"I never really got to properly meet her last time, on account of the, uh, fuckboyhood." Though now they're by the school gates so they should be a bit more circumspect about what they're saying.

And there are, check, absolutely people occasionally glancing their way to make sure their eyes aren't lying to them.

Haru does let go of Yutaka's hand when they're off the ice. They're at school, not on a date.

He's never been this out, like, he's been out, there's always been rumours, but he's always been discreet, and now he's not being discreet, and it feels a little bit terrifying to be doing this so brazenly without having sounded people out first, doing it in front of everyone rather than small groups at a time, without any control at all. People will think—things, whatever they'll think, he has no idea, this is his third day here so he doesn't really know that many people yet (or rather they don't know him) and he has zero control over his image and Iwasaki Iemasa will definitely have opinions about his disgraceful son being so openly gay in front of everyone and it's, it's terrifying and it's exhilarating and it's such a rush, he feels a little bit giddy and almost dizzy from the thoughts.

Yutaka used to think that being a fuckboy was the best way to say fuck you to Iwasaki-san and everyone else but this? Being so completely shameless about it, not even caring who sees, kissing a boy in the middle of the school parking lot out in the open, dating him?

This is better. This is definitely, definitely better.

"I could really get used to this."

"Oh good, I'd feel kind of silly if you were bailing on me now."

To class.