Drizzles of a Symphony • Semi Eita

❥ sixty-first drizzle.

❥ Soulmate AU; Where your soulmate gets a mark on his skin, the moment you fall in love with him.

• Semi x Een •

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The weekend could not come soon enough.

I was meeting up with Hichimiya and Tendou at Tokyo on Saturday, and there were still 3 more days in my countdown.

Semi found it excessive, that I was crossing out each passing day with excitement.

"You really are out here just fantasizing about Korean men when I'm right here." He says out of nowhere, while I am preparing some espresso for an order.

This makes me almost cough up a lung, slapping his back giving a hiss in embarrassment, which only makes him laugh even more before he turns to face the customer in front of him.

Life as a college student... It's not really... All that.

It's not like the way movies and books describe it; a magical time with just friends and fun, and acing your exams even if you can barely keep up with the attendance.

It's not the best 4 years of your life, like lots of fiction works romanticize it to be; even if you have a job and a significant other who loves you.

Because, with college comes so much stress. So much pressure, and a lot of self-evaluation.

Living together with Semi and my brother, all our banters, the fun we have in the form of our hobbies... All of this... It helps, but college can absolutely engulf you.

And I can see that in the way that Semi's eyes are dulled out by the time he's handing out the last cup of coffee and he greets Yamato-san to switch shifts.

It's in the way he stretches himself before he sits at his desk as soon as we come back home, and in the way his eyes don't even go to the glass of juice I place next to him when he's busy trying to figure out answers to his assignments.

It's in the way he's at his desk even at 3 am sometimes, when I wake up in the middle of the night and find that he's not beside me.

And it's the same way for me, because I start to get eye bags from the continuous reading that I do, and the endless writing I do by my computer makes me develop myalgia.

College... consumes you.

On the night before Finals, Semi and I found the need to stay up all night, to study.

Semi and I both were always thankful for Takeru, but it's during hard times like this, that his little actions make our hearts feel the unconditional love that he has towards us.

The way Takeru cuts fruit for us, prepares food that we can eat easily at our study desk... and even sets an alarm every four hours to come and refill our coffee mugs with a huge batch of coffee he'd made...

It makes me pity my Dad. He's willingly letting go of a child who would have never let him down at his worst.

It is with tears in my eyes that I leave for our exams with Semi.

Even Semi seems very sentimental, because he ruffles Takeru's hair, raising his fist which my little brother fistbumps instantly.

"Don't pressure yourself too much. Don't think that you have to leave here when you turn 18 and get a job. You don't have to, unless you want to. You're family, Takeru, so stay with us for as long as you need."