Home
So there they sat, their bare feet soaked in the warm pool water and their pant legs rolled up. It was sort of strange, seeing as how they were the only ones with clothes on while everyone else was in their underwear. This all-night party had to end sooner or later, right? Then again... it was three in the morning.
"What are you thinking about?" Risa asked him as she swung her feet gently back and forth in the water.
"Right now?" He asked and she nodded. "Homes." He hesitated, then began to elaborate. "Have you ever felt like you're a stranger in your own house? As if... there's still a place where you put all of your things, but it's not a home?"
"I still feel at home with my family, and I'm 18."
"You'll feel it sooner or later," he said in a quiet voice. "It just feels so strange... you feel homesick for a place that doesn't exist." Satoshi paused for a moment. "Maybe it's a right of passage... or maybe that's all a family really is; people longing for the same place."
The was a little silence, then Risa softly laid her head on his broad shoulder. "Maybe..." she said. Her voice just as soft as her touch.
He let his head fall to the side, landing on the crown of hers. She was so small, but so mature. It was strangely comfortable in that moment, just as they were. He had never felt so relaxed.
Of course that was all forgotten when Takeshi decided to be the ass he was, and he and his friends helped pull the two into the water.