Makoto couldn't sleep, Nagisa's snoring and sleep talking kept him awake. How Rei, who was right next to him, could sleep he would never know. Sighing he got out of bed quietly stepping over the sleeping bodies to get to the kitchen. He poured himself a glass of water and looked around at everyone sleeping. Nagisa was curled right up against Rei, arms and legs possessively wrapped around him. Sosuke was curled up on his side while next to him Rin was spread out like a star fish. Looking around he realised a body was missing, where was Haru?

"Makoto" A voiced whispered beside him causing him to jump and spill some of his water on his shirt.

"Haru, you scared me I thought everyone was sleeping"

"Nagisa snores to loud" Haru said with a shrug

Makoto chuckled "Yeah"

"Rei-chan don't put that in there" Nagsa's voice floating in from the lounge room

Makoto and Haru shared a look then laughed "This is just like old times, when we used to always have sleep overs" Makoto said nostalgically

Haru nodded grabbing himself a glass of water, neither of them stating that back then Haru and Makoto usually shared a bed.

Makoto finished his drink "well we should try to get some sleep anyway"

Placing his glass on the sink he bid Haru goodnight again and silently slipped back into his bed. Things still felt pretty awkward with Haru, Makoto wasn't sure if welcoming them all back into his life was the right thing to do. He sighed and rolled over willing sleep to take him.


Weeks went by in flash, things had seemed to back to the way they were before Haru had left. Rin and Haru were still awkward around each other, which Makoto still didn't know the full story. He had thought about asking them multiple times but had backed out at the last minute. Makoto was now sitting at work, staring at paper work that needed filling out, completely unfocused.

"Makoto!" Kisumi cheerfully called walking up behind him putting his arm around him "What do you have planned tomorrow night?"

Makoto looked up confused "Whats tomorrow?"

Kisumi sighed shaking his head "It's Saturday annnnnnnnnd your birthday!"

Makoto looked over at the calender, he was right tomorrow was the 17th of November. "wow I didn't even realise"

"Well if you are free, we should go out to dinner and maybe dancing afterwards"

Makoto paled at the thought of dancing, he had two left feet. "Dinner sounds nice, I'll invite Haru and the others"

Kisumi's smile faulted a little bit, but Makoto was too busy searching for his phone to notice "Sure it will be a real party then"

Kisumi didn't exactly hate Haru, he was the one person that always stood between him and Makoto. it infuriated that Kisumi hadn't found Makoto while Haru was out of the picture, and infuriated him even more that Makoto welcomed him back with open arms. Makoto was just too damn nice sometimes.

"So where should I say we are going to dinner?" Makoto asked phone posed in hand ready

Kisumi thought about deciding on a place not too far away that served a mixture of dishes. Makoto sent out a group text inviting all his friends to dinner, hoping that Kisumi's dancing plans would get for, hgotten.

"I'll message you who's coming when they get back to me" Makoto smiled happily

Kisumi sighed he couldn't stay angry at that face "Ok, and I promise the night will be epic!"

Makoto worried a little by what he meant, but decided to dwell on it, he decided it would be a good night. Nothing would go wrong, he hoped.


Saturday rolled around and Makoto was awoken by Ruka softly jumping on his chest. He chuckled wishing the black cat good morning. He would like to think Ruka was wishing him a happy birthday but he knew he just wanted his breakfast. Still it wasn't a horrible way to be woken up. His phone start beeping beside him.

To: Makoto
From: Nagisa and Rei

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAKO-CHAN!
Have a great day and we will see you tonight to party!

To: Makoto
From: Rin and Sosuke

Happy Birthday Makoto
We will be there tonight (I'm making Sosuke come)

Makoto smiled at the two messages, it really was like nothing had changed. Except he hadn't received anything from the one person he wanted to most of all. Makoto sighed getti out of bed and throwing on some clothes. Makoto wasn't sure what to do all day since he wasn't working all weekend for once, he was used to having so much time to himself. He was about to grab himself some breakfast when his doorbell rang.

Opening the door, he was greeted with blue eyes "Haru w-what are you doing here?"

"Happy Birthday Makoto" He said offering him a bag

Makoto took the bag peeking inside "chocolate cake?! Haru that's not a healthy breakfast"

Haru rolled his eyes "That's for after breakfast" he said motion to the other bag he held "I'm going to cook you something"

Shocked Makoto stepped to the side letting Haru through, why did everything feel so awkward between them all the time now. Haru made a bee line for the kitchen only stopping to pet Ruka quickly.

"Oh Haru are you coming tonight?" Makoto asked "I just have to let Kisumi know numbers is all"

Haru flinched at Kisumi's name but nodded not turning around from the counter. Haru had never liked Kisumi he was to clingy.

Haru made a massive breakfast that they had to fight to fit in, both laying back trying to digest "I don't think I'm going to need to eat for the rest of the day now" Makoto said chuckling "You're still the best cook I know"

"You've just been eating to many cups of noodles and not proper meals" Haru said

Makoto felt his face go warm "w-well I work a lot and-"

Haru sat up "Last time I was with you and you cooked you nearly burned the house down"

Makoto laughed "I remember it was when we first moved to Tokyo and we had a hard time settling into a schedules, you were getting back late so I was trying to make you a nice dinner"

"When I got back the whole apartment was filled with smoke and you were running around panicked" Haru half chuckled "Now look at you, your putting out fires for a living"

Makoto chuckled at the irony of it all "Yeah who would've guessed"

The feel into an awkward silence, Makoto got up to clear the table. Remember old times like that made his chest hurt. He cherished those moments and wanted to go back to them more than anything. But he knew it would never be like that again. Makoto sighed placing the dirty dishes in the sink, he wondered what the night would bring.


A/N

This chapter is kinda of low key im sorry BUT i promise i have lots of drama planned in the next chapter :D

I will try and get up as quick as i can ive had assignments due that have been doing my head in haha

please enjoy :)