THE INVITATION

Chapter 6

"What did you want to say Iwaizumi?" Kawa asked softly. "I wanted to say I was sorry and that I never meant to hurt you" the other boy answered reaching out to grasp his old friends hand.

Kawa pulled it away as if he had been burned, he looked at his oldest friend with tears in his eyes, "you don't get to do that. Please don't touch me". Iwa apologised again, "I'm sorry, I just wanted to hold your hand. I missed you".

"How can you say that. You didn't miss me when I caught you with her, you didn't miss me when you didn't bother to see me off when I left Japan and you haven't missed me for the last twelve months, so please if that's all you have to say I'm leaving" and with that he stood up from his chair and went to leave. As he started to walk away he felt someone grasp his wrist and pull him into a tight embrace.

Iwa could feel the boy trembling in his arms, he felt so fragile and then he seemed to relax against Iwa's body. They stood there entwined together, the spikey haired boy whispered in Kawa's ear, "I still love you, I never stopped". He felt the boy tense under his touch and then he pushed him away and ran without looking back. Iwa sighed, 'I'm sorry Kawa'.

Iwa decided that he needed to go back to his room as the wedding was going to take place in 12 hours time and he needed to mentally and emotionally prepare himself to see Kawa again.

The brown eyed boy ran blindly through the streets sobbing, his breathing was chaotic and he felt extremely nauseous but kept going until he reached his hotel. He ran into the lift and collapsed onto his knees when the door opened into his room. Why did he think he could do this, he was just misleading himself. He wanted to tell Iwa that he still loved him too, more than anything but he didn't think that he could survive the hurt again when everything went wrong, as he knew it would.

Kawa walked into the bathroom and undressed, he got into the shower and just let the tears flow as the water washed over him. Sobs wracked his body and he eventually got out as his finger tips were wrinkling and he felt like he needed sleep. So that's what he did, it didn't last long as Iwa kept invading his dreams. He remembered the intimacy that they shared, he felt his body shudder just imagining his touch. He wanted him so badly but he knew that he had to harden his resolve and not let Iwa back into his life.

Kawa awoke to a call at 10am, "hey Kawa", it was Suga " would you like to have brunch with me, Akaashi, Kenma and Makki and a few others?" "That would be lovely thanks" he replied, " where do I need to meet you?". "Kenma has the Presedential suite over at the other side of the hotel. Just come over when you're ready". "Okay see you in a little while Suga" and he put the phone down.

Iwa was awakened by Makki at about 10:15, "I'm going for brunch with Kenma and a few others but I'll be back by 2pm to get ready. Oh by the way, I'm sorry that I was so hard on you yesterday but it just brought everything back when I saw him like that again" Makki smiled gently at him. "It's ok I understand, thanks Makki". The pink haired boy left the room. "Right man" Matsun beamed," we're gonna meet Kuroo and the guys for our own version of bruch".

"Oh God" Iwa sighed, " it scares me thinking about what you idiots get up to when I'm not here". Matsun laughed loudly, "I'm gonna go and make myself beautiful". "Not possible, we don't have enough time" Iwa laughed. "RUDE !" Matsun replied in a dramatic pose.