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Chapter Two: Sleeping Abe
The next morning Abe wasn't sure whether "Rin" was real or a dream. The moment that he had agreed with the new name he hung up the phone and Abe immediately fell back to sleep.
Or at least that's what he thought had happened.
He yawned in frustration when he got to the practice field earlier than usual, even if Rin had been a nightmare he didn't sleep that well and he almost didn't think he could make it through practice.
After he changed his clothes he found himself sitting on a bench in the clubhouse alone. Still no one had come and it was almost time for the morning practice to start.
Though with no one there, there was no one could stop him from falling asleep.
What seemed to him as five minutes later he was being shaken and thrown back in the world of the wake.
"Whazgoinon?" he murmured to the one shaking him.
"God, Taka-chan sleeping on a bench cannot be good for you," scolded a voice. Abe's eyes opened quickly to see Mihashi leaning over him, but it wasn't Mihashi.
"Rin?" Abe asked.
"Oh, you remembered!" Rin exclaimed in facetious joy. Abe tried to sit up, but his tiredness kept him down on the bench.
"How are you here?"
"Ren fell asleep in Mother's car on the way here." Rin shrugged. "I had to act like him to make sure she didn't notice."
"Notice?" Abe frowned.
"It's not like she would believe that her son developed a split personality because his friends hypnotized him that only comes out during his sleep." Rin scoffed. "She'd have us committed and Ren would…"
Abe suddenly yawned loudly and interrupted Rin's minor monologue. Rin eyed Abe carefully and sat down next to him.
"Wow, you really are tired…" He exhaled. "Maybe you should get some sleep?"
Abe stiffened at that suggestion. He was scared that in his sleep Rin would try to…do something to him. But it seemed that Rin knew what he was worried about.
"I won't try anything funny," he promised. "Scout's honor."
"You were a boy scout?" Abe giggled in a very sleep deprived, out of character way.
"Ren was and if he was I was."
"But you didn't exist until last week."
Rin sighed, obviously that wasn't something he felt like talking about with someone who was barely cognizant of their OOC behavior.
"Why don't I tell you a story?" Rin suggested. "That way you fall asleep and the strain from too much creativity makes me fall asleep too."
Abe just grunted he was already half asleep so he didn't really care what Rin did. Rin sat down in a corner and thought for a moment of what he could tell.
Then the idea struck.
"Once upon a time there was a king and queen who had a newborn prince. The king and queen had offended an evil fairy so she cursed the prince to fall into an eternal slumber." Rin paused and decided to interject some reality into his story. "Unfortunately the previous king and queen actually didn't care for their grandson so they allowed the curse to take root and let the prince to sleep, and kept his parents from doing anything to reverse the curse.
"Fifteen years later the prince awoke by mere accident and met a valiant knight at a party at the castle. The knight was quite fearful so he ended up putting the prince back to sleep with what little magic he had." Rin sighed and looked over to Abe, who was sleeping peacefully at this point.
"But due to some random mistake in the original curse and the knights spell the two were brought together every night when the knight slept. After a while, though, the knight found a way to remedy this problem.
"To save them both from the strain of sleeping, but not the knight would have to kiss the prince and awaken him from the slumber." Rin stopped his story and leaned over Abe's face.
He gulped with nervousness as his face got ever closer to Abe's.
"Heh," Rin chuckled as he stopped and sat back down. "But a promise is a promise, even if it would stop this."
Well then, what exactly does Rin's story mean? Who knows? I sure don't. Review please
Next time: Abe begins asking questions.