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"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional."
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Growing Up
(Stories about age, withdrawal and nostalgia)
Written by Eina
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Warning/Note: I don't really know what kind of warning this should be since there's been mentions of sex from the first chapter. Hm, random boob groping, horny twenty-year olds, emo breakdown, spooning and a very comfortable bed? Yes, that'll do. Also, very differently written chapter… IDK.
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4. Duvet
Tonight was the last night before the term paper from hell was due which meant that after three days of barely sleeping, Tomoyo would get the chance to regain her life again. Why did going to university feel like you were slowly killing yourself? It wasn't that Tomoyo didn't enjoy learning, because she did, but when professors decide to stack deadlines on top each other life just gets unbearable.
"I should probably call my mother," Tomoyo yawned and stretched her arms as she looked at the clock. Three o'clock in the morning, if she slept now she'd be getting an hour more sleep.
Tomoyo sighed as she watched her printer slowly but surely print all of the nine pages that she needed. It made such a weird and obnoxious noise, but Tomoyo found it calming. She's been in such a weird mood lately, even Meilin commented on it. Of course her friend didn't fail to make jokes about her being over tired and that she should control Eriol-kun.
Laughing, Tomoyo jumped on her bed and felt the soft duvet her mother ordered for her. What a coincidence really, meeting him halfway across the world. She should really tell Sakura about this.
Beeep, beeeep.
Tomoyo sat up abruptly as she looked for the source of the weird beeping noise. She knew it was her cellphone, but she always forgets where she puts it. Spotting it to be by her bedside table, she immediately grabbed it and found a text message from someone unexpected.
"Talk about the devil," Tomoyo sighed and rolled her eyes as she pressed "view" to see Eriol's message. How did he even get her number? From Meilin? Most definitely. "I really need to find better friends," Tomoyo said jokingly.
Go to bed, darling. Eriol. Tomoyo stared at the message as she read it repeatedly in her head. The first thought in her head was as to how did Eriol even know she was up? Then she remembered that he was perhaps watching her as she sat in her bed, dumbfounded. Then another more violent thought came, and it was something along the lines of "stop watching me, you pervert."
I am in bed, Hiiragizawa-kun. I think you should be sleeping as well, though. It's late. Tomoyo hurriedly texted him back. She was a bit curious as to why he was still awake. Perhaps reincarnated magicians have insomnia as a side-effect?
Immediately, her phone began vibrating violently to let her know that she had a new message. It was from Eriol again. Sighing, Tomoyo realized that maybe talking to Hiiragizawa-kun was a bad idea. I can't sleep. Mind letting me in? I'm in the foyer of your building. Did he just assume that she was going to let him in? For a split second, Tomoyo decided to just let him rot in the foyer; then again, she just couldn't let him stay down there all by himself. Damn her good upbringing!
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Eriol sighed as he took a seat on the hard bench. He didn't even know what possessed him to ask Tomoyo to let him in and he knew that she probably wouldn't. What normal human being would even entertain a guest at this time of night?
He hated days like these, days when his thoughts wouldn't let him rest. Usually he would walk it all out, tiring himself so he would just pass out as soon as he got home. This tactic hasn't been working and he's been finding himself walking by the building where Tomoyo and Meilin lived. It was quite a walk from where he lived, but his feet always dragged him there.
He was about to leave the building when he heard the elevator ring.
"After you've gotten me out of bed, you're going to leave?" He heard that familiar gentle voice come from that elevator. It amused him that even thought she tried to sound snarky, it didn't work.
Eriol laughed, "You're quite the feisty one, aren't you Daidouji-san?" She gave him a smile that he thought was quite lovely. "You look like death," Eriol said as he examined her face in his hands as soon as he got into the elevator. "What floor?"
"Four," Tomoyo sighed as she jerked his hand away from her face. "Don't start now," she warned him
"My apologies," Eriol smiled as he took a step back from her. "You're phone's vibrating."
"It's just Sakura," Tomoyo said dismissively.
"Just Sakura?" Eriol was surprised when he heard the girl say that, what happened to being almost sisters? "Wow Daidouji-san, did anything happen? Is this perhaps the reason why you moved to Vancouver?" It was an innocent question, but when Eriol saw the expression on Tomoyo's face change drastically, he wished he had just remained silent. "Sorry."
She smiled and shook her head, that smiling and cool face back on, "Nothing to apologize for, Hiiragizawa-san. And no, it's just that I feel like I don't have energy to talk to Sakura-chan right now."
Curious, Eriol pursued the conversation, "Yet you still managed to pick me up and bring me to your place? I mean, if you have the energy to deal with me and with the things that may happen later when we get back to your place, why can't you talk to her?"
Rolling her eyes, Tomoyo laughed, "The only thing that's going to happen upstairs is me brewing you tea and you accepting it politely."
"Sure, is that we're calling it now?" Eriol smiled as casually caressed her face.
"I feel that I need to be away from Sakura-chan for a while, you know, to reassess our friendship, so to speak," Tomoyo smiled as she walked ahead of him.
Eriol sighed as he followed the girl who was now opening a door at the end of the hallway. He wondered what happened between the two girls. Perhaps she was also running away from disappointment like he was from a broken heart.
"Hey," he called out to Tomoyo who was halfway in the door.
"Don't tell me you're too much of a gentleman to come in my house, Hiiragizawa-kun," Tomoyo laughed, her back still facing him.
"I think it's too late for that, but are you okay?" Eriol had enough intuition to know when something wasn't right. Tomoyo Daidouji may think that if she was subtle enough, no one was going to notice her sadness, but he wasn't like everyone else. "Tomoyo," he added when she didn't respond.
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Tomoyo gulped, trying to suppress all the tears that were threatening to come out. Why was Eriol so pushy? Couldn't he just try to pretend that he didn't notice anything and accept the hospitality?
"What kind of tea do you want?" She asked, trying to muster up a smile.
"Earl grey, please," Eriol said as he stared at her. Tomoyo didn't mind people staring at her; she did perform, after all. Eriol's gaze was different though. It was as if he was reading into her and knew about every single secret she kept from the world. Perhaps this was also her imagination; she hasn't been sleeping very much, anyway.
Without much thought, Eriol grabbed the girl towards him and kissed her. It was a different kind of kiss, Tomoyo realized as she tried to regain her footing from the sudden action. It was rough, it was pained yet Eriol was holding her gently in the waist. He was kissing her with all his might now, roughly canvassing her mouth with her tongue. He heard her repressed moans and was pleased but stopped when he felt her quiver, "I'm sorry," he apologized.
"No, don't stop," Tomoyo whispered as she kissed him again, slowly walking him towards her room. She could feel his warm hands around her waist and slowly going upwards to her breasts. It always amused her how eager men were when they knew they were getting something tonight.
It wasn't for long when Eriol found himself laying on top of a really soft duvet with Tomoyo kissing him madly on top of him. With skill, he immediately rolled Tomoyo over so that she was under him. She gave him a reprimanding tsk, but he simply smirked and lowered his face onto her neck. There was something about this girl that drove him crazy and he wished to find out what it was.
"Your phone's still vibrating," Eriol said with an annoyed voice as he stopped and looked over to the phone that was dancing on her nightstand.
"Ignore it," Tomoyo said, equally as annoyed as she wrapped her legs around him.
"You're eager tonight," Eriol smirked.
"I need to relieve stress, Hiiragizawa-san," she said irritably.
"I believe that's still Sakura-san, you really need to talk to her, she's your best friend, after all."
"Why does it matter?" Tomoyo asked with a brow raised. By now they have disentangled themselves from each other and were sitting face to face. "Sakura-chan keeps on saying she misses me, but I know she's just fine in Tomoeda with Li-kun and her happy life. She doesn't need me and besides—"
Eriol laughed and shook his head with disbelief, "Daidouji-san, I'm a bit disheartened to think that this angst of yours is the reason you're letting me bed you tonight."
Tomoyo raised a brow at him as she buttoned her shirts up, "What happened to Mizuki-sensei?" There was no point in dilly-dallying now that she told him what her problem was, he might as well tell her his.
"We broke up," Eriol shrugged and dove for the right side of the bed. "I've decided to sleep here. Want to spoon?" He asked as he suggestively waggled her eyebrows.
"I have to go to school in two hours," Tomoyo said as a-matter-of-factly. "Get out of my bed, sleep on the floor!" She said as she attempted to kick the boy off her queen-sized bed.
Eriol was now laughing maniacally as he, with very little force, pulled her over him and gave her forehead a kiss. "Geez, just shut up and spoon me."
With this Eriol pulled her beside him on the bed and wrapped his body around hers. Tomoyo was going to fight back but as soon as her head hit the pillow, she felt the familiar sense of sleepiness surround her. Even in her half-awake state, Tomoyo felt the gentleness that surrounded Eriol. It felt all too foreign for her. What did he want from her?
"For goodness sake's Tomoyo, please," she heard Eriol groan, feeling his warm break on the back of her neck, "stop pondering, I can hear everything you think about. And I want your body, okay? Can we please sleep now?"
"Geez," Tomoyo laughed as she made herself comfortable between a pillow and the boy that refused to leave her bed. "You're cranky."
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Meilin blinked repeatedly, hoping that if she did this enough times that breakfast would magically appear in front of her. The continuous growling of her stomach only supported the fact that this was not going to happen. This was one of those days when she wished that she had the magical abilities of her darling cousin. Imagine the power of being able to conjure up your own food with the snap of a finger.
Sighing, she patted her stomach that kept growling. Where was Tomoyo and why didn't she cook breakfast?
"Tomoyo! Where are you? I want bacon!" Meilin wailed as she plopped on their couch and turned the TV on.
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"Your charge is hungry."
"What?"
"Meilin, she's hungry."
"Go cook her breakfast, then."
"I think she wants you."
"Jesus Christ, Hiiragizawa!" She really didn't want to wake up but the incessant bulge that was pressing on her, well, surprised her.
"Morning, Daidouji-san," Eriol yawned lazily as he watched the girl jump out of bed and shoot him a rather deadly glare.
"Fuck, I have to go to class, paper, shit," Tomoyo said as she hopped around her room, putting on a pair of sweatpants and a decent-looking knitted sweater.
"Have fun at school, love," Eriol laughed, quite amused at the sight of the Tomoyo Daidouji cussing.
"Show yourself out, Hiiragizawa," Tomoyo irritably groaned as she shut her door.
Oh Meilin is going to have a field day, Tomoyo sighed as she faced her starving friend. The smirk on her face was very noticeable and Tomoyo being Tomoyo simply gave her friend a great big smile and greeted her good morning.
Snickering, Meilin nodded, "Oh, I'm sure it is."
"No bacon for you," Tomoyo curtly replied.
"WHAT? UNFAIR!" Meilin, flabbergasted jumped out of the couch and chased Tomoyo.
"School, now, please," Tomoyo laughed as she quickly ran out the door. Perhaps all that running from Sakura's Card Captor days did do her some good.
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A/N: Hi, anyone still reading? I hope I didn't turn anyone away. This chapter had to be written! Please tell me what you thought about it! Thanks! Oh also, sorry for this really late update. I probably won't be able to update till the first of April, so sorry! I have three papers due in the next three weeks, a Canadian citizenship test in between, work, and random assignments. So, I'm afraid I won't be able to think about this fic. I'm quite disappointed that my schedule turned out this way. Sorry!