Hey, Sooo... for the past few months i have had major writers block. Please forgive me for my laziness. This chapter is going to be the start of the drama, so if you bare with me, the real fun will begin. Again I'm so sorry for my late update. I promise I'll do better.
Hopefully I'm still,
- UrGuiltyPleasure
"Ok sophomores! In 5 minutes when the bells rings, you officially be juniors!"
The class' cheer at the teacher statement roared through the hallways. I'd what it sounded like in the hallway since me and Jason are skipping class. We've made it a tradition to skip every class on the last day of school but never leaving until the bell rings. We're with a group of our friends, including Momo and Huni. Huni been trying to get in Jason's pants all day, but he hasn't even giving her the slightest satisfaction of getting her name right. He's been calling her 'Hana' or 'Bunny' or 'Sunny' or some other shit that's not her name. Why? I wouldn't know. But I do know that its on purpose. I suspect it some form of a game he's playing with her to ensure that she's nice and slick when he's ready to penetrate. I notice that Momo's enjoying the lack of attention he's giving Huni. She probably setting Huni up so Jason would venture to her own room for release. But he's not stupid. He'll find him a better fuck later.
Anyway me and Jason decide to split from the group during the last period. We sit on the stairwell that I drew the picture of, counting off the our remaining minutes off being 10th graders.
"So next week is your sweet sixteen! Who's shit are fucking up June 15th?" Jason says to me.
"Sweet" sixteen? Maybe not, but I dont know. I was thinking about roasting marshmallows after we set the school on fire" I reply thoughtfully
" Mmm. I like your style Rokujou. Well since we know what we're doing, what do you want?"
"What do you mean 'what do i want'?
" For your birthday dumbass!"
" Hey! could you please refrain from cursing at me? You act as if we know each other on a personal level or something."
"You're avoiding the question. I mean you dont have to tell what you want. But then you might end up with end with a pillowcase full of hamsters as a gift."
" I'm fine with that"
"UGHHH, do you always have to be a 'negative Natsuko' -"
"Yes because if I dont, it encourages you to do unnecessary shit."
" Yeah but wouldn't it be nice knowing that someone did some unnecessary shit just to make you smile on the day we celebrate the day your mother pushed you out of her vagina?"
"Maybe, but my mom had a C-section." He was about to say something before i politely
interrupted him.
"Wait, shut the fuck up! its countdown…"
"5." he says
"4." I say
"3."
"2."
"Good afternoon students, Happy Summer Vacation!" the intercom says.
The school roars with cheer as students run down the hallways as if they escaped from the pits of hell. Jason and I smile at each other as we simply walk down the steps and out the back door. We cut through the woods and walked the trail to the park. We dick around while scaring another batch of kids and moms at the playground. We sit on the swings and talk about randomness for a while. Dusk rolls around and we walk the dirt road back to Tobari's place. Jason started rambling about how I better get a car for my birthday because walking is for hefty vaginas. When we get home Tobari of course is livid. For what I dont know. Me, I respond to his anger with my usual sarcasm. But Jason somewhat kisses his ass. Surprisingly calming him down faster than Hana can do with her clothes on. Then we escape to my room.
"You know, you should really hang these up or something." says Jason rummaging through my shoe box full of sketches that he found under my bed. He was sitting on my bed criss crossed covered in my papers. I was on the other side of the room looking for my Black Butler
DVD in one of my movie drawers.
"Mmmm….Nahh." me answering his nearly forgotten question.
" Why not?" he asked like i said something stupid
I look at him and then back to my mess of movies. " Cause they look better in the box."
"Ugh. Whatever…"
I snicker to myself as I find season 1. I lay beside Jason close to wall while humming "I'm alive" theme song. I look back a Jason who's still grazing over the pictures.I see old ones of Ramei and Raiko and what I imagined them looking like when they were little. I drew Koichi too. Some are of him looking old and fragile and happy. Hana took up baking so I drew the bakery wants to own one day. I drew Tobari driving a truck with a nicotine patch. I even drew Yukimi and Amatatsu and how I think they would look like now. I draw alot of stuff like that. The way there lives should be. All happy and shit. Yeah I know, "gloom and doom" writes happy endings. You know for everyone but me. My eyes stumble on the one I cherish most.
It's crumpled up and taped together due to my failed attempts of destruction. We're all in Hana's make believe bakery. It's filled with tables in rows leading from the door to the front desk. Where Hana and my mom,Asahi, try to figure out how to work the cash register. Behind them is Raiko and Gau decorating cakes . In front of the desk is tobari and my dad fighting over over how the Grand Opening banner should look. While Tobari's grandfather sits on the table beside them, laughing at their quarrel showing a cupcake down his throat. On the other side of the room, Ramei rants about how unsanitary it is for Koichi to have his cat on the table while he looks at her with all the love in the world. On the right corner, Jason has his charmed up smile serving two strawberry short to faceless people that imagine to be his parents. I drew this to look like its picture being taken. And in the bottom left corner of the shot, there's a partial glimpse of half his body. He looks out the window with his cheek resting against his palm. His violet eyes don't look empty….and there's a faint smile…
"I like this one the best." Jason whispers, picking up the picture I was describing
"in reality, my dad is actually the fattest man in all of Japan. and then there's his unibrow…" he grabs a pencil off my dresser and drew in the unibrow.
"Yeah, because defacing my artwork is exactly what i wanted you to do." I say mocking a serious tone.
"Defacing it? But i just faced it!...Who's that?" I look up from the tv seeing Jason point to the person helping Hana.
"That my mom, Asahi."
"She's beautiful"
Heck yeah she is." he laughs a little
"Who's that?"
"That's Yoite."
He brought the picture closer to his face and squinted.
"Why'd you only draw half of him?"
"Because he didn't like to take pictures." He looks at me like I just spoke english
"But you're the one who drew it."
"...And."
"Wouldn't you want his whole face drawn?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"I dont think that's what he would've wanted."
"How do you know?"
"I don't."
He rolls his eyes back towards the tv. Then I look towards that direction too.
"Either way, he's kind of cute… You know if you're into that whole ' demon-poet
-and-didn't-even-know-it-kind-of-guy' thing."
We laugh, and I think Jason kind of relieved that I found that funny.
"What makes you think he was that kind of guy?"
"Because the way you drew him made that phrase pop into my head."
"Did it really pop into your head, or did it kinda 'snap' and 'crackle' first?
"I dont know but I think if it crackled first it would've came out better."
And that's how the rest of our night went.
You know, Jason does a really good job at keeping Miharu's spirits up without even trying.
But misery keeps bleeding through the little joy he brings him. If only he knew how this next week will change his life forever, and how much misery it'll bring his future self. I can't wait tell he tells the shinarobansho what he wants for his birthday,...because that's exactly what he'll get...
