CHAPTER 11 To be honest, Kusano had NO idea where to take Yamashita on that date he had promised him. Amusement park would be okay enough, but he did not think Yamashita would like it. Then he had thought of going to a restaurant, but that was too original. Beach and fireworks would be too mushy for a first date to be. Going to the cinema would be even worse then having a mushy first date… “Mind picking me up at 6?” Kusano was speaking to his boyfriend over the phone while getting dressed. “That’s like 10 minutes to!” Yamashita said quickly, he sounded stressed. “So? I told you to get dressed an hour ago!” “But… I need time~ okay fine blah… I will be there in 8 minutes dear” then he sent Kusano two blow kisses before he hung up. “Yeah kiss kiss back at you” Kusano said to the phone since Yamashita had hung up. Putting his big hip hop jeans on, Kusano took a last look at himself in the mirror before he left the bathroom. Walking into the kitchen he took the food he had made for him and Yamashita out of the fridge and stuffed it into his bag. Adding an extra box of soda in his bag he jumped a little as the door bell rang. Knowing it was Yamashita he switched all the lights of, put his shoes on and locked the entrance door behind him. Checking the door twice to be sure, he went down to Yamashita’s car. He hated how he was not allowed to drive yet, he SO wanted to drive. Maybe if he was nice Yamashita would let him try driving a little. Receiving a wide smile from Yamashita he sat down in the passenger seat. “The beach!” he told the black haired one and fastened his seat belt. “Awwwww” Yamashita held a hand over his chest where the heart was. “That’s so cuuuute!” bending over to Kusano he placed a small kiss in the hip hop boy’s cheek. It took them about twenty minutes to get to the beach. There were about 3 other couples there, it was not that popular to go to the beach at winter time, which fit Kusano very well anyway, he did not want to be seen by to many. It was a date after all. Picking a spot that layed some meters away from the other couples, Yamashita (who had got ordered by Kusano to bring three blankets and fireworks) pulled out the three blankets and layed two of them upon the cold sand. Sitting down, he layed the third one over his feet. “Sit down Hiro” he said and quickly put the blanket over Kusano’s feet as well. The sea in front of them was almost black. The only light source Kusano and Yamashita had were they were sitting was the moon and a light pole that stood about four meters behind them. “It’s so beautiful” Yamashita said suddenly after a few moments with silence. “Un~” Kusano looked over at Yamashita. You’re beautiful, he thought. “Let’s eat ne?! I made it all by myself!” Proudly pulling out the food from his bag, Kusano handed Yamashita the pink box while he took the yellow one. Yamashita opened his box and found two eating sticks with hearts on. “Belongings of your sister?” “Hm?” Kusano held a hand over his mouth so he would spare Yamashita for the sight of him talking with food in his mouth. “Yeah, I couldn’t find anything else that fitted with the pink box” “Cute~” Yamashita chuckled, taking a mouthful into his mouth he started of making oh-my-god-it’s-so-good moans. “You like it?” “Like it? I LOVE IT!” Yamashita said loudly and finished of his box quicker than he usually did. When the two lover boys were done eating they started to talk about anything between earth and heaven. Kusano had started out asking how Yamashita was able to take so many “stalking” pictures of him, Yamashita had just laughed and kissed his fore head. “Ne…” Kusano grabbed the digital camera in his bag “Want some legal pictures of me?” Yamashita nod and moved closer to Kusano, “Together” “…” Kusano used to take pictures together with Shige, but that was different, they were only pals. “It’s okay” Yamashita said and snatched the camera from Kusano. “I wont bite you!” Putting up a dorky face, the blitz went of and their first picture together was taken. They must have taken over 100 pictures during their little photo session, because the battery was running out. Blinking red. “Darn it! I don’t have the extra battery with me” Kusano pouted after he had searched through his bag for the fifth time. “Haha! That’s fine sweety, I bet we managed to capture something cute!” “We better have” Kusano laughed and layed down beside Yamashita. “One last picture?” Yamashita asked and held the camera up in front of them. Kusano nodded. “Kissuuuuuuuu~” The sky got filled with more and more stars as the clock started to near itself 12am. The colour of the sky had switched from burning red to cold blue. “Your nose is super cold!” Yamashita yelled as the tip of Kusano’s nose touched his naked skin. “G-gomen!” Kusano quickly pulled away from Yamashita. “Fireworks?” “… come here” Yamashita did not want to crawl out of the warm blanket just yet. Making Kusano bend down over him, he kissed Kusano on the lips. “Thank you” he said as their lips parted. “For what?” Kusano cocked a brow at Yamashita. “For being with me…” “Nah… don’t go all serious again okay?!” Kusano did not like it when people got serious, it was scary. Getting up and out of the warm blanket first, Kusano lent Yamashita not only one hand, but two. Sticking the poles of the fireworks into the sand near the water edge, Kusano set fire on all of them at the same time. The three couples who they had shared the beach with before had already gone home, so they could use as much space as they wanted. Taking a few steps back, Kusano got dragged into an embrace from behind. Yamashita rested his head on the shorter one’s shoulder and tightened the grip around him. In the flash of a second the fireworks went of one by one. Sparkles in all the colours of the world filled the sky. Turning his head side wards Kusano received a kiss from the boy holding around him. “I wanna be just like this forever…” Yamashita said in a dreamily tune and closed his eyes.