Goodbye fanfics, hello textbooks. /cries in a corner
Thanks for reading if you read it :3
Dreams
"Kojipa..." A small voice mumbled.
"Kojipa..."
"Kojipa..!"
The woman sitting at the far corner of the room, eyes still glued to her Nintendo DS, replied upon hearing her name being called for the nth time.
"What?"
The small voice from the bed continued mumbling.
"Kojipa..."
The mumbles continued until the woman couldn't take it anymore.
Annoyed, she looked up from her gaming device with a frustrated expression.
"What is it, Yuko?!"
There was a person whose body was covered fully in a blanket on the bed.
Haruna stood up and walked over to the bed's direction and uncovered the small figure.
Yuko.
She gazed upon the pained expression on the young girl's face.
She was clutching onto a pillow tightly.
She seemed uncomfortable.
Haruna's frustration subsided and she sat beside the sleeping girl.
She tried to soothe the girl's troubled expression by stroking her hair, but it didn't seem to work.
Having no idea what else to do, and since that expression on Yuko's face was getting worse each passing minute, she decided to lay beside her, with their faces only inches away from each other.
"Koji.. pa..."
Yuko's words were getting more and more silent, and Haruna had to get closer and closer to hear them more clearly.
"Haruna..."
Their noses were barely touching.
The younger girl's face calmed down a bit, but there were still traces of her uncomfortableness.
With a face of realization, Haruna thought of something that might calm the girl's nerves, and couldn't hold the sigh of relief that escaped her mouth when she thought that it might work.
Yuko let out a small groan when the puff of air tickled her lips.
Trying to experiment a little bit, Haruna wrapped her arms around the small body, and after a while, felt arms snake around her own.
With that, Yuko's troubled expression disappeared, and was replaced with a completely calm one as she nuzzled against the newly found warmth.
Glad to have her squirrel back to normal, Haruna slowly drifted off to sleep while holding the small body close to her.
☁︎☁︎☁︎
Yuko woke up in the darkness of her room.
She tried to feel around her bed for her dear Haruna, but alas, she was nowhere to be found.
"Maybe she's still not home," she thought.
She felt her way towards the door of the bedroom and tried to find the light-switch and switch it on.
"No electricity?" she mumbled when trying to find a source of light failed.
She exited the bedroom and soon, exited her apartment, with the help of the faint moonlight entering from the windows.
The corridor was suspiciously deserted, but then again, this sight wasn't at all new to her.
She took the stairs, believing in the possibilities that she might run into Haruna.
She didn't.
She reached the end of the stairs and the exit to the apartment building, without running into Haruna. In fact, she didn't run into anyone at all.
She went outside and was greeted by the cold winter air. In the middle of summer.
Yuko scratched the back of her head, confused.
She stood there in the darkness.
No streetlights, no nothing.
Clouds slowly covered the moon and stars, giving Yuko no hope in finding light.
The girl wasn't claustrophobic. She never found the darkness scary.
Only balloons and losing her loved ones scared her.
But her state right now was different.
Fear struck her in the dark.
She never felt so uneasy in her life.
She felt...
...Alone.
"Kojipa...?" she called her Haruna's nickname.
No answer.
"Kojipa?"
She was desperate to find her...
"Kojipa!"
...Desperate to feel her touch again.
"Kojipa..."
Tears swelled in her eyes.
"Koji... pa..."
She fell to the floor, crying.
She gave one last desperate call, before breaking down completely.
"Haruna..."
A flash of light.
Yuko raised her head.
The clouds covering the moon disappeared.
Not soon after, Yuko was engulfed in sheer brightness.
Her eyes screwed shut, nearly blinded.
When she was comfortable enough, she opened her eyes slowly and found herself in front of her apartment building in broad daylight.
"Yuko?"
A familiar voice called.
☁︎☁︎☁︎
Yuko woke up in the darkness of her room.
She tried to feel around her bed for her dear Haruna, and found that she couldn't move.
A few rays of light sneaked their way through the closed curtains, marking sunrise.
The few strands of light guided her vision.
A pair of arms were snaked around her small body, those arms belonging to her one and only.
"Haruna.."