Do You Love Me? Part 2

(Happiness) Nervousness is just Love in Confusion. –Epilogue to Do you Love Me?

Chapter Two: Bedtime Nervousness

When Yuuri and Wolfram reached the castle and Greta's rooms, they let out sighs of relief that they'd caught the two soldiers in time. Yes Yuuri loved Wolfram, and yes Wolfram wanted to marry Yuuri but it was too soon for either of them to be pushed into marriage. They had concluded between themselves on their way back to the dining room that they were happy just being engaged right now and that they should do damage control as soon as possible.

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Greta was in her bed patiently waiting for her fathers to arrive and put her to bed. Said fathers bent over placing kisses on her forehead before they tucked her into her bed and read her a bedtime story. When Greta had dropped off to sleep just minutes into her story as she was want to do, Yuuri and Wolfram lowered the light in her lamp and closed the door as they left.

They were quiet as they headed to their bedroom, Yuuri no longer thought of it as just his own. He'd gotten so used to sharing it that he didn't even think of Wolfram sharing his bedroom, they were two friends and they were both guys so what was the big deal. But that was, apparently, before he realized his feelings for Wolfram, Yuuri noted as they'd headed for their respective dressers and began to undress. He began to blush as he stopped his own undressing to watch Wolfram.

'Is this what Wolfram has felt whenever I undress?' Yuuri thought to himself, as he glanced multiple times towards Wolfram's undressing figure. Wolfram had already unbuttoned his outer blue jacket and was now working on his cravat and pants. After taking both off, and starting on the buttons to his white shirt, Yuuri couldn't handle much more. He turned sharply way from Wolfram and placed his hand over his beating heart.

"Yuuri, are you okay?" Wolfram asked, Yuuri reflexively turned to answer but had to sharply turn away once more when he realized Wolfram was only in his black thong, his pink nightgown clutched in his hands.

The blush rising up his neck about choked Yuuri as he answered hoarsely, "I'm fine." He too began to undress with hands shaking so badly he could barely unbutton his shirt. It took what felt like twice as long to undress as it normally did when Yuuri finally buttoned the last button on his pajamas. Turning around once more Yuuri moved towards their bed. Wolfram was already under the covers by the time Yuuri reached it and was reading by one of the bedside lamps. Yuuri couldn't take his eyes off Wolfram's form, he seemed so calm and unbothered by this afternoon's occurrence, yet Yuuri couldn't keep his mind off of it. "Why can Wolfram be so relaxed, I feel like my heart's going to pop right out of my chest the way it's beating so hard?" Yuuri thought to himself. He climbed into his side of the bed and brought his knees up to his chest, a futile attempt at slowing his heart rate.

Yuuri didn't know why he was so embarrassed and nervous now when he'd been so confident earlier when he and Wolfram had kissed. His body temperature increased as he remembered the feel of his own powerful emotions and the physical feeling of Wolfram's body against his. The way Wolfram's lips moved and conformed to meet his, the heated ruff pants of air as they kissed…

Yuuri jerked his mind away from it, his brain was clouding over and his body was getting uncomfortable due to the heat the memories were stirring in him. Yuuri quickly leaned over and turned off his own lamp before burying himself under the covers, even his head. He wasn't sure how long he was in that position before Wolfram put down his book and turned off his lamp before leaning down and getting under the covers himself.

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Wolfram's side

When they had entered the room, Wolfram noticed right off the distracted way Yuuri was acting. He'd been worried about Yuuri and had asked if he was alright, but Yuuri had just turned away with an "I'm fine" statement. But Wolfram didn't believe him, especially when he'd caught Yuuri watching him. He'd been a little embarrassed when he'd caught Yuuri looking at him from the corner of his eye but it felt good too. The reddish blush that had covered Yuuri's face, when Wolfram had only been in his underwear had made Wolfram smile, he'd had to rush to the bed and stuff his head in a book to get his face back under control. But then he'd begun to watch Yuuri's unusually slow undressing process, which had been torturous. 'I wonder if the wimp is doing that on purpose. Strip-teasing like that.' Wolfram wondered. But then he'd quickly put his face in his book once more when Yuuri headed for his side of the bed.

When Yuuri crawled in Wolfram's heartbeat took a rollercoaster ride as it sped. Yuuri had then turned his light off and gotten under the covers, but Wolfram was still trying to get his emotions under control. His body had been in a state of un-satisfied need since his interrupted his with Yuuri earlier and now that they were in bed together, it was a whole new situation than before. Now Yuuri loved him, and was watching him because he thought Wolfram was physically attractive.

Wolfram sighed, he'd loved Yuuri for so long now and finally having Yuuri love him back was so wonderful and he couldn't wait for the next level of their relationship to start. But he wanted to take it slow, for Yuuri's sake. He understood that Yuuri was still nervous about their new relationship status and that it would take time for Yuuri to get to the level he was at, but that didn't stop him from wanting to touch Yuuri.

Wolfram kept stealing glances at Yuuri's figure as it cuddled under the covers. Just the tips of Yuuri's dark black hair were showing and Wolfram's fingers twitched to touch it, but instead he sighed once more and placed his book down. Leaning over to turn off his lamp Wolfram tried to settle his mind. Because he normally had no trouble at all sleeping when Yuuri was around, he was unaccustomed to this new level of awareness. He noticed every time he shifted under the sheets, Yuuri would too. The warmth they were generating making the light covers almost too warm, but Wolfram just wanted to get closer. Which was another problem, he knew he was a rough sleeper he'd even taken advantage of that to get back at Yuuri when he was mad about something and didn't want Yuuri to know about it. But now he was too conscious about not touching Yuuri that his muscles were twitching.

It was going to be a long night, for the both of them.

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The next morning, brought forth two very tired and twitchy males from the royal bedchamber as neither of them had had a very restful night. Yuuri was so conscious of every breath that Wolfram made that he'd taken to counting them. 20,498 breaths was the last count he could remember before drifting off around 4. Wolfram on the other hand was suffering from stiff muscles from trying not to touch Yuuri, so his body was really sore. And when he'd awoken at dawn, he'd found himself on Yuuri's side of the bed, with Yuuri back up against his own. Wolfram had instantly straightened and rolled away from Yuuri's side but that only caused Yuuri to jerk awake.

Conrad who'd come to wake the two was surprised to find the two were already up and going about their day. Yuuri was in his office actually working on his paperwork that had mysteriously formed over night. While Wolfram was in the stable brushing his horse and cleaning out the stables before starting his normal sword practice before breakfast. Neither had spoken to each other that morning, finding they were too embarrassed to make conversation. So when Conrad tracked them down to tell that breakfast was ready was a relief.

Conrad and Yuuri arrived minutes before Wolfram, but they waited to eat for the rest of the family to join them. Conrad noticed the snuck glances the two were sending each other while the other wasn't looking and smiled. He was curious about what exactly had happened between the two but chalked it up to Yuuri's increasing feelings for Wolfram and Wolfram's notice of Yuuri's notice.

When Greta and Cheri arrived with the usual gushing Gunter in tow more conversation started around the table. When Gwendal arrived he sat down and began to stare at Yuuri, clearly wondering something as more wrinkles began to form. Yuuri worried over the eldest brother's interest spoke up as the others began eating.

"Gwendal is something the matter?"

Gwendal nodded before he looked Yuuri straight in the eye and asked, "Your Majesty did you happen to be in the office today?"

Yuuri nodded, "I looked through the paperwork and separated them into the appropriate piles, "Yuuri looked worried. "Did I do something wrong?" Yuuri asked.

Gwendal's eyes widened, his was the second day in a row that Yuuri had taken the initiative to work on his paperwork. Gwendal shook his head no, "I was just making sure. You did well you majesty." Gwendal answered before starting to eat his neglected work thinking 'maybe his is finally taking his role as moah seriously.' But whatever it was that had brought this new responsible side of Yuuri out, Gwendal was glad he just hoped that it didn't disappear as fast as it had appeared.

Gunter, Cheri and Wolfram had been having their own discussion when Gunter caught Wolfram yawning. "Wolfram, are you not sleeping well?"

Wolfram just shook his head, "I was distracted last night and had a hard time getting to sleep."

Cheri dropped her spoon in her excitement as she asked, "It wouldn't have anything to do with His Majesty Yuuri and his own raccoon eyes would it?" Yuuri spewed his drink all over his plate as his face bloomed in furious red; Wolfram's own cheeks were hot with embarrassment as he yelled, "Hahaui!" Cheri just laughed with delight as she turned towards Yuuri, a sly look suddenly filling her gaze. "So your majesty, what exactly did you do to my Wolfie to get him so distracted?" She asked, placing an extra empathizes on distracted. Yuuri was so flabbergasted that all he could do was open and close his mouth. Wolfram wasn't as quiet as he stood and slammed his hands on the table.

"Mother, Yuuri didn't do anything like that!" Cheri just continued to giggle. Gunter was wailing about "his majesty's innocence being defiled by such a little lord brat" by this time and Wolfram's anger was about to explode. Yuuri just continued to open and close his mouth, words still failing him. Wolfram and Gunter got into an argument about Yuuri, Gwendal just ignored them as he tried to eat but growing brow wrinkles belied his irritation, Conrad just smiled and served Greta another slice of bacon.

And so it was breakfast as usual.

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