Silent Love
Chapter 3
Shun woke to the sound of the kettle boiling, he sat up slowly, rubbing his emerald eyes squinting slightly. Hyoga was no longer in the room.
"Sorry, did the kettle wake you?"
"Huh? What..." Shun turned around to see Hyoga leaning against the doorframe.
"Oh no it's Ok...I had to wake up eventually," He sighed and began to fold his blanket.
Hyoga smiled, and then left the room.
"What do you normally eat for breakfast?" Hyoga called from the kitchen.
"Huh...oh I dunno," Shun entered the kitchen, "I think I'll just see what there is," he said looking in the cupboard.
"Ok," Hyoga sat down to drink his coffee. He was smiling, watching Shun; who was trying to find something edible to his liking, he settled with cereal.
He sat opposite Hyoga, put his bowl down, and then looked up at him. Hyoga who was still staring at him was caught by surprise when Shun looked up and quickly turned away taking another sip of his coffee. Shun, who now had a confused look on his face, shrugged and started to eat his cereal, completely oblivious to the fact that Hyoga had been watching him the whole time.
"Is that all you're having for breakfast?" Shun asked, jerking his head towards the mug in Hyoga's hand.
"Uh, yeah," he replied.
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day you know,"
"I'm just not that hungry," Hyoga shrugged. He got up and put his mug in the sink.
"I'm gonna go for a walk,"
"Do you want me to come with you?" Shun asked, trying to hide the hopeful tone in his voice. Hyoga had been going for walks alone since they got there. Shun was hoping he would reconsider the alone part.
"Nah, I just wanna be alone for a while,"
"Ok," he tried not to sound too disappointed.
Hyoga turned and left the room.
Shun heard the door shut behind him. He sighed and then got up and put his bowl in the sink along with Hyoga's mug.
He knew that Hyoga needed to clear his head, but he didn't like the idea of him being alone, especially in all the snow. But snow really was no threat to Hyoga. Although he hadn't been eating very well lately; he hadn't just skipped breakfast this morning, a drink instead of a meal wasn't unusual for Hyoga anymore. In fact the only time Shun had seen him eat properly was when he had made the meal himself and they had eaten it together, maybe he should do that more often...
Hyoga must be far away; his cosmos is very faint...
Shun looked out the window for what felt like the thousandth time, but Hyoga still hadn't returned. He went out every day but he would always be back by now. It was late, it was already dark outside, and Shun was starting to get worried. He decided that no walk could last this long so he went to get his coat, noticing that Hyoga's was still there. He sighed, pulled his coat on and walked out the door.
"Uh, it's freezing!" He shuddered. He looked around realising he had no idea where Hyoga had gone.
"Great," He decided that the only sure thing to do was to go to Jacob's house; there was a chance he would know where Hyoga was.
He knocked on Jacob's door and he answered. (Does he have any parents?)
"Shun! Come in,"
He walked into the small cabin, it was smaller than Hyoga's, and a little colder, there wasn't really much furniture, but it had a nice cosy feeling to it.
He decided to get right to the point.
"Have you seen Hyoga?" He asked, sounding worried. He had hoped Hyoga would be here.
"Uh, yeah I think he went to see his mother,"
"Went to see his mother? Their ship sank here?" He sounded surprised; he didn't know that their ship had sunk here, Hyoga never told him...
That's why he wanted to come back to Siberia, that must be where he goes everyday.
"Yeah, he goes all the time, shall I show you?"
Shun looked at the boy.
"Shouldn't you be asleep by now?" He looked at his watch, it was past midnight.
"Uh...well," the boy stammered.
"Oh, just tell me where it is," He was becoming more and more impatient; all he wanted to do was find Hyoga.
After having trudged around in the snow for about half an hour. He was starting to get cold and very worried; still no sign of Hyoga, not that he was sure that Jacob's directions were entirely reliable.
Wait, he thought he saw something up ahead, he had thought the same thing quite a few times while searching but no result, it was too dark to see much. But there was definitely something ahead; he ran towards it, it was a large hole in the ice.
This must be it. Oh no! What if he's still down there!
He looked around the hole and spotted something under a tree, he ran towards it.
"Huh!" He gasped.
To be continued...
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