Krystal Swift

“What do you want?” Sho asked his wife as he watched her get ready for the BBQ. As much as he had been irritated by it he hadn’t been able to forget what Nino had said about him not being what she wanted. She paused doing her eye make-up and turned to look at him with one eyebrow raised. For a moment he was sure that she didn’t understand his question but then very slowly she sighed and lowered her eye-shadow wand. Her eyes held his with more fire than he had ever seen in them before and then she smiled saying;

“I want somebody that loves me for being me. I can’t change who I am, Sho-chan, and I shouldn’t have to anymore than you should…”

“…Why are we still together?”

“Because we are both cowards…I…I have drawn up papers with a lawyer…” She whispered softly her cheeks growing a little pink in the way that they did when she thought she was being too forward and the sight of it normally irritated him. Sho blinked slowly in surprise that she had been so bold, and she gave a laugh her head tilting almost mischievously to one side. “I’m not completely wet tissue paper, Sho-chan…I don’t want a messy divorce, I don’t want your money or a settlement. We have no children and you have never been cruel to me…What I do want is for you to find something that can make you happy…”

“…I hope that you will be happy also…I’m sorry…” Sho swallowed a thick lump from the back of his throat already able to hear the guests coming through the open window and he wondered if they were going to continue the BBQ or if they should just cancel it.

“What for?”

“Wasting your life…Maybe…I don’t know…”

“It hasn’t been altogether bad, Sho-chan, we had some fun together…I hope…That when we are no longer married we can be friends…” Slowly she turned back to her mirror and lifted her eyeshadow wand again darkening the corners with a touch of red. “You should go to our guests ne, I think we should have a party to celebrate…”

“…I…” Sho stopped speaking his mind going slightly blank as the doorbell rang and nodded turning and leaving the bedroom. They hadn’t shared a room in this house, in fact it had been his wife who had suggested it so it was possible that she had been planning this since before they moved in. He walked sedately down the stairs of his home noticing things that he had missed before; the wall dressings and the decorations were all the things he liked. His photos of all the places he had travelled, his snow globes on the counters, his books in the living room. It was as though his wife had been slowly setting the house up as somewhere he would live alone. A pang of guilt shot through his chest at that knowledge and a small part of him wished that she had shown this side of herself before but then again, she was right. She was the person she was, and she shouldn’t have to change to make him happy. “Hello and welcome…” Sho said pushing a fake smile onto his face as he pulled open the front door to reveal his guests. People he had no interaction with so far this week and barely recognised them as people he had seen puttering around in their gardens. “Please come in…”

“Welcome to the neighbourhood, shame you have to live next door to the degenerates…” A man from across the street gushed handing him a bottle of cheap beer and Sho managed to look grateful.

“The band have been nothing but nice to us and their songs are actually pretty good…” He said with a smile his eyes probably a touch harder than he intended them to be, but he couldn’t help it. He had read the songs Nino had told him to and he had fallen for them. They were nothing like he was expecting, and he had even gone out of his way to buy their first album.

The youth behind the counter had looked at him with surprise before talking about the group in a voice that was almost reverence. The man from across the street stared at him for a moment his mouth open like a goldfish until footsteps could be heard on the stairs and Sho turned to look at his wife. She was looking beautiful in a flowery black dress her hair twisted up around her head and her eyes more focused than he had ever seen them before. She smiled at him and then turned her attention to their guests guiding them out to the back through the kitchen.

Sho held the door looking at next door with a strange longing but nobody came out and he wondered if the band had decided not to come in the end. Shutting the door, he moved to go out to join his wife and guests stopping when he saw Nino standing in the doorway that led to the kitchen. His back was resting on the door frame and his arms were folded over his chest as he bit at his lower lip with the corner of his teeth.

“We came through the back, there’s a gate in the fence between our two gardens…”

“I see…” Sho nodded hating how awkward he felt. They had met each other two times only and yet it felt as though Nino knew him better than he did. He was looking amazing today, a pair of ripped jeans and a t-shirt that was so long it could have been a dress. The safety pins were back in his ear and Sho saw that his hair had been dyed grey with red.

“Checking me out again, Sho-san…” Nino chuckled his voice not lifting from a whisper and Sho blinked pulling his eyes away from Nino’s hips so he could look up into his face.

“You’re full of yourself…”

“Yup, only when I’m right. You have a lot of snow globes…” Nino remarked looking around the room with a smirk curving his lips and Sho shrugged as casually as he could manage knowing that his ears would be turning red.

“I like to collect them”

“Perfectly ordered little scenes…But its when you shake them up they get interesting…” Sho blinked at Nino’s words. In all honesty he had never thought of his snow globes in that way but now that he did he supposed that that was what he liked about them. He

“What do you mean by that?”

“What I said…You want something exciting to happen to make your life interesting…You want somebody to come along and shake you up…” Nino moved from the door, so he was standing in front of him and Sho couldn’t believe how warm he was. There was still space between them, but Nino’s body was giving off so much heat that it was as though he was pressed directly against him. He shivered slightly at the feeling aware that his cock was twitching at the thought of Nino being pressed against him and it was a struggle for him to whisper;

“And you think that’s you?”

“Nope…You think that its me…”

“I’ve met you three times…” Sho almost whimpered as he took a step forward, so his legs were pressing against Nino now. If he had expected Nino to take a step back, he would have been disappointed. Nino stayed exactly where he was his head cocking to one side as he purred confidently;

“And I’m the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to you…”

“My wife and I are getting a divorce” Sho breathed and he was delighted that he managed to surprise Nino. The younger man soon recovered however his head inclining as he murmured;

“When you are divorced, give me a shout…Until then you’ll have to keep watching me…” As soon as those words were said Nino pressed his lips to the corner of Sho’s mouth. It was the barest hint of a kiss but the warmth of it caused him to shiver and moan. Nino was gone as quickly as come and when Sho had recovered Nino was no-where to be seen. Sho slowly brought his fingers up to his mouth and touched it slowly before shaking his head and going outside to join the BBQ.

TBC

A/N: Nino is a cocky bastard in this…Hummm…If anyone is interested in the music the band do listen to Billy Talent xD they are who I was inspired by for this >.<