dream of endless kissing - Die x Toshiya | One-Shot
It was a mere rush of black lightning.
It came from the bathroom, disappeared in the living room for a second and then nearly toppled over the redhead, standing in the hall. He head it murmur in the bedroom, heard it mutter words to itself and then saw it peeking out and rushing back into the bathroom, where the door fell shut. He heard cluttering sounds and smiled benignly.
“Sweetheart, what in Christs name are you doing?”
“Getting prepared”, came the muffled reply from the bathroom.
Die shook his head and opened the bathroom door, to find his boyfriend searching through some beige and yellowish clutch that he preferred to call his ‘washing purse’. On tour he kept his beauty stuff in that awful thing, saying it gave him a good mood in the morning, since it was yellow. And beige.
“Preparing for what?”
“I’m leaving in an hour? Duh.”
They had some time off and Toshiya had promised his parents to come back home to Nagano for the week. It had almost been unbearable for the younger to see the day coming closer. Not because he didn’t want to see his parents, but rather because it would have meant spending a precious week away from his - still fresh - boyfriend. The same guy that was now leaning against the doorframe, totally oblivious to any hassle around him.
“You are prepared. You’re showered, dressed, what more is there to prepare?”
Toshiya gave him the glance.
THE glance.
The “Gosh you’re stupid” glance.
“I have planned something. And I still need to prepare the rest of it. And you’re standing in the way. Why do you always do that?” With that he already rushed past Die and kept on blabbering to himself, as he disappeared in the bedroom again. With a small glass bottle in his hands. Curious, Die followed and raised his eyebrow at the sight.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m spraying some of my perfume on your pillow.”
“Why?”
“So it smells of me while I’m gone and you can sleep better.”
Satisfied, Toshiya nodded to himself and rushed out again, just a split second later. He also sprayed perfume on the couch cushions and the curtains in the kitchen, just in case Die should decide to have a cigarette by the window. He sprayed more on his favourite jumper and put the jumper on the shelve with Dies T-Shirts, in case he wanted to smell him everywhere he went.
“What else did you prepare?”
“Oh, some stuff. You’ll see.”
Die very well knew the saying ‘curiosity killed the cat’ but still he couldn’t help it. After Toshiya had left - after ten minutes of whining how much he would miss him and how he would call every hour and after that last, long, intimate kiss that made Die want to pull him straight back to the bedroom - he started to wander around the apartment. Everything smelled of Toshiya, as if the entire perfume bottle had spilled. He didn’t mind that at all.
He pulled out his cigarettes and opened the lid, to find a small post it note stuck on the inside.
10 a day. And I love you.
Smiling, Die shook his head and wandered to the kitchen. ‘Coffee would be nice now’, since it was still quite early in the morning. He pulled out his favourite coffee cup, to find another note sticking inside.
Wash that up too. And I love you.
Blinking, the smile grew into a grin as he prepared a cup of coffee. As he opened the fridge to grab the milk, he found a third note.
Refill when empty. And I love you.
Curious of what to find next, he wandered to the living room, coffee cup in his hand. The next note hung by the television.
Don’t leave on standby. And I love you.
The grin grew wider. He still wondered how Toshiya could be so sweet but such a dork at the same time. He let his gaze wonder through the living room and noticed another small piece of paper stuck to the head of his guitar.
Write me a love song. And I love you.
He considered doing that during the night. He had enough inspiration all around him after all. He continued his walk through the apartment and peeked into the bathroom again. At first glance, there seemed to be no sign of any other note, until he saw the yellowish sticker by the toilet.
Sit down or clean up afterwards. And I love you.
A slight blush appeared on Dies cheeks as he scratched the back of his head. ‘Gotcha’. But he would be a good boy and oblige to that. Not out of sheer love or because he wanted to do Toshiya a favour. Rather because he was scared of being castrated, should the bassist find out that he hadn’t sat down.
He left the bathroom to walk on to the bedroom. He was prepared to find another note on the bed, but instead he found proper letters, written on his cushion.
Surprised, he blinked again, once or twice, before he noticed that there actually was another small note. It was stuck to the bedside table and simply read:
And I love you.
Quite disbelievingly Die shook his head. Toshiya had him by surprise again and he couldn’t help the intense fluttering in his stomach. Seeing all this. Those loving notes, the small details, the many things that made him smile, he remembered again why he first fell in love with this man. Even at the worst moments, Toshiya would be the one to pull him out of his misery, simply by cracking his crooked smile. It seemed so easy when he did it.
Die felt his chest growing heavy. He wished for him to be here, now more than ever, just so he could give him a tight hug and never let him go again. Just to hear him laughing at the flushed cheeks, that were barely hidden behind the red bangs of hair. He was just about to sit down on the bed, ready to take the pillow and hug it instead of Toshiya, cos it smelled of him, when his mobile phone started ringing.
He pulled it out of the back pocket of his jeans and it took him a couple of seconds, to understand what was going on. Stuck to the lid was another note.
Just answer ‘I love you too’.
When he pulled the note away, he saw Toshiyas name on the display. And within an instant all the unease washed away and disappeared as if it never existed. A wide smile grew on his face, as he picked the phone up and held it to his ear.
“I love you too.”