Sleeping
 Author: Aki
Focus: Osric, Shizuka, Meiko, Kristen
Rating: PG


It was rare for Shizuka to be the one to find her friend sleeping, but such was the case on that particular day. For when she went to Hiroyuki Tanaka's house and was let in by his mother, he was drooling into a Japanese copy of Frankenstien, glasses pressing into his forehead. Shizuka giggled as she leaned over to pull them off, but he made a funny snorting noise and rolled his face to the side, pages sticking to his cheek.

In another attempt to give him a more peaceful sleep by taking off the glasses that were still digging into his skin, the brunette girl gracefully (and by gracefully, I mean she only to tripped and fell twice) walked over him to the other side of the couch, and attempted to peel off his wireframes once more. He grumbled again and said under his breath, "Stop pokin' my eyes, Fia..."

"Fia?" Shizuka asked, while trying to take his glasses off again.

Hiro's dark eyes opened enough to realize that the friend he had asked to come over had actually arrived. "Shizu-AH!" He said as he quickly sat up, then sat back down, "Ah, holy- ouch, my back. I must have slept at a funny angle."

"You were asleep, drooling in your book. I think some of the pages are stuck together now." Shizuka explained, "And you have a dent in your head, which I think is from your glasses which I tried to get off so you could sleep better, but you kept moving around."

"I- what?" Hiro said, touching his forehead and indeed feeling a dent in his skin. He took off his glasses and rubbed his head, blushing. "You should have woken me up or something, not just let me nap here if you came over."

"Oh, but I like napping, so I figured you do to." She said with an honest grin. "But since you're awake now, are we going to go to the beach like you promised?"

"Of course, of course. I'll go get my stuff." The dent-in-the-head boy tried to get off of the couch, but fell backwards back onto it. "Ack. Must be stiff. Do you think you could give me a hand?"

Happy to do so, Shizuka stood up and pulled her friend to his feet, only to have him fall toward her. He grabbed onto her shoulders to try and balance himself, while she tried to push off of his chest to somehow even out the force pushing him forward. They ended up both falling back on the couch, in a mess of flailing legs and confused arms.

Although they were both a bit red, they laughed it right off and tried a second time, finally managing to get Hiro off of the couch withough falling this way or that. Shizuka laughed and stood by the door, and waited for him to get his stuff for the beach, content with the rest of her day being free of falling, napping, and drooling.

Well, except maybe the napping part.


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