Yuu's Love

Chapter 12

   Cyril was peppering for his dinner party tonight, he had been cooking scene noon that day. Yuu was trying to be helpful by cleaning up the living room, washing the dishes, doing the laundry, and putting the clothes up. Yuu walks into Cyr's room and heads to his closet to finish putting up his clothes.
   "Yuu, can you give me a hand!" Cyr calls out from the other room
   "Yeah, just let me hang up your clothes first!" Yuu replies.
"Alright, just be quick please!"
Yuu opens the closet and starts hanging up the newly washed clothes. Just about as he was done Yuu spotted something shiny hidden in the back of the closet, curious, Yuu grabs it pulling out a dark purple corset.
"What the hell is this thing?!" Suddenly Yuu can hear heavy footsteps rushing to him faster then needed. When Cyril opens the door he blushes hard as he sees Yuu holding the corset.
"Put that back!" He yell angrily
"Why the hell do you have this... thing?!" Yuu looks worried at the younger male.
"It's a corset and it's none of your business!" Cyr walks over to him and tries to snatch it away from Yuu, but he has a death grip on it, which causes it to rip. "Nooooo! Now I have to sew it aging!" He glares at the older man
"Again?" Yuu gulps
"Emerald asked me to fix this for them and now I have to do it again! They wanted to wear this tomorrow for work and now I have to tell them it's ruined again" he sighs. "Do you know how hard this glitter fabric is to work with? Damn it Yuu!"
   "You we're fixing it?" Yuu sounds relieved
   "Do you actually think I'd wear that cheaply made thing?" Cyril makes a dull face, Yuu looks away not knowing what to say. Cyr sighs.   "Look, Emerald's the new dancer and they can't sew to save their life, so I'm just helping them out by fixing it"
   ".... Do...." he looks up at Cyril "Do you always fix the girls outfits?"
   "Sometimes, why?" He crosses his arms, starting to get fed up with this.  "Yuu this is a pointless argument, nothing goes on in the bar that you need to worry about, okay?"
   ".... You know, now that I think about it, I never see you in the bar until you're telling me to leave."
   "... What's your point?"
   "What do you even do there?"
   "What?"
   "You're not a bartender, you're definitely not a bouncer, and I've never seen you just walking around, so what do you do?"
   ".... It's nothing to worry about, I'm not harming myself, now I'm done with conversation" 
   "Why won't you just tell me?" Cyril starts to walk off and Yuu follows him
   "Cyril!" Yuu grabs Cyr's arm. "Why won't you answer me?"
   "Yuu, enough!" He yangs his hand away. "Look I need to finish cooking and if you're going to act like this during the dinner party you can leave right now!" He glares at the older male
   "...... Fine, I'll drop it, but it does worry me."  He looks away. Cyril sighs as he lightly touches the older mans face, resting his hand there
   "Don't you trust me?" He says cutely.
   "I do, but-"
   "No buts, if you trust me then believe me when I say this. You have nothing and I mean nothing to worry about"  he lightly kisses Yuu's cheek "Okay?"  Yuu just nods  "Now come help me, please?" Cyr holds Yuu's hand and leads the way back to the kitchen.

   The dinner party was going smoothly, the everyone was laughing, have good conversations, and enjoying the food, everyone was happy. Everyone but Yuu.
"Hey Yuu, are you alright?" Chiaki asked his friend
"Uh, yeah...." he doesn't look at his friend.
"You sure, cuz you haven't really said much or eaten anything."
".... I'm just tired" Yuu sighs, catching Cyr's attention. Cyril sees Chiaki put his hand on Yuu's forehead. Yuu looks at Chiaki and blushes, this makes Cyril a little jealous "What are you doing?"
"Checking for a fever, you never want to eat when you're sick."
".... I never knew you noticed that" he gives a light smile.
"Of course I noticed that, you're one of my best friends, Yuu" he takes his hand away.
"I'm really just tried like I said"
"Okay...." he gives a light smile, but it's obvious he doesn't believe his friend. As they continue to talk Cyril gets more upset and exudes himself from the table, now catching Yuu's attention.
"You okay Cyril?" Yuu asked sounding worried. Cyril glares at him
"I'm fine." He says coldly, shocking Yuu. He walks away from the table.
"What was that about?" Chiaki asked
"Obviously Yuu pissed off Furippu-san." Hatori said
   "Hatori!" Chiaki scolded his lover, making the girls laugh. "What?" He looks at them
   "You two bickering like a married couple" one girl says making all the girls giggle. Chiaki blushes hard as Hatori smirks.
   Yuu gets up from the table while everyone's distracted to look for Cyril. He checks Cyril's room, but no luck. He knocks on the bathroom door, but no reply, and when he opens it, Cyr wasn't in there. Yuu goes to the balcony, sighing in relief as he sees the younger male, he was about to go out there with him, but stops when he realizes he's on the phone.
   "Am I a bad person Scott?" Cyril spoke in English as he was tearing up.
   'English?'  Yuu bites his lip, he doesn't understand that language too much, he can only speak broken English.
   "It depends on what you did?"
   "I know we agreed on rules and whatnot, but I can't help but be upset." There was a pause as Cyr was waiting for the other person to speak. 
   "This is why I told you not to go after a person who's still in love with their ex. You get so attached so quick and let your emotions run wild!"
   "Scott, you're suppose to be on my side! And they never dated...." He whines.  "Aren't you suppose to cheer on your baby brother?" He sighs. 
"I do support you, but you're kinda playing with fire, it's only a matter of time till one of you gets seriously damaged from this game you're playing" Scott sounds worried
"..."   Yuu knocks one the wall letting Cyr know he's there.  "Scott I'll have to call you back"
   "Okay, I love you baby brother"
   "I love you too Scott" Cyril hangs up and looks at Yuu.  "What?"
   "You love that person?"
   "It's rude to spy on people's conversations" he glares
   "You love him?" Yuu asked again
   "So what if I do, you love Chiaki" Cyr crosses his arms, his tone is deadly.
   "Cyril I-" Cyril cuts him off
   "Stick to the rules, we can't get mad if we date other people"
   "Yeah, but-"
   "Besides, it's not uncommon to tell your Nii-chan that you love them"
   "Nii-Chan?" He looks shocked " I didn't know you had one..."
   "Yuu, what do you really know about me?" He looks away and sighs "I think this party is over, I'm gonna tell everyone to leave" he starts to walk off, but stop and looks at Yuu  "That includes you too." Yuu looks hurt and looks away
"Can you at least tell me what I did wrong?" He doesn't look up at him.
"Are you dumb or do you really not know?"
"Both I guess" Yuu peeks up at Cyr to see him fighting a small smile. "I know I can act stupid at times, but this time I really am stupid because I don't know what I did". Cyr sighs
"You promise to be honest with me?" Yuu quickly nods. "Were you flirting with Chiaki?"
"What? No! Cyril why on earth would I do that in front of you?"
"Sooooo, you'd do it if I wasn't there?" Cyril raises a brow
"That's not what I meant and you know it!"
"Do I though?" Yuu looks shocked by that
"Are you jealously Chiaki?" Cyril pouts for a moment
"I mean I know we set some rules, but let's forget about them for a moment. You won't date me."
"You agreed with th-"
"Let me stop you right there. I didn't want to agree with that."
"Then why did you?"
"I wanted you to stay by my side!" Cyril tears up
"I am by your side!" Yuu reaches out to grab Cyr's shoulders, but his hands are immediately slapped away
"You know what the real problem is? You're so hung up a guy that was never yours that you cling to the thought he might want you and you want to stay single just in case he gives you that chance you so desperately want"
"Cy-"
"But I guess I'm the same" he looks up at "Cause I am so desperately trying to get you to love me like you love him" he quickly wipes his tears away, "I think we both need some time away from each other" that was the last thing he said before leaving Yuu alone on the balcony.