立って歩け！前へ進め！
Stand up and walk. Move forward.
-Edward Elric
Morning after~
Three weeks after the surgery
The sunlight streamed in through the gaps in the curtains, crisp and warm, and to even to his shut eyes it seemed beautiful. He could hear the birds singing outside, and in his mind he could almost see the bright colors of the world, hear the sound of running water over river rocks. He opened his eyes, blinking against the intensity of the light bathing his bedroom.
The world seemed wonderful, beautiful – beautiful because she lay beside him, naked and sleeping, her head on his chest, her golden hair splayed out around her, her hand in his, their fingers laced together. He could not help the smile that crept up on his face. How long had it been since he had woken up… happy?
She was so much brighter even than the sunlight he could not bear to look at because his eyes hurt, but somehow he could not close his eyes or look away from her. He did not know how long he stared at her – time seemed to lose all meaning when he was with her, as long as he got to spend all of it with her – but eventually her eyes fluttered open, and even the way she woke up was beautiful. He felt his heart skip a beat.
She smiled slightly as she raised her head to look at him, one eye closed. Drawing forward, she pressed their lips together for a fleeting second, waking him from his trance, before pulling back and looking into his eyes. "Ohayou, Kousei," she said softly, smiling, and his heart fluttered. She sat up, the sheets falling away from around her, exposing her white chest, decorated by two small pink buds. She rubbed the eye that was still closed, and yawned daintily. He took a breath. She even managed to make yawning look graceful and beautiful. Beautiful, like she was beautiful.
He smiled also, and sat up after her, putting his arms around her and, after kissing her collarbone, resting his forehead against him with a contended sigh. "I want to hear you say that to me every morning for the rest of my life," he whispered.
"Mhm," she hummed, and he felt his heart skip a beat again.
Sorry for the offensively short chapter. Let me explain what's going on. I'm doing this thing called the Weekday Prompt Challenge - a challenge-ish thing created by kono ore. Of course it's made by me. I don't have any friends and I'm not part of any communities where I can find actual challenges, so I made one myself. For every day this week (hopefully), I am going to post one chapter to this fic based on a prompt that begins with the first letter of each day of the week. Today was Monday, and the prompt was morning after. Hopefully you enjoyed. Follow for updates. Looking forward to your continued readership. Yoroshiku ne~ ;)