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Home is a place that is very subjective. It can quite literally be anywhere really. An alleyway, the forest, a street, a box, and whatever someone wants it to be. As long as it gives you the sense of "home", that's home for you.
And that's exactly where I found myself now, at home, in my bed.
After the little fiasco with Kasumi, me and my mom went home silently. We didn't even make a sound to each other, but I could feel my mom's gaze on me. She's totally going to want to know what happened back there in the cafe. Hopefully she'll buy my "explanation."
It didn't take much time to arrive home as the café was still in the hospital district and the housing district isn't far from it. So our arrival time at home was fairly quick. Our home isn't much since we were a family of three. Just a small two story house, living essentials on the bottom and the rooms on the second floor.
As expected, my mom asked me what had happened immediately the very second second we sat down in the living room. I gave her a quick summary of what happened, a revised version of course. Even with Kasumi being the way she is now, I don't want anything bad to happen to my treasured friend. As such this version of what happened is to keep my mom from hunting Kasumi down and doing something horrible, although I'm not sure what she'd do. Although, I'm sure she won't hesitate to do whatever it is that she had planned.
As I was nearing the end of my explanation, my mom only sighed and told me to stop. Guess she picked up on me covering for Kasumi after all and didn't want to hear it anymore. Really thought I got by her this time. I weaved quite the tale this time.
Instead of the expected lecture I'd normally get for covering Kasumi, my mom opted to just stop. We did nothing for a little bit, me quivering in fear of what she'd do and her sitting silently with her eyes closed. Eventually she got up and motioned for me to follow her further into our home.
As we moved towards upstairs, I could see that the house hadn't changed at all in my absence. Good to see that hadn't changed, aside from the light dust I can see around here. We'll have to clean it soon, I can only guess how long anyone's been in this state over the past month now. It's clear that my mom is leading me to my room with the route we're taking. She opens my room and stands out of the way.
"Even though you just got out of the hospital, it's important that you rest. Especially with the dinner invitation and having to deal with her, it's best you rest well for now." She says as she stands to the side motioning me inside.
"You're right, I need to call the number I was given first to arrange a date for the dinner though. I'm thinking in two days. Gives me time to prepare properly you know."
"Yea, that should be fine. You do need to go clothes shopping; I'm assuming you'll go tomorrow for that?"
I nod back at her as I sit down on my bed.
"Good, for now do rest." She says as she closes the do-
"Oh and, welcome home Adam." She says to me with a soft smile and voice.
"Hehe, I'm home. Sorry for being late."
It's been some time since I've been left to my room alone now I suppose. It's a rather plain room really. Bed, window, desk, computer, and a closet. Never did want much. I'm just laying down right now on my bed. Reason being, is that I'm about to call the number that Lady Uni gave me to set up the dinner date and I'm horribly nervous. Still trying to figure out why I'm nervous though. Oh well, hopefully I can get over it.
"May as well get it over with now." I say to myself as I take out the PDA and click on one of the few apps on it. The app opens and all that's there is a number. I sigh and pull out my phone and quickly dial in the number and hit call. I swear I can feel some sweat forming already on my forehead.
It rings a few times with no answer and I'm getting increasingly worried with random possibilities forming in my head. What if it was a prank? What if it just a ploy to save face? What if-
"H-hello?"
A small feminine voice comes through the speakers of the phone answering my call. She sounds really shy (nervous?) as she answers and I'm quickly frozen at the sound of the familiar voice.
"Hello? Is that you Adam?"
A few more seconds pass by.
"Answer before I hang up!"
"W-w-wait! I'm here I'm here! Please don't hang up!"
Gosh. Why am I so damn nervous! What was with that stutter!? I've never stuttered that much before in my life! But more importantly, why did Lady Uni pick up!? Could this possibly be…
"Hmph! What toke you so long to answer!?"
Oh what to say to that.
"Sorry, I was just caught a little off guard that you answered. I thought a secretary or something would answer the call."
"D-don't worry about it! This is the Basilicom number and I just happen to pick up first is all! It's not like this is my p-private n-number or something!" I don't know what I should feel about this. A part of me is happy but another part of me wants to pretend I'd never heard this and bury this memory to the far recesses of my mind. Something to think on later.
"Oh okay, that explains."
"So your calling about the dinner right?"
"Yea, I just got cleared from the hospital and I wanted to set up the date as fast as possible."
"That's great to hear! We'll have the dinner set for the day after tomorrow. That should give you enough time to prepare and d-don't you dare show up late! My sister wants to meet you so don't make her wait!"
"….Yea, I'll be more than sure to show up early so don't worry about me being late."
"Good, well then we'll see you soon then."
And with that she ended the call as I stare blankly at my phone.
I wasn't thinking much about the dinner at first. I just thought it would just be to thank me and I'd be quickly on my way. I didn't expect to meet the CPU of my nation at all. In fact, that was far from my thoughts when I was given this invitation to the Basilicom. I just thought that Lady Black Heart was always too busy to pay anyone any mind besides her own sister. That was after all what it seemed like to everyone in Lastation as she hardly made appearances besides new projects being done. So with that thought process, I thought it'd only be Lady Uni and some other people or something.
"This is going to be quite the experience soon."
I say to myself as I throw myself onto my bed and throwing my phone somewhere. I'll worry about it later, for now I just want to sleep. Let my brain rest from all the turmoil I just went under.
"Life can truly lead to unexpected events…." I mutter to myself as I fall into the land of dreams.
A/N: Sorry for the pretty short chapter! I feel as though the next part would be out of place if I just continued on from here. The next chapter is going to be pretty meaty though, so hopefully you'll all enjoy that!
Thank you for reading and have a nice morning/evening/night!