Disclaimer: I do not own FLCL.
Author's Notes: Needed a quick break from Ouran. Reviews are love, especially to someone who's ill at the moment.
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How long had she been here? Days, weeks, months, years? Time meant nothing anymore. I had lost track of time long ago after the night she pulled Canti from my skull. Now she was laying behind me, spooning me as I could hear her soft breaths on my neck.
What was time anyway? Was it really just the human way of slowly chipping off little chunks of life, our way of telling up we're closer and closer each day to our end? Or did it actually have meaning in our lives? And what did time matter to her, as an alien, as someone who lived the way she did?
Why choose me? Why? Why was I fated with this? Was there someone else who was to have her clinging to them right now in the dead of night?
I carefully sat up, my head aching. She had not hit me recently, but it felt as though she had. It felt like she punched me in the chest as well. The idea of Haruko laying my bed with someone else was painful. It made tears well up in my eyes as I laid my head against the wall, closing my eyes.
Her hands were on my chest as I looked down, her looking up at me.
"Naota, can't sleep?" She whispered, those bright eyes of hers sparkling like the stars she came from. My hands pulled her closer to me, laying her head against my heart, begging to her in my head to make it stop aching.
"Haruko..." I breathed heavily as she closed her eyes again, snuggling into me. "Please don't leave me..."
She smiled. "I won't."
Hearing her say that made me heart ache even more, but somehow, I knew she would in time. I prayed that time really did mean nothing and I could spend my life here, just with this strange girl forever in my arms.