Midori yanked the sheets from her bed in another attempt to find her anime box sets. "Ugh!" she groaned when she saw it wasn't there. But after rolling her eyes and re-making her bed up she continued her search through her room. The girl had already looked in every sensible place in her room and now she went back to double-check the places she had looked in before. When she was finished, she still hadn't found the box sets.
"Mom!" she yells down the stairs where her mother and father were sitting down and having their second cup of coffee today.
Her mother; Ume, heard her daughter calling for her up the stairs and sigh. "What is it, Midori?" she turned her head to the stairway and awaited a reply.
"Where are my anime box sets?!"
This made Ume set her coffee cup down and stand. She placed her dishes in the sink on her way to see what Midori was trying to look for- as she had multiple anime sets laying around the house. Midori was in a hurry and rushed down the stairs, grabbed onto her mom's hand and dragged her up to her room.
"Where did you last see them?" Ume asked her daughter who replied with a heavy sigh.
"I don't know, mom! That's why I'm asking you to help me," Midori told her in an exasperated tone.
Ume shuffled through the books (manga!) on Midori's desk, trying to find the box sets. She stopped suddenly and went to a drawer in the book shelf. Opening it, she stuck her hand in and plucked out the box sets Midori was looking for. "They were in your drawer, you know, where you are suppose to keep them?"
Midori took the box sets from her mother, who held them out towards her. "Thanks mom! You can go back-" she cut herself off, "Oh, before I forget! Can Aiko come over to watch these with me? Please?"
"As long as you two don't make a mess or stay up too late," her mother said.
Midori grinned and hugged her mother before pulling out her phone and dialing Aiko's number. Ume smiled at her daughter before walking out of the room and closing the door tightly behind her. A few seconds later, the ringing sound in the phone stopped and it was replaced with a soft "Hello?" from Aiko.
"Hey! Mom said you could come over," Midori shouted happily to her best friend, "See you in a few?"
"Yeah, be right over," Aiko replied and hung up the phone to go pack a bag. Midori placed the phone down on her bed and shuffled down the stairs. She ran to the door where she tugged on a jacket and slipped on some shoes so she could run out the door with not much more than a "I'll be back!" to her parents.
Midori and Aiko lived a street away from each other so they would meet up halfway to their houses. They have been friends ever since their first day in Pre-K. Through stressful school, friend trouble and boy trouble, they always had each others back. They share the same passion for reading, writing, watching anime and running. They are really close and know everything about each other; favorite color, favorite song, favorite ice cream flavor- they even knew each others thoughts about something new.
But neither of them knew what was going to happen next.
"Hey, Aiko!" Midori shouted out after seeing her friend turn around the corner and onto her own street.
Aiko smiled brightly and jogged over to meet up with her friend. "Hi, Mimi," she greeted with an old nick-name.
"Ready for another magical night in your life?" Midori asked as they both began the walk back to her house.
"What are you-" Aiko cut herself off and her confused look was replaced with a large grin. "You got the anime box set, didn't you?"
Midori nodded, "Yep!"
The two girls fangirled slightly before turning their walk into a jog so they could get to the house sooner. When they arrived, they kicked off their shoes and slipped out of the jackets so they could run up the stairs to watch the anime. Midori's mother said a quick "Don't stay up too late, girls." to them as they hurried up the stairs. But they were too excited to listen to her and were already planning on stay up as long as they could to watch the new set.
As soon as the two got to Midori's room, Aiko took a seat on the floor- as close to the TV screen as she could- and waited for Midori to start the episode. The girl slipped the first DVD into the player and sat next to her friend on the floor. She picked up the remote control and when the screen went to the options she asked Aiko, "Japanese or English?"
"Japanese, duh."
"What if I liked dubbed better?" Kiyoko asked.
"I know you liked subbed better, that's all we watch together, baka." Aiko waved her friend's 'What if' away.
Midori sigh and pressed the select button with the remote. As the episode began, the two girls focused on the screen.
"What time is it?" Aiko asked, halfway through the episode.
Midori glanced at the clock, "10 o'clock."
"We should get some sleep soon, I can't stay up much longer." Aiko yawned and stood up. Midori sigh and said, "You can sleep, I want to finish this episode."
Aiko nodded and went to get changed for sleep. When she came back, she lay out her sleeping bag and lay down, "Goodnight," she told her friend and closed her eyes.
Midori mumbled a goodnight and rested her head against her bed frame.
Soon, the episode had finished and a next one started. Then, when that one ended, another began. Even though Midori had said she wanted to finish that one episode, she ended up watching the whole disk. "One more wouldn't hurt, right?" Midori asked herself quietly.
She plucked out the disk from the player and put a new one in. But my time the episode had started, Midori was already lost in deep sleep.