AN: Can anyone say, spontaneous update?! (Don't shoot me yet!)
Panting, Shizuru arched her back as rough calloused fingers began to travel down her body, casually brushing her skin away and leaning down to nip every so once in a while, at the pale skin covering the crook of her neck with white teeth.
"Natsuki…."
She shifted on her bed, awakening to the sunlight shifting through the windows and leaving behind the smell of sunshine, while draping the room with bright yellow rays.
Closing her eyes, Shizuru refused to move, the tiny speck of foolishness and irrationality in her head trying to convince herself that if she didn't move, maybe the dream wouldn't go away.
But Shizuru was never much of an irrational person.
Sighing softly, she looked out the window and raised an eyebrow at the sky high sun, which so commonly was at the bottom of the horizon whenever she awoke.
What time is it…?
Turning her head at the grandfather clock in her room, she stared blankly at the clock.
12:33? How strange…
Flinging the sheets of her bed, Shizuru swung her legs over on the side and sat there, staring at the drawer for a moment before reaching over and grabbing her cell phone.
Flipping the top half open, she stared in light amusement as the screen flashed a familiar phone logo, telling her that she had missed two calls.
Interesting.
Shizuru had never told many people her phone number, especially her rather "dedicated" fans. It was uncommon for her to miss a call, usually because she never had many, and the caller knew her well enough to call at a good time.
Her eyes widened slightly at one of the names that had illuminated on the small screen.
Kuga Natsuki.
The name right below also blinked in bright green
Takeshi Satoshi
The latter was not surprising; her parents were busy and thus gave Takeshi most of the responsibility of taking care of Shizuru, not that he needed to do much. Yet the first one, Natsuki, now that was a surprise.
Shizuru had given her number to Natsuki on a rainy day while the two of them were alone in the student council room, but she had never thought that the girl would ever call.
Yet, the both of them had not left any voice messages, leaving Shizuru silently dwindling in her curiosity.
She figured Takeshi might have called to arrange another meeting, or maybe just a short outing between the two. He often invited her for a stroll to the park, or just a drink at the café, Takeshi was responsible for her but their relationship thankfully grew more lax and comfortable.
But, Natsuki?
Blinking, she ran a thumb over the buttons on the phone for a moment before dialing a few numbers and pressing the phone close to her ear.
The dial tone rang in her ears for a bit before a gruff voice resounded through her phone and automatically made Shizuru lift a small smile. By now it had become a reflex.
"Hello?"
"I was surprised you had called, Natsuki!"
She faked a bit of exaggerated happiness, for the sake of Natsuki or herself, she could not tell.
"Shizuru?"
"You've known me for years now and you can't even recognize my voice? Ah, I didn't think the phone would make me sound that unrecognizable, Natsuki."
Smiling genuinely for a moment, Shizuru stood up from the bed and walked over to the bathroom.
"Hn. Unfortunately it seems morning fatigue doesn't seem to stop your teasing even for a bit…"
"Not a bit."
It wasn't hard to tell the girl on the other line was frowning or pouting in annoyance, and Shizuru felt that if maybe she could keep this up; this conversation wouldn't be a disaster or filled with awkward silences.
"Anyway, I called before because it seems like even if we've got a few more days off before going back to school, Midori thinks we should have some get-together study…thing."
Stopping to wash her face, she held the phone away from for a few minutes before drying off with a fluffy white towel. Picking the phone back up to her ears, she raised an eyebrow in light surprise.
"If I recall correctly, the last get together we had with everyone didn't go as smooth as Midori-san had hoped."
Shizuru stopped at her own words and berated herself for having to have brought up the topic.
"Ah…"
Apparently she wasn't the only one who thought that dancing around this wasn't such a great idea.
Glancing at the calendar hanging on the bathroom wall, she traced the days with her finger.
"What day did she have planned?"
"…I'm pretty sure she said tomorrow, although I wasn't really uh…"
"Paying attention?"
"…Hn."
Letting loose a chuckle at Natsuki's awkward humiliation, she briefly checked the calendar before remembering a certain task she was told to do.
"I have to meet up with my parents tomorrow; I'm very sorry but please tell Midori-san that I will not be able to attend"
That must have been why Takeshi had called earlier, he probably wanted to remind me of tomorrows date.
"Oh. I see."
Shizuru forced herself to hold back a witty response to the bit of disappointment that tinged Natsuki's flat reply, but she did not want to deal with the tense quiet that might follow shortly after if Natsuki felt it was too weird to hear her tease after such horrendous things.
There really wasn't any other way to put it.
"But please Natsuki, do have fun and enjoy yourself."
"Ah."
Facing her own reflection in the mirror, Shizuru watched her thin lips formulate the words spoken into the phone and to the girl on the other line.
"Good bye Natsuki."
"Bye."
Shizuru continued to stare at her reflection, noting the curve of her jaw and the way her hair brushed lightly over her forehead.
Is this the face of a murderer?
Shaking her head, she leaned forward and began to brush her teeth.
AN: So it's been a year? Man I don't even know, I had this draft still, and well, depending on how many reviewers are still interested, I'll try my best to continue from where I left off. I'm not sure what to say, excuses and explanations were never my strong point. Hopefully there will be some interested in the completion of the story, till then!