honeysuckle

forty - five

8:30pm

After dinner, Tobio had decided that he wanted to stay the night. Tooru was going to be sleeping at Koutarou's for awhile. Kenma had also somehow ended up being someone who was also staying the night.

This isn't the first time. Koutarou was always helping Kenma with stuff or letting him over to have a quiet place to study. It was something they both were use too. They've cuddled once before but never to extent of them ending up kissing.

Currently, Koutarou went to his closet that was in his room and pulled out an extra blanket and brought it out to Tobio, who was comfortable on the couch in the living room. Kenma was back in Koutarou's room laying in his bed watching television. They both decided that they would share his bed to sleep since their comfortable with it.

Koutarou had suggested that Kenma can take the bed and he will sleep on the floor. But, Kenma was like it's okay if they shared or that he took the floor. Which started a small banter between them until they both just agreed that they will sleep in the same bed. Tooru was in the guest room sitting on the bed; waiting for Koutarou so they both can go talk on the porch about some things.

After seeing Kenma go back to the table to complete more of his project. Koutarou then took his leave out the room going across into the guest room where Tooru was currently relaxing at. His eyes noticed his dear friend on the bed laying on his stomach scrolling on his phone.

"hey." Koutarou's voice was soft, and calming. He maneuvered over towards his bookshelf that was filled with many different genres of books.

"You ready to talk?" His attention fully on his friend watching Tooru roll over to face him.

"Yea."

Tooru slid off the bed grabbing his phone to slide into his pocket. He followed Koutarou out into the living room passing Tobio, making their way out the front door. Which led them out to the open it, and Tooru made sure to close the door behind them. Once reaching outside they both leaned against the rail. Both of them taking the time to stare out the scenery infront of them.

Streets lights, cars passing by back and forth, not many people outside on the streets. If you were to go down this street down towards where their University was. You would see more people out enjoying the night life. Especially since not so far from here is the Red Light District. It was a hot spot by their University for everyone to go live their best life. Even though people need to be careful over there. Since there have been some cases of sexual harassment, kidnapping and scammers over there.

That's why Koutarou always went with friends.

"Care to explain why you staying for awhile? You know I don't mind opening my apartment up for my friends. But I really want to know what's wrong?"

"I need to get away from my apartment to just breathe and think. I had a low moment some days ago—"

"You didn't call me?!" Koutarou urgently said.

"I called Koushi instead. I didn't want to bother you."

"Oh."

"I also wasn't in a clear mind so I called the speed dial number that I could remember quickly."

"I see. I see."

"Anyway, Koushi came over and got me in bed and cuddled me. He calmed me down from that episode and got me to sleep. I missed him so fucking much. It felt so good to be in his arms."

"So — what's the problem? I mean you guys didn't date but at the same time you basically did in a way by how you both act. So, I can understand why you miss him. But like I'm still not understanding the problem."