Everything is smooth so far.

For Akashi at least.

He was almost done writing the whole story and he's just finding the right tweaks and buttons to end his first (and probably last, he thought) piece of work and the best part, his father has not found out. Yet. The worst has yet to come. This is just probably the calm before the storm.

Akashi sighed for the umpteenth time that day. He can't believe it but he's almost finished. It made him happy and accomplished. At least he made something decent even though it was just one composition. But despite this, he also felt sad, lonely and longing. He felt pain in the deepest part of himself for he knows that despite his success as a writer, he was neglecting something, someone, to be exact.

Ever since he started that project again, his time with Kuroko became less and less, his previous readers coming again and blowing up his message box, resulting in further covering Kuroko's messages to him. It frustrates Akashi to no end. He only decided to write again for Kuroko's sake and not others. He could only care less about his other readers. The reason that he's still sending the chapter updates to the others too and not just Kuroko is because he thought that, as an author, it's really bad to just leave your readers hanging and plus, Kuroko knows people who also reads his story, so of course the kid would ask them what they thought for the previous chapters and he would be in trouble if the others doesn't know that he was writing still, only that he sends the updates only to Kuroko.

And as Akashi, he wasn't really making any progress on Kuroko. It's bad enough that they're in different classes that they can only talk in a limited time and place. Usually, their lunch break talk would be interrupted with the call from the council and when it's time to go home, his chauffeur would be there at the front gate waiting for him making him not be able to walk Kuroko until the intersection. Akashi would have a death glare by the time that he's in the car but it seems that his chauffeur does not get the message for it happened every day.

Okay, maybe everything's not going so smooth for Akashi, but he'll manage. He needs to manage. For Kuroko.

Akashi lets out a long breath and cleared his mind. Once he did, he flipped his cellphone open and began typing the very last chapter of his work. He's sure that after this, he would be able to talk to Kuroko more now, maybe not much as Akashi, but at least there's Aka Hasami as a substitute. He'll finish this tonight and there is no way that he's sleeping not unless he's sent it already to those people that reads his stories. Akashi lets himself be engulfed in the world of literature for a short while and writes what both his heart and mind desires to write.

Kuroko was patiently waiting on his bed. Aka Hasami promised him the end of the story tonight and Kuroko's sure that he won't be able to sleep without reading it and then congratulating Aka Hasami right after.

'10:30 PM...'

He's been home for almost 5 hours now, and he's sure that Aka Hasami also has the same schedule as him and that right after school, the author would immediately get started on his story chapter. Aka Hasami was not rushing it, he's sure because the story quality is still the same even though Aka Hasami has set up a pace of an update every other day, making his novel easy to be finished. He thought maybe Aka Hasami misses him too and the reason why he wants to update fast is because he wants to talk to Kuroko soon, to talk about how he was and what has he been doing with the lack of texts despite the updates.

But that's just Kuroko's wishful mind talking.

Kuroko does not know what to do anymore while waiting. He fiddled with his phone, looked at past messages (and comment at how formal they actually are with each other), he rolled on the bed, ate, bathe and any other stuff to get his mind off the excitement that is the last chapter. He's excited because he can finally find peace towards the story and its many twists and turns and also because he can now talk to Aka Hasami like how they usually do.

He was beginning to doze off, his internal clock always says that he should always be asleep at 11:00 PM but then his phone ringtone went off. Kuroko sat upwards almost instantly and grabbed his phone besides him and read the message. Sure enough it is the update that he has been waiting for. The final update. His blood is rushing in his veins, his heart is beating wildly. He cannot control his excitement anymore and opened the message. He read the last chapter thoroughly with deep thought and full attention. When he was finished, his shoulders slumped as he let his arms fall on his sides; his head lies back down on the headboard as he looked at the ceiling.

'Amazing'

He felt like he was just in a roller coaster of drama, love, action and angst. The whole story felt like that despite the limited amount of characters, Aka Hasami managed to get those emotions out of him and he actually felt love, pity, adoration, anger, sadness and any other emotion with the character. It felt like he knows the character personally and he was just there, watching everything and being involved into the drama. It all felt amazing. The experience is something that cannot be explained. When his intial shock was gone, he brought his cellphone back up his face again and started typing to congratulate Aka Hasami on his hard work at everything.

To: Aka Hasami

From: Kuroko Tetsuya

Congratulations Aka-kun! Your final chapter is spectacular; I bet the other readers are probably drowning in emotions right now. You did a great job at every chapter and it was an honestly enjoyable ride at this roller coaster, full of the raw emotion that the characters are feeling. Thank you for letting me experience such a ride! Keep up the good work, Aka-kun!

And send.

Just as Kuroko expected, the reply didn't take longer than a minute. He immediately opened the message and read it. He sure was not expecting something like this as a reply to his message though,

To: Kuroko Tetsuya

From: Aka Hasami

I miss you, Kuroko. Finally now I have the time to talk to you. Things has been hectic but thank you for silently supporting me and thank you for that wonderful message, you don't know how much it means to me. After this, we can talk as much as we want, just like before. I'm sure that I won't be writing for a while, but I won't quit and hopefully, my problem would be solved. You should sleep now, it is past 11 PM and I know when your switch turns off. Good night Kuroko, sweet dreams. I'll just text you tomorrow.

How could he sleep in this state? Aka Hasami just texted that he missed Kuroko. By now, the thumping inside his chest became louder and he's sure that anytime now, his heart would just stop. Kuroko took a deep breath to calm his nerves down before typing his reply to the message,

To: Aka Hasami

From: Kuroko Tetsuya

I miss you too, Aka-kun. Yes, I guess that I need to sleep now. Talk to you tomorrow. Good night to you too, Aka-kun.

Akashi can't help but smile. That last message just describes how cute Kuroko can be even through messages. The blue haired teen would seriously be the death of him someday. He was half glad that Kuroko also misses 'him' at the same time he is frustrated with himself with not being able to tell Kuroko that he misses him as HIM.

Someday, he'll be able to tell it. It's bound to happen anyway.

He was tired already; it is evident at how he tries to keep his heavy eyes open just so that he can crawl into his bed and rest. He was on cleaning duty tomorrow, and he can't afford to be late to class even by just a second. But it seems that someone is unforgiving for his phone ringtone went off. It was not for the message alert, but for a call.

Akashi looked at his phone and what greeted him is an unfamiliar number. He was having second thoughts on answering his phone but he pressed the answer button anyway and put the phone on his ear.

"Hello?"

He was trying to feel the presence of the other person on the other line and once he heard their voice and first words, Akashi's sure that this is someone not to be taken lightly.

"Are you Aka Hasami? The author of 'From Beyond the Stars'?"

Akashi raised his eyebrow. Why would someone ask him something as that?

"Yes I am. Is there something that I can help you with?"

He heard the other person's relieved sigh from the other end and when he replied, his voice seems to be happier than the first.

"I am Tokugawa Suwara, the president of the literature department of the University of Tokyo. I would like to congratulate you on your first novel."

"...Thank you"

"Not only that, I also would like to congratulate you because your cellphone novel won this year's Reader's choice Awards for Best New Romance Novel, Best New Drama Novel and Quick Rising Popularity Award. If you're wondering how you won, we rummaged through countless of cellphone novels since they are quite a hit and we stumbled upon yours, we started reading it and decided to include it in our poll. We put up polls in our websites about the new type of literature; the authors and stories, and people from in and out of the university can vote. Your story was added to the poll despite it being incomplete and you announcing that you will quit but then you suddenly announced that you would continue your story, resulting in a landslide of votes for your novel, it seems that you have a lot of supporters. I would also like to say that, you, as an author also received an award. It is the New Uprising Star of Literature. We'll keep you informed with the details, the award's night date is not announced yet, but it will be soon. We will text you every now and then. Sorry for taking up your time! Oh, the news would be on tomorrow's paper! Well then, good night"

The line then went dead. Akashi didn't know what to think first. The sudden news struck him hard and he does not know how to digest it all. For heaven's sake, he does not know that he or his story was nominated to some kind of awarding and now someone calls him and tells him that he won, he just want to write for his own pleasure (and to please Kuroko), but this? The fact that the news will be published does not help at all. What if—

'What if father will know?'

A/N Hello Everyone. I just wanted you to know that I am quitting—nah jk... I just dunno what to write here. Anyways~ Thank you for all the support that I am receiving from all of you, each one is forever appreciated! This story is almost at its end and the BIG part will happen next chapter! (Though I can't promise you anything because really... I don't know how to actually write plot) The fluff here ain't that visible but more of it will come soon!~ R&R please!~ Thank you very much for reading and putting up with me! Just to let you guys know, the awards and whatnot are made up by me so please don't try to search it up coz it won't probably show up :P (I only thought about it while I was already writing it XD)