Discovering Snow
Chapter 1: The Pizza
The wind itself seemed to be dark and heavy; carrying on it the frigid air. Translucent snow drifted from the sky and came to rest on everything. Aya became a part of it, his footprints following behind him in blankets of snow. I thought how similar a snowflake was to a grain of sand, how the waves washed the footprints away, how the snow filled them back up again. Now instead of hearing the sea, there was such silence; all Aya could hear was the snow lightly falling against the endless expanse of white, blending with the sky and yet standing out like a silhouette against a world that seemed to be passing him by. Frozen he seemed, watching everything slowly as the snow.
Eventually Aya reached his destination; the Koneko no Sume Ie. He managed to slip inside without ringing the bell that hung from the top of the door until… He tripped, almost dropping the large pizza box that crowded his vision and slamming against the glass door, ringing the bell even louder than he would have if he had casually walked through it. He was surprised the glass didn't shatter too from how much bad luck he was having recently.
His eyes traveled down to the ground, shifting the pizza box so he could see the long green hose obscuring his path; the cause of the tripping. Then his eyes moved up to the large brass bells that seemed to smirk evilly down at him. How much Aya wanted to tear them down and destroy them in any-which matter, but there was no time before the other noticed his presence. So he did not. Instead, those he had tried to escape, by not making a sound, attacked him.
"What the hell took you so long! This is the last time we send you for lunch! We were waiting for—" It was Ken's annoyed voice that reached Aya's ears first followed by:
"Aya-kun you didn't wear a coat! what were you thinking? It's freezing out!" Omi had emerged and now stood over him even though he was shorter. "You're going to catch a cold if you don't—"
"I'll take that." Yohji said nothing more as his long arm snaked out through the circle of annoyance surrounding Aya, and snatched the pizza box. But Aya wasn't going to fall for the same trick that left him without a lunch before. Aya shot Yohji a warning glare; that of a rattle on a rattle snake before it strikes. Aya grabbed at the pizza box and held it in a firm grip before prying it from Yohji's grasp. He then told for less than a second announcing his victory before he bolted up the stairs and straight into the kitchen. He took a few slices and tossed them onto a plate before disappearing into the corner.
Many times before Aya had lost his lunch to Yohji who hogged the whole pizza. Omi and Ken had grabbed at pieces and this all happened before Aya even realized that Yohji returned from the local Pizza place. Aya hated pizza anyway, but he was always left starving with no time to sneak out and retrieve a separate lunch. Then he devised a plan to get around Yohji's annoying pizza hogging and concluded that he would get the pizza next time himself. So far it had succeeded.
Violet eyes shifted over to the entrance of the kitchen. Yohji had finally caught up. Aya shoved the other half of his pizza into his mouth and looked over at the blazing emerald eyes of enemy, innocently.
"Damn you." Yohji grinned, his eyes actually not on fire. He seemed amused instead. "So that was why you wanted to freeze your ass off and get us all lunch. And I thought you were being nice for once," Yohji mocked. Aya said nothing; he just nodded slightly and relaxed his guard a bit. Mission complete.
Soon after Ken and Omi barged up the steps, catching up to Aya and Yohji. They each grabbed their share before Yohji grabbed the whole pizza and attempted to fit it on his plate.
"Well at least we get to eat now; we were starving thanks to someone," Ken muttered. Aya sneezed, causing mostly everyone to jump, had they ever heard Aya sneeze before?
To be continued...
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