((A/N: This is a Mamimi-POV fic, set in the first episode, Fooly Cooly. I might make it an ongoing series, doing one for each episode… maybe. Don't expect it to be too long, this is just fooling around with Mamimi's character. I love her… so much angst! Oh remember, Takkun is Naota here, not the kitten, and Tasuku-sempai is the older brother. Enjoy. :D ))

Takkun tastes like home.

I know him. He's the only one left, my little Takkun. Tasuku-sempai has gone to America, gone to play baseball. Playing. That's all life is. A game.

Why can't Tasuku-sempai play life here?

Play with me.

Takkun plays with me.

He doesn't play very well. He doesn't know the rules, and he complains a lot about when I win. Or when he wins. It's a good game. We always both win. Well, most of the time. I like it when he plays with me.

Takkun tastes like home.

Takkun tastes like Tasuku-sempai.

Sometimes he doesn't want to play. Tasuku-sempai was like that too. Sometimes they don't want to play, and I'm left all alone. But I don't mind. I like my bridge, my river. I can play here, but not the same game. It's not as fun, but it's better than school. I like my lighter, my cigarettes, my fire.

Takkun doesn't like my fire. He says it smells, he says it's not healthy and I should stop. Tasuku-sempai didn't mind, but sometimes he would look at me like Takkun does. I don't like that look. It means they're upset with me. When they're mad about the game they might quit. I can't quit, they can't quit or I'll be alone with my bridge and my game for too long, much too long and then bad things could happen. Takkun doesn't understand.

Fire is my home. I smell like fire. Takkun tastes like home. We're the same, why can't he see that? He doesn't want to play with me. Takkun tells me to go to school. I don't want to. I just want to play with Takkun. School is a bad place, there are no games, no alone time, too many people all around and I can never play with them. They play a game but I am not a player, I am the goal.

Tease Mamimi. Five points.

Hurt Mamimi. Fifteen points.

I don't like that game. I stopped playing. No school for Mamimi.

There's a new girl. She plays too. She makes up rules and changes everything so nothing makes sense and she steals Takkun for her team and the game isn't mine anymore. I want Tasuku-sempai to come home. I need him on my team if Takkun is on Haruko-san's….

Takkun says there is another girl. There is another girl on Tasuku-sempai's team.

Tasuku-sempai is not coming home to play. Tasuku-sempai is playing in America. Baseball. Life. There is another girl. Two girls. Gold and pink. New teams.

I am on no one's team. Mamimi is alone. Haruko-san is alone. Takkun is alone.

Don't take my Takkun. I need him; he's all that's left. They will play and I can't. Odd girl out can't play. No room on our team. Hurt Mamimi, fifteen points. Takkun has changed games. Takkun isn't mine any more. Haruko-san is stealing him.

I don't want to be alone again.

Home.