~ Chapter 27 ~

Insomniacs: Mits' Story

            I got up from my seat on the porch and walked inside the apartment again, closing the door slowly behind me. No matter how gentle you were with the door, it always made some sort of creaking noise.

            There was a small light on a little ways down the hallway, coming from the kitchen, so I peeked in. Mits was awake, and pouring herself a glass of water from the tap. She had her back turned, so she didn't see me.

            I snuck up behind her, quietly looked over her shoulder, wondering when she would notice.

            "Boo."

            Everything happened way too quickly. First, she jumped five miles into the air, shrieked, and dropped the cup back into the sink. Then she turned around, her hair very frazzled, and beat me over the head. I guess I deserved that one.

            "W-what a coincidence … yer awake too!" I tried to keep the conversation light. After things had calmed down a bit, we sat in our designated stools at the table. I sat slumped forward; my head hurt like hell…

            "Why are yeh awake anyways?"

            She put down her glass and rested her chin in her hands. "Just thinking."

            I cocked an eyebrow. "Oh?"

            She nodded. "Yep."

            I sat up and looked at her. "About what?"

            "Well…" A faint blush tinted her cheeks. "I was thinking … about my birthday…"

            I sat up rigid. "It's the gift wasn't it??" I started muttering to myself. "I knew we should have gotten that other laptop I saw … but nooo…"

            "What?" She blinked, cutting me off. "Oh, that's not it!" She waved her hand and I blew a sigh of relief. "I was thinking about a few days after my birthday …"

            "Ooohh …" I grinned, knowing what she meant. I remembered her little story she told me a couple days afterwards … she had run up to me and demanded that I sit down right then and there, so that I listened to every word.

            She started to tell the story again …

(1) It was raining hard that night and the rain was hitting hard against my closed window. I was in my room, typing on my brand new laptop everyone had pitched in to get me for my birthday, when heard a light knocking on my door.

"Come in." I said while still looking down at my work. The door opened and Mitsukake's head came through the opening.

"Hey Mits…would you like to watch the lightning with me?"

I looked up at him. "…What lightning…It's not thundering and lightning..."

Suddenly as if it was waiting for the right cue, a flash of lightning brightened up my room and the loudest crack of thunder I ever heard rumbled through the sky.

I cocked an eyebrow. "Oh, okay then." I smiled.

I closed my laptop and walked out the room and followed him to his room. His window blinds where wide open and revealed his usually hidden windows. He had a small couch under the window… a perfect spot to watch a storm. He asked me to close the door and turn off the lights while he sat on the couch. I did as he asked and waited till a flash of lightning went off again so I could see. When it did, I found my way to the couch and sat next to him.

"Wait a second," He said, so he and I got up. I heard him move around and then I saw what he did when lightning struck with a loud rumble of thunder after. He had his back to the armrest of the couch and has his legs stretched out to the other end. He looked at me with his deep sapphire eyes and smiled.

"Okay," he prompted. I sat parallel of him and put my head on his chest. I could hear his heart beat…it was so soft and comforting. He wrapped his arm around my right shoulder and held my other hand with his. Soon him and I were both looking out the window watch the lightning that filled the dark room with light….listening to the thunder that filled the silence. There was no noise in the house….so I made the assumption that Chiri and Chichiri were probably doing the same. Tasuki was most likely sleeping through this. I then felt Mitsukake pull me close to him, and hold me tighter.

"Is something wrong?" I asked him.

"No.." he said softly "It's just.." I looked up at his face….it usually looked so stern but, so gentle at the same time. He looked like person that would never hurt anyone, but right now he looked like he was looking for the right words…

"Well…" He said softly, "It's just….that….I love you…." (1)

            I grinned, exposing my fangs, and patted her on the back. "Yeh reeled him in good."

            She looked at me through the corner of her eye. "Same for you."

I scratched the back of my head in embarrassment. "W-well … I'd say it was luck for me."

She shook her head and picked up her glass again. "Ya had him from the start, so don't say that."

I blushed lightly, turning a little more serious. "It is luck in one way. We are very lucky …"

"We are."

There was a comfortable pause afterwards. I yawned widely, sleep slowly coming back to me.

"I'm heading up … you should too."

She got up and put her glass in the sink. "I will … in a moment." She pushed her stool back in a little bit and clicked off the lights. I had already made it up the flight of stairs and opened my bedroom door. I was thinking. That was one of our more … serious … conversations.

"'Night." 

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Footnotes!

(1) ~ Flashback originally written by Mits for her story! (and in her story it was a flashback as well. Her story also takes place kind of way after my story … @.@ confusing, no?)

Next chapter coming  … hopefully … soon! School has started, and that means homework is now the basis of my life!! X_X

~ Chiri