As the sun was rising the next morning, letting it's warm rays
stream trough Michiru's bedroom window and landing right on the two
sleeping bodies there. Hoshi was the first one to open her tired eyes, as
the rays shined right into her eyes. She sighed deeply and moved her head
up, so she could stare right at the ceiling. She soon smiled, hearing a
sigh from the other side of the bed. Hoshi let her head fall back to face
the left, where Michiru was lying on her side, facing Hoshi while the sun
rays caused her bare skin to shine gently. Hoshi looked at the sleeping
beauty for a short while before she scooted closer to her, gently stroking
some strands of hair form Michiru's face, trying not to wake her up.
Even if nothing did happen last night, I'm glad I came. Hoshi thought as she rested her head onto her arm, keeping her eyes over Michiru who gently sighed in her sleep.
Suddenly Michiru opened her eyes a little and almost stumbled out of bed, walking over to the window with the blanket around her self, where she pulled the curtains in the way of the sunrays with a deep sigh. Hoshi just stared at the woman who now stretched her arms over her head and letting the blanket fall to the floor, before she slowly turning around to look back at Hoshi with a tired gaze. "I should change my bed room somewhere else." She whispered and got back into bed, leaving the blanket on the floor while snuggling up closer to Hoshi with a deep sigh while pulling the blanket on Hoshi's side over herself as well. "You snore when you sleep." Michiru mumbled up against Hoshi's bare chest, and soon strolled her left hand onto Hoshi's waist, resting it there with a gentle sigh.
Hoshi just smiled at her and soon lied her head down onto the pillow. "It's the cigarettes I'm trying to give up." She replied and soon stroked some strands of hair from Michiru's forehead, which stubbornly fell back down.
"Mmm." Michiru just sighed, while snuggling up even closer to her, pushing Hoshi onto her back. "Want to sleep a while more?" She whispered as she leaned her head onto Hoshi's shoulder, with her hand on her chest.
"I wouldn't mind just lying here watching you." Hoshi replied with a warm gaze over her face.
Michiru looked up with one eye open. "Really now?" She whispered tiredly and soon sighed, closing her eye as she leaned her head back onto Hoshi's shoulder. "I'll sleep right here." She added with a smile over her lips. "And don't you dare move."
"I wont, unless you want me to move." Hoshi replied with a raised eyebrow.
Michiru opened her eyes and tried to blink away the tired look before she looked at Hoshi again, raising an eyebrow back at her, while a soft smile plaid on her lips. "Move all you like." She whispered after a while as she lied her head back down onto Hoshi's shoulder, while tapping her fingers on Hoshi's chest.
Hoshi looked at the fingers that where placed only some inches from her right breast and soon she sighed. "That looks like a threat." She smiled and looked back at Michiru. "Was it one?"
"No." Michiru mumbled after stopping tapping her fingers. "It was a promise." She added as she let her hand gently slide onto Hoshi's breast, leaving it there to rest. "I like." She mumbled after a second.
Hoshi looked at Michiru for a while before sighing with a smile playing on her lips. "You always this cute in the morning, even if nothing really has happened. yet?" She whispered softly while kissing Michiru on the head.
"Not really." Michiru mumbled her answer and ended up with a sigh. "I'm far more worse after something has happened." She added and Hoshi could feel that Michiru was smiling on her arm.
"Is that so.?" Hoshi smiled for herself while looking at the ceiling. Her eyes soon widened, feeling Michiru's leg that suddenly was on her own. She looked at the aqua haired beauty and blinked, hearing a gentle sigh from her, before feeling her warm lips over her left breast, which was almost dangerously close to Michiru's mouth. Hoshi swallowed and closed her eyes a little, while biting her lower lip.
Michiru suddenly sighed deeply and within a blink of an eye, she was lying on top of Hoshi, looking her right in the eyes. "Now I can't sleep.." She whispered and smiled softly.
Hoshi just stared at her, trying to figure out how she got on top of her. She soon swallowed and opened her mouth to speak, without getting out a word.
"Speechless?" Michiru just smiled at the woman under her and soon bent down, gently kissing Hoshi on the lips, while leaning onto her elbows, which she placed on each side of Hoshi's head and at the same time pressing herself against Hoshi's body.
Hoshi slowly let her wide-open eyes close as she slowly put her arms around Michiru, and at the same time kissing her back.
The sun was setting in the horizon, when Michiru walked back into the bedroom, wearing a robe around her self, while her hair was still damp after her bath. She stopped in the doorway and couldn't help but smile, seeing Hoshi lying there with the blanket covering only her right leg while she was lying on her side, facing the window. Michiru sighed softly and pulled her hand trough her hair before she walked over to the bed, sitting down behind Hoshi while just looking at her with a tender look over her face.
Almost picture perfect. She thought as she heard a soft sigh from Hoshi, who slowly turned onto her stomach. Michiru scanned every curve on Hoshi's backside, starting at the legs and working her way up to her shoulder blades. I guess there's no turning back now, Michiru. She thought and soon bent down over Hoshi, kissing her on the back.
Hoshi sighed softly and slowly opened her eyes, staring right into the pillow under her head. "That wasn't a long bath." She mumbled and soon looked over her shoulder, and right at Michiru, smiling gently.
"I can take a longer one, if you like?" Michiru smiled and was about to get up from the bed, when Hoshi grabbed onto her by the shoulders, spinning onto the other side of the bed, so that she was lying over Michiru, who was just smiling up at her. "Or maybe not." Michiru noted and soon let her eyes rest on Hoshi's necklace.
Hoshi smiled back at her and soon bent down over her, looking her right in the eyes while resting the most of her body weight onto her elbows. "You know now that there's no turning back, right?" She asked with a slightly raised eyebrow.
"Are you tying to look serious?" Michiru giggled and soon put her arms around Hoshi's neck, to play with the hair at her neck. They looked at each other for sometime before they sighed at the same time, and soon Michiru pressed Hoshi down, who laid her head onto the same pillow as Michiru's head was on. "I know." Michiru whispered, with a serious tone in her voice, while she scanned the ceiling and at the same time stroking Hoshi's back with her fingertips.
"I hope you don't regret this.?" Hoshi whispered after a while of gazing over Michiru's face.
Michiru shook her head a little and soon moved her head away from Hoshi's, only to look back at her. "I don't regret this." She whispered and smiled gently. "What about you?" She asked after a while, while making small patterns across Hoshi's spinal cord.
Hoshi smiled and closed her eyes a little, giving Michiru a tender look. "Never in my life." She promised and soon stroked Michiru's cheek gently with the palm of her hand. "I would never regret this. Not in a million years."
Michiru smiled at Hoshi and soon kissed her on the tip of her nose. "Me neither." She whispered sensually before she lied her head back down onto the pillow, looking right into Hoshi's almost glowing eyes.
"What about we get dressed." Hoshi whispered suddenly while gently stroking Michiru's chest with her fingertips. "Go into town and have a take out anywhere." She paused only to look into Michiru's eyes. "And we'll go to my place. I'll give you a treat that you'll not forget." She ended her sentence with a warm smile.
Michiru looked at her for a while and was about to kiss Hoshi on the lips to say 'yes', when the phone started to yell. "Oh crap." She whispered and Hoshi got of her, letting her run to the hallway while grabbing onto the floor and tumbling down to the floor. "Ouch! I mean Michiru?" She answered the phone while carefully sitting up on the floor.
"Michiru-san, it's Yoshiko." A quiet voice said on the other end of the line.
Michiru's eyes widened a little and swallowed, feeling that something was wrong. "What's wrong Yoshiko-san?" She asked while carefully biting her lip while looking into the bedroom where Hoshi was sitting up in the bed slowly.
"The concert is tomorrow. and." The quiet voice whispered on the other end. "And, Masahito-kun is terribly ill."
Michiru's face paled and her eyes widened. "Oh no. Don't say that."
"The show is going to canceled if someone doesn't find someone to take his place." The quiet voice started crying now. "What are we going to do Michiru-san? We can't find anyone on such short notice!"
Michiru swallowed hard and soon her gaze ended up at the floor. "Yoshiko-san. I'll see what I can do. I could call Ryuohiko-san. Maybe she can help us out." She whispered calmly. "Alright? Try to calm down sweet heart."
The crying woman on the other end soon sobbed. "I've tried to call her too, but she isn't answering." She whispered now.
Michiru smiled. "I'll try and give her a call. she has a sixth sense about me and my calls. All right? Try to get some rest now."
"I'll try." The quiet voice whispered now and ended up in a deep sigh. "I hope you'll find someone, Michiru-san. You always seem to have better contact with some people." The woman laughed gently now. "Have a nice evening."
"The same Yoshiko-san." Michiru whispered back and slowly put the phone onto the floor. "Oh no." She whispered now while closing her eyes.
Hoshi blinked and slowly got up from the bed, putting the cover around her self as she walked out of the room and kneeled down beside Michiru, putting her hand onto her shoulder. "What's wrong? Except that you probably hurt yourself, trying to be Superman like that."
Michiru sighed deeply and looked at Hoshi with tears filling her eyes. "We need to find some one for the concert tomorrow." She whispered and soon a tear ran down her cheek. "I was going to ask you later today if you wanted to come and see us play. but I guess there wont be a concert, if we don't find a good player."
Hoshi looked at Michiru for a while and soon bit her lip. "How good?" She asked after a second of thinking.
"Pretty good." Michiru replied and smiled carefully, letting yet another tear run down her cheek. "Pretty damn good." She whispered now and sobbed, while pulling her hand trough her hair.
Hoshi looked at Michiru for a short while and soon dried away the tear from Michiru's cheek. She soon helped the woman up from the floor, only to hold her tightly in her arms. "Is it any comfort of I say I had lessons when I was in Sapporo?" She whispered after a while of comforting Michiru.
Michiru sobbed onto Hoshi's shoulder and soon looked at her with a asking look over her face. "How many hours?" She asked suddenly.
Hoshi smiled at her and stroked Michiru's hair back. "Two years good enough?" She asked.
Michiru looked at Hoshi for some time and soon let the last tear run down her cheek. "About that offer about going to your place.?" She sobbed.
Hoshi smiled and nodded softly, putting her hand onto Michiru's cheek while looking her right in the eyes, without saying a word.
Hoshi and Michiru got of the first elevator to get into the second later that evening. They had shopped their two plastic bags of food at the 7-Eleven two blocks away. Hoshi pressed in the code to her elevator and Michiru just stared at nothing, not being able to think clearly about anything else but the concert that was going to be held tomorrow. Hoshi was wearing her clothes that she had left home with, while Michiru was wearing a white blouse and a black skirt that ended at her knees, and she was carrying a black suit, with a white blouse and black pants, and her violin case with her music notes. Soon the elevator doors opened and they got in, only to get off on the second floor where Hoshi opened the metal door into her apartment, where they took of their shoes and walked into the kitchen.
"Want some wine?" Hoshi asked as she suddenly had her eyes on the last bottle of white wine in her wine holder on the counter. "Calm your nerves down a little?" She added as she stroked Michiru's cheek. "And we could get some sleep, but I hope we'll be up before sunrise." She remarked with a careful smile.
"I guess that would help clear my head." Michiru smiled gently as she put her clothes onto one of the chairs by the dinning table, where she put her violin case and music notes. She suddenly blinked and for the first time she looked up from the nothingness. Her eyes shined up as she saw where she was standing. The apartment was huge, an effect caused by the high ceiling. "This place is beautiful!" She soon exclaimed and soon ran into the living room, from where Hoshi could hear a gasp. "I thought it sounded amazing when you told me about it, but seeing is a different thing!"
Hoshi smiled as she took out two glasses from the cupboard, before opening the wine bottle. "This apartment was meant for a big shot business man, but he died in a heart attack before the place was completed." She explained as she filled the glasses. "They were going to build a room more, but since he passed away, they stopped building." She added and picked up the glasses, walking into the living room where Michiru was standing like a statue in front of the painting hanging on the wall. Hoshi smiled for herself and soon looked at the painting. "You sure where good in those days, you know."
Michiru swallowed hard while taking step closer to the painting. "Oh my god." She whispered under her breath while studying the painting. She soon spun around to look at Hoshi who put one of the glasses onto the table. "And you saved it all this time?" She whispered before swallowing once more.
"Of course I did." Hoshi laughed and took a sip from her wine glass. "I didn't mind having myself in the nude on my living room wall when I moved out from Tsukiyo's place."
Michiru soon looked back at the painting and soon she spotted the school photo in the shelf. She soon blinked and walked over to the shelf, slowly picking up the photo from its place and soon a smile plaid on her lips. "We stood beside each other." She whispered, touching Hoshi's face in the photo with the tip of her finger. "I never thought about that." She added and soon looked at Hoshi, who was standing right behind her and looking over her shoulder.
"Cute girls, huh?" Hoshi smiled while stroking Michiru's neck gently. "And who knew what happened to them after school." She added and walked over to the stereo, where she pressed the on button for her system. And soon calm music started to play from the speakers.
Michiru spun around on the spot, noticing the speakers in the ceiling. She soon smiled and looked at Hoshi, while putting the photo back into the shelf. "I believe that this is one of your ideas?" She asked with a slightly raised eyebrow.
"Sure is." Hoshi answered and walked over to the table, where she picked up Michiru's glass. "I'm a DJ, so I should have a crazy system at my own home as well." She added as she walked over to Michiru giving her the glass. "Great party place, my apartment." She added as she looked around herself with a grin. "It's sound proof as long as you don't open the balcony." She added with a laugh as she took a sip of her wine.
Michiru looked at Hoshi now with a studying look over her face. "Have loads of them, don't you?" She asked and soon walked over to the sofa, where she sat down slowly.
Hoshi blinked and looked at Michiru with a soft smile, before looking at her wine glass as she turned of the stereo. She soon took a sip of her wine and walked over to the piano. "Not really. I had them before." She answered as she put her glass of wine onto the small table beside the bench, where she sat down, looking at Michiru who was smiling towards her.
"Are you going to serenade me now?" Michiru asked and took a sip from her wine, while leaning her head in her hand.
"I just might." Hoshi replied with a smart looking smile over her lips. "It could make you think about something else than the concert tomorrow." She added and slowly put her hands onto the keys, playing a gentle melody that Michiru hadn't heard before. "And maybe you'll see that everything works out." She noted as she looked up from the keys and at Michiru.
Michiru smiled and soon put her legs onto the sofa, while holding her glass in both hands, giving Hoshi a studying gaze. Hoshi kept playing the calming melody with both eyes on her hands, and in someway she looked happy and calmed herself. Michiru sighed and leaned her head back while listening to the melody, letting her thoughts just run out of her head.
Two glasses later that night, Hoshi carried a sleeping Michiru into the bedroom, after serenading her to sleep with her own music, Hoshi didn't mind in wakening her up. As soon as Hoshi had carefully put Michiru's head down onto the pillow and put the blanket over her, she sighed, sitting down beside the young woman while just looking over her.
She really needs her rest. Hoshi thought and looked at the clock on the other side of the bed. The time was only midnight amazingly enough. Hoshi smiled gently towards the neon green lights before she looked back at Michiru, who sighed in her sleep while moving her head to the side. An angel. Hoshi smiled for herself while stroking some strands of hair from Michiru's face. She soon bent down with a soft sigh, kissing Michiru on the corner of her mouth. "Rest now." She whispered gently as she moved away and carefully got off the bed, walking out of the room.
Hoshi walked trough the kitchen with a thought filled look over her face. She walked down the hallway and into her office/music studio, opening the door and closing it after herself, she sighed gazing over the amazing mess that she never seemed to have time to clean. The room was larger than the bedroom, but a tad smaller than the living room, but it sure needed a major clean up.
"Where could that be?" She whispered for herself while scratching her neck, looking over the CD's and LP's that where lying all around the place, with unwashed plates and coffee cups about everywhere. She soon sighed and shook her head, stepping over a half full coffee cup on her way over to the desk, where she had a computer and some mixing boards, standing by three different kinds of Yamaha synthesizers and a drum set. She brushed of the papers on the chair before sitting down. She sighed as she leaned back in the office chair, while picking up a half up smoked cigarette from the ashtray by the computer, lighting it with the closest lighter she could find. She took a smoke as she let her gaze study the room, blowing out a couple of smoke rings before she stared at a corner of the room.
"Could it be there?" She whispered and got up from the chair, jumping over a pile of books that where lying on the floor before she walked over to a closet, which she hardly had touched for some time. She took a deep breath and smoked up the cigarette, before she opened the wooden doors. Two empty boxes fell to her feet, which didn't mind her a bit. "Where to start then?" She asked out loud while rubbing her neck, scanning the overfilled closet with a frown over her face.
She soon started throwing out more empty boxes, some papers and files. Soon the closet was empty and Hoshi's eyes shined.
"I knew it." She whispered and slowly brushed of the first layer of dust from a black violin case, with her initials in silver letters on it. She carefully picked it out from the closet and blew of the second layer of dust. "Haven't seen you in a while." She smiled for her self as she took a step back from the closet, only to put the violin case onto the only place without loads of stuff on - the windowsill.
She sighed and soon opened the lock on the violin case, only to end up with a smile over her lips as she gazed down over the black violin lying there, in perfect condition with it's bow. She slowly picked out the violin and grabbed the empty stool behind her, sitting down to tune the strings on it. As the strings sounded good once more, Hoshi picked up the bow while putting her feet onto the windowsill. She soon placed the violin onto her left shoulder, and resting her chin on it.
"Here goes nothing." She whispered as she slowly put the bow onto the strings with closed eyes. Thank god this room is more sound proof than anything in the apartment. She thought while a smile plaid on her lips, thinking that she was pretty rusty in her playing.
Even if nothing did happen last night, I'm glad I came. Hoshi thought as she rested her head onto her arm, keeping her eyes over Michiru who gently sighed in her sleep.
Suddenly Michiru opened her eyes a little and almost stumbled out of bed, walking over to the window with the blanket around her self, where she pulled the curtains in the way of the sunrays with a deep sigh. Hoshi just stared at the woman who now stretched her arms over her head and letting the blanket fall to the floor, before she slowly turning around to look back at Hoshi with a tired gaze. "I should change my bed room somewhere else." She whispered and got back into bed, leaving the blanket on the floor while snuggling up closer to Hoshi with a deep sigh while pulling the blanket on Hoshi's side over herself as well. "You snore when you sleep." Michiru mumbled up against Hoshi's bare chest, and soon strolled her left hand onto Hoshi's waist, resting it there with a gentle sigh.
Hoshi just smiled at her and soon lied her head down onto the pillow. "It's the cigarettes I'm trying to give up." She replied and soon stroked some strands of hair from Michiru's forehead, which stubbornly fell back down.
"Mmm." Michiru just sighed, while snuggling up even closer to her, pushing Hoshi onto her back. "Want to sleep a while more?" She whispered as she leaned her head onto Hoshi's shoulder, with her hand on her chest.
"I wouldn't mind just lying here watching you." Hoshi replied with a warm gaze over her face.
Michiru looked up with one eye open. "Really now?" She whispered tiredly and soon sighed, closing her eye as she leaned her head back onto Hoshi's shoulder. "I'll sleep right here." She added with a smile over her lips. "And don't you dare move."
"I wont, unless you want me to move." Hoshi replied with a raised eyebrow.
Michiru opened her eyes and tried to blink away the tired look before she looked at Hoshi again, raising an eyebrow back at her, while a soft smile plaid on her lips. "Move all you like." She whispered after a while as she lied her head back down onto Hoshi's shoulder, while tapping her fingers on Hoshi's chest.
Hoshi looked at the fingers that where placed only some inches from her right breast and soon she sighed. "That looks like a threat." She smiled and looked back at Michiru. "Was it one?"
"No." Michiru mumbled after stopping tapping her fingers. "It was a promise." She added as she let her hand gently slide onto Hoshi's breast, leaving it there to rest. "I like." She mumbled after a second.
Hoshi looked at Michiru for a while before sighing with a smile playing on her lips. "You always this cute in the morning, even if nothing really has happened. yet?" She whispered softly while kissing Michiru on the head.
"Not really." Michiru mumbled her answer and ended up with a sigh. "I'm far more worse after something has happened." She added and Hoshi could feel that Michiru was smiling on her arm.
"Is that so.?" Hoshi smiled for herself while looking at the ceiling. Her eyes soon widened, feeling Michiru's leg that suddenly was on her own. She looked at the aqua haired beauty and blinked, hearing a gentle sigh from her, before feeling her warm lips over her left breast, which was almost dangerously close to Michiru's mouth. Hoshi swallowed and closed her eyes a little, while biting her lower lip.
Michiru suddenly sighed deeply and within a blink of an eye, she was lying on top of Hoshi, looking her right in the eyes. "Now I can't sleep.." She whispered and smiled softly.
Hoshi just stared at her, trying to figure out how she got on top of her. She soon swallowed and opened her mouth to speak, without getting out a word.
"Speechless?" Michiru just smiled at the woman under her and soon bent down, gently kissing Hoshi on the lips, while leaning onto her elbows, which she placed on each side of Hoshi's head and at the same time pressing herself against Hoshi's body.
Hoshi slowly let her wide-open eyes close as she slowly put her arms around Michiru, and at the same time kissing her back.
The sun was setting in the horizon, when Michiru walked back into the bedroom, wearing a robe around her self, while her hair was still damp after her bath. She stopped in the doorway and couldn't help but smile, seeing Hoshi lying there with the blanket covering only her right leg while she was lying on her side, facing the window. Michiru sighed softly and pulled her hand trough her hair before she walked over to the bed, sitting down behind Hoshi while just looking at her with a tender look over her face.
Almost picture perfect. She thought as she heard a soft sigh from Hoshi, who slowly turned onto her stomach. Michiru scanned every curve on Hoshi's backside, starting at the legs and working her way up to her shoulder blades. I guess there's no turning back now, Michiru. She thought and soon bent down over Hoshi, kissing her on the back.
Hoshi sighed softly and slowly opened her eyes, staring right into the pillow under her head. "That wasn't a long bath." She mumbled and soon looked over her shoulder, and right at Michiru, smiling gently.
"I can take a longer one, if you like?" Michiru smiled and was about to get up from the bed, when Hoshi grabbed onto her by the shoulders, spinning onto the other side of the bed, so that she was lying over Michiru, who was just smiling up at her. "Or maybe not." Michiru noted and soon let her eyes rest on Hoshi's necklace.
Hoshi smiled back at her and soon bent down over her, looking her right in the eyes while resting the most of her body weight onto her elbows. "You know now that there's no turning back, right?" She asked with a slightly raised eyebrow.
"Are you tying to look serious?" Michiru giggled and soon put her arms around Hoshi's neck, to play with the hair at her neck. They looked at each other for sometime before they sighed at the same time, and soon Michiru pressed Hoshi down, who laid her head onto the same pillow as Michiru's head was on. "I know." Michiru whispered, with a serious tone in her voice, while she scanned the ceiling and at the same time stroking Hoshi's back with her fingertips.
"I hope you don't regret this.?" Hoshi whispered after a while of gazing over Michiru's face.
Michiru shook her head a little and soon moved her head away from Hoshi's, only to look back at her. "I don't regret this." She whispered and smiled gently. "What about you?" She asked after a while, while making small patterns across Hoshi's spinal cord.
Hoshi smiled and closed her eyes a little, giving Michiru a tender look. "Never in my life." She promised and soon stroked Michiru's cheek gently with the palm of her hand. "I would never regret this. Not in a million years."
Michiru smiled at Hoshi and soon kissed her on the tip of her nose. "Me neither." She whispered sensually before she lied her head back down onto the pillow, looking right into Hoshi's almost glowing eyes.
"What about we get dressed." Hoshi whispered suddenly while gently stroking Michiru's chest with her fingertips. "Go into town and have a take out anywhere." She paused only to look into Michiru's eyes. "And we'll go to my place. I'll give you a treat that you'll not forget." She ended her sentence with a warm smile.
Michiru looked at her for a while and was about to kiss Hoshi on the lips to say 'yes', when the phone started to yell. "Oh crap." She whispered and Hoshi got of her, letting her run to the hallway while grabbing onto the floor and tumbling down to the floor. "Ouch! I mean Michiru?" She answered the phone while carefully sitting up on the floor.
"Michiru-san, it's Yoshiko." A quiet voice said on the other end of the line.
Michiru's eyes widened a little and swallowed, feeling that something was wrong. "What's wrong Yoshiko-san?" She asked while carefully biting her lip while looking into the bedroom where Hoshi was sitting up in the bed slowly.
"The concert is tomorrow. and." The quiet voice whispered on the other end. "And, Masahito-kun is terribly ill."
Michiru's face paled and her eyes widened. "Oh no. Don't say that."
"The show is going to canceled if someone doesn't find someone to take his place." The quiet voice started crying now. "What are we going to do Michiru-san? We can't find anyone on such short notice!"
Michiru swallowed hard and soon her gaze ended up at the floor. "Yoshiko-san. I'll see what I can do. I could call Ryuohiko-san. Maybe she can help us out." She whispered calmly. "Alright? Try to calm down sweet heart."
The crying woman on the other end soon sobbed. "I've tried to call her too, but she isn't answering." She whispered now.
Michiru smiled. "I'll try and give her a call. she has a sixth sense about me and my calls. All right? Try to get some rest now."
"I'll try." The quiet voice whispered now and ended up in a deep sigh. "I hope you'll find someone, Michiru-san. You always seem to have better contact with some people." The woman laughed gently now. "Have a nice evening."
"The same Yoshiko-san." Michiru whispered back and slowly put the phone onto the floor. "Oh no." She whispered now while closing her eyes.
Hoshi blinked and slowly got up from the bed, putting the cover around her self as she walked out of the room and kneeled down beside Michiru, putting her hand onto her shoulder. "What's wrong? Except that you probably hurt yourself, trying to be Superman like that."
Michiru sighed deeply and looked at Hoshi with tears filling her eyes. "We need to find some one for the concert tomorrow." She whispered and soon a tear ran down her cheek. "I was going to ask you later today if you wanted to come and see us play. but I guess there wont be a concert, if we don't find a good player."
Hoshi looked at Michiru for a while and soon bit her lip. "How good?" She asked after a second of thinking.
"Pretty good." Michiru replied and smiled carefully, letting yet another tear run down her cheek. "Pretty damn good." She whispered now and sobbed, while pulling her hand trough her hair.
Hoshi looked at Michiru for a short while and soon dried away the tear from Michiru's cheek. She soon helped the woman up from the floor, only to hold her tightly in her arms. "Is it any comfort of I say I had lessons when I was in Sapporo?" She whispered after a while of comforting Michiru.
Michiru sobbed onto Hoshi's shoulder and soon looked at her with a asking look over her face. "How many hours?" She asked suddenly.
Hoshi smiled at her and stroked Michiru's hair back. "Two years good enough?" She asked.
Michiru looked at Hoshi for some time and soon let the last tear run down her cheek. "About that offer about going to your place.?" She sobbed.
Hoshi smiled and nodded softly, putting her hand onto Michiru's cheek while looking her right in the eyes, without saying a word.
Hoshi and Michiru got of the first elevator to get into the second later that evening. They had shopped their two plastic bags of food at the 7-Eleven two blocks away. Hoshi pressed in the code to her elevator and Michiru just stared at nothing, not being able to think clearly about anything else but the concert that was going to be held tomorrow. Hoshi was wearing her clothes that she had left home with, while Michiru was wearing a white blouse and a black skirt that ended at her knees, and she was carrying a black suit, with a white blouse and black pants, and her violin case with her music notes. Soon the elevator doors opened and they got in, only to get off on the second floor where Hoshi opened the metal door into her apartment, where they took of their shoes and walked into the kitchen.
"Want some wine?" Hoshi asked as she suddenly had her eyes on the last bottle of white wine in her wine holder on the counter. "Calm your nerves down a little?" She added as she stroked Michiru's cheek. "And we could get some sleep, but I hope we'll be up before sunrise." She remarked with a careful smile.
"I guess that would help clear my head." Michiru smiled gently as she put her clothes onto one of the chairs by the dinning table, where she put her violin case and music notes. She suddenly blinked and for the first time she looked up from the nothingness. Her eyes shined up as she saw where she was standing. The apartment was huge, an effect caused by the high ceiling. "This place is beautiful!" She soon exclaimed and soon ran into the living room, from where Hoshi could hear a gasp. "I thought it sounded amazing when you told me about it, but seeing is a different thing!"
Hoshi smiled as she took out two glasses from the cupboard, before opening the wine bottle. "This apartment was meant for a big shot business man, but he died in a heart attack before the place was completed." She explained as she filled the glasses. "They were going to build a room more, but since he passed away, they stopped building." She added and picked up the glasses, walking into the living room where Michiru was standing like a statue in front of the painting hanging on the wall. Hoshi smiled for herself and soon looked at the painting. "You sure where good in those days, you know."
Michiru swallowed hard while taking step closer to the painting. "Oh my god." She whispered under her breath while studying the painting. She soon spun around to look at Hoshi who put one of the glasses onto the table. "And you saved it all this time?" She whispered before swallowing once more.
"Of course I did." Hoshi laughed and took a sip from her wine glass. "I didn't mind having myself in the nude on my living room wall when I moved out from Tsukiyo's place."
Michiru soon looked back at the painting and soon she spotted the school photo in the shelf. She soon blinked and walked over to the shelf, slowly picking up the photo from its place and soon a smile plaid on her lips. "We stood beside each other." She whispered, touching Hoshi's face in the photo with the tip of her finger. "I never thought about that." She added and soon looked at Hoshi, who was standing right behind her and looking over her shoulder.
"Cute girls, huh?" Hoshi smiled while stroking Michiru's neck gently. "And who knew what happened to them after school." She added and walked over to the stereo, where she pressed the on button for her system. And soon calm music started to play from the speakers.
Michiru spun around on the spot, noticing the speakers in the ceiling. She soon smiled and looked at Hoshi, while putting the photo back into the shelf. "I believe that this is one of your ideas?" She asked with a slightly raised eyebrow.
"Sure is." Hoshi answered and walked over to the table, where she picked up Michiru's glass. "I'm a DJ, so I should have a crazy system at my own home as well." She added as she walked over to Michiru giving her the glass. "Great party place, my apartment." She added as she looked around herself with a grin. "It's sound proof as long as you don't open the balcony." She added with a laugh as she took a sip of her wine.
Michiru looked at Hoshi now with a studying look over her face. "Have loads of them, don't you?" She asked and soon walked over to the sofa, where she sat down slowly.
Hoshi blinked and looked at Michiru with a soft smile, before looking at her wine glass as she turned of the stereo. She soon took a sip of her wine and walked over to the piano. "Not really. I had them before." She answered as she put her glass of wine onto the small table beside the bench, where she sat down, looking at Michiru who was smiling towards her.
"Are you going to serenade me now?" Michiru asked and took a sip from her wine, while leaning her head in her hand.
"I just might." Hoshi replied with a smart looking smile over her lips. "It could make you think about something else than the concert tomorrow." She added and slowly put her hands onto the keys, playing a gentle melody that Michiru hadn't heard before. "And maybe you'll see that everything works out." She noted as she looked up from the keys and at Michiru.
Michiru smiled and soon put her legs onto the sofa, while holding her glass in both hands, giving Hoshi a studying gaze. Hoshi kept playing the calming melody with both eyes on her hands, and in someway she looked happy and calmed herself. Michiru sighed and leaned her head back while listening to the melody, letting her thoughts just run out of her head.
Two glasses later that night, Hoshi carried a sleeping Michiru into the bedroom, after serenading her to sleep with her own music, Hoshi didn't mind in wakening her up. As soon as Hoshi had carefully put Michiru's head down onto the pillow and put the blanket over her, she sighed, sitting down beside the young woman while just looking over her.
She really needs her rest. Hoshi thought and looked at the clock on the other side of the bed. The time was only midnight amazingly enough. Hoshi smiled gently towards the neon green lights before she looked back at Michiru, who sighed in her sleep while moving her head to the side. An angel. Hoshi smiled for herself while stroking some strands of hair from Michiru's face. She soon bent down with a soft sigh, kissing Michiru on the corner of her mouth. "Rest now." She whispered gently as she moved away and carefully got off the bed, walking out of the room.
Hoshi walked trough the kitchen with a thought filled look over her face. She walked down the hallway and into her office/music studio, opening the door and closing it after herself, she sighed gazing over the amazing mess that she never seemed to have time to clean. The room was larger than the bedroom, but a tad smaller than the living room, but it sure needed a major clean up.
"Where could that be?" She whispered for herself while scratching her neck, looking over the CD's and LP's that where lying all around the place, with unwashed plates and coffee cups about everywhere. She soon sighed and shook her head, stepping over a half full coffee cup on her way over to the desk, where she had a computer and some mixing boards, standing by three different kinds of Yamaha synthesizers and a drum set. She brushed of the papers on the chair before sitting down. She sighed as she leaned back in the office chair, while picking up a half up smoked cigarette from the ashtray by the computer, lighting it with the closest lighter she could find. She took a smoke as she let her gaze study the room, blowing out a couple of smoke rings before she stared at a corner of the room.
"Could it be there?" She whispered and got up from the chair, jumping over a pile of books that where lying on the floor before she walked over to a closet, which she hardly had touched for some time. She took a deep breath and smoked up the cigarette, before she opened the wooden doors. Two empty boxes fell to her feet, which didn't mind her a bit. "Where to start then?" She asked out loud while rubbing her neck, scanning the overfilled closet with a frown over her face.
She soon started throwing out more empty boxes, some papers and files. Soon the closet was empty and Hoshi's eyes shined.
"I knew it." She whispered and slowly brushed of the first layer of dust from a black violin case, with her initials in silver letters on it. She carefully picked it out from the closet and blew of the second layer of dust. "Haven't seen you in a while." She smiled for her self as she took a step back from the closet, only to put the violin case onto the only place without loads of stuff on - the windowsill.
She sighed and soon opened the lock on the violin case, only to end up with a smile over her lips as she gazed down over the black violin lying there, in perfect condition with it's bow. She slowly picked out the violin and grabbed the empty stool behind her, sitting down to tune the strings on it. As the strings sounded good once more, Hoshi picked up the bow while putting her feet onto the windowsill. She soon placed the violin onto her left shoulder, and resting her chin on it.
"Here goes nothing." She whispered as she slowly put the bow onto the strings with closed eyes. Thank god this room is more sound proof than anything in the apartment. She thought while a smile plaid on her lips, thinking that she was pretty rusty in her playing.