Special Property (BxB)

Chapter 67. A Hot Shower

There was a great health plan and a full-benefits retirement plan for the staff of St. Catherine's. The retirement plan, when it came to the nuns, was the punchline of many jokes considering that the nuns took a vow of poverty and most would die here anyways.

—Life at St. Catherine's vol 1, p 325

Day 19

Kato woke up. Somehow during the night, it seems Takahashi laid on his back and Kato had rolled over. His head was on Takahashi's shoulder. It must have been warm last night because Takahashi had kicked off all his blankets. Kato could observe Takahashi's body. He moved his head to lay on Takahashi's chest. He could hear his heartbeat.

The first thing he noticed is that Takahashi had a major case of morning wood. Kato thought it was humorous that he wasn't the only one who suffered from this malady. He had an almost irresistible urge to peek because he had never seen someone else's morning wood, but he controlled that urge. That's entirely none of my business, Kato thought to himself.

Kato was still a bit sleepy, but he wanted to touch Takahashi. He took his finger and traced Takahashi's abdomen, his ribs, then his belly button.

Takahashi chuckled, "Hey, that tickles."

Kato smiled. Then he saw Takahashi's happy trail. He moved his finger and began to play with this little strip of hair. He noticed Takahashi's bump in his boxers jumped. He was super curious as to how the two were related. It simply fascinated him.

Takahashi gently grabbed Kato's hand. "Stop. That's arousing. Please don't make things hard for me."

Kato moved his hand back to safer territory. "Sorry, I didn't know."

"I gotta pee." He stated matter-of-factly.

Kato moved so Takahashi could get up. He donned his bathrobe and left. With Takahashi gone, he was temporarily lonely again. Kato suddenly realized that there was a strange double-standard in his head. Why did he have a problem with Takahashi touching him like this, but no problem when he really wanted to explore Takahashi's body. Maybe he wasn't being fair to Takahashi.

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Kato was playing with his plushie wolf when Takahashi returned. Kato watched Takahashi take off the robe and get dressed.

"Am I really that fascinating to you?" he asked.

"Yes. I still want to draw you."

"Naked?"

"Yes," Kato confirmed.

"Can you draw me naked, but like blur the naughty bits?"

"Why?" Kato asked.

Takahashi scratched the back of his head. "I dunno, just not comfortable with knowing there's a picture like that of me."

"I can do that. But I still need you naked so that I can get everything right. When I get the supplies together, we'll make plans." Kato got up and got dressed. He had the feeling he was being watched in return.

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Murata was missing for breakfast, so Kato had nobody to talk to this morning. The other two boys hardly ever talked anyways. Takahashi was eating alone at his table. Kato hated this. It was almost as if they had to pretend to be perfect strangers during meals.

After breakfast the boys hung out in the room waiting for 10 o'clock mass. Takahashi played his guitar while Kato played with his wolf, humming along to the songs Takahashi played.

This Sunday's mass was only the second one he had attended, since he missed the last one due to the flu. He suddenly realized he had been here almost three weeks already. The whole hour he simply amused himself with recalling what a crazy three weeks it had been.