"Dissonance"
Chapter 01 - A Star So Far Away
- Thunderfury
She was pathetic, really, the more she thought about it, the more she could not help but feel helpless, restless, fatigued, annoyed, frustrated, restricted, and just, for a lack of a better word or description, pathetic.
Here she lay, alone in a suite of an ineternationally rated five star hotel in one of Europe's busiest cities, with the lights off. She sighed and rolled over on to her back. With the mix of jetlag and her mind clouded with thoughts not at all related to work, Aino Minako had an incredibly hard time giving in and allow sleep to sweep her off her feet and drown her into darkness.
In defeat, the idol crawled up from the mattress, and slowly moved to stand against the large, clear drop windows that granted her a perfect view of the artificially lit city. It was a true piece of art by modern technology. Dark silhouettes of world famous architetures accompanied by dim, yellow streetlights that helped outline the shape of these buildings. A grand mixture of the past and the present, a beautifully astounding view, really, had she been in the mood to appreciate it.
Unfortunately, she was not, not when her heart was somewhere else thousands of miles away, with a girl that haunted her dreams both day and night.
Hino Rei.
A fire so bright in herself that she made Minako burn along with her.
For her.
Her gaze no longer traled along the outlines of the numerous buildings before her, instead, her eyes were intent on finding a trace of a star in the navy blue of the night sky.
But she could not. Minako smiled bitterly. Even at the topmost floor of the hotel building that towered over and dwarved many other buildings, the artificial lights still managed to keep the stars away from the grasp of her eyes.
And she couldn't help but relate this situation back to the origin of her frustration.
Rei had always denied her, backed herself away from her touch, kept herself safe in a distance that Minako tried so hard to close.
Her eyes continued the search in the sea of darkness, only to find a ghost of a star, but when she blinked, all trace of said star had vanished.
She walked back to the bed she once occupied and sat down. Nervously, she reached for the phone, and dialed a number that she would never forget. Quietly, she waited for the phone to connect and then the ringing began.
Minako felt like she was in a tunnel, a dark tunnel that hopefully will end with the blessings of light.
The repeatitive ringing continued.
And it never ended.
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A/N - Again, procrastination totally washed over me while I was reviewing for my art history midterm. I hope I did alright, both this and the midterm.
This is most likely going to be a lot of random drabbles that will somehow relate to each other, and hopefully, will all come together at the end. I'm horrible at writing long stories, so my chapters will probably be around this length.