I wake up easy, slowly coming out of my dreams. Dreams I don't recognize but enjoy watching, like a movie. I'm alone in bed, and the sheets are slightly damp a reminder of our night, I smile. I roll out of bed and slip into my robe, letting it caress my naked body. I wander down stairs feeling as though I'm on a cloud, Haruka is sitting at the table, she's also naked under her robe. I pour some tea and sit across from her, I stare at her this morning as she reads her paper, and I don't care. She looks at me more then once before folding her paper and looking back at me. 'You're staring.' She says to me.
'I am.'
'Why?' she asks laughing a little. 'Didn't you see enough?'
'Never.' I say and she chokes a little on her tea.
'I have to go to work for a little bit today.' She says. 'one of the cars is acting up.' I nod at her and she gets up from her chair, she takes the long way around the table stopping to kiss me. I follow her to our bedroom, I feel like I need to be near her. 'How long will you be?' I ask as she changes.
'An hour, maybe more.'
'Alright.' I frown, an hour without her seems like an eternity now.
'How about we meet Hotaru in the park when I get home?' she offers exiting the bathroom, now fully dressed and clean. She kisses me softly and I can taste her tooth paste.
'Yes please.' I reply leaning up to her for another kiss, enjoying my new found life.
'Alright, we'll call her when I get back. If she knows before hand she'll drive Setsuna to the loony bin.' She tosses her hand in a wave and disappears down the stairs. I shower and dress, taking longer then I should but not caring. I wander back into the room where my violin sits. I stare at it, part of my longing to pick it up. I life it to my neck cradling it between my chin and my shoulder. I raise the bow to the strings fearful of the last horrid sound it made. I drag the bow across, a sound, not beautiful but not nearly as piercing escapes from the instrument and I try again, and again. My head begins to hurt, I feel as if I've been hit in the stomach, I fall the violin leaving my grip, I hit the ground. Hard.
'There is a girl in my school, she wants to ride with you along the shore line'
'Haruka, don't. you're life will never be the same.'
'Help them? They could never understand Haruka. We must search for the talisman.'
'A world without Haruka, is not a world worth saving.'
'I love you Haruka.'
'I want to touch you one last time'
'Serenity has saved us, we've been reborn. But we are charged with caring for Hotaru. Please Haruka. Please.'
I remember.