you can start rotating slowly. Just turn a few degrees with the first step (right foot forth for the boys). The boys decide if the rotation is to take place or not. They indicate it by softly. And I mean softly. Pressing the girl's shoulder blade." He also showed that.
"Now you'll get the chance to practice."
Once again the man positioned himself behind the mixing desk, put on a CD and used some buttons.
The song that filled the air this time was "Close Encounters" by "Clouseau". Both boys knew and liked it. It was soft.. And somewhat sad.. But full of hope.. Just like they were..
After a few seconds the teacher started counting again: "3…4…1!"
Matt started the motion and Tai moved with him. They were rather close to each other again. At first they were very careful not to do any wrong steps, then Matt started the rotation, and finally the movement seemed completely normal to them. They were once again looking into each other's eyes.
The chorus had just started and Matt decided that time had come to tell Tai about his feelings.
He leaned forward towards Tai's ear and said: "I'm pretty close to you now, too. [That's the line of the song: And it won't help me if I shout, But I'm getting pretty close this time] And it feels good. I don't want to shout. I just want to be with you. Because.. Because… Because I… Because I love you."
Tai almost stopped moving, but Matt softly pushed his shoulder blade and so they went on dancing.
Tai didn't say a word, but he showed Matt how he felt about it: he nuzzled his head against Matt's chest and felt nothing but glee. Neither of the boys cared wither the other participants saw them or thought about them or whatever. They were just happy to be with each other. After a few seconds Tai looked up at Matt. Tears were flowing down his beautiful face, but Matt knew those were tears of happiness.
"I love you too.." Tai whispered into Matt's face.
"I know baby, I know." Was Matt's answer. Then he started kissing the tears away from Tai's face. His kisses went from the cheeks to Tai's mouth which then kissed very very softly. Tai wanted more of it and pressed his lips against Matt's. The boys had stopped dancing and were only kissing now. After a few seconds, Matt's tongue started brushing against Tai's lips until they finally parted to let it in. Inside the warmth of Tai's mouth, the two tongues were fighting. Tai couldn't believe how good Matt tasted. It was better than anything. Even better than chocolate. And Tai was addicted to chocolate..
Matt felt just the same about it: 'I wish this would last forever.'
Neither of the boys had noticed that around them the dance had stopped and everybody was looking at the two boys that had their arms tightly around each other and were kissing like they had never kissed.
All the faces looking at them were shining with bright smiles of happiness for the young couple.
Outside, even though it was still day, two stars were shining brightly on the blue sky. Two stars that had found each other and would never ever separate again.
So that's it! Did you like it? Do you want it to go on? Then review like crazy!
I'm open for suggestions of any kind. Maybe you want some pairing to appear in the sequel (Takari is obvious, but the other pairings I'd agree to do would be Yaoi or Yuri. So it's between Jyoushiro and Mira..)? Or you have an idea for the setting of their honeymoon? Or you have any other idea? Then just tell me in a review or an e-mail.
Yours, Foreigner, alias René
It was 14.30 pm and Tai was standing in front of the dancing school, waiting for Matt and Mimi to arrive. At school Mimi had told him that Sora felt sick and was therefore staying at home. That had been good news to Tai, but he wasn't completely happy yet, as Matt would probably dance with Mimi all the time.. The thought of Matt and Mimi dancing with one another made Tai a little jealous. But he would have to put up with it. Or so he thought.
Finally, at 14.50 pm, he saw a blonde strolling down the pavement towards the dancing school.
'Oh, it's Matt. But where is Mimi? Has he decided to leave her at home to be alone with me? No.. It's stupid to even think that. He doesn't care about me like he does about Mimi.. I should get used to that.'
"Hello Tai" Matt greeted.
"Hi Matt. Where is Mimi?"
"She suddenly felt sick and gave me a call to tell me that she wouldn't be attending the dancing lesson."
"Those girls.." 'Are the best!' "They always feel sick when it's least fitting."
"Yeah.."
"You don't seem that disappointed.."
"We'll have plenty of time to dance during the next few lessons. It doesn't matter they aren't here right now.." 'Oh yes it does.. It means I'll get the chance to dance with.. TAI.. Three letters sounding like heaven..'
"You're right. We shouldn't let a little sickness spoil our fun."
"Hey. Seems as though it was time to enter."
"Yes. It's three."
The two boys walked into the dancing school, both very happy that their dreams were now so close.
As they entered, they almost bumped into a man that was coming towards them.
"Taichi Yagami and Yamato Ishida?"
"Yes, that's us."
"We were already expecting you. Usually the participants arrive a little earlier. But what matters is that you are here. By the way, where are Miss Tachikawa and Miss Takenouchi?"
"They both felt sick and couldn't come. Probably they'll be there next time.."
"If you would follow me now.."
"OK"
The three of them walked through a few corridors and down a few stairways until they arrived in a big empty room, in which a few tables with chairs were standing near the walls. Some twenty youths were sitting at the tables in smaller groups and happily chatting and all seemed very excited. Matt and Tai were the last participants to arrive.
The man that had led them to the room went to the center of the room and came to a halt there. He cleared his throat and then began to speak in a cheerful tone.
"Hi all! I'm glad to welcome you in this year's beginner's dancing class. I am Michael Gates, but you can call me Mike. I'll be your teacher during this class.
You will learn new dances and older ones, including some even your grandparents might know. But don't think of dancing as something old and dusty, a remnant of bygone times. It's a form of expression and physical closeness to others that is beyond compare.
But I don't want to bore you with the philosophic aspect of it, you're here to learn dancing after all. First I'd like you to just all stand up. I will now put on some music, and then I'd like you to just move like you would in discos."
The youths were standing in a big circle and all looking to its midst. The teacher went to a platform at the far end of the room and fumbled with some CDs and buttons at a mixing desk. After a few seconds, Madonna's voice echoed through the room as she addressed god in her song "Like A Prayer".
Tai and Matt were standing next to each other and slowly started moving to the beginning of the song. Then their pace increased and they were fully moving. Tai had never gone to discos because he had become rather shy and therefore it was something totally new to him. He tried to copy Matt's movements as well as he could, but it wasn't easy and Tai felt somewhat ridiculous. To his great relief, the teacher stopped the music after the song and went back to his former place to start the actual class.
"Now that you are warmed up, we can start with the class. Pair up in couples."
All the youths except Matt and Tai started to pair up, and finally there weren't any girls left. The teacher went to the two and said:
"As Miss Tachikawa and Miss Takenouchi aren't here, you'll have to dance with each other as the number of girls and boys was calculated beforehand. I hope you don't mind too much."
"It'll be alright." Tai said, and Matt agreed "Yeah." 'So it's going beautifully!'
The two boys stood in front of each other and Tai looked up to the slightly taller blonde. 'Those blue pools again.. I think I'll never be able to part from them..' And Matt was thinking very much the same thing: 'His eyes.. Chocolate brown.. He's so cute! If the teacher doesn't say anything in the next second, I'll have to kiss him..' But the teacher said something:
"Now the boy puts his right hand on the girl's shoulder blade and she puts her left hand on his upper arm. Then the boy stretches out his left hand for the girl to put her right hand on it." The teacher had paired up with an elder girl that was normally taking part in a higher class but was his dancing partner in this class to show how things had to be done.
"Like this." The two of them did as he had explained before.
"By the way, the shoulder blade is not here.." The teacher said, putting his right hand on the girl's ass.
"And it's not here either.." He said lifting his hand to the back of the girl's neck.
"It's right in between." He finally put his hand to the right spot.
Matt and Tai had in the meantime encountered a very basic problem: They were both boys. Therefore they had to decide who would take the girl's part. Matt decided that he had to be the man and told Tai so: "I'm the taller one and therefore I should be the man." 'This sounds so much like a macho – I Tarzan, you Jane..' But to his surprise Tai didn't mind at all. He said: "That's alright with me."
The blonde put his hand on Tai's shoulder blade and felt the other boy shiver under his touch. He didn't think about it any further and stretched his other hand out for Tai to put his on it. Tai did as the teacher had told them. Both boys were uncomfortable and they were standing a feet away from each other. The teacher came towards them shaking his head. "No no no! It doesn't work that way. You need to be a little closer to each other." As the boys didn't react, he stood in front of them and pushed them against each other. Both boys looked shocked and instantly went crimson, but they didn't dare get away from each other as the teacher was still looking at them. They looked so funny that way that the teacher couldn't repress a little laugh. Then he said: "You need enough room to move, though…"
The boys' blush went even deeper but they obeyed and were finally ready for the dance to start. The teacher went back to his dancing partner. And went back to his former pose.
He said: "This is called dancing pose. Whenever I ask you to take the dancing pose, that's the way I want you to stand, alright?"
"Yes" answered the whole class.
"For dancing, it's just like it was a few hundred years ago: The boy is the one to control it. That's important because otherwise, nobody knows when to start moving or turning or whatever. So even the more forceful girls should let the boys lead them.
The first dance you will learn is the disco blues. It's easy – it only consists four steps (and later some turns). First one step left, then one step right, and then two steps left. You don't change the spot for the two first steps. And for the two last ones, you need to put your right foot in front of the left one. Once you have done the four steps, you start again. Thus." The teacher and the girl did as he had explained and repeated the exercise a few times. "Now practice that. I'll count two numbers, three four one, for you to start with the beat. You have to start on the one. Alright?"
"Yes" the class answered once more. The girl held the man back from going to the mixing desk. She told him something quietly and then he started speaking again.
"Almost forgot. For the girls the steps are just the other way round. For them it's right, left, right, right. Otherwise you would be dancing in different directions…." The whole group laughed. Then the teacher went to the mixing desk and put on a CD. The song that could be heard a few seconds was "Overload" sung by the "Sugar Babes". It had been a hit the year before.
After a few seconds the teacher said into the microphone: "3…4…1!"
Tai and Matt had been concentrated and therefore started right in time. At first they were looking at their feet, but as they noticed it was rather easy, they soon started looking into each others' eyes. Both their hearts were beating like crazy. A few times their crotches touched each other, and suddenly Tai noticed that he was getting aroused.. 'Fuck fuck fuck. That can't be… Not now.. It's such a nice moment I'm sharing with Matt. I can't get erect now.. Not now..' What Tai didn't know was that Matt was experiencing just the same thing. His thoughts were very much alike. 'I hope he won't notice. I hope he won't notice. Oh god.. I beg you not to let him notice. I won't do anything sinful if you make this wish come true.. Please..' Both boys were concentrated on their own hard-ons far too much to notice the other's. After a while the music stopped, and so their movement did, too.
"This was pretty fun." Matt stated. Tai quickly agreed with him.
"Yeah.. I liked it, too."
"Always knew you were the girlish kind.."
"Say one more word and you'll have a girlish fist right in your face.." Tai said smiling.
"What? Is Miss Yagami getting angry." Tai softly hit Matt in the stomach without hurting him.
"Maybe I'm feminine, but I'm not such a blonde and blue-eyed moron like you." Matt hated it when people made jokes about blondes and his being blonde. But coming from Tai, especially from a smiling Tai, it couldn't make him angry.
"So next you'll practice something very very classical: The Waltz. The dance of the lovers."
'Dance of the lovers..' Matt thought. 'It's now or never…'
'How amazing it would be if Matt was my lover.. I wish he'd just tell me he was in love with me… But he'll never do that. He'll probably marry this bitch Mimi someday..' Tai thought sadly. 'But that won't spoil my fun. I'll enjoy it even though.'
The boys' erections has faded as quickly as they had come and so they could come closer again.
The teacher had again taken his dancing pose with the girl and was starting his explanations:
"The waltz isn't that hard either. This time it's three steps: Right foot forth, then left to the right's side, and then right foot close to left. Then left foot back, then right to left's side, and finally left foot close to the right. For the girls it's just the same, only the last three steps for the boys are their first three and vice versa. The Waltz is to be danced slowly and basically you make little squares which means that when it ends, you shouldn't have left the spot where you started. And again when you have done the first six steps, you start over again." Then the teacher did what he had described.
"If that gets boring to you, then you can start rotating slowly. Just turn a few degrees with the first step (right foot forth for the boys). The boys decide if the rotation is to take place or not. They indicate it by softly. And I mean softly. Pressing the girl's shoulder blade." He also showed that.
"Now you'll get the chance to practice."
Once again the man positioned himself behind the mixing desk, put on a CD and used some buttons.
The song that filled the air this time was "Close Encounters" by "Clouseau". Both boys knew and liked it. It was soft.. And somewhat sad.. But full of hope.. Just like they were..
After a few seconds the teacher started counting again: "3…4…1!"
Matt started the motion and Tai moved with him. They were rather close to each other again. At first they were very careful not to do any wrong steps, then Matt started the rotation, and finally the movement seemed completely normal to them. They were once again looking into each other's eyes.
The chorus had just started and Matt decided that time had come to tell Tai about his feelings.
He leaned forward towards Tai's ear and said: "I'm pretty close to you now, too. [That's the line of the song: And it won't help me if I shout, But I'm getting pretty close this time] And it feels good. I don't want to shout. I just want to be with you. Because.. Because… Because I… Because I love you."
Tai almost stopped moving, but Matt softly pushed his shoulder blade and so they went on dancing.
Tai didn't say a word, but he showed Matt how he felt about it: he nuzzled his head against Matt's chest and felt nothing but glee. Neither of the boys cared wither the other participants saw them or thought about them or whatever. They were just happy to be with each other. After a few seconds Tai looked up at Matt. Tears were flowing down his beautiful face, but Matt knew those were tears of happiness.
"I love you too.." Tai whispered into Matt's face.
"I know baby, I know." Was Matt's answer. Then he started kissing the tears away from Tai's face. His kisses went from the cheeks to Tai's mouth which then kissed very very softly. Tai wanted more of it and pressed his lips against Matt's. The boys had stopped dancing and were only kissing now. After a few seconds, Matt's tongue started brushing against Tai's lips until they finally parted to let it in. Inside the warmth of Tai's mouth, the two tongues were fighting. Tai couldn't believe how good Matt tasted. It was better than anything. Even better than chocolate. And Tai was addicted to chocolate..
Matt felt just the same about it: 'I wish this would last forever.'
Neither of the boys had noticed that around them the dance had stopped and everybody was looking at the two boys that had their arms tightly around each other and were kissing like they had never kissed.
All the faces looking at them were shining with bright smiles of happiness for the young couple.
Outside, even though it was still day, two stars were shining brightly on the blue sky. Two stars that had found each other and would never ever separate again.
So that's it! Did you like it? Do you want it to go on? Then review like crazy!
I'm open for suggestions of any kind. Maybe you want some pairing to appear in the sequel (Takari is obvious, but the other pairings I'd agree to do would be Yaoi or Yuri. So it's between Jyoushiro and Mira..)? Or you have an idea for the setting of their honeymoon? Or you have any other idea? Then just tell me in a review or an e-mail.
Yours, Foreigner, alias René