Close Quarters (Legal Drug, Rikuo/Kazahaya)

Kazahaya fidgeted nervously beside him and Rikuo couldn’t help but smirk in the darkness. He knew Kazahaya couldn’t see him, but it was automatic – tease the boy even when he wasn’t looking.

“Can’t you hurry up already?” Kazahaya complained, shifting his weight from foot to foot yet again.

“It’s not exactly easy to pick a lock in the dark, from the other side of the door,” Rikuo reminded, making his voice sound more cross than he actually was. He could have just blasted the entire door down, knocking the wood completely off its hinges. Kazahaya had apparently forgotten too and Rikuo wasn’t going to remind him. He didn’t have anything else to do today, and they’d already found the book Kakei had sent them to look for.

Kazahaya fidgeted again, rubbing up against Rikuo’s side accidentally. Well, not exactly by accident. The closet was small enough that they had to be pressed against each other just to fit inside and that had been fine for the five minutes it had taken to get the book from the top shelf but then someone had walked by and shut the door, not knowing there were people inside and it was a surprise to both of them to find that the door locked automatically.

Who put books in a closet anyways? And why did the closet full of books even need a lock?