talking to the moon || tsukiyama

chap. 4

Yamaguchi got a text from his mom. He automatically knew he was in trouble. It's been a while since he left and it was almost dinner time.

mom:
Where are you?

Yamaguchi:
Hospital.

mom:
Who let you leave?

Yamaguchi:
Grandma texted me saying she had cookies to give me and she told me to give some to tsukki.

mom:
Why are you at the hospital then??

Oh right, yamaguchi hasn't told his parents about what happened to Tsukishima.

Yamaguchi:
Tsukishima has a tumor, so i come to visit him.

mom:
Okay, just don't come at home too late and eat. Let me know if you need anything, love you.

yamaguchi:
okay mom

Yamaguchi was really confused. He thought his mom was going to be mad at him for sneaking out, but she clearly wasn't. She probably understood the situation and maybe she realized his son needed support from his mother.
He was happy his mom wasn't mad at him, but still, very confused.

Tsukishima came back with a new tube injecting the chemo treatment in him, on his wheelchair, pushed by a random nurse, and Yamaguchi looked at him, quickly going to help the nurse push tsukishima's wheelchair and placing him next to the window. The nurse thanked him and got out of the room.

- So, does that hurt? - Yamaguchi asked, looking at his friend.
- It doesn't hurt at all, it's just uncomfortable. I'm going to get this during three days and then I'll go home in a 25 day rest, after, I'll come back to take blood tests and see how it's doing. - Tsukishima replied looking at the tubes.
-

That's not bad at all! That means you're going home right?
- Yeah, i guess. You better go home before your mom gets mad at you.
- she texted me, it's fine I'll go home when I'm ready.
- It's late tho, you should go, rest and eat.
- But Tsukki I'm fi-
- Just go home already! I don't want you seeing me like this, so weak and lame... - Tsukki said, covering his face, cutting yamaguchi's words.
- I'll go home then, I'll come back tomorrow, okay? - yamaguchi said getting up, smiling at tsukki.
- okay, make sure you rest.
- Yes, tsukki, you too.
He said as he left his hospital room, and soon the hospital's door.
He got on his bike again and rode it home.
It wasn't that late, so he wasn't going to be in trouble.
- I'm home! - he said entering the house, his mom quickly came to greet him.
- Hello, honey! How's your friend?
- he's doing chemo for 3 days and then he'll go home.
- That's good, isn't it?
- Yeah, but still, it's going to take a while to get rid of that tumor, they don't know if he is going to need surgery or not, depends on how quick it develops.
- I'm sorry for him... If you need something from me, let me know! Mom is here to help whenever okay? I know you feel sad about it, if you need to talk you can come to me, alright?
- yes mom, I'll rest now okay?
- yes sweetie, rest well so you can go visit him tomorrow.
Yamaguchi smiled at his mom and went to his room after grabbing a random cup of noodles and cooking it.
He opened his room's window and let the wind hit his face. He needed some fresh air, all this stress at once is really messing with him.
he looked up to the sky, today, there was a full moon.
He looked at it, dazzled.
- are you going to be alright? I haven't told you how i felt yet so you can't die.
Don't leave me alone. I'll be mad if you do it. - he said, almost letting a tear from his eye.
- you have to be strong, i believe that you're going to be fine. - yamaguchi said, before laying on his bed and closing his eyes, listening to the sounds the birds made.
- it hurts to love you this much tsukki. - he whispered, before falling asleep.

Yamaguchi kept visiting Tsukishima on those two days left of chemo, both of those days, tsukishima wasn't next to the window, he was in his bed to make sure he didn't make any quick movement because of his tubes.
Today, was finally the day tsukishima was going home, after long days spent in a hospital, he was finally going to sleep in his room again.

Tsukki's parents picked him up from the hospital and brought him home, making a little "welcome back home" party with of course, the one and only freckle boy, yamaguchi tadashi.
Yamaguchi was really happy that tsukki was going to be home for all those days after being connected to machines and taking exams nonstop.
Tsukishima asked his mom if he could have a sleepover with yamaguchi since it had been so long since they had one. Mrs. Tsukishima couldn't say no, so she contacted yamaguchi's mother and got her approval.
It is now night. It was a really beautiful night, the sky was filled with shiny all-sized stars and the moon was just as bright as a diamond.
Tsukishima was listening to music and Yamaguchi was playing on his phone. A comfortable silence filled tsukishima's room as they say comfortably next to each other.
- Can i draw on your face? - Tsukishima asked, breaking the silence.
- That's so random but why not? - yamaguchi replied.
Tsukishima got up to get his mom's eyeliner and got back to his room.
He sat on his bed again and Yamaguchi sat right in front of him and tsukishima held his face with his left hand and connect his friends freckles with his right hand.
Yamaguchi looked at tsukishima. The whole situation was making him really shy. Faces a few centimeters apart from each other, Tsukishima's hand holding his face, slowly caressing it. Yamaguchi was blushing a lot.
- are you okay? your face is really hot-
- I'm fine! It's fine I'm fine yeah totally! - yamaguchi said, only getting redder. Tsukishima giggled at him and continued doing his work.
- Libra. - Tsukki said as he traced something on yamaguchi's face.
- what? - he asked confused.
- the Libra constellation. - Tsukishima replied looking at yamaguchi in the eyes.
Now, both looking at each other's eyes, enable to say anything or even to break the eye contact.
Yamaguchi just kept getting red, if it was even possible. Tsukishima was blushing a little bit, but still, it's tsukishima and it's surprising he is even blushing.
- That's...cool...- Yamaguchi said, finally breaking the contact. He couldn't keep looking at tsukishima like that, a little more and his nose would bleed.
Tsukishima smiled in response and kept drawing on the other's face.
- If i make it alive, let's be astronauts and go to the moon. - Tsukishima said, out of the blue.
- First, you're going to make it alive, second, the moon?
- Yeah... The moon.
That was the moment yamaguchi saw that memory of when they were kids flashing through his eyes again.