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Including today, I have ignored this fic for a total of 143 days! Isn't that cool? I LOVE YOU (143) LOLL, I'm so corny.
...DD: I am so sorry.
/sobs/ I can only thank the heavens when I found out that SOMEONE was still reading this fic. /points at no one in particular/ You know who you are!
Anyway, maybe there are some of you who are expecting this fic to turn M (or maybe that's just me) but I've definitely sworn off smut for this story!! MUHAHAHAHA. I dunno. Maybe I'm just atoning for past sins. XD Oh and, thank you to everyone who has reviewed or favorite-d this fic, or favorite-d me. I am deeply honored. /sniffs/
Alright, enough with my blabber. On with the chapter.
Item # 13 - When the Sun Sets
'Tick...
Tock...
Tick...
Tock...'
Went the clock that hung on the wall of Misaki's room.
'Thump...
Thump...
Thump...'
Went the peculiar piece of biologic machinery in Misaki's left rib cage.
These were the two things Misaki's subconscious mind was zoning on that particular summer night. The cicadas were humming their tune and the lizards were singing along. As for Misaki, well, he played his part as the attentive audience - quietly lying on his mattress as his mind traveled elsewhere.
The destination his thoughts chose was his future.
There was no doubt of it, in Misaki's mind, the emotion he felt when he thought of his future beyond university.
He was scared.
He was pants-shitting scared.
The kind of scared that made your insides freeze up and your mind go blank. The kind that turns your blood into liquid nitrogen and your hands numb. It was that kind of scared.
Misaki was perfectly aware of his limitations and his abilities. He knew that he could cook, that he could do good if he worked hard, and he knew he could push himself further where others would simply give up.
He knew this perfectly well.
But it was this accurate knowledge of himself that made him so scared.
He knew the things he could do, and he knew very well the things he couldn't.
And for that, he was scared.
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