A/N: I don't own Touya, Yukito, or the quotes mentioned in this piece.

Touya had sent Yukito to wait in his room, insisting that he could make their afternoon snacks by himself. Yukito had wanted to stay and help make the peach iced tea, but he had been shoo-ed out of the kitchen by Touya, who had make Yukito wonder if he was going to secretly sneak some mysterious ingredient into their food, though he knew he would never do that.

Yukito slumped his book bag off his shoulder and placed it on Touya's bed. He began to take out the textbooks that they would need to do their homework with, silently groaning at the amount of work they had to finish.

He walked over to the other side of the room and set the books in a neat pile on Touya's desk. "Chemistry, Trigonometry, and History," Yukito said, checking the make sure he had all the textbooks. "Yeah, that's it, I think."

Beside the short stack of books laid a smaller one that caught Yukito's eye. A Dictionary to All Things Fantastic and Bizarre was written on its cover, and a bookmark was sticking out from it.

Yukito picked the book up and opened it to the page where the bookmark was. He sat down on the chair behind him and began to read what was written on the page.

Love

"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own."

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

"Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends"

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

"Love is only true when it can be expressed without words."

"Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever."

"Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

"Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see."

Yukito smiled as he read the definitions of love. He had never really been able to put his idea of love into words. To him, love was just… love.

He began to wonder why Touya had been reading something like this but suddenly laughed out as his eyes read:

"Love is a serious mental disease."

"That is sort of true, I guess," Yukito chuckled.

His eyes reached the bottom of the page, where one of the "love is…" quotes was highlighted. He squinted and saw that his named appeared to be hastily written beside it.

"Love is when you're kept up all night thinking of him, and then when you fall asleep, you find him in your dreams."

Yukito felt as if he had just drunk a nice cup of hot chocolate as he read it. He could see why Touya would've highlighted it. Everything about that single sentence screamed out falling in love and finding it. It made him feel happy in a way, and he could completely relate to the quote with his past experiences, even with those crushes that hadn't worked out so well. Yukito couldn't help but to wonder if anybody ever felt that way about him, if anybody had ever spent nights thinking about him. He was sure somebody out of the billions of people had had to of had a crush on him at some point in time… But why would a girl like me? he thought.

Suddenly, the door opened. Yukito looked up and saw Touya standing there with a tray of food and cups on it.

Touya's eyes flickered from Yukito to the book he was holding. He nervously walked over towards him and placed the tray on his desk. He was about to quickly invent reason as to why Yukito's name was scribbled by the last quote on the page but was interrupted.

Yukito smiled up at him. "To-ya, I'm glad I found this book. These quotes about love are quite touching. They really got me thinking about what love really means to me-"

"You're probably wondering why your name's written next to that last quote that I highlighted, aren't you?" Touya said quickly, deciding that it would be better to get it out in the open rather than having Yukito constantly avoid him.

"Actually, that hadn't really crossed my mind," he said truthfully, now seeming interested.

Touya looked down at the floor, suddenly regretting ever opening his mouth. He wasn't ready to spill out his feelings for Yukito and realized what kind of an impact it would have on their relationship. If Yukito wasn't going to return his feelings, which Touya doubt he would, the only other thing that he hoped would remain would be their friendship.

He took a deep breathe, deciding that everything would turn out for the best.

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Touya and Yukito laid side by side on a grassy hill out in the country side, their hands laced in each others, both of them staring up at the starry sky. They remained silent, together knowing that their love did not need to be expressed in words.