Chapter Two

Aoi opened his eyes and looked up at the ceiling. What had just happened? Ah, he remembered, but he knew it all must have been a dream. A scary, but at the same time pleasurable, dream. There was a girl in the room—the perfect girl. The dream had stopped so suddenly and it seemed like it had happened ages ago.

Aoi sat up and looked around the room to see his chunky new roommate, Kaoru, eating his dinner at the foot of his, Kaoru’s, bed. Aoi wondered why Kaoru was eating in the room instead of in the dining hall but he ignored it. His new roommate was rather large and, now he decided to top it off, weird.

“Oh, you’re awake,” Kaoru said, looking at Aoi nervously. Aoi relized his voice seemed a lot higher pitched. He pushed a plate with some food on it toward Aoi. “It’s about time, really. I knew it might be a shock, but for you to faint and be out for four hours—well that, I didn’t expect. And, um, could you please keep my secret?”

“Whatever,” Aoi nodded, not really paying attention to anything Kaoru had just said. He was more worried about his stomach, which he noticed was growling at him ferociously.

Kaoru laughed. “You see, I had to fix the pillow, it was a bit uncomfortable under my…ah…well, it was uncomfortable. You understand right?”

“Whatever,” Aoi answered again, his mouth full with food.

“Hey, Tsuki Niho lives here too, right?” Kaoru asked.

Aoi dropped the chopsticks he had been holding with great strength and looked up at Kaoru, a look of surprise on his face, and then suddenly laughed before swallowing his food.

“What’s funny?”

“It’s nothing, just that we’ve had a bunch of guys ask about Tsuki who live here. Give it up Kaoru, if he wouldn’t look at some of the ones that came around here, I have the biggest doubt that he’d look at you,” Aoi continued to eat. “You know, I never knew there were so many gay guys around here…”

Kaoru looked at Aoi with great astonishment. And then he shrugged. “We’ve got school tomorrow,” he said, “So I think I’m going to go to bed soon.” He picked his pajamas out of his suitcase and walked out of the room, leaving the door open. Aoi’s eyes had followed him out of the room into the bathroom across the hall. He didn’t have to go change in the bathroom, they were both guys. Aoi picked up his dishes and Kaoru’s (he figured he owed him a favor for getting dinner, they weren’t allowed to get anything out of the kitchen after nine o’clock) and went to drop them off in the kitchen. Walking back to his dorm, he was stopped in the hallway by Akiran.

“Have a nice sleep, did you? Or was the fatty getting all that food for himself?” Akiran asked.

“No, I got a plate,” Aoi said shortly, picking up speed. He never really felt comfortable around Akiran, and had shown that clearly to Kaoru earlier. The year before Akiran was the one who had ruined his first year in the high school, creating Aoi’s fear of him.

“The one with the least amount of food on it, I expect. What does Kaoru think you are, a vegetarian? All he put on it was salad and some bread. Too bad you didn’t get any meat,” Akiran began walking with Aoi, to Aoi’s dissatisfaction.

“But I did get meat. He packed quite a bit onto my plate, actually…” Aoi trailed off. Salad and a piece of bread? That was all Kaoru had eaten and yet he was so fat? Maybe it was a new diet. Clearly Akiran though that too, for he said it aloud.

“Maybe it’s a new diet,” he said. “That kid needs one, the fatty.”

“Yeah…” Aoi said, in somewhat of a quiet voice.

“Well, see you,” said Akiran, waving bye and walking toward his dorm which was at the other side of the building and up a few levels. Aoi watched Akiran until he was out of sight, walking up the stairs and saw another person come down from the stairs Akiran had just walked up.

“Hello Aoi,” he said in a monotone voice.

“Hi Tsuki,” Aoi smiled. “Hey, you know Kaoru, right? I expect you met him at dinner. Well, you know, I think he’s one of your kinds—he was asking about you.”

Tsuki sighed. “I’m a human too, just to let you know. My sexuality has nothing to do with what the fact that I’m a human, even if you think it’s a crime for guy’s not to like girls. And I kinda had a hunch that he was into me when I aw him at dinner. He blushed and then tried to hide it by holding the plates up infront of his face—which didn’t really work too well because he couldn’t see the wall right in front of him. He bumped into it—stomach first—and fell onto the ground.”

“Hm, well Akiran must not have seen it because he didn’t tell me.”

“No, Akiran did,” Tsuki said, once again in a monotone voice, “but he tripped over Kaoru and fell face first into the food the Kaoru had spilt onto the ground. When Akiran tried to get up he slipped and hit his head on the table and fell again—I think he was seriously hurt. When Kaoru had cleaned up the mess he walked out of the room with two newly filled plates, I think it was then that Akiran felt better because he looked up—he was still on the ground—and just managed to call Kaoru a fat ass.”

“Okay, well, I’m gonna go. I never knew Kaoru suffered that much to get me dinner, I should thank him,” Aoi said, turning away.

“Could you ask him if he’s related to Kaori Natsuki for me? He reminds me of her…”

“Yeah, see you Tsuki.”

“OH MY GOD!!!” Kaoru hollered in a girly voice. “OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!”

“What?” Aoi hollered over him. After telling Kaoru that Tsuki asked if he was related to Kaori Natsuki, Kaoru broke into a fit of ‘OH MY GOD’s.

“He remembers me! He noticed me!” Kaoru squealed, pulling up his shirt, not to reveal a flabby, fat stomach, but a pillow. Kaoru pulled it out and buried his head into it, his hair falling to the ground. A muffled shriek could be heard and when the pillow was removed, Kaoru no longer stood there but a very ample-busted girl with long orange hair that the wig she had been wearing just managed to cover.

“Kaori Natsuki,” the no-longer-Kaoru spoke, extending a hand out to Aoi. But Aoi didn’t shake, he just stared at her and shrieked.

“OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MYGOD!”

“What?”

“The perfect girl!” he hollered, his face scarlet with embarrassment. This was the girl that he had ‘dreamed’ about. She was real. The perfect girl. And Aoi was in love.

Chapter Two //End