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Blood moon part 3 by Lainie

   A wild mop of unruly hair, sticking up in all directions, peeked out from under a pillow as one hazel eye popped open, warily looking around the room in confusion. Groaning and closing his eye, he stuck his head back under the pillow as he clumsily reached one arm towards the table next to his bed where he thought the sound was coming from, but then remembered the night before and how he had lost his only cell phone. 'Aw crap, I'm gonna have to buy a new one now.'

   It wasn't the usual vibrating sound from the nightstand that had woke him, but a loud banging on his front door. Yawning, he pushed himself up and sat on the side of the bed for a minute, first rubbing his head, making his hair even messier, and then the sleep from his eyes, trying to wake himself up.

   He heard a loud voice yell through the door: "Yo, Aki-chan! What are you up to, bro?"

   Looking at the clock on his nightstand, he saw that it was nearly noon time. 'Shit! I overslept! I'm gonna be late for work!'

   Jumping up, he ran towards the bathroom, tripped over his backpack and went flying face first onto the hard wood floor.

   "Ow!!"

   "Hey, Aki, what's that noise? You alright in there?!"

   Stunned for a minute, Aki lay face down on the floor, trying to regain his senses and figure out what the hell happened, then sat up and cried out in a panicked voice "Oh no, my camera!"

   Crawling over to the bag, he unzipped it and pulled his camera out, then sighed in relief seeing it wasn't broken. It was then that he remembered it was Saturday and he didn't have to go in to work today.

   Standing back up, he gently put the camera down on the middle of his bed, then walked out of his bedroom, went by the tiny kitchenette and out through the small living room to open the front door before his landlord came yelling and threatening to evict him again. Opening it, his two best friends Kou and Takato rushed in, nearly knocking him over in their haste to see if he was alright.

   "What happened to your face!?"

   "Yea, you have a black eye and bruised chin!"

   Kou and Takato both exclaimed at the same time before one went to the mini refrigerator in the kitchenette to get some ice and the other led him gently by the arm to sit on the sofa in the middle of the room.

   "I am fine guys. I just tripped over my bag in the bedroom. I was sleeping and panicked that I was going to be late for work again."

   "You're very lucky you didn't break your nose." Kou commented.

   Aki gratefully took the towel wrapped around some ice and held it against his face, closing his eyes so he didn't see the worried looks exchanged between his two friends.

   "So, watcha guys up to?"

   "Takato got free tickets from his boss to that popular club in Azabu called Dracaena for tonight and we want you to go with us."

   "Yeah. You've been working way too hard and getting stressed lately, so we thought you needed a break, and I've been wanting to check this place out for ages but couldn't afford the tickets. I was talking about the club to a co-worker one day and my boss overheard us. He gave them to me for coming up with that new computer game I developed a few months ago that's been selling like crazy; he had to hire more workers to keep up with the overflow of orders they're receiving. The company is really raking in the money from it. Oh and I, by the way, also got a promotion and huge pay raise from it."

   Before Takato could even finish the sentence, Aki jumped up and hugged him so tight he could hardly breathe.

   "That's wonderful news! You deserve it, I'm so happy for you!"