the shooting stars and i || genssidy

chapter 11 || rift

cassidy had slowly woken up from his slumber, genji still asleep in his arms. he ran his fingers through genji's hair continuously, surprised on not being called up by gabriel.

"good mornin' gertrude." he whispered, placing a soft kiss on his forehead. genji was still fast asleep, not noticing his hands still were placed on cassidy's naked chest. he hummed a little tune to hopefully get his sweetheart to his senses.

genji's eyes slowly lit up with life. blinking excessively to get his train of sight back, he was woken to cassidy's half asleep whistling. he reached in for a kiss on the cheek.

"morning my love." he said, with a smile plastered on his whole face. "how'd you sleep?"

"i missed how much sleep could feel relaxing." cassidy chuckled.

"mm, me too. i've missed the feeling." genji replied, his fingers tracing around cassidy's chest. he then looked up at the clock that was screwed to the wall.

"oh my god. we slept through the whole morning."

"no way—" cassidy then turned over to see that genji was right. it was 12:34 pm.

"at least boss didn't see us, or me, fully stripped down." cassidy said, laughing.

"i forgot you are still—" genji's heart fluttered as his face slowly heated up like he had the night they decided to make love with each other.

"relax you randy dummy, i'll go put my boxers on before you get turned on again." genji covered his face with a nearby pillow, blushing, as cassidy moved the blanket away and got up to put on his undergarments.

"don't worry, you can look now." cassidy joked as he grabbed a shirt from his closet.

genji removed the pillow from his place and got up from the bed as well.

"i almost forgot. today is sunday, we don't have training i think."

"probably because moira goes to church."

genji snickered. "wait, seriously? i can totally see her singing kumbaya over at a summer camp."

cassidy burst into laughter. "no idea if she's christian, but it would make pretty good sense if she was. besides her science stuff of course."

after the hilarious conversation, they both dressed up, mainly cassidy. genji only needed to fix his hair. they both headed downstairs, holding hands, to be greeted by the woman who they pictured a saint quite earlier. she was sitting down, with a plate of a whole meal of irish lunch. cassidy went up to get a cup of orange juice on the side of the cafeteria. he then took a seat besides his friend.

"good afternoon boys."

"afternoon." genji replied, joining them. cassidy only smiled along and nodded.

"how'd you sleep from all of that chaos yesterday?" cassidy asked, taking off his hat off and sipping on his cup of juice.

"not well," she replied. "i kept hearing creaking from one of the rooms last night. i think it was from a bed."

as soon as those words slipped out of her mouth, cassidy spit out the orange juice that he was about to swallow. his eyes only expressed horror. he didn't think they would be that loud to the others. coughing from the shock, moira turned to genji to get an answer from him.

genji only had flashbacks from that night. he remembered whimpering cassidy's name over and over until he couldn't go on any longer.

"shimada, do you know where it was coming from?—"

"no idea. maybe it was the vents." he replied hesitantly, looking away.

"so the vents were crying for something while something was also creaking?"