Author's Note: I'm glad there's many of you who like this so far.
The alarm went off from somewhere in the room. Yuuki was shuffling around trying to find it. "Yuuta..." he whined.
"I think it's under your pillow or something." I mumbled. It clicked off. "Isn't it Saturday?"
"Ugh...how am I going to get back to sleep now?" I heard Yuuki flop back down on the bed. I hadn't slept much anyway. I heard my phone buzz. I felt around and opened it. I woke up on accident. -Shun I couldn't help but smile.
"Shun woke up too." Yuuki's head popped up from the side of the bed.
"Are you going to go on a date today?" He blinked a couple times. I could tell he was still very tired.
"Oh...I don't know..." Yuuki gave me that I-know-you-what-you-want-even-if-you-don't look.
"You're hopeless." He flopped back on his bed. "And I'm tired of these stupid bunk beds. They were cool for five minutes." I sat up and hit my head.
"Ow..." I flopped back down.
"Maybe you shouldn't go anywhere with that lump that'll be on your head." I rubbed my head and sighed. Why'd I ever want to be on the top? I climbed off the bed and walked downstairs. Mom and Dad were already gone for the day. I'm awake too. I texted Shun back. A couple minutes later the phone rang.
"Hello?" I leaned against the wall with an ice pack pressed against my forehead.
"Yuuta?" It was Shun.
"Yes." He cleared his throat a couple times.
"Do you want to-to um...go out somewhere today?" I bit my lip so I wouldn't scream. Why the hell did I have to bang my head today?
"Um...well...when I was getting up I hit my head. I have a big bump." WHY!
"How about you come over? I'll take care of it for you." Shun would take care of me...
"Sure. I'll be over soon." I hung up and took the stairs two at a time sifting through my closet for some clothes. Yuuki peered at me from under the cover uncomprehendingly. He watched me stumble around. I put a hat on to cover what I suspected was becoming a huge unattractive lump. I looked at Yuuki. "Shun is going to help me take care of the bump."
"What bump?" I pulled up the hat. "Jesus..."
"It's that bad?" He nodded. I sighed and walked back downstairs, peering in the mirror before I reached the door. I didn't want to go anywhere now...I pulled the hat down and walked out before I burrowed myself under the covers all day. I shoved my hands in my pockets and walked quickly. The air was brisk. Winter was just starting. Shun was standing outside when I arrived, his face a mask of worry.
He pulled me inside, barely giving me time to kick off my shoes. He sat me down at the table sliding my hat off. He gasped. "Oh...Yuuta." He touched my head lightly but moved his hand away when I flinched. "I'll get some ice." I stared at his back. It was small. Shun almost put the ice to my head when he pressed his lips to it instead. "I remember when you used to do that." Even back in pre-school I liked Shun differently than everyone else. He put the ice pack on my head.
I could feel my face getting red. I could still feel his lips on my head. "Thanks Shun." I couldn't stop thinking of the way his lips had felt on mine yesterday. And now I was wondering why I was here, because I knew around Shun I didn't have much self control to begin with. Now that I knew how he felt about me it was even harder to keep myself in check. We both lived in places where many people came and went. Privacy was something that had never really existed for me, not with Yuuki around. Shun had a brother that didn't know the meaning of knocking, or common courtesy. So I knew that I shouldn't even bother starting anything. It didn't change the fact that I wanted to.
We sat in Shun's room, me on the bed, him with his chin on his knees on the floor, back resting on the bed. He'd put on some movie we'd watched together many times before. Occasionally he would glance at me, but then quickly look away. "Yuuta...are we dating?"
"I guess we'd actually have to pick out somewhere to go first." Shun nodded. We sat downstairs at the kotatsu mapping out the days we were free, and then trying to find a day all of our friends would most likely be busy. The only day we came up with was in two weeks. I wasn't too happy about it. Neither was Shun, but it'd have to do. Neither of us were ready to announce our relationship to everyone.
"This will have to do. Where should we go?" Shun liked many things. I was okay with whatever he wanted to do...but if I gave him the right to choose it'd never happen.
"You like fish right? The aquarium was just renovated. They added some new things." So the aquarium it was.
Sitting alone with Shun was really tempting me. "Where's your family?"
"My brother had some sport thing for this morning. It'll last until noon I think." We only had a half hour left together alone. I kissed Shun's cheek.
"That was for making me better." He smiled.
"No problem." He kissed me quickly. "I'll get some snacks." I stared out the window. I couldn't help but feel happy. I'd been waiting for this for a long time, now all I had to do was get over the fact that I couldn't move around him.