Yoshi’s Stalker.

For the third day running, Yoshi was awakened by the sickly sent of strawberries flooding his bedroom. He blinked, yawned “...not again!” And untangled the bed covers, which seemed to have tried to attack him in the night. Whilst doing so he noticed that yet again there were strands of long blond hair on his pillow. “Yuck...” Yoshi picked up the hair and eyed it suspiciously. It looked like She had been here again. Yoshi shuddered and dropped the hairs into a bin. The whole concept of someone sneaking into his room, his bed even, at night and leaving before he woke up, was wholly unnerving.

Up until two weeks previously, Yoshi had been an average, half-Japanese Sixteen teen-year-old boy. Then something happened that made his life not so average. He acquired a Stalker. It started innocently enough when he received an anonymous Valentines card (the fact it was received in October was a little strange, but the sentiment was appreciated never the less). The following day a bunch of twelve red roses arrived on his doorstep, and the day after that...well that's when things got worrying.

When walking along the street, Yoshi developed a distinct feeling of being watched, but when he turned around no one was there. Then Photographs of him started to arrive in the mail, and then the stalker started to break into his house. Whilst a ‘normal’ stalker would have probably tried on his clothes and removed locks of hair from his comb, Yoshi’s Stalker had to take things one gloriously odd step further. Yoshi’s Stalker didn’t just break in. Yoshi’s stalker tidied the house, slept in his bedroom, used the shower (The drain got clogged up with blond hairs), made him breakfast, then left. All completely unnoticed.

“Its not fair...” he’d moaned to his older sister Kira “Why can’t I have a normal stalker...heck why can’t I have a normal Girlfriend!”

His sister had shrugged “because you’re a Freak that’s why. Anyway, what makes you so sure it’s a Girl? It could be creepy obsessive Dude”

“Very Funny, Kira” he replied Sarcastically “But its obviously a girl. No Guy is that sad. Besides what guy has stupidly long hair and smells like strawberries?”

“Your stalker!”

“Shut up!”

Yoshi made his way downstairs and found that his obviously female Stalker had made him a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice, the bin was filled to overflowing with discarded half oranges. The Stalker had also taken a picture of Yoshi while he slept, and blue tacked it to the fridge.

There was also a note from one of his parents - Working late. Please get more milk.

Yoshi made a note to do so, and put a slice of bread in the toaster.

“Yoshi!” Yoshi flinched in shock, Kira sounded mad. He braced himself “Yoshi! Get the hell out of the shower!”

“I’m not in the shower, idiot!” He yelled, then started to raid the fridge for marmalade.

A few minutes later Kira materialised in the kitchen, dressed in fluffy pink bathrobe and bunny slippers. She looked worried.

“Yoshi, mum and Dad are at work already, right?”

“Yeah, why?” Yoshi looked up from the fridge.

“Well...” Kira shuffled uncomfortably “if you’re not in the shower, who is?”

Three minutes later, Yoshi was standing outside the bathroom door with a cricket bat. Kira had hold of her mobile phone. “I’ve dialled two nines already” she reassured “if she turns violent I’ll dial another and call the police”

Yoshi nodded.

“We’ll get her this time. I like getting attention from girls, but this really isn’t a healthy way to do it”

He banged on the door.

“We’re on to you, Stalker girl! Step away from the shower, and you won’t get hurt!”

Someone in the bathroom said something that sounded like “Eap” and switched the shower off.

“That's right. Stay where you are, I’m coming in...” Yoshi started to push the door open.

“Hey!” Kira put a hand out to stop him “She’s probably naked. At least give her chance to get a towel on”

“Okay, stalker! Put a towel on, and then come out with your hands up!”

Several minutes passed.

“That's it, you’ve got ten seconds or else. One, two, three...”

There was a sound of someone frantically scrabbling around the bathroom and then a click, as the window latch was slid open.

“Four-Five-Six-Seven-Eight-Nine-Ten!” Kira finished in quick succession, and pushed the door open.

Rattle, Rattle, clunk, OWW!

The Bathroom was still full of steam from the shower. They could just about make out the blurry shape of someone with long blond hair and towel tied around there middle balancing on top of the sink, and trying to force the window to open wider than was physically possible.

Suddenly the stalker lost her balance, slipped off the sink and landed on her back with a clunk.

“Don’t look!” Kira slapped a hand over Yoshi’s eyes “She’s not wearing a shirt...she’s...oh”

“Oh what?”

Kira giggled nervously and pulled and removed her hand “Guess I was right...hehe”

“What do you...ARGH!”

Lying on the bathroom floor was pretty blond haired, and obviously Male stalker.

The boy grinned nervously, looked up at Yoshi and said “I can explain...”

“Let’s start with your name, and what the hell you think you’re doing!”

Yoshi was passing angrily up and down the kitchen. The disturbingly Male Stalker was sitting on a chair, still dressed in just a towel. And Kira was staring at him in a threatening manner, and shining a torch into his eyes.

“Get that thing out of my eyes and I’ll explain” suggested the Stalker.

“No way buster, we’re going to have a proper interrogation. Right here, right now!”

Yoshi sighed “please let him get on with this. I don’t want that freak here any longer than necessary. As soon as he’s done I’m calling the police”

The stalker sighed. “Alas, unrequited love...”

“Argh!” Yoshi slammed his hands down onto the table “ Great. I don’t just have a stalker; I have a gay stalker!”

“You’ve got it all wrong” Protested the stalker “I’m not usually gay... I just like you”

“Right...” Kira rolled her eyes “you’re not gay, you just like my brother. What’s the next excuse ‘I’m not gay, I was just in a curious mood’?”

“Maybe I should explain” said the Stalker “My names Justin and I’ve been in love with you for seven years...”

“Is this a Joke? Because it isn’t a very funny one” Said Yoshi angrily. He glanced around the room suspiciously “Is a camera crew from that practical joke show going to jump out and yell ‘surprise!’ at me”

“...I was in the year below you at school, and you...”

“I don’t want to know the details; I just want to know what you think you’re playing at”

“Hmm?”

“Stalking me”

“What of it?”

“Y-Y-You don’t see anything wrong with stalking people?” Asked Kira.

“No, should I? My parents met by stalking each other, and they turned out all right”

This time it was Kira’s turn to shudder.

“But at least admit it’s hardly a normal way of meeting people”

“It’s not?” Justin looked hurt “would Yoshi-kun have preferred it I'd yelled it in public like I was going to?”

Yoshi’s hands curled into tight fists. Fan boy Japanese! If not the last straw, then it was definitely the straw before it.

“Anyway, back to my explanation. I’ve liked you ever since primary school, but before I could get the courage to tell you...” Yoshi thanked his lucky stars that Justin hadn’t “...My parents sent me to Boarding School. They said I was being distracted to easily, and if I stayed my marks would go down. Anyway fast forward, I’m finally back here, and see no problem in picking up where I left off. I have a lot of free time since I got expelled”

“Expelled!” Exclaimed Kira

“It wasn’t even my fault” Justin sulked “I swore that the pot was only resting in my Locker, I wasn’t going to sell it or anything...”

“Oh great, First you’re gay, now you’re on drugs!” Cut in Yoshi.

“Drugs? Don’t overreact, it was an antique Chinese vase from the Headmistresses Office. It was a joke, and we were going to put it back...But no one believed me!”

“How tragic for you”

“Don’t get sarcastic with me, Yoshi-kun! Especially after I made you breakfast”

Yoshi suddenly felt slightly guilty. He shouldn’t really act to harshly, considering Justin had made him food and tidied up the last few days. But on the other hand, he had clogged the shower and slept...

“You slept in my bed!” He pointed an irate finger at the other teenager. “While I was in it!” He was shaking with fury. This was definitely the ‘last straw’ time. “Without me knowing!”

“Well I wasn’t exactly going to sleep on your bedroom floor; I could barely see it under all that junk. And I didn’t want to go home, since my parents are probably still pissed about the expulsion thing”

“And you think they’ll be okay with you free-loading here?”

Justin shrugged nonchalantly.

There was a short silence.

“Argh! School!” Kira suddenly exclaimed “It’s quarter to eight, I have to go to college in twenty minutes, and I haven’t even been in the shower! And you’ve got school...”

“I haven’t either...”

The siblings stared at each other. At exactly the same time they turned to Justin and said “I’ll deal with you later” looked back at each other and yelled “I called it first” before racing each other to the bathroom.

Justin smiled “That went better than expected” he said to no one in particular, before quickly picking up and eating Yoshi’s long forgotten and cold toast.

“Are you okay, Yoshi?”

“Hmmm?” Yoshi looked up at the speaker; a tall brown haired girl called Melody. It was almost the end of registration. The rest of the students in his class where chatting, or getting ready to go to there first class.

“I said, are you okay?” Repeated Melody. “You’re looking a little phased out, something bothering you?”

What am I supposed to say? He thought. Nothing much really, I’ve just discovered I have a long lost male stalker with the hots for me practically living in my house. It was all a bit of a shock, to tell the truth, but I’m starting to get over it...Nah, that sounds stupid, and she wouldn’t believe me anyway.

“I’m just a little tired, that's all” he lied.

“Are you sure, if you have any problems, anything at all, you can always tell me, you know.”

“Thanks. But I don’t have any problems. Nothing at all. I’m problem free, hehe” he trailed off into an unconvincing laugh.

Suddenly the door to the classroom flew open, and the deputy head teacher strode in.“Class, this may be a little unorthodox, but it seems we have a new student...”

Yoshi gulped. The Phrase “I was expelled” floated across his mind, and he knew exactly what was coming. He closed his eyes, groaned, and rested his head on the desk in preparation.

“This is Justin, and he’ll be spending the rest of the year with you”

Yoshi slowly banged his head against his desk, and wished the ground would open up and swallow him, or better yet, Justin.

TBC ?

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1) I’m a little nervous about this story. I haven’t tried to write anything with romance in it, let alone one sided unrequited shounen-ai. Please don’t be to harsh, or take this seriously. I just want it to be a silly little piece of fluff that includes my fav story set up. One ’normal’ chara, and one not so ’normal’. Please don’t take offence if you have a real stalker, or are in the process of stalking someone at this present time.

2)Please R/R. How can I get better if no one gives me Feedback?