Stages of Love -Chapter 2-
Title: Stages of Love
Chapters: 2/ 5
Pairing: YutoYama
Genre: Fluff and Friendship
It has been a month since Ryosuke and Yuto met. They were just strangers but they could not forget each other. In every little thing they do, it reminds them of one another.
"Ryosuke!" Yuri hit him head hard with a roll of papers. Ryosuke looked at Yuri and he looked furious. You could see a vein popping on the side of him head.
"Itai na Yuri." Ryosuke pulled off this pout but Yuri has been with him for a long time that it does not affect him anymore.
"Well I wouldn't have hit you if you just pay attention." Yuri sighed. He knew what was going inside that crazy brain of his best friend. All month long since that day he bumped into Yuto, he had his own world.
"Is he really that handsome that you can't forget about him?" Yuri asked him crossing his arms over his chest and leaning on the wall.
"He's not only handsome Yuri." Ryosuke stood up from his chair and moved towards his dresser.
Yuri and Ryosuke had been friends for who knows how long. They always have sleep overs in each other’s houses. This time it was Ryosuke's house that Yuri was crashing.
"He's like Prince Charming. Ready to sweep me off my feet." He was daydreaming again. Yuri could only roll his eyes at him.
"You only talked to him for a minute and you fell that instantly?"
"I am not in love with him... yet." He said the last part in a soft voice.
"So you admit that you will fall in love with him?" Ryosuke did not respond. He just shrugged him shoulders and gave a sheepish smile to Yuri who was raising a brow at him.
"I don't know? I just met him. I want to know who he really is first."
"That's good because I don't want to hand you out to some prince Charming wannabe. I'll die from guilt if I do." Yuri was imagining what would happen if Yuto would turn out to be a pimple faced dweeb with anuni-brow and works at McDonald's and he just use too much Concealer to cover All of it. He just shivered at that thought.
"Sou dayo ne... because you are my overprotective okaasan." Yuri gave a playful glare and pinched Ryosuke's cheeks hard. He was wincing in pain but Yuri continued on torturing his cheeks.
"Your overprotective okaasan just wants you to be happy." Yuri let him cheeks go and smiled at him.
"I know." Ryosuke returned back a smile then they continued to party the whole night long.
The next morning, they woke up at 11 and it was already lunch time. Ryosuke's parents were out of town today so no one prepared them lunch. They decided to eat outside on a nearby restaurant.
"I'll have the Caviar steak and Lemon Lime Ice Tea." Yuri chose from the menu and the waiter took down his order.
"I'll go with the fried halibut with mash potato and blanched asparagus. Then for the drinks I'll have a strawberry ice tea."
"Hai. Your orders will arrive shortly." The waiter excused himself and went to the kitchen to relay the order.
They were sitting in a window seat so they could see people walking on the busy streets. Yuri was on his phone doing something while Ryosuke was looking out the window trying to find something or someone interesting.
His eyes were scanning the streets then suddenly he felt like his whole world just trapped him.
Flowers and sparkles were seen by Ryosuke. He could even hear romantic music surrounding him and a warm breeze.
"Yuto-kun." He said.
Right across the street was Yuto standing looking stunning with his khaki shorts and green army shirt. His eyes were covered with some Ray Ban sunglasses but you could still see a glimpse of his eyes through those tinted frames.
"Ryosuke!" Yuri whacked him in the head so hard that him forehead bumped onto the glass resulting a big red mark on it.
"Itai." Ryosuke hissed in pain. He soothed his forehead but the pain never subsided.
"I never would have done that if you just pay attention."
"Gomen. I just saw something." He explained. Him cheeks were tinted red. The waiter was already in front of them, setting down their orders.
"You saw him didn't you?" Ryosuke choked on his drink. He took a tissue and wiped his mouth.
"You saw him too?"
"Yes. And he just entered in a while ago." Yuri pointed a finger to the table beside them and Yuto was there looking at the menu.
"Nakajima Yuto-kun?" Yuto heard his name being called and turned his head to the side slowly.
As he saw Ryosuke his eyes widened. Ryosuke didn't know how to react to that. Was he also happy to see him or was he trying to avoid him. But then again the way they met was by accident so why would he try to avoid Ryosuke anyway?
"Yama-chan!" The two guys were surprised by his sudden reply. He had a wide smile on his face like he was waiting to meet them.
"Un. It's been a long time since we met."
"Yes. It has been. How are you?" Yuto asked him. He forgot about ordering his lunch and just shared a conversation with Ryosuke.
"I have been good. I managed to learn riding a bike without meeting any accidents." Ryosuke gave a shy reply. Hisheart was beating fast but he tried to calm it down. "I can't fall inlove with him yet. I must know who he is first." Ryosuke said in him mind.
"Well that's good. Actually I was worried that you would quit learning after our encounter."
"Eh? You were worried?"
"Ah... Un. Let's just say it would be a waste to stop at something you haven't finished." He scratched his not so itchy nape and showed a nervous smile.
"That's what I've been thinking too."
"Okay stop." Yuri said and made the two of them turn to him.
"You sit here." He stood up and dragged Yuto to his seat and made him sit there.
"I'm gonna go to another shop. Enjoy the Food Nakajima-san." Yuri showed a smile but it never lasted. He returned it back to an annoyed expression and left the cafe without saying another word.
Yuto and Ryosuke just looked back at each other then as they realized it, they looked away from each other feeling an awkward presence around them.
"Sorry about that. He gets irritated easily." Ryosuke tried to break the silence between them.
"It's okay. I was kind of glad he did that. Now I can talk to you more." Ryosuke was shocked at his reply. His cheeks brightened and his heart beat fast.
"Not now." He scolded himself. He really suppressed his feeling to not explode.
"Is that so..... Do you like caviar?" Ryosuke asked him. He was trying to create a conversation to get rid of the awkward tension and of course to know more about Nakajima Yuto.
"I love it." He gave a assuring smile and they started conversing with each other until who knows when.
Let's say 3 hours have already passed and they were finished with their dessert. They both ordered fondue, strawberry for Ryosuke and chocolate for Yuto.
"I better be going. I still have a project to finish." Yuto looked at his watch and it was almost 4 in the afternoon already. They spent too much time talking that eating their lunches.
"Un. Yuri must be waiting for me at home too."
"You live under the same roof?" Yuto asked him.
"No. We live next to each other." Ryosuke answered him.
They walked out the cafe and Yuto sent Ryosuke home. He tried to decline his offer because he was busy but Yuto insisted. He still has enough time he reasoned out. On their way to Ryosuke's house they were still talking to each other and kept on getting to know one another. It was almost as telling their life stories.
Fifteen minutes later they were already in front of Ryosuke's house. They bid their goodbyes and Ryosuke waited until Yuto was far from his sight then he entered his house.
"Tadaima." Ryosuke said as he took off him shoes and replaced it with indoor slippers.
"Okaeri." He heard Yuri replying. He walked inside the living room and found Yuri lying on the sofa while watching TV and eating the strawberry flavored Pocky sticks he found inside Ryosuke's cupboard.
"So how was your date?" Yuri asked as soon as Ryosuke settled down beside him, grabbing a Pocky stick inside the box.
"It wasn't a date." He defended.
"Oh right. Sorry. Let me rephrase that. How was your getting to know each other Friendship outing?"
"It was fine. We knew a lot about each other. We had a lot of interests and similarities too!" He kept on babbling but if you look at Yuri, he was paying more attention to the TV screen than to his best friend.
"That's good." Yuri said even though he doesn't know what the other was saying.
"So do you like him now?" He added and this time he looked at Ryosuke who was about to turn into a human strawberry because of him colored cheeks.
"More like we have a mutual affection to one another."
"Like Friendship?"
"Yes, Friendship. we even exchanged mail addresses." Ryosuke fished out his phone from his bag and showed him Yuto's E-mail address.
"So, you want me to mail him too?" Yuri raised a brow at him. He didn't know why Ryosuke was showing him Yuto's address as if he cares about the guy. But then he thought about Ryosuke's welfare and took the phone from him hands and he saved Yuto's email in him own phone.
"I thought you didn't want it."
"It's just in case you do something stupid and he is around."
To Be Continued
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