As if a string tied the boys together, they were inseparable. Anything one did, the other did too. So enraptured were each of them with the other, neither boy had other friends. Even when puberty slammed into…
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The Burdens We Hide (SFW)— Q&A
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The Burdens We Hide (SFW)— Chapter IV
“If I do something about it, you can’t let anyone else see you like this anymore, Hoshino-kun.”
The Burdens We Hide (SFW)— Chapter III
“Hello.”
… to a new nightmare. It was Aoto, bag slung unevenly over his shoulder and a workbook in his pale, thin hand.
“Um, uh, h-hello,” Chūshi felt on fire but desperately tried to ignore the sirens ringing in his head. “I’m Chūshi Oshiba, it’s nice to meet you.” He held out his hand.
This is just a job. You’re doing this to get dad off your back so you can’t screw this up. Whatever he says about yesterday, just stick to tutoring and get through it.
The Burdens We Hide (SFW)— Chapter II
“Yes, I do.” Aoto didn’t bother looking around, prey already in sight. He pinned the bartender under his gaze. “Are you a top?”
The bartender’s large hands fumbled with the glass they’d been holding. He managed to save it from shattering on the ground before placing it down. “You can’t be serious kid.”
“Look, can you do me or not? I’m already prepped.”
“… I’m thirty years old, kid; way too old for you.”
The Burdens We Hide (SFW)— Chapter I
The trip down memory lane cost him.
Lost in his thoughts, Chushi met slight resistance back in the physical world, and stumbled. Before he could fall completely, an icy hand grabbed his wrist, saving him from the ground but sparing none of his mortification. Embarrassment welled up inside his stomach as he dusted his jeans off. “Sorry.”
There was no one else out here this early in the morning, so he knew who stood before him. They had never been this close before, and Chushi knew that meeting Aoto’s eyes would reduce him to a stuttering mess. He took a step to move past him, but that cold hand gripped him tighter.
“What was that?”
The Burdens We Hide is now live!
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