Me: "Really, this is too awesome. Please keep writing, I beg of you." *smiles* That's the last of it!
Hiroki: *takes notes*
Misaki: They seriously said aaaaaallll that? In ONE review?
Me: Yup. Hee hee, I feel giddy~! I can't believe it! I feel almost like I've achieved something!
Hiroki: Yeah. Hurry up and reply to it so you can get back to work.
Me: I caaaan~ It was left by an anonymous reviewer~!
Misaki: That sucks...
Me: Yup, but I'm hell-bent to find out who this peep is! I think she (or he...) tried to leave me their e-mail address, but blocked it. I wanna know who this person is~! She's in for a crap-load of thanks and compliments!
Hiroki: Fine, but do it on your own time.
Me: Last I checked this WAS my own time~! JFU is on hold til I figure this out!
Hiroki: *smacks Kyoto with a book* No, your 'quest' is on hold til you submit your next chapter!
Me: Fiiiine~ *starts working*
To "Sukishushi123" (the person who sent me the looong review), thank you a buuuuunch for taking that much time and making such a long review. I seriously took one look at it and broke out in a grin (then again, I do basically that for every review I get, but that was amazing!) I can't even believe how long that review was, and yes, I read it all! And it gave me an AWESOME idea for something that could happen in this story! If you want my e-mail to keep in contact like you suggested then please private messenge me (if you have an account) and just ask for it and I'll try to give it to ya. :) If you don't have a account... uh... I dunno... Look me up on a different website...? I have accounts everywhere! I frequent tumblr and deviantART. Just look up SOSVampire. (Anyone who wants to do that can do that I guess. XP)
To all my other reviewers, thank you for being awesome enough to review my first chapter! It reeeeeeeeeaally means a lot to me! (I may have to list all my reviewers thus far sometime... Sounds fun!) THANK YOU~!
Chapter 2: Change of Plans...
Misaki sat in his room again, grumbling and grunting to himself in frustration. The frustration he welcomed, since it kept his mind from panicking about his upcoming – and unwelcomed – vacation. The thought of going to a hot spring terrified him. Too many bad memories came by. Worries even. He was starting a new relationship. One with Shinobu. He didn't want anything in this love that would make him believe in the slightest that it'd be like his last relationship.
He was obviously scared.
With the hot spring vacation coming up, how the hell was he supposed to keep calm?
But he'd try his best, and stay calm.
After all, his brother is going through the trouble of taking him and Shinobu to a hot spring for summer vacation and Misaki would do his best to enjoy himself.
However, that being said, Misaki was still highly pissed with Shinobu.
He had gone three whole days without speaking to his roommate. Three days! Every day that Misaki saw him, the poor boy looked like he was going to die. But Misaki didn't give up! He had promised himself that he wouldn't speak to the other boy til Shinbou understood what he did was wrong. He had really crossed the line. Then again, Shinbou was way too stubborn to see that too.
It wasn't til another two days had passed that Shinobu finally came rushing to Misaki, nearly in tears and begging for forgiveness, which Misaki had obviously granted.
But as the days depleted and the vacation drew closer and closer, Misaki became slightly more panicked. Shinbou noticed this, but decided to stay quiet.
Finally, the day came when they were about to leave. Misaki and Shinbou packed their things and had them ready. They took their small amount of luggage and walked to the nearby train station.
The walk to the station was silent.
The wait for the train was silent.
The train ride was silent.
The two were in total silence. Misaki still didn't want to speak to Shinobu – especially right now – and Shinobu realized this and didn't even bother to try and strike up a conversation. However, they were both suffering because of it. Even Misaki was starting to wish some sort of dialog would flow. The silence was suffocating.
No words were exchanged until the pair reached their first destination, which was the town Takahiro lived in.
Takahiro had been waiting for them right outside their train, so when the two exited, he instantly grabbed Misaki's arm – who automatically grabbed Shinobu's arm – and started dashing away.
"Nii-chan, why are we running?" Misaki yelled, quickly becoming exhusted and trying his best to keep a grip on Shinobu.
"To our train! We're gonna miss it!" Takahiro yelled.
"But the train to the hot springs doesn't leave for another thirty minutes!"
Takahiro didn't reply, instead just pulled him into a train that was about to take off. Misaki let out a breath, then turned to Takahiro. "Nii-chan, we're on the wrong train!"
Takahiro frowned. "No we're not."
"Yes we are! This one leads to th-"
"Didn't Shinobu tell you?" Takahiro asked.
Now it was Misaki's turn to frown. "Tell me what?"
Shinobu just looked out the window of the train, turning away from Misaki's curious gaze.
"We're not going to the hot springs~ Shinobu called me and said you didn't want to go. Soooo, I changed the plans to going to the beach instead!"
Misaki blinked. What? Shinobu called him. Acutally called him? Misaki glanced at Shinobu again, who was still looking out the window, before turning to Takahiro. "You didn't have to do that Nii-chan. A hot spring still would have been fun to visit." Misaki lied.
Takahiro shook his head, smiling again. "It was fine Misaki! Besides, if you didn't want to go to the hot springs you could have told me in the first place you know~"
Misaki nodded. "Yes, I know. I'm sorry..." Misaki glanced over at Shinobu again, only now noticing that he wasn't at his side anymore. "Hey, where'd Shinobu go?"
"He took a seat back there." Takahiro said, pointing behind Misaki to a cart full of people.
Misaki looked back, trying to find Shinobu in the crowd.
"You go ahead and try and find your friend okay, Misaki. I'm gonna go up front and look for Manami." And with that Takahiro turned around and headed though the door to the next cart.
Misaki sighed, then turned as well, entering the other cart. He searched though the crowd of people for a while before spotting Shinobu, sitting down on the bench at the back.
Misaki walked over and sat down next to him – startling Shinobu for a moment, but the blonde recovered quickly, going back to staring at random people.
The brunette stayed quite for a moment, contemplating what to say, before turning to Shinobu. He didn't know quite what to say, but upon turning he found himself just smiling softly at the boy.
Shinobu noticed his roommate's gaze on him after only a few short seconds and turned attention to his smiling friend. "... What?"
Misaki realized how he must have looked and blushed, leaning back in his seat quickly. "Um... uh... I kinda wanted to know why didn't you tell me that the plans had been changed..." Misaki muttered. Well, that's not what he really was looking at him for, but he was also rather curious on why he wasn't informed.
"Because you've been ignoring me since the plans were made so I never really got the chance to." Shinobu grumbled.
Misaki looked down to his feet. "O-oh... well.. uh, thank you... for telling my brother I didn't want to go to the hot springs... You were the one who told him, after all..."
"Yeah, and I was also the one who told him that you wanted to go. I was only cleaning up the mess I made." Shinobu huffed.
"W-well, still..." Misaki sighed, and then looked over to Shinobu, locking gazes with him. "I'm sorry... for how I've been acting... It's just tha-" Misaki was cut off when Shinobu suddenly wrapped his arms around the shorter boy.
"It's fine... Just don't do it again..."
Misaki just nodded, closing his eyes and relaxing in the other's arms.
It took the two a few minutes to remember exactly where they were and that they couldn't be hugging like this in public. Actually, to be honest, Shinobu didn't care, but Misaki still pulled away, discouraged by the foul looks they were receiving by the other people on the train.
But still, he remained leaning against Shinobu's shoulder for the rest of the ride to the beach.
I am sooooooooo sorry! Don't kill me! I know this is extremely and outrageously late! I didn't mean to make ya'll wait so long, I swear! And the fact this chapter is so short... yeah, ya'll have every right to kill me, 'ey? TT~TT I'm sooooorrryyy~! It's just, I didn't realize when I started writing this that this book 'd be somuch harder than the last one! And it is! When I wrote Stay With Me? I had the whole story planned out in my head, but with this I've only got a few ideas thought out. I don't know a climax or any type of rising action. But I'll figure it all out! I swearz!
I'd ask you to review, but this is such a pitifully short chapter that I don't want to ask you to waste your time on reviewing it. Go ahead if you want to, but I really feel horrible about making ya'll wait so long and then coming up with... this... upon my return... I swear, I'll try to make the next chapter better and have it submitted faster~!