Nothing had been the same when the blonde, the love of her life had walked out the door and out of her life. The pain was still trying to rip her apart, but the blue eyed and aqua haired girl knew that there was nothing she could do, but think about what had happened. The blonde had left her and this she knew wasn't her fault. The young woman with shoulder length aqua hair and blue eyes was sitting in the large house, sitting in her bed room while looking at the floor by the double bed where she had slept alone for the first time in three years.
She sighed deeply and looked at the mirror wall by the door, that lead into the hallway. It was her birthday today. Her twentieth birthday and everything had happened three weeks ago. I can't believe that she's really gone. She thought and slowly lied onto her back on the bed, looking right into the white painted ceiling. She soon sighed and closed her eyes once more, not really minding the slight chill from the open window, that touched her naked skin under the open robe. She pulled some strands of hair from her face, thinking that it was more of a mess than it ever had been. She hadn't had the strength of taking her usual bath that morning, and now the red digital numbers on her alarm clock turned 14:59.
Suddenly the silence was ripped, by the phone yelling on the hallway floor where it had fallen when the doors were banged shut. She hadn't cared of picking it up and putting it back onto the wall. The aqua haired girl slowly got up from the bed and walked over to the door, opening it and sitting down on the floor, picking up the phone and putting it slowly against her ear.
"Kaioh Michiru." She whispered while looking at the floor under her, letting all of her hair fall over her face while she closed her eyes with a sigh.
"You don't sound very good now do you?" The female voice asked on the other end of the phone.
Michiru blinked and looked at the phone with a slightly puzzled look over her face. "Who is this?" She asked after a while of trying to figure out whom she was talking to.
"You probably don't remember me, but we went to the same school the last three years of senior high school." The voice answered and Michiru could make out that the person was smiling. "We were in the same art call, more or less." The woman added.
"More or less?" Michiru blinked while pulling the robe around, like if she was trying to hide her bare skin from the phone.
"I sat as a model for the class." The female added with a gentle laugh. "Every day, I would sit there naked or just with a blanket around myself."
Images from her art classes flashed by inside of Michiru's head, and soon she blinked. "Tsuya Hoshi?" She whispered after a while.
The woman on the other end of the line laughed. "That's right! It's little old me." She laughed.
Michiru could feel a slight comfort in the laugh. "How did you get my number?" She asked as she lied onto her back on the floor, not minding the robe that slid of her stomach.
"You gave it to me remember?"
Michiru blinked and stared at the ceiling for a while before she was about to open her mouth.
"You painted a painting, of me and you gave it to me." The female voice said gently. "It's hanging in my living room right now, and people just love it when they come over to visit." She added and laughed gently.
Michiru blinked and couldn't help the smile that was trying to play on her lips. "Oh." She replied and closed her eyes a little, looking at the lap hanging from the ceiling. "Now I remember. I wrote my number on it so that you could call me."
"And maybe we could get together and have a cup of tea or something, maybe to paint some more." Hoshi laughed gently and Michiru could hear that the young woman was lying down on something. "So, how have you been lately? And why do you sound so down?" She asked after a while with a sigh.
Michiru sighed in response. "I. I broke up with the love of my life." She replied after a while of silence.
"That bad huh?" Hoshi asked after a short while. "Sorry to hear. When did this happen? Even if ain't any of my bluishness."
Michiru slowly sat up on the floor and pulled her hair back from her face. "Three weeks ago." She replied and started playing with the phone line. "I guess things aren't meant to be." She added after a while with a sigh.
"Mmm." Hoshi sighed back and Michiru could hear that she was turning around in something that sounded like leather. "Hey. I know that this might sound a bit weird, but would you like to meet me someday?" She asked after a while or turning. "Catch up and stuff."
Michiru sighed gently and smiled gently while trying a knot on the phone line. "I guess I can't live my whole life indoors. And it would be nice to meet old classmates." She replied and untied the knot. "I would love to."
Now Michiru could hear Hoshi sitting up. "Super!" She exclaimed. "What about this weekend?" She asked now and Michiru could hear some papers being flipped. "There's a party in town, and I have been thinking on going there. Okay, I've been asked to play there." Hoshi now laughed and Michiru could make out a grin.
"Play? Are you a DJ nowadays?" Michiru asked with a slightly curious look over her face.
"Yeah man!" Hoshi laughed. "I made it trough school and got into a private school in Sapporo, of all places. I tell you that place is so amazing that I've been planning on moving there! The parties there are out of this world!"
Michiru laughed gently now while closing her eyes a little. "Why don't we meet before this party this weekend and catch up a little?" She asked while listening to the warm laugh on the other end of the line.
"Sounds like a plan!" Hoshi sighed and Michiru could hear more papers flipping by the phone. "What about. um. today? I have nothing to do, and my place is starting to look a bit doll by now." Hoshi sighed and Michiru could hear something been thrown away.
"Sounds great!" Michiru agreed and slowly got up from the floor while picking up the phone with her. "Heard of Café Lilly?"
"Heard of it?" Hoshi laughed once more. "I've lived there!" She added. "Around five there then?" She asked.
Michiru looked at the clock in the hallway and smiled. "Sounds like a plan. How will I recognize you? I've probably only seen you in the nude."
Hoshi started laughing out loud and Michiru couldn't help but smile at the warm laugh that echoed in the phone. "Oh dang! That was a good one!" Hoshi laughed and soon calmed down, and Michiru could hear something that reminded of a napkin. "I'll be wearing a. um. marine blue Armani shirt, which is pretty hard to miss. It just sticks Armani for miles." She said after a while. "And a black tie to that. And black pants with a black jacket. You can't miss me."
Michiru tried to imagine the clothes in front of her while she closed her eyes. "I'll be looking for Armani then." She replied after a while and smiled. "I'll see you there at five then."
"Yes sir!" Hoshi laughed gently. "And how will I recognize you then?" She suddenly turned silent like if she was thinking.
"I'll probably be the only one there with aqua hair." Michiru smiled and soon laughed gently.
"Dang." Hoshi understood. "Not many out there who have that color I believe." She added with a gently laugh. "Well. I'll be seeing you, Kaioh-san."
"Call me Michiru, Hoshi-san." Michiru almost ordered with a smile over her lips.
"Sure! See you there, Michiru-san! Bye!" Hoshi said and Michiru could make out a smile.
"We will in deed." Michiru nodded to herself and slowly put the phone onto its place. She sighed and looked at the white phone in her hand and soon she looked at the wall, where the screws were. She soon smiled to herself and hanged up the phone on its place, before she walked down the hallway and into the bathroom.

Michiru parked her car outside the well-known Café Lily some hours later. She was wearing a white blouse and a pair of blue pants, which Haruka had left behind, since it had been Michiru who had bought them for her, and her newly washed hair was in a ponytail. Michiru sighed and looked at her watch. She soon smiled as the clock turned five pm before she got out of the metallic green car and closed the door after herself, locking it and walking into the café. The café was pretty much empty and gentle music was plaid in the speakers, which gave Michiru a gentle feeling inside. She smiled to herself and looked around the place, where one of the waitresses was cleaning up a table and five people were sitting with their friends at other tables.
Suddenly a hand was thrown into the air and a laugh was heard form the back of the café, from a table by the window. "Hey! Aqua-girl!" A voice laughed and soon a young woman stood up at the table, wearing the Armani suit that Michiru was looking for. The clothes belonged to a face she hadn't seen in a long time, a young woman with short cut bleached blonde hair and dark eyes, that Michiru recalled could change color in different lighting.
Michiru soon smiled and ran over to the young woman, who was a tad taller than Michiru was herself and soon they hugged each other tightly. "I thought I smelled a little Armani when I parked my car outside!" She laughed and soon pushed the young woman a step away from her, while holding her at the shoulders while looking at the suit and then at the young woman's face with a smile over her lips. "I didn't recall that you had blonde hair back in school.?" She blinked after a while but kept her smile.
Tsuya Hoshi laughed and took Michiru's hands into her own. "I colored it. I needed a slight change, but this color will run out after fifty more washes." She replied and smiled back at her. "You haven't changed a bit, not even aged!" She soon exclaimed while studying Michiru's face and clothes.
"That was nice of you to say, Hoshi-san." Michiru smiled back and soon they both sat down by the table, sitting across the table from each other. "So. how long have you been waiting?" Michiru asked while leaning her head into her hands.
"Only a half hour." Hoshi replied and smiled back. "I've always been a little before my time." She added and winked towards Michiru before looking over to the counter. "Could we have two latte's over here, please?" She shouted and waved her hand, getting a nod as an answer. Hoshi soon sighed and looked at Michiru with a smile. "So. it's been a long time!" She said with a small voice while a smile plaid over her lips. "What more have you been doing? I want to catch up, big time!"
Michiru laughed gently and leaned back against the chair. "I've become more famous than I was, and I just have lived a calm live after school." She replied and looked at the table.
"I'm sorry about that thing with the love of your life." Hoshi said after a while and soon lit a cigarette. She soon blinked and looked at Michiru, who was looking at her. "I hope you don't mind if I smoke.?" She asked carefully being ready to put the cigarette into the ashtray if answered 'yes I do'.
Michiru smiled gently and shook her head. "Doesn't mind me." She replied and did a gesture with her hand.
Hoshi smiled gently. "I'm trying to stop this bad habit." She replied and looked at the cigarette. "But it isn't easy when nothing is working out." She added and looked at Michiru. "I was also dumped by the 'love of my life', which happened two weeks ago." She continued while taking a smoke and blowing out some smoke rings into the lap, which was hanging over the table.
Michiru looked at the young woman and nodded a little, before the two steaming café latte's where put onto the table by a waitress, who walked off again before Hoshi or Michiru cold notice the blush over her face. "So, why did your love leave you?" Michiru asked after a while as she pulled the glass closer to herself.
Hoshi smiled gently before she looked at Michiru. "She left me because she thought I was working too much, and never had time for her. and she had found someone else that she had more fun with." She answered and started stirring the spoon in the warm milk and coffee mixture in her glass.
Michiru looked at the cream in her glass with a gentle smile over her lips.
Hoshi sighed and took another smoke from her cigarette before she put it into the ashtray. "What about you?" She asked after a while before picking up the glass into both hands.
Michiru blinked and looked at Hoshi who was taking a sip out of the warm glass. Michiru's eyes rested on the silver rings on Hoshi's fingers, all where plain silver rings, but one of them had the Kanji symbol for star on it. And soon she looked at Hoshi's ears for some reason, seeing that she had three silver hoops in her right ear while the left ear had five silver hoops. She soon let her gaze study down from Hoshi's face and to her neck where the Armani shirt was open with two buttons, seeing a pretty thick silver chain. Michiru smiled gently and looked at the smoke coming from the still burning cigarette. "My girlfriend left me because she thought we weren't as close as we were before."
Hoshi's eyes popped open behind the glass, which she slowly put down onto the table, still holding it in both hands. She looked at the aqua haired beauty for a while before she swallowed. "That." She whispered and swallowed once more as Michiru's blue eyes looked right at her. "That's a bad excuse." She said after a while of gazing at the young woman. "I've heard that one before too, and it's always just as lame." She added to her speech and ended it with a sigh, while a careful smile plaid on her lips.
"I guess it is." Michiru agreed and picked up her glass of café latte.

Hoshi and Michiru sat at the café for several hours, talking about the past and what had happened after school, not talking about the loss of their relationships very much. After three café latte's each and splitting a huge sandwich and a piece of chocolate cake, the two girls left the café. The time had passed eight and the sun was setting slowly in the sky. Michiru and Hoshi stopped by Michiru's car.
"I had a lovely time." Michiru smiled while looking at Hoshi who put on her black Armani jacket. "I can't wait until the weekend." She added as she leaned against the hood of her car.
Hoshi smiled back at her as the last button on her jacket was closed. "I bet we'll be having fun. And I can try to talk with the owner of the club in getting you free drinks for the evening." She replied as the smile turned into a grin.
Michiru laughed gently while taking the keys to her car from her pocket. "Need a ride anywhere?" She asked as she pressed the lock remote, unlocking the doors to her car.
Hoshi smiled and shook her head a little pointing at the car dark blue BMW, special sports edition convertible behind Michiru's. "I have my own ride." She said but nodded in thankfulness.
"That's your car?" Michiru smiled while looking at the car with a gentle shine in her eyes. "The DJ bluishness seems to have more money than I thought." She added and looked at Hoshi, who laughed, charmed.
"I guess it does." She agreed and put her hands into her pockets. "You'll be heading home?" She asked with a slightly tilted head.
"If you don't have any other plans for our so called get together." Michiru smiled while crossing her arms over her chest.
Hoshi raised an eyebrow. "I guess that can wait until our second date?" She said with a slight smile over her lips. "Too much latte can give you a hard time sleeping, and a bad stomach." She added after a while.
Michiru nodded in agreement. "But I really did have a great time." She replied and walked closer to Hoshi, putting her arms around the young woman and giving her a hug. "It was nice seeing a friendly face." She whispered with a smile over her lips.
Hoshi smiled for herself and soon hugged Michiru back. "It sure was." She agreed and patted Michiru on the back. "I'll be seeing you on Saturday then." She added and gave Michiru a quick, but polite kiss on the cheek, before letting go of the aqua haired beauty.
"It's a date I wont forget." Michiru smiled warmly as she let go of Hoshi, who walked over to her car and jumped into the drivers seat. "Have a nice evening." She said as Hoshi turned on the engine, while waving her hand towards her.
"The same to you, Michiru-san. And sleep well!" Hoshi replied and waved back at her before driving out of the parking spot and racing down the road, while honking twice.
Michiru looked after the backlights of the car with a smile over her lips. This was a nice evening. She thought before she got into her car and started the engine. She soon started her drive back home, with a smile over her lips thinking about the day that had passed and made her think things over. As she parked her car in the yard outside her house she sat behind the wheel for a while after she had turned of the engine, just looking at the house. Things just change. She thought and soon smiled warmly to herself as she got out of the car and locked the doors as she took her first step onto the steps to the house.