Ann convinced me that before we move to Miraculous I should at least start this story.

I had to read the prequel to this. Man was it boring and hard to get through.

With as much detail as I plan to put into the other five chapters, this can be read as a stand alone story.

SK

Nothing Escapes

A New Beginning

Feb.

Otoya tried to keep the warmth around him. It just felt so nice against his bare skin, since the cold winter air always seemed to find it's way into the bedroom. But there was light shinning in his curtains and in the back of his mind he knew exactly what that meant. Any second his loving boyfriend would enter the room, cranky as usual, rip the covers from his quivering body and force him out of his semiconscious state. Since Tokiya was the type of person to rise with the sun, it made sleeping in hard for the night owl Otoya. The warmth of his boyfriend was already missing so he knew that it would be only moments until he hear that tone.

"Otoya!" He cringed at the sound. "Wake up, we have things to do."

"No." Otoya whined, his eyes tightly shut. Otoya's back was to Tokiya, but his boyfriend knew that he was a wake. He always seemed to know. Otoya hated the mornings. Especially when the mornings were cold. He didn't understand how anyone could get up and just deal with it. He wanted time to deal with the reality that sank in after he awoke. "It's too early."

"It wouldn't be if you had gone to sleep before four."

Otoya flipped over, slowly opening one eye at a time, so as not to be blinded by the stunning light that reflected off of the white walls in their room. White walls were so overrated. He thought that they should paint them blue, a dark blue, or maybe black. But Tokiya said no, because the owner of their apartment didn't want the walls to be ruined, in any way. Yup, that meant a giant no to hanging pictures and posters too. They could have tapped them up, but then they would just fall down after a few months.

"What kind of things can't wait until after noon?"

He watched as Tokiya sifted thru their shared closet and finally settled on grabbing an over shirt and sliding it on. "I was going to drop you off at that coffee place you liked, so you could meet up with Syo, but I guess you can walk." He had a teasing grin on his playful face.

"Was that today?" Otoya frowned. He didn't often get a chance to meet with Syo. After graduation they slowly drifted apart, like most of his friends. Neither one of them seemed to mind, but every once in a while Syo would ask him if he wanted to hang out, usually on days that he had to work, or times when he needed to be at his university.

"Today is your day off isn't it?"

With a quick count of the days, in his head, he determined that the blue haired male was right. "Why won't you be staying again?"

With those words Tokiya's playful grin turned into a frown. "I have some work to do. I'll be back before you guys are done talking, I'm sure."

"That's to bad. Knowing Syo, he probably has this big reunion planned out."

"I bet he does." Tokiya said. He dropped down to the edge of the bed. His face nuzzling in close to Otoya, making the redhead believe he was going in for a good morning kiss, when he ripped the covers off of his boyfriend, leaving Otoya to shriek as the cold consumed him.

The redhead shivered. "Why?" He held his bare arms against his chest and pulled his sweat pant covered legs up, to keep himself warm.

"Because, you should be getting ready." Toki's blue eyes glanced at him apologetically. "And you wouldn't be cold if you didn't wear tank tops in February."

"But the-"

"The long sleeves retrain you, I know."

"Whatever pretty boy." He reached a tanned hand passed the other, to his phone on the nightstand. His eyes flickered as he saw he had two new messages. One was naturally from Syo, but the other... "think we can pick up Haruka too?"

"I don't know." Tokiya teased again.

"It's my car."

"Yeah, but..." He paused, no doubt for dramatic effect, he had been trying to get into his character for one of the shows he was auditioning for. "It seems like everyone but me was invited now. Syo really is having a big reunion. Without me!"

"Bullshit. You probably knew about this before she even texted."

"I might have." He smiled. "Now get dressed."

"Whatever mom." He let out with a exasperated sigh.

Today would probably be a great day. He really did miss his high school friends. Even if he didn't really see them as friends in high school.

Syo would always be fashionable. It was like it ran through his blood or something. His way of knowing what was going to be 'in' before it was actually popular was always something that struck Otoya as weird. How could someone be so fashion forwards?

He wasn't hard to spot in the cafe. The old cafe that he and his friends hung out at (albeit almost never together) during their school days. He had on a light blue over coat and faded, nearly white, jeans. His blonde hair was perfect as always, two black bobby pins pushing the left half of his hair out of his face, while the right hung freely over his eye. His favorite hat, of the season no doubt, sat on the table next to his coffee cup.

His blue eyes shimmered with excitement when he saw the redhead walk up, though they dulled noting that he was the only one to come. Tokiya had promised to pick up Haruka on his way back, since she was busy at the moment.

"Where's Haru?"

Otoya frowned at him, not really upset. "Hey, nice to see you too."

"Sorry." Syo blushed. "I was just really excited about a bunch of us getting together to talk again."

"How many people did you invite?" Otoya asked, taking his seat across from the blonde.

"A few." He smiled. "I guess we'll just have to trade stories until everyone else gets here." He stretched before glaring at Otoya. "So tell me what's been going on?"

"Not much. College and work."

"You and Tokiya live together now."

Otoya frowned. "Don't ask if you already know."

Syo shrugged and shot him a brilliant smile. "Tokiya knows how to maintain school, work, and friendships. maybe you could learn a thing or two from him."

"As if." Otoya chuckled. "And you?"

"I still live at home, and stuff like that."

"There's got to be more than that."

"Of curse there is. I'm sure that you and Tokiya have had your fair share of things that happened." Syo casually said, lifting his cup.

"Well yeah. The past never stays in the past."