Shusei walked over to Hotsuma with his head bowed. When he got there he was suddenly yanked by the arm and dragged into an empty classroom. Hotsuma slammed the door behind them.

"Um… Hotsuma… I…"

"Why didn't I know?" Hotsuma said without facing Shusei.

"I'm sorry" Shusei said barely above a whisper.

"Jesus Shu, I didn't even know you played piano. I mean I knew you used to, but I thought you had stopped, and was this the project you were working on?"

"Yes, um I am actually in a music class and we had to compose a song for our final grade."

"Why didn't you tell me? I would have been sitting front row. I thought we weren't going to hide anything anymore."

"I didn't want to hide it, but…"

"But what?

"Nothing…" Shusei continued looking at the floor never looking to see Hotsuma's reaction.

"You're not going to tell me? What changed you used to tell me everything? God now you sneak around so that I won't know things about you."

"I COULDN'T TELL YOU BECAUSE IT'S DIFFERENT NOW." Shusei blushed at his outburst.

"What is different? What changed? I don't understand?" Hotsuma said in a soothing voice trying to calm his partner as he stepped in front of him.

Shusei was debating with himself. He couldn't see a way to make Hotsuma give up the subject and he didn't know any way to get out of this situation other than to come clean. He quickly peeked to see his partner's eyes. They weren't angry anymore, they were hurt and confused. Shusei decided it was now or never. He just hoped this wouldn't ruin things.

"Fine you want to know what is different?" You really want to know?" With those biting words Shusei grabbed the nape of Hotsuma's neck and crashed their lips together. Hotsuma stood frozen in his spot. He was not expecting this at all. He regained his thought process just as Shusei's lips left his.

"That is why it is different." Shusei said quietly and ran from the room tears streaming down his face.

Hotsuma tried to run after him, but lost sight of him in the crowd of people still mingling around after the performances. Hotsuma still in shock decided that he would head home and let Shusei gather his thoughts and they would talk when they got back.