14. - - Closet
Usagi thought that she could turn her big closet into her little sanctuary. Turn it into a camp of escape, decorate so it fits her imaginary world with lots of little moon and star shaped trinkets. Maybe she can even paint the ceiling of it into the night sky, sprayed with the stars. Maybe.
The longer she thinks about it, the more she likes the idea, and so she starts with the plans. But as the time passes, the colors of blue and gold soon become the colors of red - wonderful, wonderful colors of red. From the pale redness like the brick to the deep, envious red of a rose. Once and again red color jumped out in her works and slowly settled into the life of her closet.
When she sat down for the first time in the finished, remade closet - in her little sanctuary she realized what she has done. Oh God, she though with a startled sigh bordering on the line of anxiety and relief. Oh God...
Usagi stands up and turns around, looking at her new closet, really looks at it. Slowly a smile of recognition spreads on her face. The closet served to hide her from the world, that was his goal. But now - it was the only place, made with her hands almost unconsciously - where she could sit down and let herself be overwhelmed by the red color of love. By thoughts of Mamoru, her hidden, or maybe - forbidden Mamoru.
Maybe she locked herself into the closet and hid herself from the world, but she opened the closet doors of her heart to something that could quite easily become the best thing in her life.