Hoshi woke up in the middle of the night, almost half way out of
her double bed. She sighed deeply and grabbed the alarm clock on the
nightstand, trying to focus her eyes on the numbers. The neon green numbers
showed 02:05 to which Hoshi gave a snort before she put the clock back onto
it's place. She sighed and slowly sat up in the bed, which suddenly gave
her a empty feeling as she gazed on the rest of the bed, where four more
people could have space to lay on.
"Man." She whispered into the darkness of her room before she threw the blanket off herself and got out of bed, grabbing the t-shirt that was lying under the metal legs of her nightstand. She sighed once more as she pulled the shirt over her head as she walked out of the large bedroom, thought it only had her bed with two nightstands and whole wall of closets, and four speakers in each corner at the ceiling.
She slowly stepped out into the kitchen, while rubbing her tired eyes as she stopped by the kitchen counter, where she stopped for a second, staring at the floor and listening to the silence around her. She sighed once more and opened the fridge, taking out a bottle of water, which she opened as the door closed by its self.
Hoshi walked into the small hallway and into the living room, where everything was neat except for the shelves where the things where mixed up and in no order what so ever. She passed by the piano that stood there in all its grace and to the balcony doors, which she opened with her bare foot. She walked onto the balcony where she put the bottle onto the plastic table with its two chairs, while the wind plaid around with her hair and t-shirt, which didn't worry Hoshi.
She opened one of the three drawers by the table and took out a packet of cigarettes, and a silver lighter that she had gotten from Tsukiyo when she had turned seventeen. She lit the cigarette and walked to the edge of the balcony, looking at the amazing sight over Tokyo city.
Why can't I sleep? She thought and closed her eyes as a car driving by on the street honked. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at Tokyo Towers that she could see clearly in the distance. She smiled gently while taking a smoke from the cigarette. Could it really be what I think it is? She thought now and lowered her gaze back onto the street below. Have I begun to form feelings for Michiru? She sighed at her thoughts and closed her eyes while pulling her hand trough her hair.
She smoked up the cigarette and put it into the glass jug at the table, where she picked up the water bottle and a chair, which she put at the edge of the balcony. She sighed and got up onto the chair, which really wasn't needed. She soon took a drink from the bottle and jumped onto the roof of the building, which she had done several times before. She slowly walked over to the edge of the roof, taking sips from the bottle while gazing around herself with a thought filled look over her face. She sat down onto the roof while looking at the sky, which still had its stars and moon shining over the calm city. She smiled and out the bottle to her lips.
Am I falling in love with her? She thought now, while biting the bottles opening. If I am doing so. What about her? Has she the same kind of feelings for me? She sighed at her thoughts and looked at the bottle in her hand. "I wish I knew for sure." She whispered and looked over the city.
She sat on the roof for several hours and now the sun was rising in the distance.
Hoshi smiled for herself at the sight that never stopped to amaze her. "I wish she could see this." She whispered to herself as she slowly got up from the rooftop and slowly walked her way back to the balcony, climbing over the edge before walking into the living room, where she stopped by the painting that she had gotten from Michiru when they were in high school.
It was a painting on her self standing with her back turned to the artist with a cloth covering a part of her lower back, while she was looking over her shoulder. Hoshi smiled gently at the painting as she slowly put the bottle onto the glass table by the three-seat sofa. She slowly let her gaze end up at the photo's in the fives shelves, most pictures on Taiko and her sister, but some of other people who she hadn't seen for sometime. She rested her eyes on her graduation photo, where she stood beside Michiru with the rest of the class around. She smiled and soon walked over to the photo, and picking it up to take a better look.
She sure hasn't changed a bit. She thought while studying the smiling Michiru, wearing her school uniform while her hair was hanging loose at her shoulders. Hoshi herself had longer hair in the picture, which was in a tight brand that rested over her right shoulder.
Hoshi sighed at the memories and slowly put the photo back into its place. "Good old times." She whispered and slowly walked to the armchair, sitting down and putting her feet onto the frame of the glass table.
She soon sighed and closed her eyes for a second, only to open them as she picked up one of the remotes on the table, pointing it towards the heart of the living room and rest of the apartment. A system that Hoshi had planned on her own, with a mixing board that connected all the speakers in the apartment to the one and only stereo, that being twenty-six all together trough the whole apartment. She turned the stereo on and pressed in the CD number that she had put on her mind. Soon soft dance music started to stream out of the speakers all around her.
Hoshi sighed and put away the remote, leaning her head back in the armchair while studying the ceiling for no reason. She soon looked at the phone that was in its usual place, on the table right in the middle of everything. She bit her lip a little thinking about what time it was before she spun around in the chair. Should I wake her up? She thought as she stopped spinning in the chair, staring right at the phone again. "I shouldn't." She whispered after a while of thinking trough the things inside of her head. She spun slowly around in the chair, staring at the ceiling for a while, grabbing onto the remote as she spun by the table.
She soon stopped spinning, not because she was feeling dizzy but she had gotten an idea. She turned of the system and threw the remote into the sofa before she ran into her bedroom, only to run out after a minute, fully dressed in a white blouse and black pants. She almost stormed into the bathroom, only to run out after a minute. She put on her shoes and grabbed a black jacket from the hanger, before she opened the door, that lead to a elevator door, which she opened and got in, pressing the down button. The doors closed and soon the elevator stopped on the fourteenth floor, where she quickly pressed the button to the second elevator. It took ten seconds before the elevator doors opened and she stepped in, pressing the button to the last floor.
She looked at her own reflection in the mirror with a gentle blush at her cheeks. Am I just plainly mad or what? She thought and fixed the collar on her jacket, and soon the doors behind her opened and she walked out, only to run to the entrance and out onto the street, where she got to her car, which was parked around the corner. She got out her keys as she jumped into the car and behind the wheel. She took a deep breath before she put in the keys and started the engine. "I must be crazy." She whispered to herself as she raced down the street, passing a empty crossing with a red light.
At the same time Michiru was sitting on the windowsill in the hallway, looking out into the front yard. She hadn't been able to sleep that night because she had too many thoughts keeping her awake. She sighed and leaned her head against the window and closed her eyes gently, while holding the shirt tightly around herself, which she hadn't minded in closing.
I wanted to sleep. She thought for herself and sighed out loud before she slowly opened her eyes, looking into the yard once more, seeing a car passing by at the gate. She slowly got down from the windowsill and was about to walk away from the window, when she suddenly stopped in her movement and turned back to face the window.
Like from nowhere a car was standing in the yard. The lights where turned off and soon the driver stepped out. Michiru slowly put her hand onto the window and gazed into the yard, where the automatic garden lights where turned on.
"Oh my god." She whispered, now seeing that it was Hoshi who was standing by her car while looking at the house. "Hoshi." She whispered now and took a slow step from the window, before running down the hallway and down the stairs, only to almost fall over the last step and into the hallway. She took a deep breath before she unlocked the door and opened it slowly, holding her shirt tightly around herself she looked into the yard where Hoshi still was standing. "What are you doing here?" Michiru shouted into the yard after a while of studying Hoshi.
Hoshi soon noticed her and slowly walked over to the door. "If I said that I couldn't sleep because I always ended up thinking about you, would you get mad?" Hoshi asked carefully while putting her hands into her pockets.
Michiru swallowed hard and took a deep breath. "Not really." She replied calmly, but she could feel her heart trying to hammer it's way out of her chest. "You remembered my address." She said after a while and smiled gently.
"The curse of a good memory, which goes down trough every generation in my family." Hoshi answered while smiling back at Michiru. "Why are you up?" She asked shortly after taking a deep breath.
"I couldn't sleep either." She explained and ended up biting her lower lip.
"Let me guess, you were thinking about if you would repaint your house, or something?" Hoshi smiled warmly now. "And you didn't know what color it would be in. Right?"
Michiru couldn't help but smile, but at the same time tears burned at her eyes. Soon a tear ran down her cheek, which Hoshi looked at with a wondering look over her face. "Silly." Michiru sobbed and soon wrapped her arms around Hoshi's neck, not minding the shirt that slowly opened between them.
Hoshi looked at the aqua haired hair around Michiru's head for a while, before she sighed deeply putting her arms around Michiru and holding her close to herself. "I sure am silly." She whispered gently.
Michiru sobbed while more tears ran down her cheeks. "I can't believe that you are here now." She whispered against Hoshi's neck while stroking the hair on the backside of Hoshi's head.
Hoshi smiled warmly and soon looked at Michiru, putting her right hand under Michiru's chin and moving her face up, so that the two where facing each other. "I'm her for sure, but I still feel a bit silly." She remarked.
Michiru smiled softly at her and soon took a step away from Hoshi, not minding the shirt that was fully open and showed most of her bare skin. She took Hoshi's hand pulled her inside, closing the door after them. Michiru soon took a step closer the staring Hoshi, putting her hands onto her shoulders. "And no, I wasn't thinking about what color my house should be." She answered the old question before she gently placed her lips over Hoshi's, while standing as close as she could to the slightly taller woman, and at the same time bushing her towards the staircase. They walked up the stairs, without leaving each other's lips, but as the last step appeared Hoshi stumbled over, pulling Michiru down with her like a reflex.
"Dang. that I call a body slam." Hoshi whispered under her breath as she slowly lifted her head up from the floor, looking at a laughing Michiru who was over her. "You could have told me how many stairs you have, before this happened." Hoshi smiled a painful smile. "I think I broke my butt in the fall." She added while grinding her teeth.
Michiru couldn't stop but laughing, while lying her head onto Hoshi's chest. But as soon as she stopped laughing she looked up at Hoshi with a warm smile over her lips, with a gentle glimmer in her eyes. "I just might take care of your butt, if you want me to." She suggested while leaning onto her elbows over Hoshi.
Hoshi looked at her with a slightly raised eyebrow. "Oh so?" She blinked and soon smiled. "About soon, I hope." She added as Michiru got up from the floor and helped her up. "I really mean it, I really think that I broke my butt." Hoshi whispered while trying to stand up straight.
"The operation room is right trough here." Michiru whispered into Hoshi's ear as she put her arm around Hoshi's waist, walking with her into the bedroom where Michiru lied Hoshi down on the bed.
"Ah man." Hoshi sighed deeply as she stared right at the ceiling, while lying flat on her back right across the double bed with Michiru lying down beside her. "That fall's going to hurt in the morning." She whispered and looked at Michiru with yet another sigh. "But I guess it's worth it." She added and smiled gently.
Michiru smiled back gently at her while stroking Hoshi's cheek. "You'll be okay. I've been in that same fall several times before."
"Really?" Hoshi blinked, slightly surprised.
Michiru nodded. "You should have seen the first time I walked up those stairs. I flew at least two feet down the hallway." She said with a smile over her lips, while she was trying to keep back her laughter.
"That would have been a sight." Hoshi nodded in agreement and ended up with a gentle laugh.
"Mmm." Michiru just smiled while stroking Hoshi's cheek. She soon sighed and lied her head down beside Hoshi's, having her face only some inches from Hoshi's. "You can't imagine how glad I am, now that you're here." She whispered after a short while of silence.
"I'm glad I came instead of calling you." Hoshi whispered back with a soft look over her face. She soon sighed as she slowly turned onto her side, still facing Michiru. She soon let yet another sigh leave her lips before she put her hand onto Michiru's cheek. "Why can't I stop thinking about you?" She whispered after a while of gazing into the blue eyes in front of her.
"I want a answer to my own, but very same question about you." Michiru replied, moving closer to Hoshi, putting her arm around her shoulder while looking her right in the eyes, now being only a half inch from her lips touching Hoshi's. "Why is that?" She whispered after a while of gazing.
Hoshi took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes a little. "If I only knew." She replied while letting her hand run down Michiru's cheek and to the backside of her head. They soon closed their eyes as the half-inch between their lips was gone and they kissed.
"Man." She whispered into the darkness of her room before she threw the blanket off herself and got out of bed, grabbing the t-shirt that was lying under the metal legs of her nightstand. She sighed once more as she pulled the shirt over her head as she walked out of the large bedroom, thought it only had her bed with two nightstands and whole wall of closets, and four speakers in each corner at the ceiling.
She slowly stepped out into the kitchen, while rubbing her tired eyes as she stopped by the kitchen counter, where she stopped for a second, staring at the floor and listening to the silence around her. She sighed once more and opened the fridge, taking out a bottle of water, which she opened as the door closed by its self.
Hoshi walked into the small hallway and into the living room, where everything was neat except for the shelves where the things where mixed up and in no order what so ever. She passed by the piano that stood there in all its grace and to the balcony doors, which she opened with her bare foot. She walked onto the balcony where she put the bottle onto the plastic table with its two chairs, while the wind plaid around with her hair and t-shirt, which didn't worry Hoshi.
She opened one of the three drawers by the table and took out a packet of cigarettes, and a silver lighter that she had gotten from Tsukiyo when she had turned seventeen. She lit the cigarette and walked to the edge of the balcony, looking at the amazing sight over Tokyo city.
Why can't I sleep? She thought and closed her eyes as a car driving by on the street honked. She slowly opened her eyes and looked at Tokyo Towers that she could see clearly in the distance. She smiled gently while taking a smoke from the cigarette. Could it really be what I think it is? She thought now and lowered her gaze back onto the street below. Have I begun to form feelings for Michiru? She sighed at her thoughts and closed her eyes while pulling her hand trough her hair.
She smoked up the cigarette and put it into the glass jug at the table, where she picked up the water bottle and a chair, which she put at the edge of the balcony. She sighed and got up onto the chair, which really wasn't needed. She soon took a drink from the bottle and jumped onto the roof of the building, which she had done several times before. She slowly walked over to the edge of the roof, taking sips from the bottle while gazing around herself with a thought filled look over her face. She sat down onto the roof while looking at the sky, which still had its stars and moon shining over the calm city. She smiled and out the bottle to her lips.
Am I falling in love with her? She thought now, while biting the bottles opening. If I am doing so. What about her? Has she the same kind of feelings for me? She sighed at her thoughts and looked at the bottle in her hand. "I wish I knew for sure." She whispered and looked over the city.
She sat on the roof for several hours and now the sun was rising in the distance.
Hoshi smiled for herself at the sight that never stopped to amaze her. "I wish she could see this." She whispered to herself as she slowly got up from the rooftop and slowly walked her way back to the balcony, climbing over the edge before walking into the living room, where she stopped by the painting that she had gotten from Michiru when they were in high school.
It was a painting on her self standing with her back turned to the artist with a cloth covering a part of her lower back, while she was looking over her shoulder. Hoshi smiled gently at the painting as she slowly put the bottle onto the glass table by the three-seat sofa. She slowly let her gaze end up at the photo's in the fives shelves, most pictures on Taiko and her sister, but some of other people who she hadn't seen for sometime. She rested her eyes on her graduation photo, where she stood beside Michiru with the rest of the class around. She smiled and soon walked over to the photo, and picking it up to take a better look.
She sure hasn't changed a bit. She thought while studying the smiling Michiru, wearing her school uniform while her hair was hanging loose at her shoulders. Hoshi herself had longer hair in the picture, which was in a tight brand that rested over her right shoulder.
Hoshi sighed at the memories and slowly put the photo back into its place. "Good old times." She whispered and slowly walked to the armchair, sitting down and putting her feet onto the frame of the glass table.
She soon sighed and closed her eyes for a second, only to open them as she picked up one of the remotes on the table, pointing it towards the heart of the living room and rest of the apartment. A system that Hoshi had planned on her own, with a mixing board that connected all the speakers in the apartment to the one and only stereo, that being twenty-six all together trough the whole apartment. She turned the stereo on and pressed in the CD number that she had put on her mind. Soon soft dance music started to stream out of the speakers all around her.
Hoshi sighed and put away the remote, leaning her head back in the armchair while studying the ceiling for no reason. She soon looked at the phone that was in its usual place, on the table right in the middle of everything. She bit her lip a little thinking about what time it was before she spun around in the chair. Should I wake her up? She thought as she stopped spinning in the chair, staring right at the phone again. "I shouldn't." She whispered after a while of thinking trough the things inside of her head. She spun slowly around in the chair, staring at the ceiling for a while, grabbing onto the remote as she spun by the table.
She soon stopped spinning, not because she was feeling dizzy but she had gotten an idea. She turned of the system and threw the remote into the sofa before she ran into her bedroom, only to run out after a minute, fully dressed in a white blouse and black pants. She almost stormed into the bathroom, only to run out after a minute. She put on her shoes and grabbed a black jacket from the hanger, before she opened the door, that lead to a elevator door, which she opened and got in, pressing the down button. The doors closed and soon the elevator stopped on the fourteenth floor, where she quickly pressed the button to the second elevator. It took ten seconds before the elevator doors opened and she stepped in, pressing the button to the last floor.
She looked at her own reflection in the mirror with a gentle blush at her cheeks. Am I just plainly mad or what? She thought and fixed the collar on her jacket, and soon the doors behind her opened and she walked out, only to run to the entrance and out onto the street, where she got to her car, which was parked around the corner. She got out her keys as she jumped into the car and behind the wheel. She took a deep breath before she put in the keys and started the engine. "I must be crazy." She whispered to herself as she raced down the street, passing a empty crossing with a red light.
At the same time Michiru was sitting on the windowsill in the hallway, looking out into the front yard. She hadn't been able to sleep that night because she had too many thoughts keeping her awake. She sighed and leaned her head against the window and closed her eyes gently, while holding the shirt tightly around herself, which she hadn't minded in closing.
I wanted to sleep. She thought for herself and sighed out loud before she slowly opened her eyes, looking into the yard once more, seeing a car passing by at the gate. She slowly got down from the windowsill and was about to walk away from the window, when she suddenly stopped in her movement and turned back to face the window.
Like from nowhere a car was standing in the yard. The lights where turned off and soon the driver stepped out. Michiru slowly put her hand onto the window and gazed into the yard, where the automatic garden lights where turned on.
"Oh my god." She whispered, now seeing that it was Hoshi who was standing by her car while looking at the house. "Hoshi." She whispered now and took a slow step from the window, before running down the hallway and down the stairs, only to almost fall over the last step and into the hallway. She took a deep breath before she unlocked the door and opened it slowly, holding her shirt tightly around herself she looked into the yard where Hoshi still was standing. "What are you doing here?" Michiru shouted into the yard after a while of studying Hoshi.
Hoshi soon noticed her and slowly walked over to the door. "If I said that I couldn't sleep because I always ended up thinking about you, would you get mad?" Hoshi asked carefully while putting her hands into her pockets.
Michiru swallowed hard and took a deep breath. "Not really." She replied calmly, but she could feel her heart trying to hammer it's way out of her chest. "You remembered my address." She said after a while and smiled gently.
"The curse of a good memory, which goes down trough every generation in my family." Hoshi answered while smiling back at Michiru. "Why are you up?" She asked shortly after taking a deep breath.
"I couldn't sleep either." She explained and ended up biting her lower lip.
"Let me guess, you were thinking about if you would repaint your house, or something?" Hoshi smiled warmly now. "And you didn't know what color it would be in. Right?"
Michiru couldn't help but smile, but at the same time tears burned at her eyes. Soon a tear ran down her cheek, which Hoshi looked at with a wondering look over her face. "Silly." Michiru sobbed and soon wrapped her arms around Hoshi's neck, not minding the shirt that slowly opened between them.
Hoshi looked at the aqua haired hair around Michiru's head for a while, before she sighed deeply putting her arms around Michiru and holding her close to herself. "I sure am silly." She whispered gently.
Michiru sobbed while more tears ran down her cheeks. "I can't believe that you are here now." She whispered against Hoshi's neck while stroking the hair on the backside of Hoshi's head.
Hoshi smiled warmly and soon looked at Michiru, putting her right hand under Michiru's chin and moving her face up, so that the two where facing each other. "I'm her for sure, but I still feel a bit silly." She remarked.
Michiru smiled softly at her and soon took a step away from Hoshi, not minding the shirt that was fully open and showed most of her bare skin. She took Hoshi's hand pulled her inside, closing the door after them. Michiru soon took a step closer the staring Hoshi, putting her hands onto her shoulders. "And no, I wasn't thinking about what color my house should be." She answered the old question before she gently placed her lips over Hoshi's, while standing as close as she could to the slightly taller woman, and at the same time bushing her towards the staircase. They walked up the stairs, without leaving each other's lips, but as the last step appeared Hoshi stumbled over, pulling Michiru down with her like a reflex.
"Dang. that I call a body slam." Hoshi whispered under her breath as she slowly lifted her head up from the floor, looking at a laughing Michiru who was over her. "You could have told me how many stairs you have, before this happened." Hoshi smiled a painful smile. "I think I broke my butt in the fall." She added while grinding her teeth.
Michiru couldn't stop but laughing, while lying her head onto Hoshi's chest. But as soon as she stopped laughing she looked up at Hoshi with a warm smile over her lips, with a gentle glimmer in her eyes. "I just might take care of your butt, if you want me to." She suggested while leaning onto her elbows over Hoshi.
Hoshi looked at her with a slightly raised eyebrow. "Oh so?" She blinked and soon smiled. "About soon, I hope." She added as Michiru got up from the floor and helped her up. "I really mean it, I really think that I broke my butt." Hoshi whispered while trying to stand up straight.
"The operation room is right trough here." Michiru whispered into Hoshi's ear as she put her arm around Hoshi's waist, walking with her into the bedroom where Michiru lied Hoshi down on the bed.
"Ah man." Hoshi sighed deeply as she stared right at the ceiling, while lying flat on her back right across the double bed with Michiru lying down beside her. "That fall's going to hurt in the morning." She whispered and looked at Michiru with yet another sigh. "But I guess it's worth it." She added and smiled gently.
Michiru smiled back gently at her while stroking Hoshi's cheek. "You'll be okay. I've been in that same fall several times before."
"Really?" Hoshi blinked, slightly surprised.
Michiru nodded. "You should have seen the first time I walked up those stairs. I flew at least two feet down the hallway." She said with a smile over her lips, while she was trying to keep back her laughter.
"That would have been a sight." Hoshi nodded in agreement and ended up with a gentle laugh.
"Mmm." Michiru just smiled while stroking Hoshi's cheek. She soon sighed and lied her head down beside Hoshi's, having her face only some inches from Hoshi's. "You can't imagine how glad I am, now that you're here." She whispered after a short while of silence.
"I'm glad I came instead of calling you." Hoshi whispered back with a soft look over her face. She soon sighed as she slowly turned onto her side, still facing Michiru. She soon let yet another sigh leave her lips before she put her hand onto Michiru's cheek. "Why can't I stop thinking about you?" She whispered after a while of gazing into the blue eyes in front of her.
"I want a answer to my own, but very same question about you." Michiru replied, moving closer to Hoshi, putting her arm around her shoulder while looking her right in the eyes, now being only a half inch from her lips touching Hoshi's. "Why is that?" She whispered after a while of gazing.
Hoshi took a deep breath and slowly closed her eyes a little. "If I only knew." She replied while letting her hand run down Michiru's cheek and to the backside of her head. They soon closed their eyes as the half-inch between their lips was gone and they kissed.