" Happy Birthday Ritsuka!"
I blew out the candles to the sound of laughter and applause, then…something else caught my attention
"Yes Ritsuka, Happy Birthday"
That voice, I looked to Soubi next to me, who only silently gestured in the direction the familiar voice had come from. I turned my head to see that my suspicion had been correct
"Seimei…"
"yes Ritsuka,.."
He opened his arms, welcoming me to them as I lept from my seat to meet him at the end of the table. He closed his arms around me, not letting me go, oh the feeling of him was the same, the smell of him the same. I opened my eyes to look for Soubi, there was only darkness, I perked my ears looking for him, but never letting my brother go
"When you have me, why do you need him"
It took me a second to realize that the cold voice did indeed belong to my older brother,
"But Soubi was there for me…Soubi.."
He cut me off, putting his hand over my mouth
"Soubi is no more, there is only me now Loveless…there is only me"
I awoke in a cold sweat, sitting up in bed, stairing at the alarm clock whose red letters blinked 1:30 AM. Only one thirty…why was I having these dreams.. I layed back down rolling over and tightening the blanket around myself. Id been having these dreams lately, the closer it got to my birthday, the more of these dreams I had. And Soubi..Soubi wasn't here to keep them away. Why was it that he had gone away. Again I rolled over to stair at the celing, I remembered now, strangely now looking at the white paint that covered my walls, I had sent him away. My hand instinctively clutched the cell phone he had given me as a gift. I wanted a message, I wanted a call, I knew none would come, but still. He had made me angry, wanting me to command him like he was some kind of slave, wasn't he a person too. He wanted me to tell him what I wanted for my Birthday..
"Tell me Ritsuka..what is it that you want, anything you desire"
"Nothing I don't want anything from you"
"Ritsuka please, allow me to give you a gift this year"
"You want to know what I want Soubi"
"Yes Ritsuka"
" I want…I want my brother."
"Then its your brother you shall have"
And with that he was gone, off to do the impossible I suppose, to bring me back my brother, and unless he brought a corpse back to my room for me, I don't believe it would be possible. But Knowing Soubi…I shook my head clear of such thoughts. I had other more important things on my mind. Like picking the right birthday cake, the right balloons, the right everything so mom wouldn't freak out on me like she did last year, when I changed. A low rumble met my ears, thunder, it would storm tonight while I slept, and where ever Soubi was..I hope he was dry, and safe. I closed my eyes, falling asleep to the sound of the rain.
