Spider Lily

I took a sip of something poison, but I'll hold on tight.

The morning was a beautiful one. There wasn't a cloud in the sky, all the birds seemed to be singing, and it was loud.

It had never been loud in No. 6 until a few months ago.

After the wall between the West Block and No. 6 had been torn to the ground, everything Shion had dreamed of had come true. Well, over the past six months or so, anyway.

It had taken some time, but all the residents of No. 6 and those of the West Block had gotten used to each other rather quickly. There hadn't been any riots to speak of, and everyone looked so happy, compared to the bored and lost faces of before.

Everyone looked happy, and seemed so happy to know that they were all equal. Hell, Shion himself was happy that what he dreamed of had come true.

Well, one of the things he dreamed of. He was a young guy, there was a lot that he could dream of.

But one of those dreams was currently on hold, since the dream was off in some unknown place at the moment. He was probably out exploring the world, leaving Shion at home with his mother and his newly adopted brother.

That was just like Nezumi, though. Leave someone else to do work that he could avoid. And to think he didn't do things that benefited himself so halfassed, but when he needed something…?

There wasn't any room for Shion to fret, though. Nezumi had promised him that he would return, and Nezumi always kept his promises. How could he not, considering all that they've been through?

And He was pretty sure that kiss was a bit more than a "farewell." To him, it spoke more like "I'll be back as soon as we're both ready and make sweet, sweet love to you." Well, that's what his mom teased him about, anyway.

He thought he knew his mother, but he never expected her to be a pervert.

His life was just full of surprises, it seemed.

First parasitic bees that kill everyone, then feelings he didn't even know he had to a certain dark-haired boy, then a baby that he saved on a whim was now his baby brother.

Damn, his life was complicated. But he couldn't have it any other way, because he wouldn't have been able to grow into the sturdy person he was today.

Said sturdy person was at the market, looking for apple juice for his mother, since she assumed that she was catching a cold, and warm apple cider always helped her with that.

Why she needed straight up apple juice was unknown to him, since he could have sworn the recipe didn't call for it. It just needed apples and something else…

It didn't matter, though. Since he was there, and he was purchasing the juice. He paid the lady at the counter, and gave her a smile. As soon as he exited the stand, he made a mental note to go by the liabrary to look and see if they have any new books that he could read to Hamlet. He loved listening to Shion "act out" plays.

Shion enjoyed doing it too, but he could never admit that to anyone. It would only bring along heart-ache from the person he picked up the love from. It had been so long since he'd seen him, and it only hurt each and every passing day that he didn't see him.

It was a good thing Nezumi was able to keep his promises…

Fuck.

Several hundred miles away, Nezumi was floating in a river, giving himself a sunburn. Did he care? Of course not. He did care, though, that his most recent wound stung in the water.

He should do his best to clean that out while he was in clean water.

There wasn't really any room to complain, though. It was his own fault he was meddling with a bear that was seven times his size, and seven times as aggressive as he was.

But then again, one isn't supposed to mess with a mamma bear…

He just had to be as stubborn as a horse. Or worse, as stubborn as a Rhino.

Everyone that was close to him was in way over their heads. That included Shion. Oh how Nezumi missed him terribly.

He would never confess to that either. He had a hard time doing it to himself, it seemed. How could he not since he had made such an impact on his life?

To say he was probably in love would have been an understatement.

Fuck.

'How the hell am I going to get back now?' He pulled himself out of the water, and onto the bank, getting mud in the gash on his leg.

It was going to be a long night.

Okay, I know this may seem… weird or whatever, but this is going to be a full-length fic. For those of you that are still following Something Only I Can Hear; I'm almost done with the next chapter C: It's a really long one, over 3,000 words at the moment.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this, and the Title has a meaning ;D. I hope you can figure it out…

And if anyone knows the name of the baby, I would appreciate it if you could tell me ._. If not, then I'm just making one up.

I luv you guys,

-Orange.