Hito and Yume

Chapter 4 - `Secluded space`

I can't say that scoping out the house will be easy. For most of it, Hito will have to be avoiding his mother while searching some places. He's quite limited, because already four of the more obvious places are ruled out. He can't just walk outside all the time, so that takes the shed out. His bedroom, the bathroom, garage and basement are all rather commonly travelled places, so they're out of bounds too for this specific purpose too.

The house starts at the lobby, which is where Hito starts his exploration too. The staircase which he takes to his room is visible to the left of the front door, rising half a level before two left turns take it to the upper floor. A corridor extends the full length of the house, connecting three large bedrooms along with a bathroom, wardrobe and an upstairs conservatory, not forgetting that this corridor also overlooks the lobby through glass panes.

Hito knows the upstairs of the house well. The conservatory fits in between two of the bedrooms at the back of the house. Unfortunately, the room is both locked and uncared for. While the housekeepers kept the house clean it is evident by the rooms state of decay that they could never access it either.

With the upstairs ruled off, Hito has no real choice but to navigate the remainder of the lower floor without alerting his mother. From the lobby Hito heads forwards, into a corridor mirroring the upstairs one but on the lower floor. The differences is that to the left, double doors hold closed a spacious lounge with additional attached office (probably where his mother is right now). Hito knows that the lounge offers nothing for his needs, so he heads right.

Before the door which he's never been through there's two other doors on either side. The south door is to a dining room, and the north is to the kitchen. Opening and walking through the door directly in front of him Hito finds an extension to the hallway. Strange, given the upper floor has no such extension, while the house remains the same size. Maybe it was originally one floor, later expanded to two with a bit on the side? A history lesson on this house would be nice.

There's two doors. To his right, an already open door showing what appears to be a partially decorated room, so it's probably going to be used eventually. Taking a quick look inside he sees very little evidence of disuse, with fresh paint on the far wall. Whoever's working on this room doesn't make a lot of noise, or he'd have heard them by now.

To his left however is a closed door, which looks distinctly `cleaner` than the other doors of the house. It could be new, but it could be very rarely used too. Typically rarely used doors acquire dust, but if that's the case where's the dust on this one? Regardless, he's not yet heard of his mother using this area of the house, and he's not yet been told not to explore. While he did have plenty of time before, that's not what he did. He was day-dreaming about friends before, which he isn't now fortunately.

He pushes the handle down and gently wedges the door open, enough to see inside. There's nothing immediately visible, and no reactions from any potential guests who may be inside, so he pushes it open more and enters. He finds himself in a room roughly the same size as the one directly across the corridor, but this one isn't in any way decorated. By the looks of it, quite untouched. There's boarded up windows which would ordinarily be showing the back garden of the house, and the wallpaper is peeling from most of the wall in corners and along the edges. Flakes of paint hang from the roof, being held on by presumably other flakes or webs that little spiders have made to occupy the clearly abandoned room.

It's not private enough, but the cellar underneath is. Hito walks around for a bit before coming across a bit of carpet that's raised in a corner, and underneath that he finds a wood panel with a string handle. The panel itself is very well disguised, looking almost like the others minus the string coming from the wall side of it. He pulls the string slowly, lifting the panel and with it revealing a ladder which descends into darkness. Hito quickly goes across the hallway and takes a torch from the other room before returning, and heading down the panel space. When he reaches the bottom he finds himself almost face to face with an old and quite thick wooden door. The handle has a signature of old origins, dating back at least 50 years if not more. Twisting the handle, Hito lets himself into the cellar.

It's a different story to the room above it. Quite well visibly preserved, cold, and with a small layer of dust over all the tops of everything in the room. The room contains a basic wood table with three wooden chairs, ones which wouldn't be sold on any present day market. While extremely basic, they're trademark is their distinct roughness. The planks used are warped as if cut in a hurry by an unskilled craftsman, however the table is stable. The chairs are more stable however similarly cut planks were used. Mountings on the wall hang out where lanterns would have been used, and one of them even has a lantern in it. The candle inside has burnt down but the lantern is there.

The room itself is a good way down from the surface. It's quite well suited to his needs but the lack of electricity and its depth provide two problems. The first is that there's no proper lighting, the room is only being lit by the torch Hito's holding in his hand. The second is that phone signals will be extremely weak, so getting a good connection down here will be hard unless he can find a way to fix that. VOIP is a good idea, but that's only if he can get internet access down there too, which he doesn't have legitimately yet either. The phone signal issue is the primary one to which Hito will be focusing on however the room does provide a far better degree of privacy for sexual playtime than the bathroom does. It's further down so sound won't get up unless the thick wooden door is left open, so if he moans from orgasms he'd need to get quite loud before someone heard him.

To properly kit up the room he'll need to move the table and chairs and get power into it. Ideally, there would be an easy way to do the latter however the most obvious one is the one which'll make his mother suspicious of the area too. As far as he's aware she doesn't know about the cellar, making it a secluded space which he can keep to himself and Yume. Electricity will be done somehow, but he'll need to work on a good plan for it. For now battery powered lamps should be enough for lighting, and some old blankets can do for the sleeping facilities should he get too tired to climb up the latter after some adventuring. He can get a portable battery powered heater too, but that'll be harder to get down there since they're usually heavier than he'd prefer.

He sits on one of the chairs and pulls the phone out of his pocket before setting the torch on the table and flipping open the phone, showing no new messages. There's a lot Hito can set this place out to be, but primarily it's his own little space to do what he wants in it. If he manages to get Yume in here, all sorts of things can happen. Being sexual with Yume is one of Hito's more recurring fantasies as of recent, with the orgasm of Tuesday being the immediate thought.

On that thought Hito begins to think again of the dream he had three nights ago, of clothing removal and touching in sexual manners. He places the phone on the table, and feeling a boner coming up uses his other hand to straighten his flaccid dick so that it'll extend nicely upwards towards the top edge of the white material shrouding it from the light. He closes the door before moving himself to stand around the middle of the room where the table is. The level of light in the room drops, but placing the torch in a more suitable place will fix that. Hito spends a minute moving the table to the corner of the wall prior to placing the torch so it leans against the wall. Underneath the table slits light escape, while the rest of the room receives a mostly full beam from the torch. There'll be better ways to light up the room in the future, but for now it's quite well illuminated.

With a full mast sporting itself inside Hito's underwear he decides it's time for initial excitement. His hand goes under the elastic and starts to feel around his balls, still quite tightly against his dick. Their smoothness allows Hito to run his hands over them before he moves his hand further down and finds the line where it's like his two legs join, and follows it quickly to the edge of his hole. He can feel his erection as his pushes his hand along the line, and how it fades away where he gets closer to his anus and sphincter. He rubs the region for a short minute, sighing gently as he warms himself up some more.

Sliding his hand out, he undoes the button holding his jeans up and lets them fall to the floor followed shortly by using hands to remove his shirt, touching his torso and neck as he goes. He takes his hand out the left side and using his right arm to fling the shirt towards the wall, kicking up a small amount of dust while he steps out of his jeans and slides them in the same direction, with another puff of dust emanating from the path taken.

The boy stands there for a moment. He lets the feeling of being almost full nude in a new and very private place file into his senses, letting the atmosphere of the room sink in, before he sits on the floor with his knees up, forming an A without the horizontal dash with his legs. Widening his legs he uses his hand to find the way under the elastic again before he follows his balls and that almost invisible line between his legs down to his hole. He quickly shoves a finger into it, with another immediately proceeding. A loud exhalation of air follows the insertion of two digits on his hand, with the past three days of sexual energy preparing to emerge in full force.

He starts to slide down the elastic rim of his underwear using his other hand. His dick, like before, catches up on the elastic and presses up, forming a highly extended tent. By looking down across himself, Hito can see the base of his dick as it lifts the elastic rim away from his waistline. He decides not to keep it trapped for too long, and saves the effort of his dick freeing itself by using his hand to lift the elastic from over it, letting his dick fall to his stomach with a quiet slap.

His breathing by this point has intensified significantly, and it's more closely resembling a panting (complete with audible moans). He's not quite been this alone in a while, so he's letting loose on his desires and allowing himself no limits for a change. If he wants to put something in his rectum he will, whether the something is a finger or a well oiled stick of appropriate size. Unfortunately, no such object is present so fingers remain the active fucker for Hito.

Following the flicking of his dick, Hito removes his hand from his anus and stands up, letting his underwear fall to the ground before stepping out of them and enjoying the freedom of being fully naked inside an extremely private place. The ability to just walk around this room freely without the worry of someone walking in unexpectedly, the freedom it makes him feel. He might one day share the feeling with Yume, and if he's fortunate enough possible put his dick in Yume through either one of the two orifices which will permit.

He widens out his legs and lowers himself, opening his hole and allowing anything placed underneath to easily penetrate his hole. He moves his hand under it again, and pushes up to make his fingers again go into the hole a second time. His other hand gets used to grab his dick before moving up and down along the shaft, exposing the second head as his foreskin slides down and back up to cover it again. The simultaneous actions of finger fucking and wanking are a compliment to each other. While his fucking hand pushes into his hole, his wanking hand pulls his dick, and with the fucking hand coming out his wanking hand goes up. The action is yet another experiment that Hito had thought of prior to moving but hadn't really tried, and while definitely sexually stimulating it does not provide the satisfaction that having sex with his boyfriend would definitely bring.

He feels the point of no return coming, and slows himself down. He ceases the finger fucking, and leaves his fingers in there, while he slows down the wanking before he can feel the edge of the point sitting right on the tip as he gently raises and lowers his hand over his shaft. He keeps himself there with sudden anal stimulation every 10 or so seconds, while the wanking action keeps its same pace. The edge is a very fine one, but having had two years Hito's mastered keeping himself there and believes he'd be able to hold someone else there quite sufficiently too.

He stops, and removes both of his hands from their positions as he stands himself up before walking (hands brushing against his dick and lower cheeks to intentionally provide some satisfaction during walking) to the table. He grabs the torch and phone with one hand and moves to the opposite corner, taking a chair with him to set them both on. Once the torch and phone are set down on the chair, he walks back over to the table and jumps onto it before flipping over and lying on it with himself facing the roof. He adjusts his position so that his legs hang off the edge while the feeling of lying on the surface of the table sinks in. The table is cold, but it'll soon warm up from his body heat.

He moves further out and widens his legs after a moment of settlement, and places his fingers at his hole. He starts rubbing with a new strength to get this over with, along with some additional more vocal moans. His other hand moves to continue satisfying his dick, followed shortly by the resumption of finger fucking. His fingers move quicker than they were, with his wanking hand following closely in tempo. He tries pushing deeper with his fingers as he goes, hoping to reach a high while he fantasises about Yume fucking him with either a finger, mouth or dick. A tongue in the hole being fucked would be an interesting feeling, and a very powerful one if his boyfriend were to be the one doing it. Returning the favour wouldn't be a problem, Hito would do it but only because Yume's his boyfriend. Most other boys, if they ever got sexual with Hito, wouldn't receive such luck.

The edge he was so close to before comes again quickly with extra tingling as he gets closer to it, but this time Hito doesn't hold himself at it. He lets himself surpass the point and continues to play with his anus while his dick begins to tense up moments before spasm after spasm sends wave after wave of sexual pleasure through him, reaching toes, fingers and head in instants. His finger fucking action stutters while he tries to restrain himself from the power of yet another orgasm. He body moves as the sexual pleasure surging through him causes muscles to quickly contract and release. Inside his balls he feels the tingling surging around. His still hanging legs pull towards the table as he arches himself slightly upwards.

Eventually, the orgasm subsides and the spasms turn to twitches, and then to merely pulses. He lets the hand still fucking his anus stop, as the energy from his orgasm comes down and his breathing slowly begins to come down to a reasonable level. His dick quickly begins to retract down to a flaccid state, where it'll lie flat and reach just above 2 inches on himself. He leans his head back fully onto the table, staring upwards at the roof as he allows the climax to settle itself and fade out.

It doesn't take long before he stands up from the table and walks around, shaking himself and watching his small bendy stick as it flings itself side to side before levelling itself. The force of gravity on it as it slaps each side tries to bring about another erection, but being only moments since an orgasm that's not going to happen. Hito walks around, letting himself feel things with his dick as he slides it over the table, mid to top section of the chairs and along some of the walls. The temperature changes conduct themselves through his far warmer dick and Hito feels the cold through it.

He finally decides enough is enough, and proceeds to find his underwear. He picks them up, and holds them over his dick imagining he was wearing them as he stretches them over it before dropping them to the floor and properly pulling them up, sliding them over his small penis with his hand as he goes. Securing them in place he makes a small effort to reach the hole he finger fucked before pulling up and ensuring the ring of elastic is holding them up. He continues to get dressed for the next few minutes, continually playing with his senses as he does so.

Post to getting dressed, it's time to head back up to the surface. The torch and phone are taken from the seat and on the way to the door Hito checks what time it is. Surprisingly, the small bits of exploration he's done have only covered 30 minutes, with around half of those spent down in the cellar playing with himself.

He unlocks the door and pulls it open, letting the light of the little hatch area flood through the doors. It's not quite blinding, but it's brighter than the torch on its own. Hito climbs up the ladder and once up closes back the hatch, hides the pull rope tidily, and re-lays the carpet in almost the same way as it was to begin. He heads over the hallway and returns the torch to where he took it from too, making sure it's off while he walks over.

The discovery is quite an important one in terms of his own privacy and future plans. If he kits the room right it'll be a second bedroom. Uses could range from avoiding angry mother to hiding things he shouldn't have, and lets not forget playtime whether solo or with Yume.

The remainder of the house doesn't need much exploring. This little corridor joining these rooms together was the only part Hito hasn't been in, excluding the conservatory. He'll explore the conservatory once it's accessible, but it's probably not got any secrets in it given it's on the upper floor.

For the proceeding few hours until Yume's return home Hito's stuck playing games on his XCR devices or TV, and neither are interesting. Games are more interactive and immersive, whereas TV is more for observation. There's nothing else to do and Hito's not the social sort of person so to gaming it is.

There's a reasonable choice, but we're not going to know what that is. All we need to know is that he played through around four different games for about an hour each before some quick food.

It isn't until around 7pm that Yume finally returns. Admittedly Hito got slightly concerned, but it's that sort of nervous fear where you're thinking endlessly `where is he? Why isn't he back yet?` Something anyone who's been in love knows all too well during absences.

The small display on top of the phone flashes and Hito jumps over from his game to read it. `Home :)` it says. He smiles, it's about time he got back too. Eight hours? Far too long in Hito's opinion (and mine too).

Hito taps back in `Took too long` and sends it, smiling as tries to anticipate Yume's response.

`Soz. 'rents took me evrywhr.` The reply back reads, with an incitation that it was evidently against his will too. Ever been on a day trip that you disliked but tolerated mildly as a kid? Imagine that.

`Everywhere?`

`In my town.`

`Oh. Was it nice?`

`Boring.` Yume sends back, with a yawning emoticon beside it (I'd type one if I could but I can't figure a good one out).

`Care 2 b unbored?`

`I wish. cnt talk.`

`Aw y?` Hito asks, quickly having the sinking feeling of disappointment in the day coming through.

`Have to tidy my room.

`Tidy it quick.`

`Can't.`

`y?`

`When im done it'll b bed time`

`Oh.`

`Talk tmoz. G'night 'boyfriend'` Yume sends, as a final goodnight. Hito smiles, reading the message and thinking about having a boyfriend. Spires of lighting fire through his nerves softly tickling his hands and stomach, the distinct feelings of love travelling across him.

`Night Yuyu.` Hito taps in and sends, with a sigh following. He wishes Yume could stay, and if it were at all possible he'd bring Yume here. The cellar really is a good place for him to set up as a hidden bedroom, especially if he wants Yume here.

So there was very little exciting events concluding from this day, excluding the morning adventures and sexual playtime from the basement. A very new experience, since having a private place to himself is quite a new thing for Hito. The most privacy he's ever had is from the bedroom he had with a lock. Not a very soundproof room. Playtime was always risky in there, so he kept it to while his mother was doing something else where he could.

Back to gaming, again. It isn't entertaining, at least not as it used to be. Funny things happen when one falls in love. Things of common interest between the couple stand out so much more, and things of old interest tend to be rather boring and unentertaining while your lover isn't around. Every moment you're with your lover, it flashes by so quickly, and every moment away lasts an eternity. Hito is starting his own realisation of the true power that love can hold over a person, how much you can really feel for one person.

If you've been in love, so deep in love that you forget what Reality is like, you know this. The burning desires to be nowhere but with your lover, tearing through you every second of every day. These feelings have their way with you, and they're having their way with Hito too. The fact that his relationship with Yume is considered as a homosexual relationship makes it far harder for him. Hiding this relationship, hiding the feelings for Yume, it takes strength to hide such a powerful emotion.

The night to follow is as similar as the nights prior. The dreams never do end the way Hito wants. Often, only moments before the part he wants really starts does the dream cut itself off. A disappointment, but the fantasies from these dreams carry on throughout the day.

The phone, hidden under Hito's bed for the night, has one new message by the time Hito wakes. Received at 9:32am, it reads `wake up.` Not a really informative message, since being on silent that wouldn't work.

Hito reads the message, and then checks the digital clock beside him, reading 9:43am. `Awake. Eating.` He replies, while he does his morning things. He'd text while eating but his mother doesn't know about the phone and it's best that things stay that way.

A while later, and their texting conversation begins. One too long overdue for Hito, and expecting the same for Yume too.

`Here yet?` Hito reads, from Yume just over 8 minutes ago. It really took Hito 15 minutes to eat? Interestingly slow.

`am now.`

`sup?`

`nothin much. u?`

`same.`

`can I ask u smethin?` Hito sends, hoping to clarify one detail he is almost sure of but wants to hear from Yume to be certain.

`sure.`

`I'm your boyfriend?`

`Yes.`

`yay.`

`^`

Hito smiles. One week, just under, and he has a boyfriend at his new school. Going from alone and believing he was straight to accepting probable homosexuality and having a boyfriend. A change unexpected, but a change welcomed now that it's happened.

`Whats ur addr?` Hito asks.

`53 Cantour Lane.`

`k. u know mine?`

`yes. naitan house.`

`yep.`

`its close to school.`

`5 min walk.`

`can I come over 1 day?` Yume sends to Hito. A question Hito hoped to ask first. He smiles, but knows it can't happen just yet.

`when my mom tlkz 2 ur mom.

`ur gettin gd at tis.`

`ty.`

`wat to do?`

`u tell me`

`can we call?`

`maybe. 2 mins`

Hito closes the phone and silences it, before pocketing it and making his way slowly downstairs. His mother is busy as always, making good time to get to the hidden cellar. Hito takes the torch from the room across the way again, and opens the cellar hatch before descending down the ladder and closing it after himself. He turns the torch on in the new darkness and walks through to the cellar before closing its door and setting the torch on the table still in the corner.

When Hito pulls out the phone again, after locking the door, the signal bars read out three. It's not too bad but it could be an issue depending on how strong Yume's signal is too. It's worth testing now that he's down here. He could've checked signal strength yesterday too, but he was a bit occupied by something else.

`now u can.` Hito texts to Yume. Mere moments later, the ringing begins. This time though Hito's quicker at answering the call.

"Hello Yuyu." Hito says into the phone, happy to be able to talk to his lover.

"Hi Hihi," Yume replies, causing Hito to smile. There's audible static in the line, but it's not very bad either. Reception down here is far better then expected. "How're you doing?"

"Good. You?"

"Same. Could be better..." Inciting something relatively obvious for the two of them.

"What'd ya mean?" Playfully comes back from Hito's end.

"Well you're not here, so..."

"Would you like me there?"

"Sure would, or me by you."

The last half of the sentence reminds Hito to tell Yume about the cellar he found. "You know I found a room here?" He says.

"Say again?" Yume asks almost as an instruction, trying to determine whether Hito's telling the truth of not.

"There's this hidden room under the floor of my house." Hito replies.

"Damn... Cool too." Yume lets a small moment of silence travel between them, before Hito interrupts it.

"We can use it."

"How?"

"If I kit it out we can come down here."

"Won't that be hard?" Yume says, questioning the idea and its plausibility.

"Yeah, but think about it. Our own space. To ourselves."

"Hmm... Yeah... Does your mother know about it?"

"I don't think so, but I won't ask. She'll suspect something if I do."

"Good."

"Yeah. Looking forward to tomorrow?"

"Derp."

"Haha. Well I am."

"Think we'll do much together?"

"Nope, sadly."

"Why?"

"Because school. We can't show our feelings without being picked on for it, our sort of relationship is `bad` apparently."

"We'll find a way." Yume says almost factually.

"Don't risk it."

"Why?"

"What if someone tries to hurt us?" Hito asks, remembering how Kauna was. He remembers a boy from his school in Kauna who got picked on for being homosexual, and I think the message passed into him.

"Who would?"

"Everyone."

"You really think that?"

"Yes. We'd be called gay, and being gay isn't `right` yet. People have a `dislike` of gays."

"Iithana wants them to be legal."

"Kauna, the city, has a hatred for them."

"We're not in Kauna, Hito. I love you, and if we have to break laws for our relationship to exist then so be it." A strong attitude to have.

"Just. Don't give anyone in school a `tick` that we're together. I don't want the attention. Most of Iithana hates them too."

"How do you know that?"

"I hear things sometimes."

"Well, I don't know where you hear things from but I'm sure everyone here is fine with gays, and those who aren't can either change or fuck off." Yume says harshly against those who disapprove of homosexuality. I admit, I wish I was a bit more like Yume sometimes, more proactive on the front of supporting my sexuality.

Hito smiles, as the warm mushy feeling floods through him while his lover defends their relationship and their sexuality. "That reassures me a bit."

"Good."

"I still think our relationship should be kept quiet."

"If that's what you really want, then I'll do the same."

"Thanks. And Yume."

"Yes?"

"I love you too."

"I wish I could hug you."

"Same. We will one day."

"Soon?"

"Hopefully."

"Hito, I have to go now."

"Noo! Why?" Today should've been an `open day`, why does he have to go now?

"Didn't finish my room yesterday."

"Can you finish it quickly?"

"I'll try."

"Text when you're done?"

"I will."

"I love you."

"I love you too Hito. Talk to you soon." And a short moment later Yume ends the call. Hito sighs, and checking the time it's barely gone 10:10am. He has no idea how long Yume's going to be, so the logical idea is to head back up and play games until he's back.

He heads out the room, seals it all back up and returns the torch before heading back upstairs to his room. His games are boring him now, but he has to do something. For the first time since setup he decides to see if there's anything to do on his computer.

Primarily, it's a work computer. Most of his old ICT work from school is on there, and a few small games that really hold no real interest. Without Internet, he can't really get anything either. Hito's not yet had Internet access outside of school, so he's not got a lot of things to do. Sure, he could type some random story but that wouldn't fill the time.

He spends the next unknown number of minutes going through the various games on his computer and XCR, waiting for Yume to text back saying that he can call again, waiting for Yume to return so he can hear his voice again. When he finally does get the message that he can call him, it's midday and incidentally feeding time. Hito doesn't read the text until about 20 minutes after its received, since he was eating when it was sent.

He reads it, heads to the cellar and once in tells Yume to begin the call that he's been waiting for.

"'Ello again." Yume says, shortly after Hito answers.

"Hey. Why were you so long?" He asks.

"My room gets messy. Not just normal messy but mega messy. You'd need a map."

"Sure I would." Hito sarcastically says.

"Heh. Well, it's done now."

"Good."

"While I was tidying I was thinking."

"Yeah?"

"About us."

"And?"

"I thought about you mostly. Your beautiful face."

Hito feels the surge of warmth and electric spires firing through his nerves. "Thanks." He replies, not knowing what better to say.

"I mean it though. I don't know how I managed to get you."

"Me neither."

"And then I thought about what it would be like to hold you."

"I've thought of that too, a bit."

"I imagine you being really warm."

"And I imagine you the same."

"Do you think we'll get much time alone at school?"

"No, not really. The tree, maybe, but people can see us."

"Wish they couldn't."

Their conversation trails on through discussing ways to be alone with each other, none being a viable option, how much they might get to talk every weekend, possible ways to arrange sleepovers. Many different things they all are based on the idea that they need to be alone together <insert Fall Out Boy reference here>.

By the end, they're discussing ways to spend time without one another because its an inevitable consequence of being lovers from afar outside of school.

"So you're sorted Yume," Hito says, "but what about me?"

"What games have you got?"

"Not any good ones."

"Come on, I know you have something good."

"Maybe, if you think that Zomboids is good."

"It actually is quite popular."

"I barely played it, found it boring."

"Serious? Play it some tonight when we're not talking."

"Sure."

"I have to eat now, so I'll message whenever I'm done if my room is done properly like my mother wants it. Mother'll take my phone from me if it's not done properly so here's hoping the best."

"Hoping that here too."

"Talk soon again Hito. Love you."

"Love you too Yuyu."

Yume ends the call, and Hito heads up to find something to do. There's not much, there never is, so for now watching TV will have to suffice (if there's anything worth watching on).

Rather unfortunately for Hito, Yume doesn't message back. After TV got boring, Hito went up to play Zomboids like Yume suggested, hoping it'll pass the time. The game is pretty much a top down based game similar to the Gauntlet series, and while it holds little interest for Hito he plays it because Yume wanted him to.

Shortly before settling in bed for the night he ensures the phone is silent and places it inside the hidden compartment in his bag. He's got nothing else in there yet, except some paper and a pencil case. He lies down in his bed and places the blanket over himself.

Hito lies there for a while, thinking almost endlessly like he did the first night. How would he be with Yume outside of school if they're always this far apart? It's a mental torture and it'll take its toll on his emotional state sooner or later. He needs to figure out how to be with Yume more outside of school. The tree isn't very isolated, in fact it's quite public. It's not visited very often and very few people pass by it but the main area where everyone hangs around can be seen from the tree, which means if they hug one another or kiss they'll be seen by at least one person.

There's no other places around the school that they can hide in during breaks to be together, however they haven't explored either. If he gets the chance he'll pitch the idea of scouting the school for a good alone spot to Yume and hope to actually explore the place.

He drifts to sleep slowly. By the moment just before sleeping he's thinking of how Yume would actually feel. Would he be soft? Warm? Comfy? Would his skin feel rough or smooth? How would he look so close up? Does he have any facial or arm hair yet? Yume's body is a big mystery to Hito, but one day he hopes to uncover that mystery and find out exactly what its like.