#sorry bros but I’m a one trick pony today

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Kimisute main story [２部 ] Part 1

Side: Fujin Rizing

[Hospital]

Fuuta: I’m glad that there wasn’t any big injury

Mother: Thank you so much, really. C’mon, you need to say thank you too

Child: Thanks big bro!

Fuuta: r-right. Make sure you look both ways next time okay

Child: Kay–

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[Outside]

Mother: I really don’t know how to thank you enough… um, is your… is it okay?

Fuuta: y-yeah… its’s fine! Then excuse me..!

Mother: ah…

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[Fuuta leaves]

[Time passes // It’s raining]

Fuuta: Hah…hah…!

Fuuta: Sakutaro…Sakutaro… I’m sorry, did it hurt !?

Fuuta: I’m sorry, I’m really sorry…! Sakutaro, I’m sorry…!

Fuuta: It hurts doesn’t it… I need to get back and get you treated…!

Fuuta: I don’t wanna lose you again!

Fuuta: ….again…?

Fuuta: ….I said… again…. Right…?

Fuuta: …Sakutaro… gh…

[Flash of light]

Fuuta: I’m pretty sure I saw… someone’s…face…

Fuuta: ….gh….

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[Skyfox Record office]

Sosui: Sorry for calling you all like this, It’d have been better if I could have come to you

Kohei: No worries, we should be the ones coming over. Sorry but Fuuta will be running a little late… he should be here soon I think

Sosui: Thanks for relaying that. Let's get to the main point and talk about your new song

Misaki: Hell yeah! I’m looking forward to it!

Aoi: Thank you!

Sosui: Same here. So, for your new song

Sosui: I was thinking of a song that both your fans can enjoy and at the same time for people who don’t really know you can vibe to the rhythm..

Misaki: I mean, thats how we usually do things so it isn’t much of a change?

Sosui: Yeah. For the time being, its best to keep the showcase as original to yourselves

Sosui: In order to create that familiarity, for people to go ‘When I think of Fujin Rizing I think of this!’ .

Yamato: ..Is that all

Sosui: Of course it isn’t good for the audience to think you’re a one trick pony, so maybe you can try some other things

Sosui: But for now, I think it's better to showcase Fujin Rizing’s main appeal to a broader audience first 

Yamato: …okay

Misaki: Oi Yamato..! Why’re you makin’ such a sour face!

Misaki: Despite Sosui-san doing this and that and thinkin’ about us !?

Misaki: You gotta be more hyped up !

Yamato: I know. Since if we don’t have any new songs it’ll be hard

Yamato: But, as long as we can safely release one, isn't it enough to celebrate?

Misaki: I’m trying to raise the atmosphere high and happy so don’t be sayin’ stuff that brings it down–!

Aoi: Oh come on… you also need to calm down a bit Misaki! I understand where you’re at but we shouldn’t be making a fuss at the office!

Kohei: And Yamato, you don’t need to keep firing back at Misaki. You know how he is

Yamato: That’s true

Misaki: hey, HEY ! Why’re y’all painting me as the bad one here!

Kohei: Anyways, since we got the material from Sosui-san…

Kohei: After we make a light demo, we should contact you right?

Sosui: Yeah, please do

Aoi: We’ll do our best!

Aoi: Okay, let's go home. Once we get back we can discuss the new song

[The others leave]

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Sosui: If they continue to keep the group atmosphere like today’s… it won’t end well…

Aoi: what…

Sosui: Whoops… seems you heard that. It's just a random uneasiness that hopefully won’t come around

Aoi: …right. We’ll be okay, it’ll work out

Aoi: Then, excuse us

[Aoi leaves]

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Sosui: …well then, what to do about this…

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[Sharehouse]

Kohei: Fuuta! Why didn’t you tell us–

Fuuta: Ko-nii ! Sakutaro he, Sakutaro he’s…!

Kohei: ….!? We need to bring it to the repai- Hospital. We need to get him to the hospital immediately…. Aoi, can you bring him !?

Aoi: The normal place right, no worries! Fuuta, let's go !

[pellicano-sanguino]

Now that Kurenai Yuzuru's taidan is drawing closer, I wanted to write something short about some of the roles she's done that I have fond memories of.

These are mostly from Reon's era, since most of my Hoshigumi shows are from that time. I need to see more shows from Kurenai's own top star run.

Mercutio from Romeo&Juliette 2010

This was the first zuka show I saw, and still my favourite show to this day. I could go into all the details about how I love this musical, but now I'm just going to mention the casting. It was perfect. Everyone got a role that fit their acting style perfectly. Kurenai was a natural Mercutio, the best one I've ever seen. She nailed Merkku's immaturity, playfulness and – most importantly in my opinion – his recklessness.

Memorable scenes are Mercutio's song number when he tempts his Montague buddies to go with him to crash the Capulet's party, him and the boys bullying Nurse, confronting Romeo after hearing the news about his wedding (I was quite shocked to see Mercutio threaten Romeo with honor violence, claiming he's going to slit his throat if he won't give up Juliette) and the fight scene followed by Mercutio's death including a final song of ”goodbye friends and PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES!”

I admit, I don't usually care for it when zuka gives a dying character one final song that they sing in weak, slow voice, milking the tragedy for all the drama its worth. It often fails to be sad and just feels cheesy and soap operaish. But I found the song of dying Mercutio very touching, when I saw the scene for the first time I cried real tears. Despite the language barrier, Kurenai managed to reach to me with her voice and her acting and make me shed tears for Mercutio's death.

Sid from Officer and Gentleman

Officer and Gentleman isn't the kind of movie I'd thought would get a zuka adaptation and yet it exists. Zuka is very clearly targeted for women and this movie is more for the male audience. I know it has a romance and is therefore regarded as a love story but in my opinion this flick is more like a coming-of-age story about the character growth the male lead goes through (also, it oozes toxic masculinity, a thing more common in films for men). Anyway, the zuka version is actually a pretty good show. Ouki Kaname totally steals every scene she's in. But today I'm here to talk about Kurenai.

Kurenai is probably best known for her talent in comedy. Sometimes I've heard people say that's the only kind of shows she should do and that always made me sad, because Kurenai isn't a one trick pony trapped to do only one character type. I have been very impressed at her talent in playing sensitive men. Many otokoyaku roles rely on strong and cool male image, but Kurenai sometimes gets roles that let her show emotions, the men she plays are allowed to be vulnerable. Sid is one of these. Sid is young and a bit naive and makes stupid decisions, but when he thinks he's done a mistake, he is ready to take responsibility of it. The scene where he goes to propose Lynette breaks my heart every time. That look on his face when he finds out he's been lied to, it just hits me right in the feels. There is something so naturally charming and lovable in Kurenai that seeing her characters get hurt makes me feel awful. Like, no, don't do this to her!

Karenin from Anna Karenina

I have not read this book, but its one of my mother's favourites, so we watched this show together and she pointed me all the things that she thought zuka had adapted well and the parts that they had changed. She was especially impressed with Kurenai's Karenin. According to my mother, the character of Karenin is often done quite poorly in other adaptations of the book, he is often portrayed as just a onesided, simple man who's a little dumb and doesn't have much depth of character. Much like Sid, Kurenai's Karenin is allowed to show his emotions and not be just a boring, stoic figure who reacts to his wife's affair with mild disinterest. There is kindness in Karenin, it's not always easy to see, but it's there. He lost his own parents and a brother that was dear to him, and because he remembers how horrible it is to be alone and lose your family, he adopts Anna's and Vronsky's child, not wanting her to be left alone.

Antonio from Tale of Coimbra

I have opinions concerning this show. Namely, I think it misses a golden opportunity to put the zuka trope of reunion of lovers in the afterlife to proper use. Big part of the Coimbra legend are the coffins of Pedro and Inez being placed so that when they rise in Doomsday, the first thing they see is each others' faces. And zuka just had to go and twist the story so that Inez doesn't die (and they don't even get a happy ending despite that! Poor Pedro, he just can't win.). Also, very, very disappointed at the lack of Corpse Queen and tearing out assassin-Makaze's heart with a line ”You broke my heart, therefore you have none!”

Ahem. Sorry about the rant. Anyway, Kurenai is in this musical. He plays a guy named Antonio, who is...   umm... I think a pirate or a robber or something along those lines. The group of robbers/pirates gets made into scapegoats for Inez's murder, and Pedro, Pimenta, assassin-Makaze and some soldiers mercilessly slaughter them all. Kurenai's role gets very little stage time, but I wanted to mention this role, because I was very impressed with her stage swordplay skills. I don't know if I should credit the director for this, or if Kurenai did some research of her own, but her legwork is strong and sometimes I can even identify the poses she makes as part of real swordplay moves.

Warrior seeking to fight with Reon, from Takarazuka Floral Dance Scrolls

This is my favourite nihonmono revue. The music, the dancing and the costumes are all great. In one of the numbers Kurenai plays a warrior who doesn't get along with another warrior, played by Reon. I don't know what their beef is about, Kurenai just hates Reon's guts and sends ninjas to ambush him when he's spending time flirting with local ladies. Reon being Reon, he defeats all the ninjas and makes a daring escape with courtesan-Nene. They are heading towards a river, intending to ride a boat to safety, but by the riverside Kurenai confronts them. Holding his sword he opens his arms like inviting Reon for a hug. Come at me bro! And so they fight, doing the samurai slash thing where time freezes after they've struck at each other and then the one who lost slowly falls. The one who falls is Kurenai, and Reon and Nene proceed to their romantic boatride.

This number has left an impression on me, because I think the nihonmono look suits Kurenai really well. She made a very handsome and cool-looking warrior.

Shibata Rihito from Mei-chan's Butler

Takarazuka and shoujo manga have walked hand in hand since the days of BeruBara Boom and even before, inspiring each other. Every now and then zuka does a show based on a manga. This one, unfortunately, is based on a manga I have never read and therefore I had no idea what was going on during most of this musical. But I still found it rather entertaining (the prop work sure was something different, with weird video projections, shadow theater and parachuting puppets). I admit, the many colourful side characters steal the show from Kurenai quite often, being wilder and weirder than her character is. I will have to give special mention to Makaze's evil butler, I love it when Makaze plays villains. But at the end, this is Kurenai's show. She was a very dashing butler.  

Memorable scenes include a weird, artsy, dream-like interpretive dance scene where the shadow theater is put to good use for * symbolism *.

 Because I haven't read the manga, I have no idea what is going on here. My bet is on drugs.

Also among the memorable scenes is the fencing. I still think Kurenai is pretty good with a sword.

I need to come up with name for this trope, where the opponents lock their swords for a while to glare at each other and chat.

Bourguignon from Second Fortuitous Meeting

Many zuka comedies are wasted on me because so many of the jokes are language based and I still don't understand much Japanese. But this one I liked very much. Admittedly, I got to read a translation once, so this time I got the jokes, but even ignoring the spoken jokes, it's just a really fun show. Every character was fantastic, Kurenai's role as a manservant forced to fake being his own master included. Her talent in comedy is very strong, she masters small things like the tone of her voice, the expressions of her face and simple bodylanguage and makes her character absolutely hilarious. I have noticed  that one character pair zuka shows tend to have is pairing a cool and serious master with a sassy, loud, no-filter-between-brains-and-mouth servant, who works as a comedic relief softening the seriousness of their master. In a show like Second Fortuitous Meeting, where everyone is sassy, loud and has no filter between brains and mouth, Kurenai needs to tone her comedy up quite a bit so that Bourguignon will appear even funnier than his master.

Most memorable scene is Bourguignon sitting down in protest like a misbehaving infant when Dorante demands they leave.

This show got a sequel. It was just as fun as the first one, even though this time I had no translation and so had very little clue what was going on. Something involving a pumpkin thief.

Beniko and Reon's father from REON!!

Otokoyaku in drag for comedy reasons is quite a common thing in zuka, and usually I find it as amusing as real men in drag (in other words, not very). But I adore Beniko. The reason why her comedy works is that the joke isn't just putting otokoyaku in drag, Beniko is a carefully designed sketch character. Her costume, her curls that she constantly keeps shoving back over her shoulders, the way she speaks (this has to be some sort of dialect, I swear), she is just incredibly funny. I don't think I can properly explain why I find her so amusing, after all I don't even understand what she says. There's just something about Beniko that always makes me smile.

There was also a number where Reon sang about her family. Makaze and Kurenai played her parents. Makaze made a very charming Japanese beauty in her apron (I usually don't like it when they make her wear dresses, but here she looked so natural it suited her well). She had to bend her knees a little to appear shorter than Kurenai. Kurenai as Reon's father was weird looking, with thick eyebrows that made him look like a comic character. But he was a very sweet father, eagerly making faces and shaking a rattle at baby Reon, and smiling even when the fighting kids accidentally poured a tea kettle on him. I've always felt that Makaze and Kurenai had great chemistry together and seeing them play a married couple was adorable.

Gemini from Etoile de Takarazuka

Again, putting otokoyaku in drag isn't fun if you don't give her character. Well, in this revue Kurenai had to put her skills to the test by switching between two characters several times during the same number. The split-personality Gemini suffered from manic-depressive behavious. 

The female side was happy and giddy and optimistic (”Everybody loves me, I'm so pretty, and so witty, I'm so gay!”)

...and the male half was gloomy and depressed and had no self-esteem (”Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, guess I'll go eat worms...”). 

I have to respect her for managing these quick switches between otokoyaku and onnayaku, cheerful and gloomy, the changing between characters was done smoothly.

Also, I want that dress...   suit...   costume...   thing...   I want that dresssuitcostumething. I would wear it to every dance ball ever.

Frederic de Marmont from Napoleon

This show had a ton of characters, many of them quite colourful ones, and unfortunately Marmont was often left as only the observer of things happening around him (well, the story is being told by him, so it kinda fits). Nevertheless I think Kurenai was very handsome in the uniform, and I think Marmont got some important scenes. He knew Napoleon from the military school and there's a song number where he voices concern for his friend's endless thirst for more victories. In the end, he is the one who decides to surrender Paris, understanding that it's madness to keep fighting and lose more lives when losing the battle can no longer be avoided.

The part I remember Kurenai most in this show is actually from the minirevue. She dances a rather romantic dance with Makaze. I will say it again, these two had great chemistry together.

Philippe from Sun King

I know there are probably only like a handful of fans who like this show besides me, but I loved it. I've always been a sucker for French imported musicals in zuka. This show is another example of good casting, everyone gets a character that no one else would have done as well as they have. Kurenai, being the best there is at comedy, gets the comedic relief character Philippe the gay-tailed pheasant, who also shows to the audience how the royals and nobles lived in a fantasy bubble completely separated from real life. She gets three songs and she sings them well. I haven't mentioned it before now, but I really like Kurenai's voice. It's a very recognisable, charming, unique voice. I also have to show respect at how easily and naturally she wears the gaudiest costumes. This show has some really ridiculous costume designs for the nobles to show how separate they are from common folks, but Kurenai wears hers with pride. I can almost picture her looking at a costume desing and being like ”Wow that is the ugliest thing I've ever seen, when can I try it on?”

Percy Blakeney from Scarlet Pimpernel

When Reon and Nene graduated, my star also left Hoshigumi and I followed her to a new home troupe, so I haven't seen that many Hoshigumi shows after Reon's era. But when I saw that they were going to make Scarlett Pimpernel, I had to get it. I had seen Kurenai perform Percy as a shinko role and I thought she was brilliant even then.

Of course I was going to use screenshots of the fencing scene. What else did you expect?

Once when I was sick and couldn't even read books, just rest, I borrowed some audio books from the library. This is how I was introduced to Scarlet Pimpernel. I liked the audio book a lot, especially the menacing, raspy voice they gave to Chauvelin. I was delighted to discover one of the first stories to use the idea of a masked hero. Men who like Batman are not allowed to make fun of me for liking Scarlet Pimpernel.

Scarlet Pimpernel is such an entertaining story and Percy is such a charming hero, saving innocents and having fun while doing it. I like Kiriya Hiromu's Percy a lot too, but Kurenai's is my favourite. She really gets into the character and makes a very lovely Percy. Having to wear disguises in this show, she once again shows her ability to fit into all deliciously awful outfits (like the suits they wear to the party held by the prince of Wales). But even out of disguises, I've got to admit Percy's got style. I also obviously adored the sword dance in the mini revue. Kurenai's Percy brings a smile to my face whenever he's on screen. This is probably the role I will remember her most from.

I will miss Kurenai terribly. Whatever she decides to do after leaving Takarazuka, I wish her good luck and happiness as thanks for all the times she brought me lauhter, tears and joy.

[ethicallysourcedhumanmeat]

Sunday Morning

apparently I write yooran to warm up now?  apparently that’s a thing I do.

[masterpost]

The sound of an avalanche in the kitchen is what woke him.  Blankets still tucked tight around him despite the summer heat and no sign of Yoosung anywhere near him.  He sighs and wiggles his arms free of his blanket cocoon.  From the sounds of crashing and whispered cursing he knows at the very least Yoosung isn’t still playing LOLOL but the other side of the bed is cold and he has to wonder if his boyfriend has even been to sleep yet.

Saeran yawns and listens to the muffled sounds of a losing battle coming from the kitchen, his phone reads 4:37am, the sun hasn’t even begun to rise but Saeran doesn’t raise an eyebrow. Classes have been out for two weeks and Yoosung has been taking advantage of this time between school and his summer job to regain his title on the Shooting Star server. 

“Hey Dummy,” Saeran calls turning the lamp on, “it’s four in the morning what the hell are you doing out there.”  He’s laughing as he swings his legs out of bed.  It wouldn’t be the first time this week his boyfriend had gotten the time of day wrong in his gaming haze.

“Don’t— Stop!  Stay there, don’t come out here.  Don’t get up!” Yoosung yells from the kitchen, his voice frantic.

Saeran is already half way there but he does what he’s told, stopping in the middle of the room.  “Do you,” he clears his throat, “do you need a hand or something?”

“N-NO!”  Yoosung shouts, his voice cracking.

Saeran chuckles, the way he’s acting Saeran would almost think he caught him, but he knows his boyfriend and he knows his habits and he was defiantly not jerking off in their kitchen, especially not while, apparently, tossing things out of the cupboards.

“Are you sure?”

“I didn’t mean to wake you,” Yoosung’s voice has settled as he slips his head around the doorframe, “go back to sleep I’ll be there soon.”

His bangs are pinned on top of his head, the way he does when he’s studying and there’s something smudged across his forehead, Saeran takes a step forward with the urge to wipe it off, kiss his face, drag him to the bed and wrap himself around Yoosung until he relaxes and falls asleep, certainly nothing he’s doing in the kitchen can’t wait a few more hours.

“S-stop!”  Yoosung says throwing his hands out and rushing to stop him.

Saeran swipes his thumb across the smudge on Yoosung’s forehead.  “Is this chocolate?”

Yoosung lets out a squeak and pushes Saeran’s hand away.  “N-no, it’s not, it’s something else go to bed.”  He tries to make Saeran turn around, tries to push him towards the bed but Saeran doesn’t budge, he takes a few determined steps towards the kitchen, Yoosung sliding backwards on sock feet as he tries to stop him.

“N-no!” he yelps, defeated. “S-stop, you’ll ruin the surprise!”

That stops him.  The smirk on his face fades to confusion.  “What surprise?”

Yoosung lets out a hiss between his teeth.  “Please just go back to bed?”

He tries.  He nods his head, eyebrows still knotted together at what could possibly be happening, and turns around, he yawns again on his way back to their bed and curls up in his blanket.  He closes his eyes, tries to fall back asleep but it starts to nag at him.

Had he forgotten something?  He wracks his brain, Yoosung was a romantic, he remembered every little detail and he liked to celebrate all the ones he didn’t think were embarrassing but Saeran only remembered the big things, the day they met, they first time they kissed, their first real date, the day the decided to be exclusive, the day he moved in, none of those things happened in June.

But he knew Yoosung had a better, more thorough list.  The first time they’d held hands, the first time Saeran had smiled at him, the first time they’d spoken, their first argument and subsequently the first time either of them had apologized.  Yoosung kept track of everything without writing a single thing down and Saeran could barely keep their first kiss straight from the first time they’d held hands.

He rolls over and grabs his phone, his birthday was last week.  The RFA had thrown him and Saeyoung a party at Jaehee’s café after it had closed.  There was still cake and pastries in their fridge left over, and the cards were still pinned on Yoosung’s corkboard.  He was wearing the sweater and pajama pants Yoosung had given him right now.

“Are you sure I can’t help?” He calls out.

“No, go to sleep,” Yoosung yells.

Saeran groans, he’s wide awake now.  He can’t turn his brain off, can’t stop thinking about what he’s forgotten.  He opens the messenger app but the chatroom is empty.  His brother and Zen had just left.  He hovers his thumb over Saeyoung’s name and weighs his options before he selects it and sends him a text.  His brother and his boyfriend were best friends, if anyone knows what he’s forgetting it’s Saeyoung.

[Unknown]: Did I forget something? [707]: Is that a trick question? [Unknown]:  Yoosung says he has a surprise, I fucking forgot something again, I don’t want to be an asshole today. [707]: hmmm, sorry bro you’re always an asshole. [Unknown]: Fuck off [707]: It’s the Choi curse, nothing we can do about it [Unknown]: You can just say you don’t know [707]: But maybe I do know~ [Unknown]: WTF Saeyoung [707]: I’m not going to ruin his surprise, are you kidding?  I’m not stupid. Saeran couldn’t tell if his brother was messing with him or if he really knew something.  There’s a few thumps from the kitchen a muffled curse and then the glow of the flashlight on Yoosung’s phone.

“Oh,” Yoosung squeaks when Saeren turns the lamp on, “you’re still up.”

Saeran frowns and huffs as Yoosung crawls across him. “You smell like chocolate.”

“No I don’t,” Yoosung laughs.  “You’re supposed to be sleeping.”  He wraps his arms around Saeran and buries his face in his shoulder.

“Ugh,” Saeran groans.  “I give up.”

“What?”

“I give up, I forgot whatever you’re excited about.”

Yoosung’s face presses into his shoulder to suppress a snort.

“It’s not funny,” Saeran grumps, “this stuff is important to you and I can’t even remember to write it down so I don’t forget.”

Yousung laughs outright and presses a kiss to Saeran’s forehead.  “It’s nothing like that.”

“Then what is it,” he growls exasperated.

“Just go to sleep,” Yoosung coos. “You’ll see.”

He’s not sure when he falls asleep.  He remembers Yoosung laughing softly against him, and cursing just how fast his boyfriend could fall asleep.  Yoosung had been snoring before Saeran could even argue with him.

But now as his mind slowly rises to wakefulness he knows he smells chocolate, he can feel the sun from the window warm across his face and he stretches out in the beam like a cat before opening his eyes.  He reaches beside him meaning to shake Yoosung awake, demand his surprised or at the very least an explanation.

But Yoosung’s side of the bed is cold and empty and Saeran groans. “What the fuck are you doing?” he growls exasperated.

“Stay there,” Yoosung sings from the kitchen, “just two more minutes, I promise.”

Saeran makes a loud, disapproving noise but he stays where he is.  He folds his arms beneath his head and watches the ceiling, counts the glow-in-the-dark stars he’d helped Yoosung stick up there and listens to Yoosung humming in the kitchen.

He’s at 43 when he notices exactly what Yoosung is humming and turns his head.

Yoosung’s bangs are still pinned out of his face, the rest of his hair pulled into a nubby pony tail and he’s grinning like an idiot over a small cake and four huge scoops of bright green ice cream, humming Happy Birthday.

Saeran pushes himself to sitting and stares at Yoosung.  There’s frosting in his eyebrow, icing sugar in his hair and the first coherent thought that comes into his head is that the kitchen is probably a fucking disaster.  And he has to bite his tongue from saying it.  “What is this?”

“Happy Birthday!” Yoosung cheers, sitting down on the bed next to him.

“My birthday was last week,” he can’t stop frowning, he doesn’t mean to, he wants to smile but he’s so confused. 

“I uh, I know,” Yoosung stammers, blushing.  “I just thought, heh, I thought,” he looks away, “it’s stupid never mind.”  Yoosung shoves the plate with the cake and icecream at him.

Saeran looks down at it, mint ice cream and chocolate cake, Yoosung would have had to hide all this, or wait until he fell asleep to go buy it.  There are two forks and star funfetti.  “I’m sorry,” Saeran says softly pulling Yoosung against him. “Please tell me.”

“It’s stupid,” Yoosung repeats, shaking his head.  Saeran picks up one of the forks and Yoosung follows suit.  “Jaehee made Saeyoung’s favorite cake because she didn’t know yours, and you said before –uh before you’d never really got a birthday, and it didn’t seem fair.”

“What’s not fair about it?”  Saeran hadn’t really thought much about it, he’d never expected anyone to know anything about him he hadn’t told them, and he had never really thought about his birthday that much, it was just a day as far as he was concerned.

“Well you’ve never had your own birthday,” Yoosung’s voice his high, quiet and nervous, his leg shakes as he leans into Saeran, “and Saeyoung got, you know a few years to celebrate alone before we even knew about you, I don’t know it’s stupid I thought you deserved your own birthday.”

“That’s not stupid,” Saeran smiles finally.  “That’s really thoughtful. Thank you Yoosung.”  He turns and presses his lips to Yoosung’s quickly, cold and sweet from the icecream.

They sit quietly on the bed eating together for a few moments before Yoosung can’t take it anymore. “Do you like the cake?”

“It’s really good,” he nods.  “Did you get it from Jaehee’s?”

Yoosung pouts. “No, I made it myself, what do you think I was doing this morning?”

Saeran chuckles. “Honestly I thought you were having some kind of fit.  It sounded like a natural disaster in there.”

He blushes. “I’m sorry, I didn’t, uh oh no.” He stands up suddenly.  “You can’t, uh, you shouldn’t go in the kitchen.”

[bright-eyes-hope]

Get to Know Me!

I was tagged by @fuwaprince ! *.*

Rules: Answer these 92 statements (what, how I answer a statement?) and tag 20 people

Last: 1. Drink: Water. I love water. ^u^ 2. Phone call: My granny saying good night. <3 3. Text message: My best Bro comforting me after I had a nightmare. :u: <3 4. Song you listened to: Not entirely sure … maybe Houkago Tea Time's U & I. 5. Time you cried: When I re-read Around the corner. :-: </3

HAVE YOU: 6. Dated someone twice: sure 7. Kissed someone and regretted it: Well … sorta. 8. Been cheated on: yeah 9. Lost someone special: Sadly yes. Diabetes can be such a bitch. </3 10. Been depressed: I … am not sure … probably reactive depression … and borderline … 11. Gotten drunk and thrown up: No! Since my biggest demon is Emetophobia, I managed not to throw up from alcohol. ('^')

LIST 3 FAVORITE COLORS: 12-14: orange, light blue, turquoise, (pastel) lilac

IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU: 15. Made new friends: Yes, a bunch actually. <3 16. Fallen out of love: No. 17. Laughed until you cried: Probably. I've spent some time with my Bro, so chances are pretty high. ^.^* 18. Found out someone was talking about you: No. 19. Met someone who changed you: Difficult … probably … in one way or another. '~' 20. Found out who your friends are: Well … I knew that before … 21. Kissed someone on your Facebook list: Yes. ^-^' Don't people usually add their partners on Facebook? ^.^'''

GENERAL: 22. How many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: I think all of them … since Pet Society has been taken down, I lost my online friends over the years … ._. 23. Do you have any pets: Yass! Track my Instagram for loads of cat pics of my beauties Aphrael and Dracul! <3 24. Do you want to change your name: Nah ... 25. What did you do for your last Birthday: Went for lunch with my mom and granny and got some nice Pjs and socks with Pusheen and Grumpy Cat on them. <3 26. What time did you wake up: Today? At 6:30 'cause I had a doctor's appointment. 27. What were you doing at midnight last night: Coming home after watching GoT with the squad and forcing myself to go to sleep. XD 28. Name something you can’t wait for: The arrival of my dearest Mimic tomorrow afternoon! *o*/ 29. When was the last time you saw your mom: I'm seeing her right now when I look up. XD 30. What is one thing you wish you could change in your life: Hm … maybe I should have taken that Judo class in middle school ... 31. Listening right now: Watching Hannibal again. It's the scene with the pigs … I'll spare you the exact ambient noise. :P 32. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: You bet! XD There is my Bro's brother, then an old friend from school, a fellow YouTuber, a guy we play boardgames and do LARP with, and of course my boyfriend. XD Oh and an actor. I've got plenty of Toms in my life. <3 33. Something that is getting on your nerves: Right now my ears are closed completely … like I can't hear … it's been the left one for hours and it just switched to the right one … at least it's not both at the same time. -.- 34. Most visited website: YouTube I guess. Or Tumblr? 35. Mole/s: Lots of them. Mostly on my arms and shoulders. 36. Mark/s: Plenty of scars, most of them on the left arm and hand, two on my chin and one on the right knee. Probably a few stretch marks on the boobies. 37. Childhood dream: Hm … I always wanted to live in a house full of cats … now I live with two and the house is pretty full of them. =^.^= 38. Hair color: Crimson Red! <3 39. Long or short hair: Hard to say … it's not really short but also not really long anymore. I totally love my current hairstyle tho, it's super practical and looks really good on me. ^-^ 40. Do you have a crush on someone: Yes. ^///^ 41. What do you like about yourself: I'm kinda comfortable with my body in general. I also like that I managed to keep some personality traits no matter what others thought about it. :P 42. Piercings: Nope. 43. Blood type: 0+ 44. Nickname: My nick, gamertag etc. is Brighteyes, Bright Eyes, Brighteyes Hope and so on. 45. Relationship status: Very much in love. :P 46. Zodiac: Virgo 47. Pronouns: She/Her 48. Favorite TV Show: Not this again. XD OK, My Little Pony(,)Friendship is Magic, Steven Universe, Himouto Umaru Chan, K-On!, Madoka Magica, Princess Tutu, Sakura Trick, Selector Infected Wixoss, The IT Crowd, Star Trek, I probably forgot something. ._. 49. Tattoos: Maybe … someday … soon. ^x^ 50. Right or left hand: Right. 51. Surgery: Two times. A tonsillectomy at 17(?) and a conisation at 26. 52. Hair dyed in different color: Different shades of red, I also had black lowlights once. 53. Sport: I wish … ^-^' I really wanna get stuff done! 55. Dream Vacation: Tokyo! All the shopping! *o*/ 56. Pair of trainers: Uhm … colorful no name ones? ^.^'

MORE GENERAL: 57. Eating: Chocolate. Other sweet stuff. Chips. And occasionally a salad. 58. Drinking: Mostly water. I also like cool tea and juice. Like lemonade. 59. I’m about to: Go to bed and watch more YT there. XD 61. Waiting for: My ear to open up again. -.- Gotta see the doctor tomorrow if that will not happen soon ... 62. Want: The job I'm looking forward to in autumn. The courage to tell people how I feel about them. To learn more skills to get the best possible version of myself. ^u^ 63. Get married: Probably not. Most likely not. XD 64. Career: As said before, I'm kinda becoming a graphic designer or something. I hope one gets plenty of muneyz for doing tha graphicz.

WHICH IS BETTER 65. Hugs or kisses: … they usually go together, no? o.O 66. Lips or eyes: Uhm … depends on if you wanna taste or see stuff ... 67. Shorter or taller: Don't care. 68. Older or younger: Don't care. 70. Nice arms or nice stomach: Hm … I've never given arms much thought … I might as well go for belly. .3. 71. Sensitive or loud: Sensitive! Over sensitive to loud shit actually. 72. Hook up or relationship: Oh, there it is. OK. *deep breath* Why not both? *outs herself as poly* (｡>//u//<｡) 73. Troublemaker or hesitant: I'm gonna go for hesitant … safety first, kids.

HAVE YOU EVER: 74. Kissed a Stranger: Don't think so ... 75. Drank hard liquor: Yes, a bit ^.^ 76. Lost glasses/contact lenses: Nope. 77. Turned someone down: Yes. 78. Sex on the first date: I … honestly can't remember … °.° 79. Broken someone’s heart: Maybe. :_: I'm so sorry. 80. Had your heart broken: Yes. Learning from mistakes and stuff. 81. Been arrested: Nope. 82. Cried when someone died: Yes. 83. Fallen for a friend: Happens. ^///^

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 84. Yourself: Yes! 85. Miracles: Hm … in a way. 86. Love at first sight: What exactly does that mean? Really seeing a person for the first time? As in not knowing anything about them except their looks? In that case of course not. o.ô That's attraction or whatever but the term „love“ means something entirely different. 87. Santa Claus: Never, I grew up as a protestant child. XD Got unsure of my belief in the last few years ... 88. Kiss on the first date: Yes … I think so … '~'

OTHER: 90. Current best friends names: Ugh, where to draw the line? Let's only do the ones who are like Family this time: Of course my brother from another mother: Oli And my dear Mimic who is always welcome at my home if she comes back to this country. <3 91. Eye color: Blue 92. Favorite movie: (」゜ロ゜)」 OK. Let's say Studio Ghibli. Big Hero 6. Land before Time, Toy Story, Room 1408, Black Swan, Zoomania, Kamikaze Girls and everything with Jodie Foster.

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