𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉 | Eita Semi x Reader

Lack of sleep

Semi disappears from your sight. A lot of thoughts swirl through your mind but you don't have the luxury to dwell on them when you hear the sound of your grumbling stomach. Placing a hand over your stomach, you look over to the clock on the wall. Your stepmother and stepsister will be downstairs for another hour.

"Ugh..." You groan under your breath. You have to wait for them to clear out of the kitchen before you can find something to eat.

Ever since your mother up and left without a single word besides a note that she left on her dresser, your entire world flipped upside down. Between her and your father, you weren't exactly close to either. But there's no doubt that you're daddy's little girl.

Neither of them are expressive with their love for you— their only daughter. But you know well enough that the two care for you tremendously. Or so you hope.

Closing your eyes, you fall back onto your bed.

It's been a year since mothers been gone and within that year, your father had moved on with a new woman who you despise. Her two faced attitude when it comes to you is suffocating. But father never sees this other side of her.

The two have yet to get married. But father insists that you call her 'mom'. She's lucky as is for you to recognize her as a stepmother. Your stepsister is another problem too. The two seem very much alike in personality.

At times you feel like they want your life to be a living hell when father isn't around. He works from dawn to dusk as a construction worker manager. The times he's not sleeping at his office, he'll come home just to say hello and his exhaustion gets the better of him.

You can't remember the last time you spent time with him alone. He's hardly notice how frail you look and the stress that clouds over you. Or how often you want to never wake up after you've fallen asleep. If you were even able to sleep without the dependent of sleeping aids.

Your eyes cast over to your night dresser. Pulling the drawer open, you grab the jar of melatonin gummies. You might as well eat these and fall asleep. You didn't have the energy to wait another hour and the sadness from thinking about your parents is enough to make you want to sleep and empty your mind.

🏐･ﾟﾟ･｡.

Semi walks at a casual pace towards the school entrance. He struggled to fall asleep last night. The constant lonely expression of Y/L/N filled his mind. There's not a handful of things he knows about her and yet she's already taken over him like this. Semi scrunches his face and pinches the bridge of his nose.

"Whatever..." Semi mumbles to himself. He's offered to listen to her if she had anything to say, to which she declined. He wouldn't go out of his way to talk to her. His hand pushes the sliding music room door open and his heart is in his throat when he sees the very person that caused him to lose sleep.

Y/L/N is resting her head on one of the tables in the music room.

Is she asleep?

Did she also have a hard time going to bed last night?

Semi feels unsure if he should practice the piano. There's no doubt the melody will startle Y/L/N awake. The sudden touch of the wind against his arms startles Semi. He was completely focused on Y/L/N to not notice the window that's cracked open. He's careful to not make too much noise when he walks over to the window, closing it so Y/L/N wouldn't get sick in the middle of spring.

Semi inches his way back to the front of the music room but his legs force him to stop right in front of her. He bites his inner cheek before rummaging his gym bag for his varsity jacket. Nervousness fills every inch of his body when he carefully lays the jacket on her. Y/L/N shifts slightly and the moment of panic consumes Semi. His heart pounds against his chest and his palms grow sweaty.

Semi's hardly felt this kind of feeling in awhile. He used to get this nervous during volleyball games but the feeling is long gone after years of matches.

Holding in his breath, Semi steps back. His wavering brown eyes trained on Y/L/N. She pulls the sleeve of his jacket close, nuzzling her cheek against it. For some reason, the sight makes Semi's cheeks heat up.

Before his emotions grow into a confusing mess, he quietly slips away. Alone at last, Semi releases the breath he's managed to hold in. His hand runs through his ash blonde hair and he turns the corner to head towards the locker room to change into his gym uniform for morning practice.