I washed my face and I looked at the mirror, there was a bandage on my face and I gingerly touched in and winced in pain, "Taki? You up?" I heard from outside, "It was your turn to cook breakfast wasn't it? Did you sleep in?" I saw a man at the table watching the news on a tablet, "I'm sorry." I clutch the doorframe, "Hm? Well I'm heading out, finish the miso. Make sure to go to school even if you're late. See ya." He stands up and walks to the door, "H-Have a nice day." I wave him out, "What a strange dream." I look around, I heard a notification and I flinched, "Huh? It's from... Tsukasa? Who's that?" I grab the phone, I stand up and go to the uniform with the green tie, I clutch the hanger and I sweat, "I gotta go pee..." I blush. I quickly eat breakfast and lock the door, "Way to real." I sigh and lean up against the front door, I look forward and gasp, I stand at the edge of the flat level and look out, it was beautiful, Tokyo... Cars, trains, people bustling in streets, everything seemed real, I almost cried, I clutched my phone and walked out into the streets, "I'm in Tokyo." I touched my hair and smiled up at the sky scrapers.
I stood at the door of a classroom, too scared to go in, "Taki! Can't believe you got in at noon, come on let's grab lunch." A random guy slings his arm around my shoulders and dragged me with him, "Ignored my texts too," He snickers, I realised who this was, "Tsukasa-san?" I look at him, "San? You don't have to go that far." He chuckles. "You got lost?" Tsukasa looks at me, "Yeah..." I rub the back of my head, "Hang on a sec, how'd you get lost on the way to school?" One of Taki's friends called Takagi was shocked, "A girl..." I fiddled with his hair, "A girl?" He looks at me, "A gal." I quickly correct myself, the two of them look at me, "I mean... a guy." I say, they nod, "You know, guys just wanna have fun. Everyday's a festival when you're in Tokyo... as a guy..." I sigh in relief, "Hey, you sound funny and where's your lunch?" Takagi looks at my hands, I flushed red, "Seriously..." Tsukasa rummages through his bag, "What's up with you." Takagi looks at me, "We could make a lunch," Tsukasa opens his egg sandwich, "A croquet egg sandwich!" Takagi put some of his croquet in the egg sandwich, it was overflowing, "Eh... thank you." I looked at the food in my hands, they grinned, "Wanna hit the cafe later?" Tsukasa asks, "Oh that one, sure. You in Taki?" Takagi nods, "Huh?! A cafe!" I lit up.
"They've got nice timberwork in here," Takagi looks around, "Yeah it's pretty intricate. Taki you ready?" Tsukasa looks at me, "Oh huh," I was distracted with two cute poodles by the table next to us, "Oh uh..." I gasped at the prices, "I could live on an entire month with how much these pancakes cost!" I look through the menu, "Uh, maybe in the country towns," Tsukasa cleans his glasses, "Oh well! It's only a dream!" I grinned. I took a picture of the honey pancakes and before I knew it, they were gone "Dreams are great." I sighed in content and sipped on the cup of tea, "Huh?" The two of them look at me confused, I received a text and I checked the notification, "Wha?! Oh no, I think that I'm late for work!" I read it, "You got a shift today?" Takagi looks over the rim of his cup, "Guess you better get going," Tsukasa nods, "R-Right," I stand up, "Sorry uh... where exactly I work again?" I fiddle with his hair, "Wha?" They both look at me.
"Table six, seven and ten are waiting!" "Table twelve! Taki!" "We didn't order that," "Taki! I told you we were out of truffles!" "Taki you've got to talk louder!" "Taki!" I run around the restaurant, "When is this nightmare gonna stop!" I run down the stairs, "Waiter," I was carrying two glasses of water on a tray, "Hey you," I stopped and turned around, "Uh, yes." I walk over to the man and his friend, "See this, does it look right? A toothpick's in it, what would've happened if we ate it?" He lifts the slice of pizza, "It's really lucky when I noticed it when I did. Do something," He smirks, "Uh... it's just that well... I don't even think we have toothpicks at this restaurant." I say quietly, "WHAT?!" He slams his fist under the table, everyone looked at him, "Excuse me, is everything alright over here?" I saw Miss Okudera come over, "I'll take care of this," She whispers to me, I got pulled back by another waiter, "What's wrong with you today?" He asks. After closing hours, we started vacuuming and wiping the tables down, I noticed something on Miss Okudera's skirt, "Um... Okudera..." I say quietly, "That's Miss to you." An employee knocks my head gently, "Oh um Miss Okudera," I Walk over to her, "We just had some bad luck is all. Those guys were definitely scamming us." She folds a napkin, "I handled it according to the manual but still," She sighs and wipes a table, "No Miss... your skirt," I point at it, she twists her skirt around, "Looks like someone cut it," Her brows furrow, "Is everything alright?" Someone asks, "That guy," She grits her teeth, "Come with me," I grab her hand, "Hey... Taki." A guy says to me.
"Ok, take off your skirt." I shut the door behind us, "What?!" She blushes, "O-Oh I'll look the other way!" I turn around, she handed me her skirt and she wrapped a towel around her waist, "Hold on, it won't take long." I embroider some grass and a hedgehog on her skirt to latch up the slit that was cut, "All done, tada!" I held it back to her.
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"You're really good Taki, it's way cuter now." She smiles, "By the way, I wanted to thank you for all the help with that customer earlier." I giggled, "To be honest well, I was worried about you. You're not strong but you're quick to start a fight." She points at her cheek and I realised she was talking about the bandage on my cheek, "I like you today, you've got a feminine side. Who would've guessed." She tucks her hair behind her ear. I made my way home, everything seemed so surreal, everything seemed so bright and neon at night, Tokyo was beautiful, "I gotta say, this dream sure feels real." I lay on his bed, "Hey, he keeps a journal. Hm, so organised," I smiled, "I wished I lived in Tokyo." I flipped though his photos, "One of her." I saw a picture of Miss Okudera, "Unrequited love?" I giggled and turned to my side, "Hey." I realised I should write a journal entry for today for him.
'Hey Taki. I've got to say, this dream sure does feel real. Living in Tokyo's a dream. I hope I have this dream again. I've got to say, you're a handsome boy. I guess the gods heard me when I said I wanted to be a handsome Tokyo boy in my next life and here I am'
I giggled and pressed enter as I submitted the journal entry, my mind flashed back to when I read 'Who are you?' in my workbook, I jumped out of bed and grabbed a marker 'Yuki' I wrote in the palm of my hand, "Good night Taki." I smiled and fell asleep.
I woke up back at home? "Yuki are you not touching your boobies today?" I saw Yotsuha at the door, "Huh?!" I look at her, I read the kanji written all down my arm, 'Yuki? Who are you? What are you?' it read, "Breakfast time! Hurry up!" Yotsuha slid my door, "My boobs!" I clutched my chest and blushed.
- Taki POV -
"Wha? What's going on?!" I read my journal entries and there was a new one, a handsome Tokyo boy? "So cafe today?" Tsukasa asks, "Thanks but I've got to get to work," I take a bite from my bento, "Ha, so do you remember where to go?" Tsukasa chuckles, "Huh? Ah, wait a second was it you Tsukasa, was it you who's been messing with my phone!" I lean over, "Uh never mind, later." I pick up my bag and sling it over my shoulder. "Uh... what's up?" I tighten my bowtie as I step out of the change room and I saw the three other guys I work with glare at me, "Don't play dumb, you broke brocode." He looks at me, "Yeah you walked home with her yesterday right?" The other crosses his arms, "W-Wait... what are you talking about? Me and Miss Okudera?" I take a step back, "So what did you guys do?" They all ask at the same time, "Uh well... I don't remember actually." I nervously laugh, "Stop messing around with us!" He says but was interrupted by the door opening, "Okudera reporting for duty. Don't slack off today guys, we're gonna have a good day today, aren't we, Taki?" She winks at me and shuts the door, I blushed bright red and the three guys glared at me.
- Yuki POV -
"Morning," I walk into my classroom, everyone stared at me, I flinched, "I feel like everyone's staring at me for some reason..." I sit down in my seat and lean over to Saya, "Well you did kinda make a scene yesterday," She sweatdrops, "Yeah we were drawing Itomori and kids in our class were talking about the elections and your dad so you kicked a table down." Saya explains, "W-What... I did what..." I jumped back. After school I ran home and sprinted to my room, "Huh? Yuki?" Yotsuha calls after me, "Could this be... could this mean!" I flipped through my workbook, sketched of shrine gates and scribbled kanji filled my pages. "That we're in our dreams... that guy and I..."
- Taki POV -
"No, no, no, no, no! Could this mean... that we're really..." I flicked through my phone journal, "That we're in our dreams... that girl and I..."
