I suddenly felt myself being forcefully ripped from my sleep and my eyes flew open. I blinked once. Twice. A third time and still did not feel the lingering lull of sleep calling my name. I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling. The soft light from the moon illuminated the walls.
I looked to my right and noticed that Nagihiko was in a deep sleep. He was tangled in a net of his own hair and was snoring softly. At least I had enough wisdom to put my hair in a braid at night.
I leaned back on my pillow and huffed. There was no way I was going to get back to sleep. I turned to my left and glanced at the digital clock, it read 2:05. "Seriously!" I grumbled softly to myself, making sure I hadn't woken sleeping beauty up. After ten minutes I got fed up with trying to make myself go back to sleep, I threw the comforter off of myself and got out of bed. If I wasn't tired then I was going to make myself tired. I tiptoed across the room and slipped out the door, making sure to grab a room key with me.
It was just me and the hallway, what a better way to make oneself tired than pace around a big hotel.
Pacing, in fact and despite popular belief, does not make you tired; it's just really really boring. At first I was just pacing the hall, slowly walking up and down the wide hallway and watching the pattern on the carpet repeat for the umpteenth time. But after a while, I got tired of seeing the same carpet and wallpaper and doors. Then I started hopping from flower to flower on the cheesy pattern on the carpet. After ten minutes of that, I still was not tired.
I sat outside the hotel room, trying to think of another activity that would tucker me out.
Suddenly I just remember that the hotel had a cappuccino machine in the lobby that made hot chocolate. Something like that would make me fall asleep on the dot. I slipped back into the room, grabbed some American money out of my purse then slipped back out into the hall, undetected.
Just as I pressed the lobby button on the elevator, the sound of a slamming door echoed in the hall. I gulped, afraid to turn around and see who it was. The elevator doors opened slowly and I quickly ran in them and pressed the closed doors button as quickly as I could, trying not to lift my vision to the hall.
My heart started thumping in my throat as the elevator descended to the lobby. The doors creaked open, revealing the dark and desolate lobby. I clutched my money tightly as I walked toward the vending machines.
Just as I was about to put my money into the machine, I heard rough and heavy footsteps on tile. My heart thudded again and I suddenly hid behind the vending machine so that the stranger wouldn't find me.
"Rima, what are you doing down here?" Nagihiko's tired voice nearly scared me out of my skin.
I emerged from behind the vending machine, my knees shaking. "I—I couldn't sleep, so I tried to make myself tired by pacing around the hall but then I remembered that there was a hot chocolate machine in the lobby and I knew it would make me go to sleep so that is why I am down here." I hardly understood the words that tumbled from my mouth and by the look on Nagihiko's face, I could tell that he didn't understand them either.
"Okay," he said, a muddled look on his face. "Why don't you just get your hot chocolate then you can go back to sleep."
I nodded then proceeded to put my money in the vending machine to get my hot chocolate that my wired mind craved so much.
The machine creaked and whirred and two minutes later my hot chocolate was piping hot in a small Styrofoam cup. As I carefully sipped it, we sat at a small couch that was in the lobby.
"So…" Nagihiko began and I looked over at him, he had a curious and worried look in his dark tawny eyes. "Who was that guy you said was bother you?"
"Like I said, he was just some guy was blabbering on about how much he wanted to go to Japan." I crinkled my nose at the thought of his obnoxious spewing of words. "I could ask the same to you," I looked up at him and he blinked in reply.
"Like I said, she was just some girl I bumped into while swimming around, it's nothing to get worked up about." Nagihiko was stumbling over his words, struggling to make them sound nonchalant.
"I'm not getting worked up about this, you're the one who asked me first." I pointed out and took another sip of my hot chocolate. The warm mocha concoction was pulling me closer and closer to sleep with each sip I took. "You know, with all this interrogation, one might think that you were jealous."
"Rima," he said through gritted teeth, I could tell he was seething with anger. "I am in no terms jealous, why on Earth would I be jealous. I have nothing to be jealous for! Do you have no sense of sight Rima? Can you not see that I am totally not utterly and head-over-heals in l-" That was all I heard before my eyes slammed shut and the world went dark and silent.
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