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Miyano should have known better.
You should not bet with your friend on something that depends on luck.
The week after the school festival was so calm that they were playing card games in class, and suddenly bets were on the table, but instead of money they were making challenges.
‘Whoever lost this, has wear two different shoes tomorrow on the way to school”
“In this round, the one that lost will use makeup for a day!”
It was funny, seeing all kinds of challenges thrown at every game, and everyone laughing when the loser realized they now have to do it. Miyano’s ears perked up at the next one.
“The loser has to take a picture wearing a maid outfit!”
Oh, he was going to enjoy that one the most.
Or so he thought.
“And that saves me!”
“Wait” Miyano said in shock
“I’m out too!” another classmate shouted.
“Eh?”
“Miyano! You lost this time!!” Karasubara shouted. “Now you need to send us a picture!”
“N-No! But the whole point of men in maid outfits is-!”
“Come on, come on” He was interrupted by another classmate. “Many of us will be doing a challenge, let’s just have fun!”
Here he was now, walking towards a costume store to find a proper dress and take a stupid picture. The faster he completes the challenge, the faster he will be done with embarrassment.
“And you’ll be sending this picture to all your classmates?” Sasaki asked, walking next to him. Miyano needed someone to help him take the picture, and somehow, he thought that having Sasaki by his side while doing this stupid challenge would help him feel a bit better.
“There is no way I’m sending this to them, I’ll just show it through my phone.”
“Ah… I see” Sasaki’s voice sounded kind of relieved. When Miyano told him about the challenge, he wasn’t sure how to read the face his boyfriend made.
Miyano was confident they would find something at the costume store, it was October, there must be a lot of different things there with people getting ready for their Halloween parties. They will just go there, find the stupid maid costume, take the picture and leave. He wasn’t even going to buy it.
“Can I take a picture with my phone too?” Sakai asked, this time teasing him.
“O-Of course not! T-This is so embarrassing Shuumei-san… Ah… Why did I have to lose at the worst challenge?”
“Haha! Well, at least almost everyone is doing something funny too…”
Sasaki was right, almost all of his class will be making a challenge, at least Miyano just needs to show a picture and doesn’t have to go to school with the whole outfit, he could die just by the idea.
All jokes aside… Miyano couldn’t stop thinking how even if he was embarrassed… he didn’t feel uncomfortable at all at the idea of wearing a girl outfit. Nothing like what he felt in his first year when they made a cafe for their festival. He felt confident with his body and face, and all thanks to the smiling man walking next to him.
“We are here” Sasaki opened the door for him, and they walked in a store full of different things. There were costumes for rent, so they could take one of those to try them on and Miyano hasn’t seen so many options before. Since Halloween was so close, they had the scariest ones where people could easily see them: ghosts, witches, mummies, scary clowns, and at the middle more than one hundred were hanging in a rack, all sorted by themes and then sizes.
“Woah! I never thought they would have this many!” Sasaki said surprised, starting to look at the rack in front of him.
“I’m surprised too… this is a big costume store; I wonder if they still have all these many options in other months of the year… ah! I found it!” Miyano took the maid outfit he just spotted between the piles.
“Ugh, no, the skirt is too short”
Sasaki walked towards him and took other dress options. “Were there any other requirements they told you about?”
“No, just a maid outfit, but… there must be other options with longer skirts” Miyano kept looking, surprisingly there were many kinds of dresses. “Maybe this one?” He found one with long sleeves and a long skirt.
“Yup! I think that’s a good one for the picture Myaa-chan!”
Feeling his face getting red, without thinking about it anymore he took the dress and walked towards the changing room.
“Shuumei-san, please wait for me a little. I'll let you know when I’m ready” closing the curtain behind him, he started the odyssey.
‘Okay, so first, how do I put this on? umh…’ lost in his thoughts, he probably took longer than usual. Wearing the black dress by its own wasn’t that embarrassing, but once he started to accommodate the white apron, and the headwear it was official, he was dressing as a maid. What he tried to avoid on many other occasions and here he was.
“How is it going Myaa-chan? Do you need help with the ribbon at the back?”
Oh right, the ribbon.
“I think I can try to do it by myself…”
“Okay! Let me know if you need anything” Shuumei’s voice sounded different, happier and expectant. As if he was waiting excitedly for Miyano to come out.
After some long minutes, Miyano was able to knit an ugly ribbon on his back, but it was okay, it wasn’t going to be in the picture, and this was just a silly challenge, nothing professional.
“I’m ready Shuumei-san” Looking at himself in the mirror was so embarrassing, at least he was sure Sasaki wouldn’t laugh at him. “Please, let’s just take the picture and forget this ever happened”
Opening the curtain of the dressing room, he couldn’t find his boyfriend outside.
“Eh? Shuumei-san?”
He poked out his head a little bit more, not wanting to be spotted by no one else, although the store was alone when they arrived, what if someone entered while he was changing?
“Over here Myaa-chan! I’m looking at something in the mirror”
Ugh… He didn’t want to leave the dressing room, but swallowing all his embarrassment, he walked in the direction of his boyfriend’s voice.
“What do you think? Do I look good?”
Miyano was struck by the amazing picture in front of him of Sasaki Shuumei wearing a maid outfit, left hand on his hip and doing a flexion with his right arm, showing proudly his bicep. Contrary to the one he was wearing, Sasaki’s outfit has a short skirt, with short sleeves, showing more of his arms. He was also wearing black long stockings that went up to his thighs and, the cherry of the cake, not only he was wearing a headwear, but also a necklace.
To say he was surprised was an understatement.
Miyano was flabbergasted at the amazing view in front of him; he couldn't even speak.
“Hahaha, did you like it that much?” then Sasaki winked an eye and Miyano could feel like a character in one of his BL mangas that would have a nosebleed at any moment.
“Sempai!!! You look amazing!! Definitely muscular men look better with dresses!” As if opening a pandora box, Miyano started to yap nonstop. “The short sleeves hugging your muscles, and also your long legs help to show more the stockings. The necklace looks amazing on you, but all the cute details on the costume contrast so well with your bad boy looks!” Miyano walked around Sasaki, looking at all the little details and saying more and more things he loved about it. Too bad he left his phone inside the dress room to take pictures.
“Wait” Miyano suddenly stopped. “Why are you wearing a costume too sempai?”
“Well, I know you like this kind of thing, so I saw and outfit on my size and decided to surprise you”.
Miyano felt how his love for Sasaki grew more that day.
“Shall we take a picture together?”
“Yes!!” He shouted while running for his phone. Miyano wasn’t excited about the picture before, but with the idea of having a memory of Sasaki wearing that, he threw the embarrassment out of the window.
Standing in front of the mirror together, they took the picture they were going to show Miyano’s classmates.
“Sempai… can I take more pictures of you?”
“Only if you are in them too Myaa-chan”
So then, the photoshoot started, first with just silly poses, until they were making all kinds of different and silly things. He doesn’t remember how, but suddenly they were taking more accessories from another rack and tacking funny pictures with them. Accessories became costumes, and they started to change and try other clothes, laughing and taking more pictures of each other. What was going to be a quick visit ended in one hour full of fun.
“What do you think of this one?” Sasaki said leaving the dressing room. He was wearing a black cape with a yellow thing on his neck. “It supposed to be a vampire, but is kind of plain”
Plain he said, but Sasaki still looked good.
Taking one of the accessories they try on with the elf costumes, Miyano carefully puts something on his boyfriend’s ears. Taking some steps, he looked at the work of art in front of him.
“Now you look like a vampire!” Miyano smiled looking at the full costume. “It looks really good on you, sempai”
“You think so?” Sasaki kept looking at himself in the mirror.
“Will there be one in my size?”
“There is everything here, I’m sure they will have one”
They found one quickly, it was different but still like something out of the Vampire books Miyano had read before. A white shirt with a long neck, a light blue vest with an orange necklace. Adding the elf’s ears too, he was ready.
“How do I look?”
“Cute!” Sasaki still said, while trying to comb Miyano’s hair that was a little bit fluffier with all the costume changing he had done. “Mmm… Maybe we can add something more…”
“Eh? Something more? Like what?”
Sasaki then grabbed something from the accessories table. “Want to know how you’ll look with a piercing?” He then showed him a long black earring.
Miyano’s eyes sparkled.
Since it was a clip-on earring, he was able to wear it easily, and he doesn’t know what happened to him at that moment, but instead of putting the other one on his left ear, he carefully put it on Sasaki’s ear.
“There! Now we match!” He smiled, he was having so much fun.
“Let’s take another picture!” Sasaki said and they took many more, but on the last one, they found a way to hold the phone with something and take a full body picture. Sasaki trying to make a scary face, while hugging Miyano, who couldn't stop smiling.
What Miyano thought was going to be one of the most embarrassing moments of his life turned into a bunch of great memories, all thanks to Sasaki Shuumei.
Next day, he felt confident showing the pictures to his classmates as he promised, because he was not alone. Yet he couldn't ignore the jealous feeling of more people looking at Sasaki wearing a maid outfit.
After that, during lunch, Tashiro brought the topic back to the table.
“I can’t believe Sasaki-sempai took a picture wearing a maid outfit”
“Well, I would have done the same” replied Kuresawa.
“Eh?? Why??”
“If someone asked for a picture of my girlfriend wearing those clothes, I would ask her to take it with me, so people can remember she is taken”
Miyano hid his face “Please, shut up Kuresawa!”
“What I’m impressed of is that he is wearing the outfit too” he didn’t stop talking.
“Well, he knows Miyano loves that stuff so… he was killing two birds with one stone”
“You are so smart Tashiro”
“You both shut up!” Miyano shouted one more time putting his hands on their mouths.