Giving It a Shot
"Ohayoo, boys."
Jounouchi yawned and somehow managed to curl even closer to Yuugi's warm body than he already was. It felt way too early to be awake.
"I take it you had… fun… this weekend?"
"Jiichan!" Yuugi sat straight up, throwing Jounouchi over at odd angles. Groggily the blond untangled himself from Yuugi and rolled over, nestling back into the mattress to go to sleep…
Jiichan? Jounouchi's eyes opened wide and sure enough, there was Yuugi's grandpa, standing in the doorway. His expression was a cross between horror and embarrassment.
Yuugi was stumbling over his words. "I-I… I mean, we… Watching a movie… Oh, Jiichan, are you angry?"
The old man stared blankly. "I think that Jounouchi should head home," he said slowly, as though he was choosing his words carefully. "We'll have to talk about this."
Jounouchi blushed so dark he was sure it neared crimson. Being in bed together wouldn't have been so bad: they had shared a bed a number of times. Even being all tangled in each other could be covered as an innocent mistake of sleep. But add nudity into the mix… "Yea, I should probably go… do homework or something." That was a lie, and they all knew it. "Anyway… Uh, bye." He hurriedly found his clothes on the floor and pulled them on, all but running out of the house; he didn't slow to a normal pace until he was a fair distance away from the house.
He hadn't grabbed his things… and he was wearing pajama pants. How much more embarrassing could his day get? It wasn't even noon yet!
Ah well. He could get his things from Yuugi later.
…
There would be a later, right? Jounouchi knew that Yuugi's grandpa could be really cool about some things - like Yuugi sporadically 'saving the world' - but the fact remained that he was still an old guy, and that meant that deep down he had to have old-guy ideas. How did he feel about what he had seen? What would he do?
When Jounouchi got home, his father was out. That was a relief; he could go straight to bed and not be asked any questions. He immediately went to his room, falling into the bed dramatically and yawning.
While he was having deep and worrisome thoughts, he wondered if Yuugi would be mad that he ran off like that. True, Grandpa had - in his subtle, old-guy way - kicked Jounouchi out, but he could have stayed, could have defended what they had done…
But how could he defend something he was still so unsure of?
Jounouchi dropped his books onto his desk Monday morning, wishing that he had remembered the grab his backpack when he left Yuugi's on Sunday morning. Carrying books was a pain in the ass.
Speak of the devil: Yuugi was coming towards him, holding out said missed backpacked with a shy smile. Shy? What the hell? Just when Jounouchi started to get used to the un-shy Yuugi, his friend went and changed modes on him!
He was never going to understand Yuugi.
"Forgot this," Yuugi said as he set the bag on Jounouchi's desk. "You're not too mad at me, are you?"
"Nah, not mad. What about the old man; is he pissed?"
Yuugi chuckled, leaning against the desk. "Not so much pissed as… freaked out. He spent all day yesterday giving me talk after talk. I only managed to get away when I had to shower and go to bed."
"That bad?"
"Well, not too bad," Yuugi admitted. "I think he was more embarrassed than I was. I got the 'safe-sex' talk, and he gave me about 2 lines of the 'saving yourself for marriage' speech before he thought better of it and changed topics. He switched to the 'in the closet' speech instead. I guess he's worried that I'll start having more problems in school if people find out that I like boys."
I don't. Like boys. "Oh. He's probably right."
"Egh. Then he…" Yuugi blushed. "Then he asked how long we've been together."
They stared at each other in silence. Jounouchi hadn't thought of that either. "Um, should we be? You know… together?" That was weird. Were guys like that? It sounded suspiciously like a girly concept…
"We don't need to be... It can just be sex… or we can be normal friends, like before."
Jounouchi almost laughed. Yea, right; like before? He bit his lip and thought. Hard. Three days ago he wouldn't have even CONSIDERED looking at another guy like that, and now he was considering a relationship with one? Then again, was he a whore if he decided not to? In either case, they couldn't just act like nothing had happened… well, they could, but it would be weird… Because he had really liked it. Not just the sex, but the sweet stuff that wasn't about sex… it had been nice.
He didn't think he was gay; there were a couple of other guys in the room, and he wasn't attracted to them. But when he looked at Yuugi something inside him - the straight side of him? - melted and simply pleaded to hold his friend close. Who was he to deny instinct? "I think we could give it a shot."
Yuugi beamed up at him, and next thing he knew he had Yuugi wrapped around his waist. The melted part of him firmed up and panicked. Instinct be damned, he hadn't meant here! People would see! "Erm, a little at a time, though," Jounouchi added nervously. "I'm sort of new to this sort of thing."
"Okay," Yuugi said cheerfully, disengaging from Jounouchi and shrugging. "You want to come over later?"
Jounouchi blinked. "But your grandpa…"
"He wants to talk to both of us anyway, so we might as well get that over with. Then we can move onto more interesting activities." Yuugi winked, and Jounouchi blushed. Yuugi had a point; if they had to talk to his grandpa, they might as well do it as soon as possible.
"This afternoon… That's fine."
- author says -
This was so short! v.v I'm sorry… And I have to admit that it gets more serious after this… but it doesn't stay that way…
I feel sort of weird, because the story doesn't stick to just the weekend, and - like it said - it gets serious… then serious… then funny… then serious again… then serious/funny. So on and so forth in that manner. ^^ I worry that maybe people didn't expect that… :) You'll all live. It'll be fun!