Flat: The Story of an Urban Legend

Episode 2:

-Blushing at her naked beauty. She starts to awake, getting up slowly, her long blonde hair shimmering in the morning light from his window and covering her face. She swings her hair to one side opening her bright blue eyes to see him on the floor just watching her blossom from her slumber. She looks at him for a few seconds and smiles saying…-

"I…I love you."

-He stares at her still and does nothing. Frozen in time, almost, he looks at the naked girl on his bed and instinctively grabs some t-shirts and pants, from anywhere he could find some, and changes her quickly.-

"What are you doing!? Look at you you're…you're naked and…on my bed! Who brought you here!? Did my mom get you drunk too or something!? Oh gosh, why me!? Why do I always have to clean up after her!?"

-Dumbfounded and startled by a girl, he finishes changing her into what would be his casual summer wear outfit but looks at his finished work and still blushes at her. Her bust protruding from his white t-shirt and how his tight blue baggy jeans was too short on her and showed her nice curves. She looks at the outfit she's wearing, she smiles and jumps on him nuzzling cheek to cheek. She laughs a bit and says ecstatically…-

"I love you Soto!"

-He blushes beet red from her cuteness and innocence and tries to push her off but can't. After a while, realizing something he asks her…-

"Wait, how…how do you know my name?"

-Before she can respond to his answer, he hears knocking at his door.-

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!

"Hey Soto are you awake in there or have you finally died!"

-Soto takes a sigh of relief as the girl wonders who's at the door and asks him.-

"Hey Soto, who's at the door?"

"My mom…"

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK!

"Soto, I can hear you in there, get up or you'll be late for school!"

"I know mom I'll be out in a second ok."

-The banging stops as he takes a deep breath and exhales as he looks into her eyes and thinks to himself…-

Wow…this girl…she's so cute but…where do I know her from? I've seen her somewhere before but where…nah she must have a face that's familiar.

-He blushes again when he feels two pressing lumps up against his body. His nose starts to bleed a bit and realizes what is against his chest. He thinks to himself then…-

Wow, her chest, so nice and so big…

-He snaps out of it, pushing her back a little and catches his breath. He looks at her and gets serious again.-

"I don't even know your name, what is your name?"

"My name?"

-She wonders for a bit, her brain searching her memory bank for that answer but comes up short.-

"I don't remember."

"Well, is there anything you do remember?"

"Well, the only thing I remember is…I woke up next to you and all I knew is I loved you."

-Blushing when she said that, fiddling with her golden locks. In response, Soto blushes back completely forgetting his question on how she knew him but got down to bigger things. He decides because of the situation and circumstance…-

"Well, if you can't remember who you are then you must not know where you live then. Look, you can stay here as long as you need to, until you get your memory back but don't let my mom see you. She'll have a field day if she sees you here, ok?"

-She smiles and nods then hugging him again hard and tight so that her chest poked him again, he blushed and then pushed her back enough and became serious again.-

"Look, I have to go to school. It's not safe for you to be wandering off on your own if you have no memory, so stay here till I get back."

-Hurriedly changing into his school uniform and putting on his shoes as he continues to talk to her…-

"I'll come straight home when I'm done. Oh and one more thing…"

-He stops and looks down saying what he was ready to say next. She looks at him worried but curious too.-

"…whatever you hear downstairs, no matter what you hear or the noises that come from it, for your own safety don't go downstairs."

-She looked down for a sec and then nodded with a low depressed voice…-

"Ok…"

"Good, I'll see you later, bye."

-With that, he opens his door and runs downstairs to eat some breakfast with his mom who was hung over by now, seated at the table. She watches as he leaves the room and sits there replaying what he said to her. Through her expression, she really wants to be there for him when he needed, but behaving, she will keep his word and not do so. Sota goes over sitting down across from her blesses the meal and begins to eat. The breakfast was silent for a bit and all you can hear was the slurp slurp of food being eaten and swallowed. The silence was then broken by his mom…-

"Why were you late getting up again Soto? You know, if you keep doing this, I won't make you breakfast anymore."

"Who said I wanted you to make breakfast for me anyway."

-Soto said under his breath but audible so his mom could question it. She hears him mumbling under his breath and says to him sarcastically…-

"What was that Soto? I couldn't hear what you were saying under all that shit you got inside your mouth!"

"Just remember, you gave birth to me."

"Well I wouldn't have if your father didn't get me going!"

"It's not my fault if you can't close your legs."

-Acting very casual and cocky as he always did to his mom when they started fighting, since he knew it was useless to raise her voice at her. She continued to fight with him while eating her rice and ramen…-

"Why you little bastard! You have no right to say that to your mother! Why, if I had any good mind right now I'd throw you out into the street!"

"So, why don't you then."

-The mom stopped dead in her tracks, shocked from the answer her son gave to her, though hung over she still know what he was saying. She looked at him and said softly, responding to his answer…-

"Because…you're the only thing…I have left…in this world…Soto…"

-Soto even stops in his tracks, with the food close to his mouth he froze in mid-time. Thinking…-

Yeah, well if I'm the only thing she's got, then why doesn't she try not drinking for once and pick her life back up instead of screwing up mine.

-And with that…he slams his bowl on the table and yells to his mother…-

"If I'm the only thing you have left in this world then why don't you start acting like a mother for a change and not a drunken whore!?"

-She looks at him with shaky eyes and without a moment's hesitation, without thinking she gets up and yells at him.-

"Don't you dare raise that tone with me young man! I swear I will show you…"

-She gets cut off when she sees him leaving for school and yells at him some more.-

"Where do you think you are going, get back here!?"

"I have a brain and I'm using it…-

-Looks back at her giving her a cold stare.-

"…unlike you."

-And leaves on that note. She stares out at the door closing on her and just puts her hands in her face as she weeps and cries heavily. Trying to figure out what she has done wrong. All that time, she can hear her yelling and crying in Sota's room and gets scared a bit wanting to find out and help her Sota as much as she can. She reaches for the doorknob between peace and war but, remembers what Sota told her and decides to obey. She lays there on his bed looking up at the ceiling and thinking…-

I wonder when Sota comes home.

-The bell rings at school time as the sun starts to set on a beautiful day as class is over. The teacher sorts his papers out and says to his students…-

"All right, class is over for the day but your homework tonight is to read pages 12-15 on Japanese literature."

-With that the kids get up and bow to their teacher as the teacher leaves for the day. On time, almost, the kids start to leave and chit chatters amongst each other as they leave the classroom. Sota, as usual, stays behind and looks out the window. He sits there in his own world, not really wanting to go home but knows that he has no choice since she was there alone and most likely hungry. He grabs his things and gets up, ready to walk home by himself again as he hears a familiar voice call to him.-

"Hey Sota-chan!"

-He looks over to see the spunky and energetic Yukito running up to him waving to him. She catches up to him, catches her breath and continues to talk to him.-

"Oh, hey Yukito, how's it going?"

-Putting up that false façade again.-

"I'm doing fine, out of breath as you can see."

-Laughing at her joke.-

"I can see by that."

-Laughing about that with her.-

"Hey Sota-chan, are you walking home alone?"

"Yeah, I am."

-Feeling kind of embarrassed by that fact.-

"May I come with then?"

-Using her flirty, teasing ways to get to him as he blushes softly and says…-

"I guess so…that…that is…if you want…I mean…"

-Before he can finish his sentence, she grabs his hand and runs off, with him, down the hall. The hustle and bustle of the people going from store to store buying and conversing was making this small town more like a metropolis. Yukito had let go of his hand a while back and now they are just walking down the sidewalk side by side. They had both been silent for a while. Walking down the bustling main stream as Yukito looks up at him looking kind of sad as Sota doesn't look like he was even acknowledging she was there, again like before. She smiles to not show him that she was worried and says to him, in her normal spunky manner…-

"Hey where do you want to go?"

"Um…"

-Looks at her and blushes, thinking…-

I thought…she was just walking me home. I didn't know we were on a…Plus, I got that girl back home to take care of.

"I'm sorry, I just want to go home. I'm a little tired and I need to get some rest. Plus, I'm not feeling too good right now."

-Tries to think of an excuse but knows she can see right through it. He fakes a cough in hopes she did fall for it. She looks at him and smiles teasingly…-

"What's wrong Sota-chan? Embarrassed that you're with a girl?"

-Blushes more and moves his head and looks down at the ground trying to hide his face and responds shaky…-

"No…no it is…it's just that…I have…"

-She clings on to his arm, teasing him some more.-

"Then what's the problem then Sota-chan?"

-Rubbing up against his arm. Blushes beet red when she did that and shakes her off his arm, runs a distance away from, then turns, bows and says this while running home.-

"I'm sorry, but…I need to be home. I'll talk to you tomorrow Yukito."

-With that, Sota disappears into the crowd. Yukito looks down almost like she was ready to cry. We see Sota home, in his room and out of breath closing the door behind him. He tries to catch his breath…-

"Welcome home Sota!"

-As she runs up and wraps his arms around him, nuzzling up against him and pressing her chest against his. His nose starts to bleed a bit as he felt her woman features touch him, he shakes it off and converses with her…-

"Thank you, it's…it's nice to be back home."

-Laughing a bit nervously. He hears her stomach growling, remembering she hasn't eaten anything all day, he looks at her and says…-

"Hey are you hungry? You must be starving all that time, I apologize I should have left something up here for you to eat."

-She looks at him, smiles and responds…-

"It's ok Sota and yes I'm very hungry."

"Ok then, stay right here I'll go make something downstairs for the both of us."

"Kay."

-Smiling at him as he leaves the room and down to the kitchen. He opens the fridge to see nothing but booze and more booze and thinks…-

She has enough here to give herself alcohol poisoning.

-Shutting the door and opening a cabinet he finds some canned vegetables. He just thinks with his expression that we need more variety in this house, but just gets a boiling pot of water ready and cooks the canned vegetables. She waits, patiently, upstairs for him, she can faintly smell the steamed vegetables. She can't help but wonder what he is cooking. She puts her hands on the doorknob, to his room, and stops and thinks, to herself…-

Should…should I? But, what Sota is making smells so good…oohh…No I shouldn't, Sota said I stay here…ooh but…

-Her stomach growls again at her. She can't help but not to resist seeing what he was doing downstairs. She opens his door and slowly creeps down to the kitchen, walking on her tip-toes so he couldn't hear her. She gets halfway down stairs when she makes out a conversation with what looked like Sota talking to someone else. She starts to eavesdrop thinking to herself…-

Is he talking to someone else? Or is he…

"…with what has happened so far, why do I care about her?"

-Yukito looks between the railings and looks down sad.-

Does…does that mean…he doesn't care about me…

"She's so stupid why am I doing all this?"

-She doesn't want to hear anymore and creeps back upstairs and closes the door silently. She huddles on his bed curled up, knees tucked in toward her as she says to herself…-

"Does Sota care…about me…at all?"

-Looks at her fingers as she moves them almost like if she was discovering how her fingers move and bend. Still and motionless as Sota walks in the door with the food on a worn down tray for the two, he notices her on his bed there and still. Worried about her, he asked gently…-

"Is everything ok?"

-She turns over and looks at him, smiling softly and nodding.-

"Yes, everything is fine."

"Well, if you are still hungry let's eat. It's not much but…it's something."

-She jumps up overjoyed and hugs him hard, appreciating her meal.-

"Thank you, thank you, thank you so much Sota, I love you lots!"

-Her chest poking his as he blushes and bleeds from his nose as he faintly smiles and thinks…-

Well, at least she's happy…

-She thinks to herself…-

I know Sota does like me and even if he doesn't, I don't care, I still love him.

-She continues to hug him before digging in to her wonderful meal. Meanwhile, back home in Miyajima, Sakagi (Sota's girlfriend back home), is in her room with her head on her hands looking at the wall deterring from her homework and says…-

"Please…please come back soon…Sota."