Ready, Willing, and Unable: Locker #700

22-12-18

“Ken, did you wanna put something in my locker? I don’t know if we have enough time between classes to get to yours, I mean come on its like all the way on the other side of the school.” Shino paused and pulled back his locker door open, “What are you doing over here anyway? You came over here to just visit me?” the boy grinned at his best friend reaching over and poking him in the stomach before turning back to his locker to pull out his science book but to his surprise he found a brown fluffy, black eyed teddy bear with a red bow around its neck. “Where did this come from?” he asked himself pulling it out, “Ooh it’s so soft! Touch it Ken! . . . hey there’s something else in here too.” he smiled excitedly handing it to his friend after noticing the note that was hidden underneath the bear.

Kentaro pulled the cuddly bear to his chest, covering the black letterings, ‘High Spirits’, on his off-white t-shirt. A strap of black starting from the trim up to the bottom of the words graced a pair of white wings that still showed to the public. “Maybe you have a secret admirer” he observed, speaking in his normal mono-toned voice. He ran his fingers over the bears back touching its soft fur. His other hand coming up to brush the strand of raven hair from his eye to the side of his face, his hair coming down to his shoulders and layering on its way up, bangs rebelliously hanging on the side of his face, light and short enough to fall into his eyes periodically. Ken watched his friend carefully as he opened the folded letter a soft smiling trailing over his lips.

“Maybe it’s from Cindy . . . I feel like she has a crush on me. Ya know, I can always tell those kinda things” Shino commented as his eyes ran over the letters, “. . . okay maybe not Cindy.” He whispered, his face flushing and burning red.

“What does it say?” Ken asked reaching up and putting the bear on top of his five foot, eight inch friend.

“Huh . . . oh um . . . here read it.” Shino balanced the bear on his head, his brunette hair being pressed down from the weight of the stuffy. His hair ending at his chin, flipping up into small feathered out wings. The brunette hands the paper to the five foot, seven and a half inched Ken.

The boy took the letter and started to read only reading the first couple lines he hands it back like he read the whole thing, “Hm, who you think it is?” he asked handing back the letter.

Shino takes it back and folds it back up, slipping it into his pocket as he shrugged. Bringing the teddy bear down and hugging it to his chest, “We better get to class, I’ll see you at lunch!” he called running off down the hall.

Kentaro gave a small smile as he watched his friend running off, he couldn’t help it when his eyes wondered down to his ass. He stood there for a few seconds gazing towards his friend’s classroom. He wasn’t planning on going to class today so why hurry? He let out a soft sigh and started to the end of the hall finding himself wishing he really didn’t have this stupid idea. “. . . Eh, I can’t believe I’m going through with this!” he whined bringing up his hands and covering his embarrassed face.

Arms wrap around the boy’s neck from behind, a tongue slides over his right ear. “What cha’ going through Kentaro” the boy sang into his ear, pulling away and spinning so he stood in front of the male, his arms still wrapped around him. “What are you doing outta class?” the short, 5’3’’ male continued. “Ken Ken, I’ve missed you lots! Why haven’t you come to see me? I saw you walking out in the hall so . . . I gotta pass to go to the bathroom and now here I am! Do you wanna . . . go and have some fun? We haven’t played in forever!” he pulled himself closer, standing onto his tippy toes, caressing Kentaro’s lips with his own. “What do you say?” he finally finished speaking.

Ken shivered to the feel of the tongue coming across him; he wasn’t expecting that, “. . . Hey” he greeted, “I told you already, Airi . . . I can’t do this anymore. I don’t want Shino to find out.” He looked away from the boy, “I don’t like you anymore okay? So just leave me alone.”

“Awe come on, you don’t really mean that! Now come here Honey . . . let’s play” A giggle flowing out of his lips as he smiled, his hands coming down from around his neck to his waist, hands sliding up his back bringing up the shirt, fingers traveling up his spine. His right hand coming up to Ken’s chin turning his head towards him and at the same time moving them towards the lockers, pushing his lower back so his body pressed up against him, “Ken . . . “ he grinded his hips against the boy’s groin.

Ken couldn’t deny how hot this was making him feel, he had to push Shino to the back of his mind. His lower head wanted to take control. Fuck it. “. . . just don’t tell anyone” he brought his hands onto the boy’s waist, pressing his body harder onto him. At least he could get his frustration out onto Airi, instead of one day jumping Shino.

Airi smirked, “Don’t worry . . . my girlfriend won’t find out either. Now come here . . .” He locked lips with the boy, pressing fervidly against him. He craved him, the only reason he didn’t break up with his girlfriend to be with this guy is because he knew he would only be rejected.

Once their bodies were hot enough Ken knew he needed to take Airi to a place a bit more private. The rush of being caught was making it even more exciting but too much of a risk to take. He pulled away from the kiss and took the male’s hand, dragging him away, “You got a pass to the bathroom right? . . . Let’s go to the bathroom then.” Ken wearing tight black jeans didn’t help the fact that his pants where growing even tighter. Airi luckily wore baggy bleach stained and ripped jeans didn’t have a problem with the growing extension. Pushing Airi into the bathroom he locked the door behind him forgetting to check if someone was already in here. He pressed him up against one of the stall’s doors and grinded against his body. Teenage hormones going wild inside their bodies, lips smacking against each other, and hands exploring flesh. How long has this been going on? Airi’s freshman year and Ken’s Junior, now a year has passed and they both have new relationships in their lives, but they couldn’t help it when they came around each other. Maybe a more animalistic craving for the other, something that couldn’t be stopped by mere words. Ken ripped off Airi’s jeans throwing it onto the germ infected restroom floor. Two fingers sliding into Airi’s mouth, the boy gliding his tongue over the fingers as if he was sucking it off. Both the boys becoming even more turned on, lust sparkling in their eyes, a fire burning in their chests. “You’re so fucking sexy” Ken groaned taking the fingers from his mouth, his other hand grabbing Airi’s ass and pulling his cheeks apart. The wet fingers coming down and playing around his entrance, fully lubricated his pointer penetrates his anus and since he clearly isn’t a virgin anymore it was a lot easier to slip in the index fingers after a few seconds. Airi letting out a low groan from the bottom of his throat, Ken wiggled his fingers about in his inner walls, stretching him for what was to come. “Ken . . . ah” he groaned out the male’s name thrusting his hips forward to rub his wanton erection against the other’s confined bulge, making Ken moan out in pleasure. The younger male’s arms came up to around his neck and through his hair, twirling his fingers into the black strands. “Fu . . . ah . . . fuck me.”

Ken plunged his fingers in further, knowing exactly where to hit his prostate, tip of his fingers pressing down on his hot-spot. His other hand coming back around from his ass to his front, fingers slithering around his extension, touching the tip teasingly before holding down on the whole so he couldn’t climax just yet. Airi’s head was spinning out of control, he loved to be dominated and Ken knew how to do it just right. The pleasure ran up his spine and through to his toes and fingers. Clenching every part of his body, Ken felt his fingers be sucked in by Airi’s second mouth and gave a smirk. “Do you want it?” he asked putting his lips to the male’s neck, sucking and kissing at his flesh. His fingers slowly pulled out and the younger male felt empty, his head nodding for an answer as words failed him.

“Mn . . .” Airi bit down on his bottom lip to settle down his pounding heart, focusing on it instead of the insane sensations flowing through him. Once the fingers where gone he turned himself around, Ken’s hands around his waist, Airi bent over and put his hands on the stall door to keep himself balanced, nothing really to grab onto made it even harder. He kept his body steady even though he shook from the anticipation of the long hard body part he craved to be inside of him, filling him up.

Ken unzipped his pants, and the younger of the two knew what was coming next. He readied himself and closed his eyes to remember the perfect feelings. The elder pulled out his dripping penis and slide it between the boy’s crack just to tease him some more but he teased himself at the same time making it even harder to stop himself from diving right in.

Airi gave out a long moan of pleasure and pushed himself back harder against him, “Ken . . . please . . . oh god” Ken had to comply, he plunged right in, his tip pushing past his stretched entrance quite nicely. No matter how many times they have done this it always gives off delicious enjoyment, even if he’s not as tight as he used to be it still felt great. He slid in deeper, rubbing his tip against his prostate and sending off sensations through his spine.

Ken kept his hand on Airi’s dick and started to slowly stroke him with his humps into his ass. His other hand slipped into his shirt, rolling fingers up his chest and up to his nipple, twisting between his fingers. His lips on the back of his neck nipping at his salty flesh. Airi’s bleach blonde hair sticking to his sweat dripping face, pink streaks falling into his eyes. Ken continued to thrust into the boy, he wished they had more room to move around without having to sit on the nasty floor but right now they didn’t have very many options.

Their bodies moved with the motion of their hearts until they both couldn’t take much more of it. Class was going to be out in half an hour and they had to finish quickly to clean up. Airi was gone from his class for a real long time and was going to get detention for it most likely unless he convinced the teacher otherwise. It wasn’t much longer before Ken came inside of the boy’s anus, filling him up with warm sticky juices. Simultaneously the younger came onto the floor and stall door of the bathroom, and Ken’s hand. The black haired boy pulled his hand back and his dick out, taking some paper towels and wiping himself down before putting little Kentaro away into his briefs and jeans. Airi fell over on the door; a sly smile over his lips as they both panted out, “. . . see . . . I told you . . . I knew you wanted . . . me”

Ken huffed shrugging his shoulders, “Hm, maybe but I was thinking of Shino the whole time” he smirked to the boy, just wanting to piss him off and at his expression he could tell that it worked. Airi grunted at the answer and pulled himself up, sluggishly walking over to the fountain to clean himself off, “. . . whatever just get the fuck out.” He growled, Ken loved to see him angry, made being around him a bit more stand able. The elder finished cleaning himself off and walked up to smack Airi’s ass, “Better clean yourself out . . . don’t want the runs now do ya?” he smirked walking towards the door, unlocking it and leaving.

Airi gave a sarcastic laugh to the other as he was viciously teased, he hated when Ken acted like this, why could he act like how he did around Shino to him? He just wanted the boy to love him. Just like how Airi loves him. All this pleasure was doing was putting more wood to the fire in his body, he needed him, all of him and he knew he wasn’t going to be able to get that. Why Shino anyway? All he is is a brat and . . . some rich punky kid. Maybe Ken was after the money? Nah, he’s not the type. “Fucking Ken. . .” he sighed running the other water over his face to hide the fact he was starting to cry.

Waiting at Shino’s door, Ken waited for him to get out of class, about five minutes or so right? Eh, not checking the time not really sure. He lifted his shirt to make sure he didn’t smell of sex and even walked past some kids who didn’t notice so it must but fine. He didn’t want Shino to suspect anything really. He started planning out the next day. Maybe tomorrow he could drop off a stuffed kitten. He knew how Shino liked cats. Yea that sounds good. With another letter where he confesses his love. Ken gave a small smile and without even realizing the time pass by, the school bells rang and Shino walked out of class with the teddy bear in hand.

People have been asking Shino where he had gotten the bear, or more, who gave him the bear! They thought maybe it was Ken since by how close the two boys are; they seemed to be going out to everyone else’s eyes. Shino really didn’t find it like that; he saw them as two best friends. Why would he see them as more anyway? Ken didn’t make any moves to him and Shino well thinking about it would he make any moves back? He didn’t even know if he himself was into boys, especially not sure about Ken either. He has never seen him with a boy or girlfriend so . . . what does that make him? Asexual? Maybe or just . . . he’s hiding his feelings for someone. Maybe he should ask him? In private of course. “Ken!!” he called with a smile both of them snapping back into reality at the sound of the bell.

Ken stands from the ground so he doesn’t get ran over from the incoming students and reaches over for Shino taking him by the wrist to pull him from the crowd, “Hey, how was class?” he asked staying calm whenever he is around Shino.

Shino shrugs, “Eh normal. Well except for the fact that everyone was asking where I got the bear! People where guessing and you know who they kept on saying?” he asked trying to get a reaction out of Ken first . . . nothing. “They said you” he poked the boy in the stomach after his wrist was let go of.

“Oh really? Why do they think that? Do they think where going out or something?” he asked with a smile on his lips, he liked the thought of that. It sounded nice rolling off his tongue. Ken and Shino going out. Going steady. Nice ring to it don’t you think so?

“Yea I guess so! I think it’s because we are always together and stuff . . . I’m not really sure myself because well I’ve never seen it like that ya know?” he waited again for another reaction, “But if you put the moves on me I might have to flirt back” he waited again for a reaction.

Ken gave a small laugh, “Oh will you now?” he stopped at Shino’s locker, “So if I . . . reached over and touched your cheek what would you do?” he asked doing as he said, bringing his hand up and caressing the boy’s cheek.

Once the hand lifted from Ken’s side, Shino’s face flushed red, “Um . . .” he closed his eyes embarrassedly. “Then I would have too . . . uh . . .” he wasn’t sure on how to answer. Once Ken’s hand was back down it was stuffed into his pockets.

Ken waited for him to open his eyes before replying, “I’m just kidding. So what do you wanna do for lunch?” he asked changing the subject since the male looked really flustered from what just happened, and he almost had him too.

Shino stuffed his book into his locker slamming it shut after; he held onto his teddy bear, “I named him Teru by the way. Don’t you think it fits him?” he laughed walking towards the exit, “Um . . . how about we go off campus today? We can go down to like burger king or something.” He nodded looking back at Ken, he had recovered from that little intimate moment that just happened and couldn’t believe his own reaction. What the hell did he just do? Well for now he was going to push that to the back of his mind.

Ken followed after and walked in step with his friend, “Okay sounds good.” He replied with a smile on his lips. The boys passed by a very annoyed looking Airi in the hallway. Ken giving him a taunting smile.

Shino noticed this of course and had to voice his confusion, “You know him? I heard he’s the sophomore slut or something. Sleeping with different guys and cheatin’ on his girlfriends all the time! Can you believe it? I mean really . . . by now he should be covered with different diseases.” He laughed, swinging Teru in his hand while the other went to his pocket stuffing into his tight capris.

Ken frowned as he listened, he didn’t know he was sleeping with someone else too. Made him kind of upset but tried to push it out of his mind so he could concentrate on Shino. “Hey let’s not talk about him, okay?” he commented.

“Oh yea, sorry. Do you not like him or something? Or maybe do you have a crush on him?” Shino asked wanting to see who Ken was really attracted too. He watched him again waiting for some kind of response.

The black haired boy just shrugged, “He’s not a bad guy. No I don’t have a crush or anything like that to him.” He stuck his tongue out at his friend, “There’s only one person I like” he grinned wondering why in hell did he say that? How is that going to help now Shino is only going to pester him about who it is.

Ken had guessed right, Shino now really needed to know who, “Who is it!? You can tell me! I’m your bestest buddy right? I won’t tell anyone now who is it?? Who’s the lucky . . . lady? Or guy?” He asked hoping to get at least an answer about his sexuality.

Ken sighed, “Well you’re not gonna find out so you should just stop there but I will say . . . guy.” He turned away with a burning tinge of pink coming over his cheeks. Damn it, it’s hard to refuse him. “But . . . let’s move on again. So did you find out who gave you the stuff?” he pointed to the teddy bear and ended up crossing his arms.

Shino shrugged, “No . . . Teru doesn’t know either.” He pouted out his bottom lip slightly. He really wanted to know to thank them and maybe find out more about them . . . the note said the person was always near. Could that be Ken? But why would Ken give such a romantic note. Unless he was Kelly rippering me! Hes just trying to mess with me since he knows I’ve been telling him I needed a girlfriend. Yea that’s all it is.

What came next was to be expected, the presents, the small notes of affection hidden into his locker and without even knowing it Shino started to swoon for the person writing such romantic things to him. He did feel a little creeped out that he still didn’t know who it was after a month and that they even knew his locker combination but he really didn’t care. He does try to keep his personal things out of his locker, he wouldn’t want his adorer to see the notes passed back and forth between him and Ken, he just couldn’t keep thinking about who this person was, he is convinced it’s a man from the writing though, that much he knows. Of course he still didn’t know it was his best friend of five years and that he was talking about him, to him. Even confessing slightly that he was growing fond feelings for his admirer, which was an understatement for what he was really starting to feel. Shino’s heart would race with every note, his face burn with every word. His lips grow into a wider smile each passing day as he held a stuffy or small gift in his arms, naming each something different. “Kumo, Teru, Yumi, Eki, and George.” He loved each and every one of them, especially Teru, his first stuffed animal. His lovely bear that he held as he fell asleep in his comfy bed, falling asleep to wait for the next day where he would get more from the secret person, so badly he wished to know who it was and today he decided, he’ll go on a hunt.

Every school morning he would go to his locker find a new item, fawn over it for a few minutes and then he would run into Ken. That’s how his days went so he thought; either the admirer came after school or before school, maybe if he came early in the morning he could catch the boy in the act and if that doesn’t work he could stay after school and hide somewhere. Okay, he can’t tell anyone! He doesn’t know who it could be and what if it is . . . is Ken? What would he do? Would Shino be able to do anything about it? Maybe just confront him about it. He might be just messing with him, but Shino would like to think that all the letters where really from the heart and not just some fake tease. That would just be horrible if it wasn’t really, he wouldn’t be able to be friends with Kentaro, but if it is the truth would he still be able to stay friends with him? As he walked to his locker in the morning he thought of all these things, completely missing the fact that he had passed his best friend and he was following him now, poking him every now and then.

“Shino? Hey Shin?” he called finally wrapping his arms around the boy from behind and shaking him by the shoulders. “Anybody home!” he yelled but still speaking in his low voice.

Shino felt his face flush red, his eyes widen and on reflex his hands push himself away from the other male, “Eh! He-hey” he turned his eyes down to the ground, “When did you get here?” slowly he gazes back up at the male, going up his body until hitting his face.

“Hm? I’ve been here. You’ve been ignoring more” he grinned at his friend, today he felt a bit more outgoing, it felt good to confess in those letters and to make Shino happy every day with the stuff animals. It just made him feel really good. He loved to make Shino happy. “You been to your locker yet?” He asked, Shino shaking his head. “I wonder what you’ll get today”

Shino turned his eyes away, why was he acting like this? It’s not like it really IS Ken after all. That would just be weird; it’s probably just some guy, hopefully someone hot. Again he fell into his thoughts, giving Ken a forced smile before walking passed him to his locker. He opened it with a sigh again finding some cute stuffed animal and small note, this one didn’t have very many words just ‘I love you’ written on it. It made him smile, his body warm from the inside. He loved the simple note even more then the longer ones.

Ken watched his friend’s expressions change drastically in a matter of seconds, it was so cute. “What’s it say?” he asked the boy reaching over and taking the note from his hand, “Hm . . . he says he loves you, well that’s something new” he commented sarcastically giving him back the piece of paper. “Well, he still hasn’t said who he is” he shrugged and slipped his hands into his tight straight leg black jean pants.

Shino continued with his day as normal, hanging out with Ken and such, but he has felt a lot more awkward around the boy, it was just really weird, he really felt like Ken was the guy giving him all the notes and he wasn’t sure if that was a good thing or not. The day past and school was out, Shino hide behind a trash can perfectly placed in an angle where he wouldn’t be able to be seen but he could see his locker. Some lone students walked through the hall and passed the garbage, able to see Shino from that angle they gave him a weird, ‘what the hell’ look. Half an hour had passed and the boy’s legs where really starting to hurt, maybe he wasn’t going to show or maybe—

Airi shimmied through the door of the hall way towards the locker, he leaned his back against the row of lockers, standing next to Shino’s. His eyes on the ground as he waited for somebody, hands stuffed into his baggy jeans. They fell off his hips in an inappropriate fashion. Ken walked down the halls next, only a few minutes behind. By this time Shino was completely confused, he had no idea what was going on but decided to wait it out, maybe to get some more answers.

Ken arrived a few minutes later his eyes being caught onto the seductive blonde boy, “Hm . . . what the hell are you doing here? You wanna ruin my day don’t cha?” he snarled and just the same, stuffed his hands into his pockets. “Why come now? I haven’t seen you for days and now you just pop here out of the blue. Like hell I’ll say this is a coincidence.” He just kept on talking, out of fear of what Airi’s reply out of his smiling face was going to be.

Airi slide his fingers from his pocket and ran them through his pink streaks, letting them fall in front of his face giving him a more sexy expression instead of a goofy smile, “Hey Ken ken silly seeing you here don’t cha think?” he teased, using his words like Ken had just done. “I mean it’s not like I was waiting to see you or anything because I missed you like hell. Can’t I miss the one I love?” he pouted as if he was truly offended and sauntered towards the older male, “Hm, don’t you feel the same Ken Ken?” he asked truthfully not wanting an answer.

Ken stepped closer and in one swift motion shoved the other into the locker, “Fuck you mean? Heh, no we’re not doing that any more. Told ya, I don’t see anyone else other then Shino. Your invisible to me, nothing really. So why don’t you just get outta here.” Airi froze wincing at the pain on his back but felt used to it none the less; “. . .” he didn’t speak as he was being torn to pieces from the inside. The elder brought a hand up from his side and ran it through the bleach blonde’s hair, “I’m not going to stand for you anymore okay? This never happened, we never happened.” He pulled back from the boy roughly. At the same time he pushed him aside, the light weight making him feel like nothing. Ken turned the dial on Shino’s locker and opened it up. He set a stuffed walrus and a small note down into it, slamming it shut. Airi felt warm tears falling down his cheeks, salty water dripping off the tip of his chin onto his baggy clothes.

Ken turned off in the other direction while Airi looked the other way, his eyes searching around the hall, trying to find some reason to stop himself from sobbing on the floor. “Fuck you, you asshole . . .” he wiped the tears away with the sweat band on his wrist and headed in the other direction of Ken, just really wanting to get away from him. But fucking god, he needed him; he wanted to be with him so badly he would do anything . . . anything . . . and what do we have here? His eyes turn to the body sitting down on the ground behind the trash can, wide eyed and frozen.

Shino seemed to be in utter shock, he’s just about seen it all now. Ken AND Airi, when did this happen? How long have they been together? How long has this been going on behind his back! And when the hell did Ken start to like Shino! The boy stood from his spot as he was seen by Airi, the jig was up. “What the frick is going on!”

Airi let a sly smirk come over his lips, “Nothing much ShinShin, I’ve just been fucking your boyfriend is all. It felt so good, you can’t believe how much he loves my ass” he grinned and wiped his eyes one more time just to keep up his image. “Mn . . . just wait, I’ll get him tomorrow. Tomorrow he’ll be mine! We’ll fuck all day long and it will be the rough stuff not some pussy ass shit that you’d want right. He isn’t even into that. You’ll just bore him after the first time; he just doesn’t know it yet. I know him better then you any day of course. Inside and god damn out. Now just leave him the fuck alone and let us be in peace! He’ll be mine.”

Shino froze, leaning against the wall with a stoic expression. He didn’t know how to react, this was just crazy! He stared at the male, waiting for himself to react. “. . . ano . . . you probably do know him better . . . you seem to have seen what Ken is really like. What he really likes to do, how he really acts. It’s just so weird . . . he said he didn’t even like you. Hes had been lying to me the whole time. These notes and everything could just be a lie. How do I know which is the real Ken if he, my best friend couldn’t even tell me how he really felt! I’ve known him for years now and . . . I still don’t know him.” He found himself ignoring most of what Airi was saying but all that Ken has done went to heart, he had fallen for him but he wasn’t even sure which him he had fallen for. This new Ken that he had never seen before, and the Ken he has ALWAYS known, the sweet guy who would tease and joke around. Give me a laugh when ever I said something stupid, smile at me when we are together. Then this Ken, one who shoved Airi into the wall and told him he didn’t even exist. Maybe he has some kind of split personality? Right, like I would fall for that. I just wish I could have seen all of him a lot sooner. And why the notes? Is it because he was too scared to tell me? Or just he . . . he, I don’t know. “This is just too weird!” he screamed out shaking his head out of frustration. “Just leave me the frick alone!” he finished his rant and ran down the hall, his feet stomping against the ground as his brain was over took with confusion.

The next day had come, the morning after the ordeal and Shino had time to think things over. He was going to wait to confront Ken until he came to him. He wasn’t going to find him and that’s how the day normally went, in the morning before he got to his locker he would see Ken. He began to notice that Ken has always been there, had always looked for him and tried to stay as close to him as possible and every touch and word was completely clear now. He’s always liked me. Shino kept inside his head until Ken touched his arm gently. “Shino, your home this time aren’t you?” he referred to yesterday when he couldn’t even catch his attention.

Shino snapped out of his quickly and his heart began to race, “Ken can we talk?” he asked walking past his locker, Ken furrowing his eyebrows from the question, “Of course” he replied, hands unconsciously slipping into his pockets to keep warm, no matter what temperature it is. “What’s on your mind?” Ken asked walking with Shino until they reached a secluded area.

Shino let out a soft sigh, his hands moving forward and pulling at Ken’s wrists until his hands where free from the jean pockets. He held onto the long fingers with his own, eyes concentrated on the right side, then Ken’s chest, gaze moving up until he reached the male’s face. “I know it’s you who has been the ‘secret admirer’ . . . so just give it up. Tell me the truth for once.”

Ken was taken aback by this sudden attack, okay it wasn’t very sudden and it wasn’t much of an attack but a more favor, just please tell me the truth. “I’ve always told you the truth” that’s not true, why the hell do I keep lying! “Truth is . . .” just let it out, say it stupid ass, “I love you Shino” always have and always will. “Yea it has been me writing the notes and giving you the stuffed animals . . . I thought you would like them. It’s my stupid ass way of telling you how I feel instead of having to go through . . . well this.” He wrapped his own fingers around the hand in his, keeping a steady grip on Shino not wanting him to slip away. “You could say this is my idiotic way of saying, ‘Will you love me back?’.” He paused hoping he got the direct hint. His eyes staring up into the eyes of the male he had been so longing to touch. Their eyes kept locked onto one another until they had to blink, each feeling like they shouldn’t just in case one disappeared. Airi’s image burned into Shino’s mind, his high voice ringing through his ears ‘Huh? What cha’ gonna do Shin Shin? Do you really think he could actually love you?’ Shino had to make up his mind, “Ken, I . . .”