YUUTA
I woke up because my arm was feeling numb. I could hear birds chirping but it wasn't light outside yet. Shun was breathing
deeply beside me. At least he was peaceful. I heard signs of life downstairs. His family was home and probably didn't even
know I was here. I heard someone shuffling up the steps. "Shun!" His brother. "Shun are you hear?" He knocked on the door.
I decided the best course of action was to pretend I was asleep. I pushed Shun over a bit and turned so my back was facing
him, it'd look weird if I was just laying here staring at Shun. I could hear Shun waking up. "Shun?" The door opened.
I felt Shun sit up. "Huh?" Fuyuki burst out laughing.
"Shun why is Yuuta here? Were you scared." I opened one eye feigning innocence. Shun's hair was wildly sticking out at
every angle possible. I had to bite my lip so I wouldn't laugh at him.
"I wasn't scared. I was bored. Yuuta came to help with my homework and we went to the aquarium." Fuyuki just stared at Shun
with an odd look on his face.
"Why do I get dragged around and you get to go to the aquarium?" He shut the door and walked out mumbling about how his life
was unfair. I let out a breath I didn't know I'd been holding.
"Yuuta are you awake?" I turned on my side and looked at Shun. His face looked a little troubled. I'd never really thought
about what my parents would think of me being with Shun. I was too worried about what my friends would say that I never
thought of what my family would think. In my mind if something was okay with Yuuki than it didn't really matter. Now I
understood that I was being naïve. There was no way on the planet that my parents wouldn't figure everything out eventually
and I could tell Shun was thinking the same thing. Luckily we'd always been inseperable, but they might come to find it odd
that me and Shun were spending so much time alone without the other guys. There had to be a way to make this work that
wouldn't involve so much sneaking around.
"I'm awake." Shun leaned down and kissed my forehead.
"Shun! We're home!" His mom yelled up the step. "I'm making breakfast."
He opened his door and yelled down the stairs "Okay, Yuuta is here too!" I would've rather snuck out the window. At this
point I was so worried I might throw up. I'd have to talk to Yuuki and do it soon.
YUUKI
I'd slept way past noon. Yuuta wasn't here to bother me or wake me up. I pushed myself out of bed and stretched. I felt
groggy and gross. This is why you shouldn't sleep for ten hours. I wondered downstairs to find that both my parents had
left for the day without bothering to wake me up. I checked the fridge for food and sighed when everything was raw, or
needed to be cooked in some way. I couldn't make anything by myself. I'd just gotten my shoes on when the door opened
and Kaname walked in. "What are you doing walking into someone's house without knocking? Did you forget your manners?"
"I figured you'd still be sleeping." He held up a bag from the convenience store. "I knew you'd be hungry." I kicked my
shoes off and let Kaname in.
"Sometimes it feels like you live in my brain." Kaname didn't say anything. He plopped down on the couch while I arranged
the various food on the coffee table. "Do you want anything in particular?"
"I'll just eat what you don't want." He said with a shrug. My most hated foods were Kaname's favorites and vice versa. It
had always been like this between us as long as I could remember. We were polar opposites in every way. He picked up a
package of pocky. "Any news from Yuuta?" I shook my head. "I wish they would stop keeping things a big secret."
"Well if everyone reacted the way you are I can understand their concern." He narrowed his eyes.
"It's only like this because they won't tell me anything. It's not fair." Kaname was about to stick a piece of pocky in his
mouth when I bit it. My lips brushed his fingers and I moved back. "That was mine!"
"You said I could have what I wanted." I sifted through the other things and settle on a riceball with a pickled plum in
the center. Kaname crinkled his nose. "And what do you want them to say? Excuse me Kaname, can we have your permission to
have sex?" Kaname spit out his tea.
"Don't say that!" I shrugged and bit into the riceball.
"I'm right though and you know it." He scowled. "Perhaps you just want a girlfriend Kaname?" He turned red.
"That's not it at all." I leaned closer to him.
"You're lying." His eyes narrowed but he didn't say anything else.
"And what about you?" Me? I could never find anyone I was serious about. No one was as interesting as a manga and most of
the girls at school realized they couldn't put up with me. I did try dating before but it didn't work out.
"I'm not really the loving kind." Kaname's smirk dropped and he gave me an odd look.
"I wouldn't say that..." Kaname sighed. "I understand what you mean. I'm always too busy with other things to date someone.
It seemed like Yuuta was the same way...so why..."
"I don't get it either." I sighed. "Cheers to being lonely." Kaname touched his glass of tea to my can of coffee.