Later that day, Arashi worked up his nerve and tried to call George. "Hello" Arashi heard George's voice, "He-hello, George-" Arashi stuttered out, he stopped abruptly, hearing George continue speaking, "You've reached the duke of fashion, if I don't get back to you, the meassage you left didn't sound important" George's recording played, *Dang it* Arashi thought, he hung up, trying to think of what else he could do, he tried to call again, but got the answering machine again, and decided to leave a massage. "George,
its me, Look, I'm sorry, I just didn't think, I hope you're okay, uh...Call me?" Arashi left the choppy message, he laid back on his bed, slightly waiting for the phone to ring, but it never did, so he eventually fell asleep, the next day, which was Sunday, they went to the Atlier to make clothes and hang out like normal, and Arashi noticed a difference as soon as he came in. "Good morning Isabel, Miwako" George greeted. "Good morning!" Miwako said happily, "Morning George- What happened to your face?" Isabella asked concerned, noticing a small purple bruise on his face, "This? Its nothing don't worry about it" George said with a small smile, "Did someone hit you!?" Miwako asked, reaching to feel George's soft silky face, "Forget about it, its over and done with now" George said, gently moving Miwako's hand, before going to sit, and start doddling in his book, Isabella came from behind the bar counter, she stood in front of George, worry creasing her forehead. "You're blocking my light Bella" George said,
when she didn't move, George finally looked up, Isabella cupped his cheeks, softly rubbing the bruised area, "George,
did you get into a fight?" Isabella asked, "It wasn't anything big, honest, I'll be healed in a little while, so let's drop it" George said, Isabella let go of him, still looking concerned, before walking away. "Arashi sat feeling his stomach churning, thinking about what he'd done, *Why doesn't he say what happened? Its killing me...* Arashi thought, till a light shake from Miwako got him out of his thoughts. "Arashi, why don't you ask George what happened?" Miwako asked confused,
"Cause he doesn't want to tell" Arashi quickly said, "Yes Miwako, I'm sure Arashi couldn't get it out of him anyways" Isabella said, "But he doesn't even seem concerned- You do wanna tell the person to leave George alone don't you?" Miwako asked,
looking at Arashi with her big innocent eyes, that somehow made Arashi feel even more guilty, "Miwako..." Arashi said quietly,
"Excuse me" George suddenly said, he left to the other room. and Arashi watched him go, "Is something wrong?" Miwako asked,
"Nah, let's just get back to work" Arashi mumbbled. But unlike guilty Arashi, and the more mature Isabell, Miwako couldn't help but continue questioning George when he got back, George was relaxed about it, and kept denying anything happened, but Arashi was getting more and more sick, hearing about what he'd done over and over again, and George pretending nothing happened till he snapped. "Miwako!" Arashi shouted, making everyone look his way, "Leave George alone, if he says its nothing,
its nothing- He probably just got hit by some punk, who wasn't thinking straight!" Arashi yelled, Isabella and Miwako's eyes widened, "That's right" George said filling the silence, of the girls staring at Arashi, "So let's put it behind us hmm?" He finished, "Okay..." Miwako said, "Take care of yourself George" Isabella said, George nodded getting back to work, Arashi gave one last glance at George, he seemed to be calmly working away. *I hope he meant that..* Arashi thought.
Later that evening as everyone started to leave for home, Arashi stopped George at his car. "Hmm?" George said, looking behind himself, "George? About yesterday" Arashi said, George leaned against his car, folding his arms, "I'm listening"
He said, Arashi sighed, "I'm sorry okay? It was a lot of pressure, I wasn't thinking and-" Arashi was saying, but George stopped him, "Are you done with all the excuses?" George asked a smirk on his face, leaving Arashi with a confused look on his face, "George I'm being honest!" Arashi said, "I didn't say you weren't, like I said in there let's drop it" George said, turning to open his car door, but it slammed closed again, George looked, seeing Arashi's hand on the door, "I wanna make it up to you, were suppose to be friends right?" Arashi asked, "You want to make it up to me?" George asked, his smug smile returning, "Yeah!" Arashi said, "Okay then...Just, don't hit me again" George said, "That's it?" Arashi asked surprised, "That's it" George said getting into his car, putting his shades on, smirking at Arashi's surprised expression,
before driving away. *I hate to admit it* Arashi thought looking at the orange sky, *But George is pretty cool...* He thought a small smile coming on his own face. ~Next Friday night, Arashi and George were back in George's apartment to hang out again, this time, deciding Arashi would stay over, after they had made up, and starting talking during the week~ George led Arashi through his big apartment, past the living room, on into his bedroom, "I've hooked the system up in here, you can choose what you wanna play, I'll go get some snacks" George said, "Okay- Hey George" Arashi said stopping him, "Yeah?" George said, "Aren't you scared your room will get dirty?" Arashi asked joking, "No, I'll have you clean up any mess you make" George said, "Aw man" Arashi said, George snickered, before leaving, Arashi walked around his room,
it was nice, a big bed with curtains, beautiful white sheets, another tv mounted over the book shelf, Arashi laid on George's bed, noticing the tv was in the perfect position from down there, he reached to the nightstand for the remote,
he clicked it at the tv, only to feel the bed start moving. *Is this a freaking rumble feature?!* Arashi thought the bed continued vibrating, Arashi put his hands behind his head relaxing, *This is amazing...George's family must be so rich* Arashi thought, he heard steps coming back that way, and remembered he was suppose to be getting a game,
so he quickly jumped up, selecting a boxing game, just as a George came back in. "Hey Arashi, I got us some ramen-
You were on my bed?" George asked, seeing the bed still lightly shaking, and the covers rumppled, "Yeah"
Arashi said, "Nice hmm? Anyways, I got us roasted chicken, some veggies, and a fried egg on each" George said,
giving Arashi his bowl, which he drooled at hungry, "Ahh...You wanna box?" George asked, "Yeah, you know how right?"
Arashi asked smirking, "Yeah I guess, let's finish our food first though" George said, "Okay" Arashi said.
George sat on his bed crisscrossed, pulling his chopsticks apart, having the bowl between his legs, he reached over,
and turned the rumble off his bed, and started to eat, Arashi sat down in a chair, starting to gobble down his food.
"So George, Any special clothes you been working on lately?" Arashi asked, "Hmm..Well, I had a design in mind,
but I can't seem to put the picture on paper, to even start working on its physical form" George said frowning a bit,
"Well, can you describe something about it?" Arashi asked, starting to slurp up more noddles, watching George stir his around, "It should be lacy, with silk, a ballgown, with rainbow colors, I don't know if I should go with stripes, or circles, or if the lace should be at the bottom, or for all the trimming, like for the waist and stuff...All I know is, its going to be perfect, when I get it down" George said, "Heh, a little over confident aren't we?" Arashi asked, "Why shouldn't I be?" George asked, sticking up some cabbage, chewing and swallowing, "I'm a genius" He finished, Arashi snorted, "Something funny Arashi?" George asked, "No, let's just start playing" Arashi said, putting his empty bowl down, "Okay" George said putting his bowl on his night stand,
"Oh, you're not finished, we can just talk some more" Arashi said, noticing half of George's ramen still in the bowl, "Nah, I'm finished" George said, "I can wait seriously" Arashi said, "I'm done Arashi" George said,
"Okay..." Arashi said, putting on the controller's boxing gloves, George put his on as well, after rolling up his sleeves on his white dress shirtl he put his cowboy hat away, and stood prepared, Aarshi turned the game up, and they started to hash it out. Like before Arashi was the one to start yelling over the game, George making fun of him for it, but after getting beaten and mocked by Arashi, he started to take the game a little more seriously, both getting competitive, yelling insults at one another, and playing each one, asking the other for a rematch, when the other would win, after some hours of fighting, Arashi worked back up his appetite,
and was asking George about another snack. "You're hungry already?" George asked a little surprised, "Yeah,
its been hours, aren't you hungry?" Arashi asked, George made a face at him, which Arashi looked back at with confusion, "I'm not hungry, I just ate, you're welcome to get something else though" George said casually,
"Alright, where's your kitchen from here?" Arashi asked rubbing his hands together, "Go out of my room, down the hall, take a left, go down that hall, the opening on the right from there, will lead you to the living room,
across there behind the couch is the kitchen, knock yourself out" George said, Arashi sighed, "Your house is like a maze dude, fer real" Arashi said, getting ready to head out, "Just a second, take the dishes with you Arashi"
George said, "And what will you be doing? Setting up the other game? I wouldn't mind playing that karaoke and dance game again" Arashi said grinning, George made somewhat of a sour face, "How about we just listen to some music before bed, its late anyways" George said, "Its only one thirty! And besides, you love that game" Arashi protested,
"Well, I don't want to play, you're welcome to it though" George said, "Alright, whatever, we'll listen to music"
Arashi mumbled, "Good, see you soon" George said patting Arashi's shoulder, giving him a smile, before going to his walk in closet. Arashi scooped up the bowls, and headed out to find George's kitchen, following his instructions. *Man, George is acting weird- Even for George, well maybe its nothing, it is late, he must be tired, I guess I don't know what he does apart from school, and crafting dresses* Arashi thought with a shrug,
he finally made his way into the kitchen, washing out his bowl, throwing the chop sticks away, he put wrapping over George's food, and put it into the fridge, he stopped looking around in the place for food. There were many things in there to choose from, from fresh vegetables, meats, to things for the microwave, *He must have just went to the store* Arashi thought excited, he started taking food out, he made himself a few sandwiches,
to eat, while he waited for some microwave dinners to cook. *Delicious! I got to come over more often* Arashi thought,
chowing down into his roast chicken sandwich, his phone buzzing got him out of his food fantasy, he took it out seeing it was Miwako, he quickly drunk the sandwich down with a tall glass of strawberry juice, before answering it. "What's up girl?" Arashi asked, Miwako giggled on the other end, "I just wanted to see if you wanna come over Arashi!" Miwako said happily, "When?" Arashi asked, hoisting the phone between his shoulder and ear, while he took his dinner out of the oven, "Ummmm, now?" Miwako said, "Like right now?" Arashi asked, "Yes right now silly,
Mikako, her hubby and Alice are out, they went on a small vacation this weekend, and I stayed here, but I got lonely so...Do you wanna~?" Miwako asked, Arashi's faced reddened, He took a bite of his dinner, swallowing it before he spoke, "That sounds great" Arashi said, "Great! Come over soo-" Miwako was saying, when Arashi heard a thud from the other room, he moved the phone back, trying to listen for more movement but heard nothing,
"Arashi?" Miwako called concerned, "Huh- Oh!" Arashi said putting the phone back on his ear, "Sorry Miwako,
I heard a thud..." Arashi said, still looking into the other room, "Eep! Is someone in the room with you?"
Miwako asked nervously, "Huh? No in the other room, I'm in George's apartment actually" Arashi said,
"Oh, I didn't know, were you just leaving?" Miwako asked, "No, well I guess I am now" Arashi said,
"I don't want you to leave Georgey for me" Miwako said, "Huh? I'm sure he won't mind" Arashi said finishing off his food, and juice, going to see what that thud was about, "But you already made plans, that would be rude Arashi!" Miwako said slightly scolding, "Alright fine, I'll stay..." Arashi mumbled, making his way back to George's room, he found him with his pajama's on, he was sitting against a door, with his head down his hand on his face, he looked like he was tensed. "George?" Arashi said surprised, "Is everything okay?"
Miwako asked picking up on his shock, "Imma call you back.." Arashi said hanging up, he put his phone in his pocket and walked over to George, who remained seated, he kelt on the floor by him. "George hey,
hey!" Arashi said getting slightly more frantic when he didn't respond, so he started shaking him, George quickly looked his way, almost like he snapped back to life. "Huh?" George asked quickly, Arashi stared at him in concern, "Dude what happened, what're you doing" Arashi asked frowning, "I..dropped something" George said standing up, Arashi stood up with him, "Dropped something?" He asked with disbelief, "Yeah, but I'm fine, you ready to listen to some tunes?" George asked casually, walking over to his stereo, to turn it on,
Arashi continued staring at him still a little confused. ~Arashi Pov~ I kept staring at George as he turned on some hiphop, and sat to listen calmly, Just a minute ago your on the floor, looking like your head's splitting now your nodding it to music? Maybe he did get worked up over dropping something...I mean George is a little weird. ~George's Pov~ After Arashi left to eat, I went to get some clothes, then I wanted to take a bath, and get dressed for bed, I just really wanted to sleep, the little I ate didn't agree with me and I was just tired,
but I didn't want to come off as a bad host, I actually like to spend time with Arashi. After I took my bath,
I started feeling a little dizzy, I tried to quickly brush my teeth, and get dressed, but my head kept pounding,
just as I walked back out into my bedroom, my vision went fuzzy, the previous sounds shut off, and I fell to the floor, Dang it! I tried to stand but my head is still spinning so I sit against the door, trying to get myself together when Arashi came in, I don't wanna deal with these questions, and I don't wanna complain about falling, what would Arashi do about it anyways? I put on some lively music, and just try to forget about it,
this isn't the first time its happened. ~George and Arashi spent the rest of the night listening to tunes,
even some from Arashi's band, which brought up a few bad memories, of them making fun of what he was doing,
but it didn't bug him too much, they continued to chat and listen, before it got too late, and they started to get ready for bed, while Arashi got a little cleaned up, George pulled back the covers, after much convincing George got Arashi in the bed~ "Don't you think this is weird?" Arashi asked, "No...You're my friend,
I invited you over, and you stupidly didn't being a sleeping bag" George responded, "Yeah but, I could have slept on the floor, or the couch!" Arashi said, still uncomfortable, "But my bed is more comfortable, besides,
siblings do this all the time" George pointed out, "But we arent' siblings!" Arashi said, "So, we're friends,
same thing right? Two people who have a good standing friendship, in a bed, I'm not gonna do anything"
George said joking, "Promise?" Arashi asked his tone a little more serious, "Yes...I do" George said honestly,
feeling a little hurt Arashi didn't trust him. "Okay, well, goodnight I guess" Arashi said snuggling under covers,
"Good night Arashi" George said giving him a small side hug, on his arm, making Arashi tense up, but George didn't notice, he just laid on his side, facing Arashi's back, falling asleep. While Arashi wrecked his brain,
thinking about what he missed out on with Miwako, to hang out with George, and what his friends would think of him,
and what his status would be if anyone saw George being so friendly to him, he shuddered at the thought,
George was a okay guy, but how he acted, and dressed, people are quick to assume things, and Arashi didn't want any part of it, Aarshi sighed, trying to fall asleep in the soft bed, unsure of what he'd do, if it leaked out he'd became more chummy with George Koizumi of all people.