- A few streets away-
Beep beep. Beep beep. Beep beep.
An alarm sounded on the nightstand. It was one of those alarms that wasn't completely obnoxious, just a mid tone, the kind that heavier sleepers never hear. Atsushi grabbed his phone and swiped his finger across the screen to "silence" the alarm. He was typically an early riser, the birds were his alarm, but he'd had a late night last night. Nothing completely out of the ordinary, he'd just spent Saturday night getting lost in endless YouTube videos about cats. It's easy to do, those side links will draw you down a never ending tunnel, leaving you at a place you never knew existed. "That's the latest I've slept in months!" He exclaimed and with one fluid motion, he had already jumped out of bed and was heading into the bathroom to brush his teeth. He turned on the water and reached for his toothbrush, noticing his reflection in the mirror. "Sheet marks." He put his palm against his face and traced the temporary crevices the sheets had created across his cheek.
Coming out of the bathroom, he glanced at the clock and saw it was just passed 1 in the afternoon. He was supposed to meet a friend at the book store at 1:30.
"I better get going". Atsushi grabbed a light jacket from it's resting place on the arm of the couch and threw it across his shoulder (just in case), and pulled the door shut behind him.
Buzz.
He pulled his phone from his back pocket and saw he had a text message from his friend and coworker, Dazai-san.
"Sorry, something came up, and you know how I'm drawn to adventure~~
Let's make a rain check for next Saturday, I'll have lots to tell you ;)"
He let his arm fall, and slowly turned his gaze toward the ceiling in thought. Could he have met a girl? "I guess I'll find out later." Dazai was known to be a flirt, and he was also pretty flaky. Atsushi decided to go out anyway considering he was already making his way down the flight of stairs that led to the exit of his apartment building. "I need to pick up that book anyway."
