Gazing at the Stars

Chapter 13

A knock wakes me from my peaceful sleep. Rolling my eyes, I see the time.

1:24

Who the fuck would wake me at 1:24 A.M. on a Saturday night?

Thinking about just going back to sleep, I roll on my side, and see that it is pouring outside.

Oh, yeah, it was supposed to thunderstorm, I forgot. Lightning cracks across the sky before the thunder reverberates my house. I watch as the rain continues falling from the black sky.

Then, comes the knock again.

God damn it, I can't leave whoever it is in the rain.

"Fuck." I mumble, standing up and cracking my neck. "Fuck."

I begin padding my way to the front door, when the knock comes again. I huff in annoyance. People are fucking impatient.

"Fuck." I mumble once more, and again when I stub my toe on the chair.

"I'm coming." I yell out, unlocking the door and swinging it open to reveal a figure.

"Fuck!" I shout this time, and grab the figure to pull it into the house. He drops to the floor with a thud, on his knees, and I can't find words.

"T-Tadashi?" I ask, walking forward and falling onto my knees in front of him. "What's wrong?"

He didn't even look up. I could see the water falling from his entire body, and I wondered if some of them were tears.

"You know what, I'll ask again in a minute. Hold on." I demand and lift him from the floor. If he doesn't get cleaned up, he'll get sick. I carry him up my stairs, lucky that my parent's nor Aki woke up.

Until I realized I was wrong.

Tadashi seemed to be asleep, and he was just a shivering figure in my arms. I make it to the top of the steps and find another figure staring at us.

"K-Kei! What happened!" Aki nearly screams, and I glared at him.

"I don't know just help me get him to my bathroom." I say, and Aki immediately jumps into action opening my bedroom door then opening my bathroom door. "Go get him clothes, I'm putting him in the shower. He's freezing."

I feel like panicking but I know it won't help anything.

I sit him on my toilet seat, and pull his shirt over his head without thinking. Then, I continue with his pants until I have a naked Tadashi in front of me, and I drag him into the shower. Sitting on the floor, I hold him against me and let the hot water bring some life back to him.

He doesn't move.

It's like he's barely breathing.

I grab the shampoo and wash his hair for him.

Hopefully this comforts him, to get his hair rubbed and cleaned.

Once I rinse his hair, I grab a rag and the bar of soap. I lift his face up, and it was the first time I saw his eyes.

Broken.

That's all I can say about his eyes. They simply looked broken.

I hold myself together and bring the rag to his face, where I clean his entire face. While I usually enjoy staring at his freckles and those brown eyes, all they do right now is haunt me.

After rinsing his face, I decide to rub his back and shoulders, while washing him. I put some body wash on my hands before gently bringing my hands to his shoulders. I use the strength of my hands from volleyball to massage deep into his shoulders, and onto his back. I hear a sigh every once in a while, and if he wasn't in pain, that probably would have turned me on. But this isn't the time for that.