When arrive at school the next day I can’t find Reita anywhere. I search the area with my eyes but I’m unable to spot him in the masses. Sighing I make my way inside.

I try looking for Reita in every break we have but I can’t find him anywhere and after he fails to turn up for our history class I come to the conclusion that he is indeed absent today. Crap.

I wonder if something's wrong, I hope he’s okay... Maybe I should pay  him a visit after school. I could nurse him back to health. I chuckle slightly at my own thought as I make my way down the hallway. Turning the corner I notice Aoi and Tora by the water fountain. Shit. I look around desperately trying to find a place to hide, but there are none. I take a deep breath and keep walking, eyes fixed on the floor. Maybe they wont notice me, not that that’s ever happened before.
As we draw closer to each other I try to prepare for whatever might come next.

They are just a few meters away now. Closer, closer. I hold my breath as I pass them.
Nothing. Nothing happen. No slide remarks, no pushing, no nothing. What the hell?
I’m so surprised I stop dead in my tracks and turn staring at their retreating backs. This has never happened before. Why didn’t they do anything? Are they playing with me? Are they purposefully trying to make me nervous and paranoid? Because if they are, it’s working.

I spend the rest of the school day musing over what transpired earlier in the hallway. I just don’t get it, they must be planning something. I don’t think they ignored me because they weren’t interested, because they always are.

When the last bell of the day finally rings I gather my things as fast as possible and hurry out the door. I’ve decided to go see Reita. I need some company; my mind is making me crazy coming up with all sorts of paranoid stuff.

The bus ride lasts forever but finally I get off at what I know to be Reita’s stop. I’m quite exited actually. Things have been going so well lately, and I really can’t wait to see him again. As I start walking I realise I’m actually not entirely sure where his house is. Reita’s always accompanied me when I’ve visited so I never really paid attention to where we were walking.  

 

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When I wake up in morning I feel like my head is about to explode and when I try to get out of bed I can’t help but cringe. Damn it! I slowly make my way to the bathroom to inspect the damage. I just hope I don’t look too horrible, even if I feel like shit I might not look it.

I was wrong.
I do look like shit.
My eye is swollen and blue, my left cheek is looking kind of purple-ish and my lip is looking pretty bad as well. I don’t even dare to look at my body; I know it probably looks horrible as well. Heaving a heavy sigh I head out of the bathroom and start trying to make my way downstairs, which proves to be a rather unpleasant experience. When I finally reach the kitchen I collapse into the first chair I see.
“FUCK!”
“Watch you mouth Rei- what the hell happened to you?!” My dad suddenly appears in front of me looking completely horrified.

“…Nothing.” I know it’s a stupid answer but I don’t feel like sharing right now.

“Honey! Get in here will you?!”
My mom appear in the doorway holding my brothers backpack and looking less than happy about my dad calling her when she’s busy with something else.

“What is i- oh my god! Reita, honey! Are you okay?” She storms over to me and falls to her knees before starting to inspect every inch of me that she can reach when I’m sitting.
“Mom, stop it!”
“Honey, what happened?” She sounds almost at the verge of tears and I can’t help but feel a little guilty that I’m causing her to worry like this.

“Did you get attacked, were you robbed?”

I don’t know what to say. ‘No mom, my former best friend beat me up because he found out I’m gay.’ Somehow, I don’t think that is the ideal answer here.
“I-I got into a fight.” At least it’s not entirely a lie.

“What for? Honey, you’ve never been in any fights like this before. Why would you do something like that?”
“It’s not my fault!”
“So you were attacked?” My dad looks at me seriously. “If so then we should call the police.”
“No dad! You don’t need to call the police. It was just a fight.”

“It doesn’t look like it was just a fight to me.” He looks sternly down at me.

 

After that my mom order my dad to go find the first aid kit so she can at least try and fix me up a little, she is very unhappy that I didn’t waken her up when I got home so that she could have cleaned my cuts then but I just ignore her as she keeps rambling. My head is still aching like hell and I want nothing more then to get out of here and go back to sleep.
“-eita? Reita?” I am snapped back from my thoughts when she pokes my shoulder.
“Please take off your shirt so I can try to make it a little better…”
I do as I am told and feel another pang of guilt when I see how shocked and sad she looks when she sees my bruises.
“Oh honey…” She gives me a little hug before opening the kit and going to work.
When she is finally done my dad has left for work and it is just the two of us left in the house.
“Reita, please can you tell me what happened?”
I look at her taking in her sad expression and worried eyes. What I’m I supposed to say.
“Has it got anything to do with that Uruha boy?” My head snaps up when she mentions his name.
“Aha, I thought so…” She pulls out one of the chairs and sit down in front of me. “Reita, is he in some kind of trouble? Is he involved in something bad? I don’t want you to get pulled into something that has nothing to do with you. If this boy is making you do things and causing you trouble I don’t want you to hang out with him. Reita, I don’t want this kind of thing to happen again.”
I stare at her dumbly for awhile. Is she serious? Is she saying she doesn’t want me to hang out with Uruha anymore?

“Reita?”
“Whatever mom. Uruha’s my friend; I’m not going to stop seeing him. I care about him and I’m not going to abandon him just because of this.”
“So this does have something to do with him?”

I don’t I answer, I just want to take some more painkillers and go to bed.
“Fine. But just be careful okay, I don’t want anything like this to happen again, you hear me?”
“I’m going to bed now…”
She just nods as I get up and make my exit. I don’t know what she thinks happened, but to be honest I don’t really care at the moment. When I finally reach my bedroom I collapse on my bed, at last being allowed to go back to sleep, obviously I’m not going to school today.

 

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After about half an hour, I know I’m pathetic, I’m finally able to locate Reita’s house. I feel a little nervous as I approach the front door, maybe I should have called first.
I slowly lift my arm and knock on the wooden surface in front of me. After a little while the door opens to reveal Reita’s mom.

“Hi, um is Reita there?” I smile politely, I like his mom she’s nice.

“I don’t think Reita’s up to any visitors at moment.”
“Oh… um, well.” I’m a little taken aback by her tone, I thought she liked me.
“Was there anything else? If not then I need to get back to work.”
“Uh no, just tell him to get better soon.”
“Ok, I will. Good bye.”
“Bye.”
With that she closes the door leaving me standing confused on the doorstep. What the hell? After some time I turn and start walking towards the street again. Well, this was nice. I don’t get what’s wrong with his mom… Maybe she’s just stressed out or something. Deciding that I really do want to know how Reita’s doing I pull my cell from my pocket and call him.

“…m?”
“Uh, Rei?”
“…m’stis?”

“Reita, it’s me Uruha. Are you okay? Did I wake you or something?” I can hear some noise in the background and then a yawn. I chuckle a little as it becomes pretty obvious that yes, I did wake him.
“Oh Uruha, hi…”

“So…?”
“So what?”
“So are you okay? You weren’t in school today.”
“Uh, yeah I’m fine, just a little under the weather today.”
“Under the weather?”
“Yeah.”
“Fine, but now that you’re up do you think I could come over? I just talked to your mom and she said you weren’t up for visitors and I guess you literally weren’t but know that you’re awake can I stop by?”
“What, you were here, when?”
“Just now.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“And my mom wouldn’t let you in?”
“Yes.”
“Well, that’s stupid.”
“Yes it is. Now, can I come over?”
“… yeah, sure.”
“Do you think you could come down and open the door? I don’t really want your mom to think I’m some weirdo for coming back right after she said I couldn’t come in.”
“Right, sure I can.”
“Okay then, bye!” I hang up and turn as I start heading back towards the door. After a few minutes it opens to reveal a person completely covered in a blanket.

“Uh, Reita?”
“Yeah hi, come on let’s go upstairs.” He starts leading me up the stairs to his room and I follow closely behind slightly confused as to why he is covering even his head with that blanket. Oh well, maybe he’s just cold.

 

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I feel like the biggest idiot ever for covering myself in this blanket and it’s damn hot as well but I don’t want Uruha to see what I look like until we’re safe inside my room, I do not need him making some scene in the hallway right now.

 

When I finally close the door behind me and turn to face Uruha who’s smiling widely back at me. I wonder how long that smile is going to stay there.

“Wanna take off that blanket now?” He asks laughter obvious in his voice.
I pull the blanket off and observe Uruha’s face as the smile disappears and is instead replaced by a shocked expression.
“Reita, oh my good! What happened?” Before I know it he’s made his way over to me and is lightly touching my bruised cheek. His soft touch feels nice and his comfort works much better than my mothers.
“I… You know how Aoi can be. Ha ha.” I make an attempt at a laugh but fail miserably.

“What? Aoi beat you up?!”
“ No, well yes, but there were others too like Tora and Shou...”
“Why would they do such a thing? And Aoi, isn’t he supposed to be your friend?” Uruha looks confusedly into my eyes.
“Aoi used to be my friend and you know why they attacked me.”
Uruha’s hand falls from my cheek to his side and he looks down at the floor.
“It’s all my fault. They hate you because of me. I’m so sorry Reita…”
“No, Uruha come on. It’s not your fault and besides I don’t fucking care whether or not they hate me. “ I put a hand on his shoulder and he lifts his head meeting my eyes a little smile playing on his lips. I smile back at him before letting go of his shoulder and making my way to the bed to sit down. He follows suit and plop down next to me.

 

“Reita, are you sure you’re okay?”
“It hurts quite a bit but the painkillers help, besides I’ll be better soon.”
“Promise?”
“Yes.” I laugh and let one of my hands rest on his thigh. Uruha turn to face me a little smile on his lips before he leans in planting a soft kiss on my lips. As he pulls back I find myself craving more and I pull him back engaging us in a more passionate kiss. He quickly grants me access and I deepen our kiss the pain from my injuries completely forgotten. 

In the heat of the kiss my hand makes its way to his crotch and he moans into my mouth as I slowly start rubbing him through his pants. I’m surprised though when I suddenly feel Uruha’s hand rubbing me right back. The moments pass and I decide I want to take this further. I stop my actions and smile slightly when Uruha lets out a disappointed noise. However his disappointment soon disappears as I unbutton his pants and let my hand slide in under the fabric. He moans again and I can feel that he’s already hard as I start playing with his member. Soon I feel Uruha unbuttoning my own pants and when I feel his hand touching me without any fabric in the way I can’t help but moan loudly into our kiss, it feels so good.

I start stroking faster, and as I let my thumb flick over the head he lets out a pleasure filled groan that makes me even more aroused. He mirrors my movement and soon we’re both panting and nearing climax. He breaks our kiss as orgasm hits him and he closes his eyes a moan escaping his swollen lips. The sight is so arousing that it brings me right over the edge as well and with a low groan I come. My head falls to Uruha’s shoulder and I stay hunch over like that until my breathing returns to normal. One of Uruha’s hands comes to rest on my back and I put one of mine on his. We stay in this half embrace for a few minutes before I finally pull back and our eyes meet. I don’t know what to say but I know that I’m smiling, I can feel it, I just hope I don’t look like a complete idiot since I have a tendency to do that. But Uruha is smiling right back at me. Then he looks down at his pants.
“Um… Maybe we should get cleaned up?” He giggles a little and I feel myself kind of aw-ing on the inside.
“Yeah, maybe we should.” And with that said I grab his hand and we exit my bedroom.

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I’m still smiling what I believe to be a very goofy smile as we enter the bathroom. We clean up as fast as possible and decide to go downstairs to get some food. I at least am starving. That’s when I remember that his mom is at home and I start to sort of panic.

“Oh my god, Reita you don’t think you mom heard us do you?”

“Relax. She’s working, she hasn’t heard anything.” Reita looks confident in what he’s saying but I still don’t feel completely at ease.

 

After getting some food we decide to simply watch some TV. Reita takes some painkillers again and we plop down on the couch snuggling into a corner in the far end of it. Reita has his arm around me and I’m leaning my head on his shoulder. We stay in this position until we hear some noise from somewhere in the house making me pull away and settle on the opposite side.
“Aw come on Uruha, she’s not going to come in here.”
“Still.”
“Fiiiine…”

 

We spend the rest of the afternoon in front of the television. I decide to leave when the rest of the family starts arriving home.

Reita walks me outside and after closing the door he leans in planting a little kiss on my lips. I smile at him and wave as we part ways.

 

Once I get to the bus stop though I’m not happy anymore, on the contrary I’m actually really pissed. I’m pissed at Aoi to be exact. If it wasn’t for the fact that I know I could never get away with it I would have gone straight to Aoi’s place and beaten the crap out of him. I sigh and sit down waiting for the bus. I don’t understand how Aoi could do something like that. I hope someday he’ll feel guilty, that someday he’ll understand what a huge mistake he did when he beat up his own friend.

 

When I’m laying in bed later that night my thought travel back to Reita and what happened between us earlier. I certainly hope that wasn’t the last time we would be doing something like that*. I feel my cheeks grow hot as my thoughts starts to wander and I close my eyes wishing for sleep to claim me. 

TBC  

A/N: I know it's been quite some time since I last updated, but school has completely taken over my life. I spend freaking two hours every day on the subway, a cramped subway. It's not fun T__T
Ok, so the next chapter will be the beginning of the end. Kinda xD 
I hope you guys liked this chapter! 8D A little half smutness... There probably won't be real smut in this story, it just doesn't fit you know..