Getting Exposed

It was another school day, but today was not like most, as Kei walked in and expected to see her regular neighbour, who expectantly beat everyone there to classroom 2-A each day, then just quietly sitting beside her, but today the seat was empty.

She must be running late... okay never running... but I guess she'll turn up later...?

Except as the day went on, Subaru never showed up.

"Are you missing you're girlfriend?"

Jiro Shirokane; long time friend and wingman in most sports they played together, he was your typical average achieving, but ever positive guy, with a real short cut of dark hair, who leaned back to speak to Kei.

"What did you say...?!"

Kei focused on him, with more alarm than annoyance.

"Hey I'm joking..."

He smiled and leant away.

I must have been watching her vacant seat a bit too much...?

Kei slipped back to her normal 'disinterested in girls' mode.

"Nah, it's just odd having a spare seat beside me, is all..."

"Yeah... it doesn't feel right without her here..."

They both looked to the empty space again.

I wonder if something went wrong...

"So you coming to soccer practise after school?"

Jiro asked, changing topic.

"Don't know..."

Kei really didn't need the drills or sets, as she was by far the best player on the team, made of all boys, but she just wasn't really in the mood today either.

"I hear it'll be running drills, so you can probably pass..."

Her teammate knew Kei could probably run circles around all the others too.

Kei shrugged and Jiro just went to the next thing on his mind.

"So you going to the party later this week?"

"Probably... you?"

"Yeah for sure... maybe I might even meet someone..."

Jiro continued on as Kei filtered him out beyond that, as recently he always seemed eager to meet girls, his own age, but from elsewhere, as apparently none of the girls around them now where 'fine enough', and somehow they'd magically appear from the world for him to date, which to be honest, hearing what his ideas of a good date were - they wouldn't be around for long.

By school day's end Kei was even less enthusiastic about practise, so was going to blow the whole thing and head for home, when she overheard a nearby conversation start.

"I wrote a bunch of notes, and our maths homework sounded important... but I don't think anyone knows where Sekiya lives..."

Tachinana sounded slightly distressed, having put the effort into accommodating for the absentee.

But surely one of the other girls knows where Subaru lives...

But after a few overheard questions about it; apparently none of the students who remained did, though several had offered to try and deliver them.

With most disappointed and then gone, Kei, who had stuck around to see if the notes could be sent, eventually stepped up to the task.

"I actually know where Su - Sekiya's house is... so..."

"Oh could you, I have a meeting I'm already late for. It wouldn't be out of your way though?"

Shiori rushed over with relief and handed the paper over.

"No it's fine..."

Kei lied, but convincingly.

So Kei eventually took the other way train, found the right stop and then the correct house, before checking her phone for a reply to her earlier sent messages.

In the grey rock.

Was all that had been sent back, to a few messages, but Kei figured it out pretty quick; finding the fake stone in the small garden and the spare key inside.

"I'm coming in..."

Kei carefully entered, though not to a single sound, as not even the lights where on, but it was definitely the right place, so she continued in.

"Hey Subaru?"

Kei went for her open bedroom door and silently ventured in, seeing the thin figure tucked up in the sheets and apparently sleeping, but got rather uneasy when she got closer and looked at her usually pretty face.

Wow she's sweating up a storm... she looks real ill. No wonder I didn't get any other replies from my messages...

"Subaru?"

Still with no response Kei reached down to lightly feel her pale forehead.

She's super hot too... I don't think I've ever seen someone this sick before...

"Sekiya can you hear me? I think I should call someone..."

"No..."

She replied in almost a whisper, and then coughed a few times for that little effort.

"Are you sure...?"

Kei wasn't convinced and felt glum about her situation.

Subaru weakly nodded, then softly asked.

"Why'd... you come...?"

"I brought some school work for you, but it's not important... You need your rest."

Subaru shimmied under her covers.

"Did you want me to get you anything?"

"Thirsty..."

Kei hustled out the door and was back with a glass of water in no time, while helping Subaru up a little so she could drink, Kei touched her back - feeling her pyjamas were quite damp and hot too.

She's soaked... I've got to get her changed into something fresh...

The moment Subaru finished most of the water; Kei retrieved the glass from the floppy one, and immediately grabbed her top from the waist and jimmied it up without resistance.

"Uh...?"

Was all the wearer made out before Kei had whisked the plain t-shirt up and off, leaving Subaru in nothing above the hips.

Her pain skin and total lack of boobs wasn't a surprise, but Kei came prepared with a small towel and gave the fevered and partly delirious one a quick scrub - who merely sat on the bed with her hazel eyes closed.

"Here you go."

Kei slipped a different t-shirt back over the red-headed Subaru and helped put her thin arms into the sleeves, before laying her back down again.

Now just the bottoms too...

Kei gave a good yank to remove the light, but also damp shorts off, but inadvertently pulled too much, as the plain black underwear that stuck to them came off too.

There she stopped, as something flopped out into view.

Huh...? That shouldn't be... But that's a...?!

Kei looked back and forth between Subaru's face and the manly member that had appeared, confused at its presence upon the fine 'lady', before realisation swiftly hit.

That definitely is a... so then Subaru's a...

Subaru was completely unaware, while Kei stared at the darker pink and wrinkled thing between his partly uncovered thighs.

Kei felt her cheeks blush, and franticly pinched the underwear and reapplied them, all without a sound. It wasn't the first time seeing a guys bits, as some of her 'mates' had on a rear occasion been rather reckless at times, but their sight had been fleeting and she'd never been so close before.

That big slug was a guy's junk...!

But her thoughts trailed off when her vision fell to the rest of Subaru's legs.

Oh dear me...!

The pale skin was crossed and lined with darker strips, where multiple cuts had been done and repaired, across the front, sides and even across each other, it really was rather a confronting jumble to witness.

Kei gave Subaru's sweaty legs a light rub with the towel, but left them bare under his returned bed covers.

Then she just sat beside his bed for a while, with her mind running a mile-a-minute.

Those were really... upsetting... I see why Subaru's so kempt about her legs... - wait his...! That's right Subaru's a guy... with that thing there... - I was so close! I... I nearly touched it too! Why then dose he wear girl's clothes... why...? Is it somehow like my circumstance...? There has to be a good... - wait... I was totally showing off... all of my... last time I was here I was practically flashing her - I mean him, all the time...!

Kei felt like she wanted to beat herself or him for the past she recalled, but still sat unmoved.

It dose explain all the reactions I got from Subaru though... the looking away and such... And it was mostly my fault for strutting about in the buff like that I suppose...

Kei blushed harder while remembering everything in her last overnight visit and slowly calmed down.

I only jumped to conclusions like I expect everyone dose about me... I mean she - he acted so demure and innocently... of course anyone would think Subaru was a girl... I mean she - uh, he - is so pretty...

Kei realised she was staring at Subaru's resting face on the pillow, looking perhaps a bit better from her aid, but peaceful and worry free.

I guess I have a huge, mutual secret to keep now too...

Kei had made a little, basic, meal and sat at the Sekiya's table, quietly wasting her time as she scrolled her socials again, till something stirred from beyond the room.

Subaru appeared; in some dark shorts and the t-shirt Kei had put him in, and went right up to the table before registering someone else was in the room.

"Kei...? You're still here?

"Yeah."

"I'm so sorry."

'She' dipped 'her' head for inconveniencing Kei.

"You feel any better?"

Subaru collapsed gently onto the nearest chair and glanced at the food Kei had readied.

"Yeah a bit..."

He tucked some rouge dark-red hair behind his ear.

"Did you do all this for me... as well?"

That face and voice, it's so peculiar to think of Subaru as a man though... I need to know it's all not just some kind of weird act... I really hope not...

"I know your... secret... sorry."

She said suddenly as Subaru started to eat a little.

"Huh... what do you mean?"

Subaru looked unsure at Kei, still a little vaguely too.

"I know that you, Subaru Sekiya, are a man..."