Gray Rainbow (Soramafu)

Aftertaste Of The Heart

~Sakata's POV~

I didn't heard much of Mafumafu the last few weeks, but it was not like we had enough time to call each other everyday or so. We were this kind of friends, that you only met once a month, but you were still pretty close.

I wasn't completely happy with this situation either, but with our hectic lifestyles we just can't meet more often and maybe this wasn't too bad either, at least we couldn't get on each others nervs or began a useless fight.

But I was still glad, that Mafumafu found the time to at least visit us on Christmas. We - I and my boyfriend Urata - spent that day mostly hanging out together, on some Christmas we even went out together and I always loved that day, because of the time we were able to spend together without anyone interfering.

Although it was like this, I was still looking forward to meet Mafumafu and spent the day with him. He was a smart guy and good for deep, long lasting conversations, at least when you knew him well. He never was the type of person who would socialize by himself, you had to force him a bit.

Originally he wanted to celebrate this wonderful winter day with Soraru, but he already had other plans, so Mafumafu had called me and asked, if it would be alright if he would come for Christmas. I immediately had token the opportunity to meet him again and so we ended up celebrating Christmas together.

I looked out of the window, were the sun was hidden by dark clouds, that I wasn't sure if they would bring snow or rain, but I hoped for the first thing. My eyes followed a person walking on the down the street and I wasn't expecting an arm moving around my waist and someone hugging me from behind.

"Are you excited to see Mafu-Kun?" I nodded to Urata's questions and then turned around to smile at him. "Hopefully he already figured out what to do about Soraru and his feelings."

"Hopefully," Urata agreed and then smiled slightly, "The present, you decorated it, right? Like I asked you to?"

I looked at him - shocked. Shit. "I totally forgot!" Urata only sighed at my forgetfulness and he looked surprised and a bit helpless, when he heard the doorbell and realized that he had no time to decorate it himself anymore.

I went to the door, checking if Urata went to get the present - He did, but I still had to distract Mafumafu for a little longer, so that Urata could finish his preparations.

"Hello Mafu-Kun. Let's go for a short walk, ok? I forgot to buy some thing from the convenience store," I smiled awkwardly and shoved him away from the door, after grabbing my jacket. He only was able to mumble a confused, "Uh, ok..."

But he probably wasn't thinking too much of it, I've always been forgetful. Everyone of my friends did know it and this was what get me caught in this lie in the first place, even though I was glad that I had went out with him, because now snowflakes kept falling slowly down to the earth and I couldn't help but smile.

A white Christmas. Actually the best present for Mafumafu. I looked at him and could see that he was amazed by the snow. He followed some of the white objects with his eyes, then looked at me, a wide smile on his eyes.

"Finally it's snowing. I've waited for this since the beginning of winter," He said and hold out his hand to catch some of the cold snow flakes, that begin to transform into water as soon as they reached his warm hands.

His champagner colored hair suited the atmosphere really well and his cozy looking muffler made the image perfect.

We sat down a bench in front of a coffee, that didn't get wet because of the snow. I took my phone out and looked for messages from Urata, but there none and I wondered how much longer he would take.