The Mattress Manuscripts

By: bakayaro onna

Summary: A series of very short ficlets - some silly, some serious - starring Eiri and Shuichi, and featuring a (sometimes implied) mattress.

All my writings are exercises, challenges and experiments. These stories have the following criteria:

-Use more dialogue
-Write very short pieces
-Cut down on the over-descriptive stuff
-Must in some way revolve around some type of mattress

Discussions with one of my betas, Joules, challenged me to do a series of succinct pieces. Nini the Electrocuted Sheep at has a great group of 100-word pieces that inspired me to try very short pieces.

A very special thanks to the betas for this series, Joules and Aja, for taking time out of their busy lives to check these bits and pieces for me.

Disclaimer: I don't own Gravitation in any way, shape or form. However, Sena is my original character and belongs to me.

Author Note: Many of my Gravitation stories feature a mattress: Pane Rattling, Kokigami, Serenade, Plan B, Sea Sex Shun and Domesticity. The Mattress Manuscripts bring more of these together under one umbrella.

Coconuts

A story from The Mattress Manuscripts

Word Count: 468
Completed: 2/10/08

"Eiri? EIRI! Where are you?"

"Ugh... Oh fucking hell..."

"There you are!"

"Mika, stop yelling, and why are you breaking into my house..., again?"

"Why must you be so lazy?"

"It is none of your damned business."

"What are you doing in bed at this hour?"

"If you will stop yelling, I may tell you."

"Well?"

+sigh+ "You woke me up when I had just gotten to bed after a three-day writing session. Why the fuck are you here, anyway?"

"I found 'this' in the guestroom bedside table drawer!"

"You are yelling about a magazine..."

"Quit squinting at me. A Playboy! You brought a Playboy into my house while you stayed there last week when your electricity was out and you could not find an empty hotel because of the convention!"

"Stop yelling! You are making my head hurt."

"I cannot believe you brought this... this!... into my house where my children can find it!"

"How did big boobs and landing strip pubic hair become such an issue to a Japanese woman who has bathed with her brothers? And stop yelling!"

"We were kids then!"

"When did you become so Western in your thinking, Mika? It is disturbing. Nudity is natural. Stop yelling, damnit!"

"I do not want my children to grow up thinking women should be objecti..."

"I am home! Oh! Hi, Mika! I did not know you were going to visit this afternoon! I would have brought home some pastries!"

"Uh, hello, Shuichi."

"Hey! You found my magazine and brought it over to me. I had to hunt all around Tokyo for this one, being in English and all, and I thought I had lost it. Thank you so much, Mika!"

"This is YOUR magazine?"

"Yeah! One of Eiri's translated short stories is in this issue. It ties in nicely with the articles about making the perfect summer resort drinks, the top ten snacks for the beach and the most remote island get-aways for lovers. His story is about a half Hawaiian, half Japanese girl who..."

"Mika..."

"Yes, Eiri?"

"Leave. Now."

"Eiri, why did Mika slink out of here with that strange look on her face?"

"You constantly amaze her, dumb-ass."

"What was that all about, anyway?"

"Nothing important. Now, before I go to sleep for the next week, I think I need my cabana boy to bring his fruity self over here so I can nibble his nuts."

"Rats! I left my coconut bra in the hall closet. Will naked be okay?"

"Your coconuts have been out of the closet for years, so get your naked self over here."

"Mmmm, kiss me more, blond beach boy... She was pissed about the mag, huh? Ahhhh..."

"Yeah, good save." +gasp+

"She would never believe how we sometimes - Oh, yeahhhh... - look at girlie rags together and..."

"Shut up and pass the nuts."