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Part Two - Restaurant - Kuro POV

We were seated by the window and a waiter came to take our drink orders. When he left, Fai began to talk to me.

"So, what brings you here?" Fai asked with his hands clasped in front of him on the white tablecloth.

"I went out to get some supplies for a project."

"Ooh, what project?"

I proceeded to explain the project we were doing in engineering class. It was quite a short summary, and by the time I was through explaining, my water and his lemonade had arrived.

"Now, are you two ready to order?" the waiter asked in a pretty high pitched voice.

I was so busy talking, I had forgotten to even look at the menu, so I let Fai go first while I tried to find something I might like.

"I'll have the chicken parmesan, please! With fettuccine alfredo instead of spaghetti."

"Very good choice, I think we can do that!" he said. I saw him wink at Fai. "And you, sir?"

Since I still hadn't seen anything I had a particular taste for, I just said that I would have the same thing Fai was having.

"Great! Your food will be out shortly!" the waiter said cheerfully, taking our menus before leaving and heading into the kitchens.

"He's cute!" Fai giggled once the waiter was out of earshot.

My heart skipped a beat.

"I would try dating him if I weren't already with Ashura!" Fai told me.

My heart skipped another beat. It actually made me have to take a few deep breaths, but I tried to keep this inconspicuous to Fai.

"Anyone else you'd like to date?" I asked him.

I might as well ask.

"Ehh…" he took a little sip from his lemonade before finishing with, "no, not really."

Knowing that disheartened me a little.

"Besides, why would I want another boyfriend anyway? Ashura is the best boyfriend I could ever ask for!"

Him saying that disheartened me a lot.

"So, it's going great with him?" I asked, half of me wishing I hadn't asked.

"Oh, it's going wonderfully, Kuro-pii! We just had our first kiss yesterday!" the idiot told me with a huge smile on his face. I couldn't help but frown even more, but he didn't notice because he was staring into space, probably thinking about their kiss. Sick.

"But…" he started again, his expression changing to one a little sadder. "Ashura says I need to work on it."

"Work on what?"

"Kissing. Apparently, I don't do it right, and he doesn't like it."

"He told you that?" I asked, exasperated.

"Yeah. He says I should work on it, and I might become better at it. Eventually."

The way he said that suggested to me that Ashura expected Fai to try and improve his kissing skills without his help. It also suggested to me that Ashura thought Fai incapable of getting better. When I brought this up, Fai confirmed my suspicions. Ashura said that in a few days, he would "quiz" Fai and see if he had improved. If he hadn't, he would have to wait another few days until Ashura decided it was time to try again. What an ass.

I knew I wouldn't dare tell Fai something so insolent and uncalled for. Even if Fai was as bad of a kisser as suggested by the story, I wouldn't leave him to figure it out on his own. Practice helps. And who better to practice on? Well, me!

But the thing that topped it all off was the fact that Fai thought this behaviour to be acceptable. He thought that this was normal and that he was a bad kisser who needed to hurry up and improve himself to please Ashura. When I asked how he planned to work on this without his boyfriend's help, he simply replied that he had been using a pillow. The guy was reduced to making out with an inanimate object in order to attempt to make a guy who was completely unfaithful to him happy. And he didn't even know it.

"Here are your meals!"

The gay waiter came back at the end of the conversation regarding Fai's one ever kiss.

"Let me know if you need anything, alright?" he said, speaking mainly to Fai, and giving him another wink.

"You do realize he's hitting on you," I said once the waiter was gone.

"Yeah, but I can't do anything about it. I have a boyfriend so I have to be totally and 100% faithful to him!"

The irony was killing me.

"Have you ever stopped to think that maybe Ashura isn't being 100% faithful to you?" I inquired after my first bite of food.

As I chewed, Fai answered with, "No, of course not, Kuro-silly! I see him every day! He doesn't have time to cheat on me anyway with all his extra-curricular activities going on!"

Was he the only one who didn't know that Ashura was not in the five different clubs he said he was in? He was in one "club," his fraternity and they had nasty parties three to four times per week.

And I suppose being on the football team counted… if he ever got off the bench and kicked the ball.

I swallowed.

"And what about how he never shows up for your dates? You always end up going home alone, don't you? Except for tonight, because I'm here."

I took pride in that last statement.

"Ashura has a crazy schedule, Kuro-puu! He's all over the campus all the time! It's okay if he has to cancel a couple of our outings because something comes up at the last minute."

"And by a couple of your outings do you mean all of them?"

"No, Kuro-puu! We went to a different restaurant last week. And another one two weeks before that!"

"Oh really?" I was about to take another bite, but I put my fork down. "And who paid for those meals?"

"Well, I did. He had forgotten his wallet, so I paid." Fai said matter-of-factly.

"You don't think it's strange that you always end up paying for the meals?"

"Well, no, because we-"

"You're an idiot," I interrupted.

Fai's eyes got wider. He didn't say anything, but rather picked up his fork and began eating in silence.

I was still seething inside from what I had heard from him. Ashura stands him up, never pays, and he thinks that is okay? No! It's not! And someone needs to tell him that it's not! And it looks like it will have to be me.

"I do wish you two would get along though, Kuro-puu…." Fai mumbled quietly after taking a few bites of food.

"Quit calling me that! And I could never be friends with that… that…"

"Fai? What are you doing… with him?"

I heard him before I saw him. It was Ashura again. How the hell does he keep popping up like this? He was walking toward our table. The closer be got, the hotter my blood boiled. Just the sight of him and his stupid long, black hair made me want to shout and stab him.

"Ashura!" Fai exclaimed, leaping out of his seat to meet his boyfriend for an embrace. Fai was swept off his feet and swung in a small circle, put down gently, and kissed on the cheek. And all I could do was watch while grinding my teeth.

"What are you doing here with Suwa?" I heard Ashura ask Fai.

While Fai gave his own answer, I got up to give a more straightforward one.

"I'm here because you weren't," I told Ashura seriously. "You left him here alone for over an hour and if I hadn't come along, he would have been waiting for another hour."

"I do not believe I was talking to you, Suwa. Besides, Fai knew I would be a while, didn't you, babe?"

I suppose the endearing/sickening nickname was making Fai blush. He blushed even more when he was taken by his butt and slammed against his boyfriend crotch first where Ashura proceeded to explore Fai's mouth with his tongue. It was a sloppy kiss, Ashura getting all over Fai's face, and Fai looking like he was trying too hard to do it right.

It disgusted me, and not because it was sloppy. Fai was trying so hard to satisfy this man who wanted nothing more than Fai as a sort of trophy, but a trophy that does not have to be shown all the time. Ashura usually hides Fai when others come around. Except for me. He knows how I feel about Fai so he polishes his trophy nice and shiny right in front of me.

It was far too much to bear, seeing that fake boyfriend tarnish the trophy I should have won. If I had known Fai before Ashura, I most certainly would have beat him to it. But I didn't know Fai until after Ashura asked him out, and Ashura rubbed the fact in my face every chance he got. I didn't know what to do, but I couldn't take my eyes off of them.

I ended up storming out of the restaurant, not paying for the food, not screaming at anyone, just leaving. My vision was clouded with images of Ashura where I should be, doing the things that I should be doing. I wasn't hungry anymore. I didn't yell until I got outside. I punched and dented a sign on the window of a failing convenience store and, still steaming and screaming, I walked home.

I flopped down on my bed, staring up at the ceiling, still not able to get those images out of my mind. For a split second I thought about how I never got the supplies for my project, but that thought was short-lived and replaced by methods by which I would steal Ashura's trophy.

T-t-t-t-that's all folks!
Time to do homework...

WAY LATER EDIT: Let's hear it for Kurogane!

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