blossoming hearts | mitsuya takashi

21. cats

Another long, cloudy and wintery day in Tokyo, there was no snow to be seen, but the cold was persistent. It was a dull day, the sky was gray, there was no wind, the sun wouldn't peak out for a few days.

Juno despised dull days.

Her head rested on her palm, dozing off in the middle of a tedious lesson about grammatical errors. There was nothing more boring to learn about today, Juno believed that the world was against her once again. She couldn't even turn to talk her mouth off to Takashi because he was sleeping profoundly. His head laid on his arms, his eyes facing her.

Juno pulled out a compact, shabby sketchbook, and her pencil. She flipped through more than half of the book, until she found a page that didn't have writing or scribbles on it. She carefully analyzed the points she had to start with, she started with his left arm, where his head would be rested.

His left arm looked slim, she started sketching the outline of it, she would go into the details once she finished the head shape. Quick scribbles formed his arm, she moved on rapidly on sketching the outline of his jaw that peered out. Within minutes, the head shape was on the paper. Juno took notice of his long black eyelashes, they were the longest eyelashes she had ever seen. Juno drew his eyes closed, they looked relaxed, she wondered what Takashi could be dreaming about.

After scribbling a nose shape, and a mouth, she started drawing his hair, his hair was getting longer, he would soon cut it. Yuzuha didn't like his short hair, neither did Juno, she liked when Takashi let it grow out a little, he would forget to cut it. Juno wouldn't mind him having longer hair, but she wouldn't dare tell him to grow it out. She also liked his natural hair color, but the lilac hair was beautiful, it complimented everything about him.

She started shading his face, the right side of his face that was sinking into his arm was shaded. While the left side was brighter due to the windows in the room. She finally got to the last step, detailing the arm she had started at first.

When Juno closed her sketchbook, Takashi was still sound asleep. She turned to the board, the teacher was still scolding over how the young generation of this era had lost the intentions of perfecting their grammer, and how she would not let that slide because all of the students would soon transfer into high school. Unfortunately, no one cared enough to pay attention to the poor woman, who was sure that she would find a switch to flip in each and every student.

"MOCHIZUKI!" the teacher yelled out, Juno looked around, what is it this time? "Remove the hat from your head. Pay attention to the lesson."

Juno groaned, taking her black beanie off and shoving it in her bag.

"Pay attention!" Takashi mockingly whispered, letting out a small yawn.

Juno smiled, "Someone decided to finally wake up."

"You must've been real bored to be waiting for me to wake up." Takashi teased.

Juno sunk her face into her hands, hiding her dark blush on her cheeks, "Kashi, shut up."

"It's cold as shit." Takashi said, rubbing his hands.

"Bitch made me take my hat off, I'm shivering." Juno mumbled.

"You'll be ight." Takashi said, smiling with his pearly white teeth.

The bell rang, the students rushed out the room for lunch. Juno swung her bag onto her, she wasn't planning on coming back to class. Takashi wasn't either.

The two arrived to the lunchroom, it got too cold to eat up on the roof. Juno's eyes inadvertently scanned for Daiya, who was no longer even enrolled in that school. She let out a small sigh.