Going Over Hurdles (With You): Ch.2
A Itafushi track and field AU
“Yeah you can just wear my clothes.”
PART 2
Megumi POV:
They pull into the parking lot of Yuji’s house. Sitting in the car in silence, they both pull out their phone simultaneously, texting their parents about their location.
“Wanna head up?” Yuji asks. Megumi nods, once again in silence.
I really hope he’s not mad at me for what I said earlier.
They both get out of the tiny car and walk together to the front door of Yuji’s home. His house is rather humble, similar to his car. A small lemon tree is planted on the small patch of green grass in front of the house. The home, although small, had a warm, inviting feeling to it, feeling almost as if Megumi was walking into his own home.
“Yo, Dad?” Yuji calls out, taking his dress shoes off as he enters the doorway, “I’m home! And Megumi is here too, if you didn’t get my text.”
Yuji’s father peeks his head out from the kitchen. “Alright” he replies, “Just make sure his dad knows.”
“Okay,” Yuji replies to his father, as he smiles at Megumi, “Wanna head to my room? I’ll take out the pull out bed for you”
Together, they walk through the simplistic house, over towards Yuji’s room. Entering his room, Megumi is met by a complete contrast to the rest of his house. Movie posters and vinyls are displayed on the walls. Stacks of old movie DVDs as well as a few books lay in stacks on his floor, due to his actual book stands being filled with action figurines.
No matter how many times I come into his room, I’ll always be shocked by how it contrasts the rest of the house.
Megumi unbuttons his suit and lays it on the back of Yuji’s gaming chair. Doing this Megumi realizes something, he doesn’t have a change of clothes.
“Yuji…uhm” Megumi's eyes shift to Yuji, pulling out the pull out bed and setting it up for Megumi “—do you happen to have anything for me to wear?”
Yuji looks down at Megumi’s clothes, as if he was just realizing that Megumi is not prepared for this impromptu sleepover.
“Yeah you can just wear my clothes.”
His clothes?
“And you’re okay with that?”
“As long as you are,” Yuji says casually, walking over to his dresser to pull out a pair of clothes for Megumi, “Here ya’ go.”
Yuji tosses over his pair of fleece shorts and an oversized band tee to Megumi. Megumi stares down at the design on the t-shirt.
“You can change. I’ll close my eyes,” Yuji says this as he dramatically shields his eyes, palms pressing down on his eye sockets. A smile emerges on Megumi’s face, the first one this past hour. He laughs, a genuine one too.
“Thanks,” he chuckles as he unbuttons his dress shirt as he slips into Yuji’s clothes. A smell of laundry detergent and Yuji’s cologne meets Megumi’s nose as he throws the t-shirt on. As he changes into loungewear, Megumi’s eyes slowly become heavier, “You can open your eyes now, Yuji.”
Yuji, equally as dramatic as when he closes them, unveils his eyes. “Hold on, that's low-key fire,” Yuji says, nodding his head and observing his clothes on Megumi, “Wait—do a spin, dude, I wanna admire the fit.”
“This is your fit.”
“But it looks better on you though high-key.”
Megumi looks down, a nervous smile rises on his face.
He can’t be serious, can he?
The rest of the night was rather uneventful. Sleep overtook both boys almost instantaneously, due to their exhaustion from today’s events. Yet, both had so many unanswered questions for each other. That’s how it usually is, though. The fear of ruining a friendship manipulates their choices, afraid to lose what has already been built between them.
Megumi, before fully giving in to sleep, contemplates: Maybe, just maybe, one day we’ll be able to freely ask anything to each other.
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