Unmatchable

Unmatchable (Plastic Tree) Chp. 06 / 06

It was in the middle of the night and Tadashi was wide awake because he couldn't sleep. Frustrated he'd stopped counting how often he'd called Taro's cell but to no avail. He was SO worried about his little beloved and it drove him crazy not to know what was going on. In such a short amount of time they'd gotten so attached to each other and Tadashi was always worried about Taro, his health, his well-being and every time they were separated Tadashi turned to the worse again. Miraculously he realized it now that Taro made him a better person. And he felt better with him... was that actually 'love'?

He tossed to the other side of his bed for the hundredth time and fantasized Taro sitting in front of his bed and looking at him like he used to when he'd taken care for him.... He missed him. Already now. And imagining that it had been only two days ago for both of them being together in this very bed.... Jesus, he really wanted him to be here, right now. Feeling his soft white skin, smelling his scent and feeling his black hair on his arms... but also his sweat covered face, his sweet tortured voice, this pouty lips and his tiny hands....

Perfect... now he felt like a depraved, old pervert. But it was true, no matter what mood Taro swung to, it automatically passed on to Tadashi. But what was really precious for the hot headed Tadashi was that Taro's calm nature calmed Tadashi down as well. They were the strangest but at the same time best match for each other

Unable to sleep, Tadashi switched on his light. It was no use. He'd visit Taro's school first thing in the morning to see whether he's there.

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With bags under his eyes and hair wilder than usual, Tadashi dragged himself half an hour before school started and went to Taro's school. He was dead tired and on top of that nervous as hell because he had too much nicotine in his blood. Impatiently he tapped with his foot on the ground, observing all the young kids entering school... but nowhere was the well-known black haired person. Tadashi's gaze wandered over the crowd when he suddenly saw that engineer Akira walking through the gate. At the same time Akira must have spotted Tadashi and he walked straight over to him... and the way the guy moved towards Tadashi, the blond knew something was not right.

"Morning." Tadashi greeted first.

"Tadashi-kun..." Akira seemed surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"What do you mean?"

Akira lifted his eyebrows. "You don't know?"

Every fibre in Tadashi's body tensed. "Knowing what Akira?!"

"Taro dropped out of school."

The cold winter wind felt like a comfort compared to his breaking heart. With his mouth wide open Tadashi stared dumbly back at Akira and since he was unable to speak (which NEVER happened before), the sound engineer went on. "I don't know the details. I saw Taro leaving school yesterday with his mom and by the looks of it he was not happy at all. He just stammered 'good bye' when he waved at me and they left."

Tadashi looked aside, making out the words he'd just heard but his head didn't really want to get it. A thousand emotions washed through him, the strongest anger, pain, fury and worst of all helplessness.

"I'm sorry Tadashi-kun." Akira must have caught the mood and he was no fool that this pain went much deeper. "That's all I know."

Absent-mindedly, the blond nodded and stammered a 'thank you' before he turned around to leave. He passed the school gate and was already around the corner when he had an idea and stormed back to the grounds, into the building and up to registry. He knocked and entered, looking to a pair of surprised eyes of a middle aged secretary.