#amicusxfidelis

       "And he looked down once again at his watch. Forty five minutes had passed, yet the bus driver did not make a single stop. Strangely enough, none of the other passengers seemed to be in a hurry either. They are sat facing forward, eyes blank in eerie unison..." Haruka shifted slightly to turn to the next page. The only light that was turned on in the room flickered as he bumped into it. 

       Makoto had been rather quiet this entire time. Shouldn't he be screaming out in terror already, though they haven't gotten to the climax of this horror story. 

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{ ❥ } – Makoto Tachibana was attractive.

     It was an observation Akura had come to in his first year in his high school, when he’d spotted his brother and the younger boy coming home. The Nanase twin had known Makoto for years – after all, how hard was it to know your brother’s best friend – but there was something about the way that the setting sun hit Makoto’s eyes, or maybe it was the long shadows that cast the boy’s face in a different light. But that day, Akura took one look at Makoto Tachibana and decided Makoto must be a little fragment of heaven.

     It wasn’t as though attraction to males was anything of a novelty to Akura. Past experiences and sufficient time dedicated to “exploring” himself had already taught him that much. But to feel that way towards Haruka’s best friend – it felt strange, unfamiliar. Almost like uncharted territory. Forbidden to him in every way, and he wasn’t sure even sure what to make of the situation.

     But then – it wasn’t quite so bad, was it? So he appreciated the way that Makoto looked.  But in any case, maybe it was best for Akura to just forget the situation. After all, wasn’t forgetting what he did best?

  {  But it wasn’t as though any amount of     pushing and pulling would ever       truly erase the one little thought        from his mind,

                                            and in the darkness of 3 am it tossed                                           and festered and grew in his head                                               before exhaustion                                                   won out and pulled him under.  }

     Attraction to Makoto, he decided, was just that – an appreciation of his physical aesthetic, nothing more and nothing less – and that was all he’d allow himself to feel. He’d had small periods of ‘attraction’ like this before, after all. And just like every other one, it would soon just fade away until it was nothing but a quiet memory in the back of his mind.

      Or so he had hoped.

     It was easy to ignore anything he might feel towards Makoto when he knew little more about the brunet than that he had a pretty face and he made Haruka smile. Akura was content to admire from afar and leave things be. That – that he could deal with.

     It was harder to ignore the more he got to know him, though – the pretty smile on his lips and the way his laughter was contagious. Makoto Tachibana was an angel, and suddenly Akura’s heart fluttered for an entirely different reason.

    A – ah… This… This he wasn’t quite so sure how to deal with.

    It was almost good that he’d mastered his acting – a laugh, a smile, a joking jab. He could do this.

     Except… Not when Makoto looked so pretty with the sunset outlining his face and the sunshine in his eyes.

     A walk home, so reminiscent of one not two years ago, and a beautiful sunset and – oh, how could he resist?

              { Heaven forgive him his selfishness }

     No words of warning as Akura stopped in his tracks, turned and tugged the brunet down by his tie, pressing a chaste kiss to Makoto’s lips. It lasted almost as quickly as he’d started, and by the time Akura’d pulled away, the embarrassment was tossing his stomach around and burning his cheeks.

                                               Had… had he really just done that?

39. "I know your secret."

242. “Get up off your ass and help me!”