Get free

"Children aren´t meant to stay with their parents forever. Only lovers a built to do that. "

White. The wall was white. I should know it after all, since I was staring at it for two hours, waiting for the morning to come. I couldn't´t go to sleep anymore after that dream.

"Maybe I´m sick ",that´s what I thought, but after checking my temperature and the feeling of nausea not returning I think I´m quite alright. Maybe stressed? I´ve got a lot to do with college and part-time job.

No, I can handle all that. I blinked and shifted a little to ease my aching arm, wich I was lying on. My throat felt dry even after drinking a bottle of water and brushing my teeth.

My gaze roamed through the room to the ceiling, images of the night flickering right before my eyes. I closed them with a sigh escaping my lips. Looking at the clock and realizing that it was already past six in the morning, I showed myself out of the bed. Way too early to get up on my day off, but I needed something to do.

I hushed out of my room, still trying not to wake Usagi-san up. He was working till late at night and would surely not be up before two o´clock in the afternoon. Lucky for me, he didn´t woke up in the night either. After turning on the coffee machine my feet dragged me to the balcony. A breeze of cold fresh air welcomed me and I stepped forward to the wall of the balcony and looked at the orange-blue heaven. It was quite a view and I stopped myself in time from running and waking Usagi-san to see it. leaned my chin on the balcony and sighing again, I tried to brush of the feeling of uneasiness.

"That dream..." A bitterness of vomiting last night laid on my tongue made me make a grimace, trying to get rid of it. I shook my head. "Just a dream. It was just a dream, it´s nothing to get worked up for." I kept talking to myself, silently knowing that I couldn´t fool myself.

To keep me from thinking about that topic I burdened me with more and more chores. While washing the clothes, washing the dishes again and again, I caught myself looking at the clock too often.

After hours of doing the same thing over again I heard a noise from above.

It was a gentle sound, a creak from his door, then his curbed footsteps on the expensive beige carpet. My heart begun to flatter yet at the same time butterflies seemed to fly through my belly. I fought against the desire to run upstairs and to throw myself in his arms. I swallowed nervously and wiped my sweaty Hands on my jeans.

There you have it! Something screamed in my mind. I didn´t understand.

I didn´t understand my reactions. I didn´t understand my thoughts. This all was happening way too fast for me the get the problem.

Is there a problem at all? I couldn´t answer that. "Today is a normal day, just like every other day" I mumbled to myself. But you can´t fool yourself. "Maybe I´m just off today. I need sleep, just a little rest." I laughed shaking my head a second time that day.

"Misaki." I froze. My heart froze. I stopped breathing for one moment. It was the voice of a man but not my man. That voice didn´t belong to Usagi-san. I jumped around, expecting to see somebody from the agency, people who always intrude their home trying to get their hands on finished manuscripts that Usagi-san still hasn´t turned in – but I saw none.

"Hello?" I was imagining things, no one answered. I blinked realizing that I was all alone in the living room. "Just off today," I repeated to myself only to jump around again when I heard soft but heavy footsteps on the stairs and looked up in blue sleepy eyes, as the gray-haired walked or rather stumbled the stairs down. "Usagi-" I was cut off with him suddenly bowing down laying his lips on mine. The butterflies from earlier returned making my face burn with heat. I felt the uneasiness falling of my chest. "Usagi. Stop it." He only grumbled and pulled me into a hug. I closed my eyes breathing in his natural scent and accepting his warmth. "I need my morning doses." I laughed "Morning? You know it´s already past two?" "Time for breakfast." "Usagi, stop leaning on me!" He was way taller than me and way too heavy. "Usagi! Stop closing your eyes! If you want to sleep - Whoa! We´re falling! Usagi! "

Longing in the rain

"-saki. Misaki." "Huh?" I snapped out of my thoughts. "We´re you even listening to me?" Violet eyes glanced at me before he looked back at the street. "Yeah... No." "What´s wrong with you? You keep on spacing out the whole day." He grabbed the hitch and switched back to the third. The motor howled and the engine brake slowed the red car down. My hands became sweaty. "Didn´t sleep well." I mumbled looking at the road. Usagi didn´t reply. Then "You don´t sleep to well a lot lately." My heart skipped a beat. "What?" The car stopped at a crossway with the lights red. His violet eyes turned to me, examining my face. "You don´t sleep well a lot lately. " he repeated as if I didn´t understand him. "What makes you think that?" the corner of my mouth twitched. With his gaze back again on the streets he replied. "You keep on turning from one to the other side mumbling, for though I can´t figure out what you are saying." Thank god. "Maybe I´m just dreaming about you harassing me?" I laughed it off but stopped when he didn´t. "Misaki." He frowned a little and grabbed the hitch again to switch to the second and then to the third. "I´m serious." Silence filled the car. Yeah, he really was serious. But I didn´t break the silence, not until we arrived at my brothers home, where we we´re heading to. "You don´t need to tell Takahiro." I didn´t even wait for an answer and stepped out of the car. Leaving Usagi behind in silence.

With a sudden end of a chapter I hope to get over my writers block. The plot is slowly turned in and I hope, that with the next chapter, I will have something more interesting for you. Please ignore mistakes on grammar etc. I´m improving.

Thank you for reading

To be continued...