Keep Smiling

I Pray For You To Be Happy, Always

I've never really bothered going to shrines or anything for New Year, I always thought it was pointless. God would never listen to someone like me and I had no need to pray for anyone.
"Hurry up~ if we go any later it'll get crowded..." I shouted out to Shizu-chan as he was still getting ready to leave, like usual he "broke" his alarm clock and didn't get up.
"I'm coming! Just be patient will you... geez, you couldn't be anymore annoying than before, could you?" He came down the hall and rushed to put his shoes and coat on. The only time he wore something different was a coat and scarf because of the cold, of course he still wore the bartender outfit underneath. I couldn't complain since I wear the same thing, day in day out, just had more than one, same as Shizu-chan.
"Let's go..." Shizu-chan mumbled and walked past me in a humph, I followed locking his apartment door behind. I caught up with him and walked by his side
"Someone's grumpier than usual~" I chimed to Shizu-chan and he glared at me from the corner of his eye
"We never bothered celebrating New Year so why should we bother this year? It's pointless and you just get stuck in between a crowd of annoying bastards." He growled at me, it was clear that he never bothered with New Year because he clearly hated it
"... I wanted to go since this is my LAST year, I want to make the most of it..." I mumbled to Shizu-chan, he sighed then took hold of my hand and kept walking
"This is the only year I'm going to bother celebrating... 'New Year, new you' is what a lot of people say. Yeah, more like New Year, new bullshit to deal with. Things do change in time but who even cares? What's the point of it all? We'll just die sooner or later and things will still change, the only thing that doesn't is the time of when you're going to die. It's unpredicted but also unstoppable"
I went quiet.... I couldn't say anything, what could I say? THAT came from Shizu-chans mouth... from HIS mind... and here I thought he was just some idiot who only knew what anger and violence was...

Shizuo's POV
Izaya was finally quiet... he didn't say anything for rest of the journey, probably shocked because I finally said something meaningful... I've always thought those things but never said them... it just pisses me off when people try and praise me or some shit. Once the shrine was in sight I sighed, the place wasn't packed but still had people there... this already pisses me off.
"Are you glad we came a earlier now? There's not many people here"
Izaya continued to walk forward but glanced at me with that stupid grin he use to do... it pisses me off....
"Yeah... let's just get on with this..." I grumbled and slowed down as we got closer. Once we were at the shrine we said our prayers and made donations then headed back home.
"So what did you pray for?"
Izaya held my hand as we walked back, I looked at him, his cheeks and nose red from the cold, I chuckled and looked forward
"For you to get better and for my families health and happiness"
"The same as everyone else?" I could hear the smirk in his voice and tease.
"Yeah. So what? It's all I can pray for... what about you then?" I looked at Izaya again, he glanced at me then away and said nothing but a small mumble
"I didn't hear that, speak up~" I decided to tease Izaya back, just to make him feel how I do. Just when he was about to speak there was aloud squeal.
"AHH!! You both came to a shrine to pray!! That's soooo cute and couple like!!~" We both froze on the spot and slowly turned to see Erica fangirling with Walker.
"Erica calm down a little... you'll faint again if you get too excited" Walker started to panic a little as Erica continued to squeal like a pig on heat.
She soon shut up and they left, we went back to the apartment and watched a movie. Izaya ended up falling asleep half way through so I took him to bed and quietly left the apartment.

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Okay this is very late but also a looot longer than the others!! I apologise for it being late but I've been working on a summer project given by my tutor... now that school/college has started up again I'm going to be quiet busy... I'll release chapters/work on them whenever I get the chance!! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and see you in the next!!

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