~ Day 19- Falling Asleep ~
She smiled as his head softly hit the arm rest of the sofa when he fell asleep mid-sentence, phone still in hand. He had started talking to her a lot more lately and he got along well with her Master, too, so it was basically something reminiscent of a time that had long since passed. Not like now wasn't fun, but those days had always been special in their mundane ways.
As she looked at his now relaxed face, her stomach hurt and her expression turned sour for a moment. The way his hair fell before his eyes in such a familiar way, the slight slacking of his mouth, the creases in his brows as he dreamt away, the little bump on the slope of his nose, his fluttering lashes... they all looked too much like that person. Because he is him, she thought bitterly.
He stirred in his sleep. Her face was back into a smile, though it was laced with affection that she could never show. It wouldn't make sense to anyone else. Still, she found herself softly muttering his name. Not the name of that amnesic in front of her right now, but his real name. The name of the person she used to love. The person she loved, even now. The person she'd love forever. It was cheesy to say that, considering it was her first crush, but even when he'd forgotten her like that, she still wanted to have him back and tell him her feelings.
"Haruka", she muttered through the speakers, barely above a whisper, carried by a sigh. When he was asleep, he was still the same, she wanted to believe. He didn't have to remember, then. He'd snore lightly and she could watch over him- whether that was in a classroom filled with the setting sun's light or in the Mekakushi Dan's hideout- whether she would sit next to him and smile a little or be trapped in the phone of an unbearable master to see him dozing off.
As long as she got to watch him fall asleep forever, it didn't matter.