The Face Of Love

A/N: You're gonna hate me!!!

#########LOVE!!!#########

Chiriko ran through the nearly empty school as fast as he could with out being stopped by a teacher. His heart was pounding in his chest. He was about to do one of the hardest things he ever had to do. He didn't want to do it, but he had to. He knew he had to. He had been thinking about it for so long and it was driving him insane. He knew he was in love, there was no denying that, his heart was so sure of it, but he couldn't do it. He couldn't keep loving the person he loved, it was killing him.

Chiriko reached the end of an empty hall and reached for the door to the class room on his left. He threw the door open and ran inside, making sure to close and lock the door after he entered.

"I need to talk to you!" He burst out as soon as the door was closed, "Now."

"Chiriko wh-"

"I'm confusereatreat, I've been confused my whole life! Listen I don't know what to do! I love you! I love you more then life or anything and I don't care how stupid that sounds. But this is to hard! I'm tired of lying and I'm tired of hiding my life from everybody! I can't even talk now for fear I'll spill everything! I can't keep going like this! Everything is wrong! this isn't how my life is supposed to be going. You aren't who I should love! It's hurting me to much! I cry self to sleep because I can't go out in public with you or tell my family about you! I just want to throw my arms around you when I see you in the hall! I want to tell the whole universe that I love you! But I can't," Chiriko paused to take a breath.

"You mean everything to me, but I don't know who much more of this take. I never meant to fall in love with you, or any body for that matter. I thought that I would be better off in life if I never fell in love. But I didn't know I couldn't control it. Oh god I don't know what to do! I have to stop this. I'm not made for lying or sneaking. I;m an honest person, this is to much! Do you understand me Chiri?"

Chichiri stood by the windows at the other end of the room, his head low, "Chiriko, I don't know what to say. Please, don't do this is the only thing I can think of. You know I can't live if you're not with me-"

"But that's just the thing Chiri, I can never be with you. Not the way we wan hav have to sneak out of the house if I want to see you, or come to school an hour early to talk to you. that's not what either of us want."

"Chiriko I don;t care noda. I don't care about sneaking around and hiding, for you I'd do anything. You know that noda."

"Stop please. i know. I know that you love me and I know that you would do anything for me, and I would do anything for you. You make all the lying okay, but I can't lie anymore. Nuriko knows. At least, I think he knows. He suspects at least. I can't lie him if he asks me right out. He knows when I'm lying to him."

"I think," Chichiri started as he walk toward Chiriko, "That you should tell him," He finished when he reached him, "He's your brother and he worries about you. He wont tell. He'll trust you to make the right decisions about your life. But you owe it to him to tell him the truth."

Chiriko leaned against Chichiri's chest and cried, "I hope you know that I'm not going to leave you Chiri. i care about you to much. I just needed to hear you say i could tell Nuriko. Thank you Chiri. I love you so much."

"I love you to Chiriko noda."

############Time To Talk#############

Nuriko slammed to front door and threw his bag to the ground. He didn't talk to his teacher like he had planed. He couldn't do it. He just had to believe that Chiriko would talk to him like he promised. Nuriko sat down at the kitchen table and laid his head on the table.

He fell asleep right after he closed his eyes and woke up several hours later. When he opened his eyes Chiriko was sitting across from him.

"Glad you woke up. You've been asleep for hours." Chiriko said, poking a bowl of Roman with a fork, (A/N: I'm eating Roman).

"Why didn't you wake me up?" Nuriko said, sitting up.

"I know you to sleep Nuriko. I thought you would enjoy to sleep more then talking to me."

"Don't you mean you would enjoy me sleeping more then talking to you?"

"No," Chiriko said sharply, "I want to talk to you. You need to know what's going on. You're my brother and I shouldn't lie to you. It's makes me feel awful anyway."

"So, what do you need to tell me Chiri?"

"That's what. Chiri. It makes me feel weird when you call me Chiri. I um...well, that's what I call Chichiri, you know, the history teacher. God, how do I tell you this?"

"You're dating him," Nuriko stated simply, "Aren't you?"

Chiriko nodded, "For a few months now. i fell in love with him in the 9th grade. When I was 15. He didn't even know I was alive back then. I didn't want him to. I was to young for him and I knew it. I still am to most people. But, not to me or him. We haven't, done anything yet. We're waiting tell I'm 18. Do you hate me?"

"No," Nuriko said quickly, "I don't hate you. I couldn't hate you. you're my brother. tell me everything. Okay?"

Chiriko took a deep breath and began, "I already said I fell in love with him when I 15. He, I thought he was, is, beautiful. But there was more. Something about him, I don't know what, drew me to him. Just the way he acted, the way he spoke and moved, everything he did. it's stupid, yeah, but I don't care.

"I hid from him all through the 9th grade. I couldn't stand to see him I was so in love. i thought it was just a child's crush. But it never went away. it grew and grew until I couldn't take it anymore. I was ready to explode. This year I offered to help him out after class with grading and stuff. He agreed. I couldn't believe it. I would be spending so much more time with him. I got to see him everyday.

"It was to good to be true. I was with him all the time. Then, one day, I did explode. I couldn't keep everything inside anymore. When I went to help him after school, I spilled my guts and told him how I felt. I thought he wouldn't understand. That he would tell me to leave and never speak to me again, but I had to tell him. I just had to.

"Then the best thing in thrld rld happened, he didn't reject me. He looked me in the eyes and told me he felt the same way. I though I was going to die I was so happy."

Chiriko stopped talking and looked at his brother, "Do you understand Nuriko? I know he's 25 but that's only a seven year difference, and we're waiting on sex. And we wont really do anything tell I get out of high school. Whish might even be this year since I got everything down that I need. You know I'm the smartest kid in the school. And seven years wont seem like that much whe-"

"Shhh. Chiriko you don't have to justify anything to me. I understand. You can't help who you love, but are you sure you'll be okay? You might get hurt by this if anyone finds out," Nuriko grabbed Chiriko's hand, "Will you be ready for that?"

"As long as I have him, I'm ready for anything."

TBC

A/N: Hate me now? I bet you do. Isn't it cute though? Chichiri and Chiriko! And yes, I do watch soap operas.