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Chapter Three: A Devious Idea

Naota was still slaving over homework. He was only half way done. He quickly went upstairs to retrieve a snack . He had not eaten anything since lunch at school, because he felt too stirred to eat earlier because of the revolting couple. When he got the snack and was about to bite into it he felt sick once again from the dilemma. So he put it back in the cabinet. He glimpsed at the clock set in the microwave. It read 10:27.

Naota scurried back down stairs to finish his homework. It was 1:00 when he finally finished.

"Finally got that out of the way." Naota sighed wearily with relief.

Naota neatly put away his finished homework in a folder and slowly trudged up the stairs, exhausted. When he reached the door he heard something. He peered through small opening in the door to see what it was. He saw Tasuku and Haruko. They both were naked.

Naota knew what was going on and it made him unbelievably sick to his stomach. He felt his heart was painfully churning, stunned to point of disbelief he stumbled backward, and accidentally squashed Miyu-Miyu's tail.

"Meowwwwwwrrrrrrrrrrr!" The poor cat shrieked.

"Wait. Did you hear that?" Tasuku whispered to Haruko.

Naota escaped as fast and quickly as he could. He came very close to stumbling since he was scurrying so quickly. He heard his brother opening the door as Naota sloppily exited. Once he closed the door quietly, he just continued running. Where he was going he did not know, he could not stay still. While he was sprinting, his vision began to blur as he realized that he was crying. He didn't even notice he was running in the direction of the bridge until he stumbled onto the grass. He could not breathe. His legs had finally given in and he cried harder, struggling to breathe. The eerie glowing moon highlighted his tears like diamonds; his tears were hard, stinging diamonds stabbing his eyes.

He felt someone behind him warmly embracing him. A moan escaped his lips because of his undeniable loneliness. He immediately closed his mouth shut and regretted letting it open. As soon as he felt something soft rubbing against him and when the strong scent of cigarettes traveled its way to his nose he knew instantly who it was. He tried not to squirm from the awful smell.

"Sorry I tried to quit, but today I just needed one so bad." She whispered as she sensed him trying to suppress himself from squirming. She began nibbling playfully at his earlobe.

Mamimi could hear Naota sniffling.

"Are you crying?" Mamimi asked with shock and stopped nibbling. She leaned forward to look at the tears traveling down his face. She'd never seen Naota so emotional. Before he could catch his breath to answer she continued nibbling.

"Earlobe," she said absently and was quickly sidetracked from her thoughts.

"Mamimi, why do you still do this? I'm not a chew toy," he said lightly, trying to lighten the darkness. He would always ask her and she would always answer the same thing. Naota never understood her answer.

"Because, if I don't I'll overflow, again," she responded with a matter of fact voice.

This time he felt a little closer to understanding her answer. "How long have you been here since our walk?" Naota asked.

Silence once, again filled the air. The only thing that could be heard were the grasshoppers restless chirping. Naota waited for an answer, but soon or later, they both fell asleep, still embracing each other.

Naota awoke with a sour feeling in the back of his throat and burning in his eyes. It took him a while to remember what he witnessed last night. When he remembered the scene he released a long, sad sigh.

He carefully slid out of Mamimi's arms. He turned his head to look at the beautiful sunrise. He wondered why God put something so beautiful on earth just to take it away in minutes. Just like love and life.

He could hear Mamimi breathing steadily and peacefully. 'She looks kind of cute asleep,' he thought. He quickly executed the thought and pried his eyes away from her face.

'It must have rained over night,' he thought as he glanced at their damp clothes.

He hoped she wouldn't get sick in those damp clothes. He decided to run home to change and get Mamimi a blanket. He was standing up already heading toward the road, when heard Mamimi speak.

"Ta-kun, what are we going to do?" Mamimi spoke softly, in a barely audible voice. Her eyes still closed.

Naota was surprised she woke up, before he could understand what she meant, he spontaneously asked, "Huh?"

"You know what I mean, Ta-kun." Mamimi said, opening her eyes.

His eyes grew soft and you could see the pain in them.

"I don't know, we're just not good enough for them." He said, looking away.

"No, I'm not going to let it slide by this time. I'm not going to lose Tasuku!" Mamimi exclaimed.

"And how are you going to do that?" Naota asked, with doubt thick in is voice.

Mamimi looked at him, pouting.

"That's what I thought." Naota said and laid back down with Mamimi. While he laid himself on the wet morning grass, Mamimi just looked and played with his hands.

"Boy, I never noticed that little birthmark on your hand." Mamimi playfully said. Then she moved her hand up and down the inside of his forearm.

Naota shut his eyes tightly.

"Oh, sorry do you mind?" She asked.

"No, it just feels really good." He admitted.

"You know lately Ta-kun you've been acting so, well, open."

"Hey, I'm named Naota for honesty," he smiled secretly wishing she would stop calling him Ta-kun. He decided he should tell her, so in soft voice he asked "Mamimi?"

"Yes?"

"Could you please-"

A light bulb randomly flashed in her head. "You know I know how we could try to win them back." She had a devilish smile, and Naota had the urge to kiss her.

"Now, what were you gonna say?" she sounded curious.

"Never mind," he decided to tell her another time.