A certain type of wind has swept me up
But till it's found each bone
I, I'm overcome
There is an icy breath that escapes my lips
And I am lost again
A certain type of darkness is stalling me
Under a quite mask of uncertainty
I wait for light like water from the sky
And I am lost again
In the sea of lovers without ships
And lovers without sign
You're the only way out of this
Sea of lovers losing time
And lovers losing hope
Will you let me follow you
Wherever you go
Bring me home
-Sea of Lovers - Christina Perri-
8…
Scarlet eyes opened to the early afternoon sun rays coming through the same tattered green drapes. The same ruckus of traffic and crowds on the streets below. Beyond sat up and stretched drifting his vermilion eyes to the clock that read 11:39.
In an instant his shining eyes widened, gasping loudly. "Shit!" Throwing his legs over the side of the bed and haphazardly throwing the blanket off of him, he dashed out of bed. Scurrying himself towards his own black shirt and darker denim jeans. His bare feet padded into the bathroom to brush his teeth. He scowled slightly at his own reflection. 'It's just a distraction until I can finally rest… Just eight more…'
He stared at his own eyes in irritation of their color. Rinsing out his mouth he walked over to the nightstand and glanced his eyes to the clock; 11:54. "No time!" He shook his head and darted out of the room and quickly out of the apartment.
He let out a loud groan from the bottom of his throat that almost resembled a growl, opened the door aggressively to the abode once again and slipped his shoes on, before darting back out. The main entrances of the apartment building shoved open and he poured from the open door and stumbling into a class of foreign students touring the city.
Bracing to make contact with the pavement, Beyond flinched internally. The scent of strawberries and a pair of arms embraced him. Crimson eyes lifted to meet a honeyed stare behind chestnut hair. The stranger had caught Beyond from falling onto the ground. A soft voice asked in Japanese, "Are you alright?"
Nodding, the raven responded in Japanese instinctively, he glanced down and yanked away abruptly as he dusted himself off, "Yes. Thank you."
A brilliant smile spread across the lips of the younger man and he nodded as well, an amber hue shined from his eyes. "Be careful next time! I have to catch my class!"
Beyond watched the young man run to catch his class, a girl with long brown hair, who had been waiting for the other, scolded, "Raito! Quit fooling around! You don't want to get lost in the United States!" Beyond betrayed a slight smirk at the boy as he glanced back, and started running in the opposite direction towards the bus stop.
Arriving at the bus stop a little winded, Beyond glanced at the clock on the building behind him and sighed heavily; 12:35. 'I think I might have missed him.' Beyond frowned slightly and stuffed his hands in his pockets, kicking at a loose stone on the sidewalk.
A deep voice purred behind the lithe figure of the raven, "If I didn't know better, I'd say your waiting for someone rather than something." Beyond's scarlet eyes lifted from the ground as a tiny smile began to spread across his lips and turned slowly. Resplendent sapphire eyes widened at the sight of Beyond.
Beyond shot his glance away from the golden haired blonde, 'Shit, I look completely different than the last time he saw me. And any other time he might have seen me before.' He narrowed his eyes in annoyance as his perfectly straight hair, than shined maroon instead of navy. His sun starved skin, not pale enough, but it would have never been perfect. It would have never been translucent enough. No sleep deprivation bruising under his eyes, only his own complexion, that was rather healthy considering the circumstances. He shifted his disappointed stare to the boy expecting to see the opposite of reactions.
The deep blue eyes seemed to stare endlessly at him. A crooked smile made its way to the full lips. "Ryuzaki?" Beyond shifted his eyes to meet the other's stare only to drop his gaze once again. 'I didn't even have the sense to put the contacts in.' He mentally chastised himself, but looked in the direction of the other as he heard the other's breath catch, "Wow. You look… Different." 'I'm hideous.' His own mind echoed. Caspian stepped in front of Beyond forcing eye contact. "Yeah. I like this look more."
Scarlet eyes widened with both disbelief and shock and flitted to the boy who smiled and lifted his book up to his nose and began reading standing in comfortable silence. 'He… Likes me? This way? Better?' His eyes narrowed playfully at the blonde, "Are you ever not reading?"
Deep blue eyes glanced up from the page and up to the sky, thinking contemplatively. "Sometimes I sleep and shower." He smirked slightly at the younger male who gave a huff of laughter and flitted his eyes back to the book. "Though… Maybe, if a tall, dark and handsome stranger would ask me to have lunch with him sometime, I might be persuaded to put the book down."
Beyond raised his eyebrows in surprise and nervously messed the back of his hair up while flitting his eyes away. "Oh."
Caspian let out a hearty laugh from behind the cover of his current book, "Do I have to ask him?" He peeked his blue eyes up to the struggling boy who made him quietly laugh again.
Beyond startled slightly at his laughter and shook his head quickly, a deep blush forming. "Well. Perhaps. Sometime. I mean, it doesn't have to be today, you're probably busy." Beyond could feel his cheeks getting hotter and his shoulders draw nearer to the base of his neck the longer he spoke. 'The world's greatest criminal… Stumped at a question… Why?' He started to fidget with his fingers as he mentally chastised himself. He watched the bus coming to the stop. "Maybe. I… You… Uh." He let out a nervous laugh as the bus came to a complete stop. 'This is ridiculous, I'm Beyond Birthday! Why is this hard? I openly challenged the greatest detective in the world… But, I can't ask this guy a simple question?' He glanced his eyes up to meet to endearing stare. Fierce crimson met serene sapphire. "We?"
Caspian could feel his smile growing the longer Beyond spoke, 'Is this the first time he's ever been propositioned to spend time with someone else? Better question… Is this the first time he's ever asked someone out?' When the raven seemed to have met a stalemate with his own resolution. Caspian leaned in and set a gentle kiss on Beyond's brilliant cheek, "Yes."
Narrowing his scarlet eyes in moderate frustration, then soft lips landed on his cheek. He widened his eyes and jerked back slightly. "I'm sorry. That… Was the very first kiss that I have ever received." 'Why does my stomach feel this way? What is it doing? It never did this at any of my victims or anyone else I've been around. Except… Him…'
Caspian smirked and tucked his book away in his bag that was slung over his shoulder, "So. Where to?" He shifted his weight to his left hip and gave a small crooked smile at the surprise on the other's face.
"But… What about… What ever it was you were going to?" Beyond shifted his glance around at all the commuters and watched the bus pull away from the stop. "I haven't had time to think about where we'd go…" He glanced his scarlet eyes over to the boy who seemed to be preoccupied reading a flyer that was handed to him.
Deep sapphires glanced up and held the flyer out with a grand smile, "What about here? I guess some new coffeeshop is opening up… Wow… A new coffeeshop in LA… They'll be closed by the end of the month." He glanced back down to the flyer.
Shifting his own weight to the right, Beyond sighed. "I don't have any money… This was kind of sudden."
Caspian shrugged carelessly. "I'll pay then. You can pay next time." Sharing a small smile Beyond nodded and walked next to Caspian towards the new shop. "I guess it's just down the street. Nice location for commuters anyway."
Beyond watched the other from the corner of his eye, walking next to him, his shoulders slightly haunched from the awkwardness of the situation for him and out of habit. 'Maybe I should be wary of him… He's awfully accepting. What's this about a next time?' He smiled at the sound of the other's voice, 'Wouldn't that be a way to go… Murderer murdered by another murderer.'
The blonde stopped in front of the small shop that casted out deep and rich aromas of different types of coffee both being brewed and just from being aromatic from the shelves. Beyond stood awkwardly next to him as other commuters went around them. "Come on!" Caspian reached back and grabbed the raven's right wrist and dragged him into the shop. Instinctively, Beyond wrapped his fingers around the other's hand.
They both stared at their hands for a moment before their eyes met again. Beyond's thumb had interlinked with Caspian's pinky. They both blushed slightly and retracted their hands quickly. "Sorry. I'm an awkward person." Beyond sighed out his response to the action.
Caspian dropped his eyes to the floor and nodded, "I like it." They glanced up at the board and made their order to the awaiting barista. Beyond trailed his eyes around the shop, it was small but quaint. It was painted in warm shades of tans and mocha, with a striking red accent wall.
Beyond smirked slightly, looking away from Caspian, "You never answered my first question."
The blonde smiled and tipped the waitress and walked towards an empty table, "Which was?" A brief moment passed before his resplendent blue eyes widened, "Oh! Right! What else I was doing. Well. It was go and sit in a class that's boring and dry or spend the day with a handsome stranger. I chose B."
Beyond stared at Caspian with widened eyes of disbelief, "What did you say? What do you mean B?"
Caspian blinked a couple of times in bewilderment, "Like, if you were to make them options… Option A, is boring class that I'm already way ahead before I read the textbook for fun. You would be option B. As in A or B… Kind of like multiple choice questions on a test?"
Beyond instantly felt relieved, 'So he doesn't actually know...' He started to quietly laugh that turned into a slightly louder snicker before a full on chuckle, "Remember when you called me out for giving you a false name?"
Caspian nodded and dug into his pockets, "I, however, wasn't lying. Caspian is actually my name. See?" He brandished a California driver's license, he was nineteen years old, soon to be twenty. 'I'm two years younger than him...'
The younger man studied the small piece of plastic for a bit before smirking, "Anyway. B positive blood type." The blonde blushed a little and pulled his hand back, placing his identification back into his wallet. "When I was growing up, my nickname was B… Or…" He shuddered slightly, cringing his left shoulder up slightly, "Backup."
The older boy started at Beyond for a while before a tiny grin began to spread, "I like B way more than Backup. But, what's your real name?"
Beyond sighed sullenly, "I never had one. I was just plan B or a backup plan for another orphan that I grew up with…"
Caspian gasped and placed a warm hand on top of Beyond's gentle fists that timidly guarded the drink that was purchased for him. His fingers were curled in and downward onto the table. "That's awful. Damnit! And, I made you option B! I'm such an unintentional jerk!" He smiled at the younger man, "That was weirdly fitting though."
Beyond smiled up at the boy and chuckled as he responded, "I suppose."
Blowing at his coffee dispersing the steam in every direction, the blonde glanced his deep blue eyes up, "Either way. I like you, B." Beyond felt his breath catch, staring into the deep sapphire pools of endearment. 'Could he actually mean that?'
Beyond gave a tiny huff of laughter as he sat back in the bench, "Why? For all you know, I'm a serial killer."
Caspian shrugged his shoulders quickly, "Well. That's a possibility. But, I suppose that would make for a whirlwind of a interpersonal connection… You know, as long as you aren't planning to kill me." They both shared a warm laugh.
