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Sousuke squat down in front of Ai and looked to his phone. He was playing some sort of Indie band or singer called Angel Diary. The music was adorable, seemed like something he'd listen to. He noticed Ai's flushed cheeks. What exactly happened? The older boy reached out and cupped the blue eyed boys cheek. Face becoming hotter. "It seems like you have a fever." He says slowly backing of and standing up.
"I'll take you to the nurses office." He reached out to Ai. Ai just looked at his hand and blinked. He stood up on his own. "Ok." He signed and walked past Sousuke. The larger teen raised a brow and followed. The entire time, neither Ai or him said a thing.
Ai was sent home. And Sousuke was sent back to class.
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The next day Ai didn't show up. Sousuke still wrote down notes for him, he started to get a bit lonely, especially at lunch. Sitting alone on the rooftop and staring off. What could help him deal without Ai? He thought back to the day before. What he saw on Ai's screen. "Angel Diary...?" He pulled out his phone and looked up the artist. But not much came up, but a profile on a music/audio website. He tapped on the link and audio immediately began to play. From what he heard it was beautiful. The women singing had the most soothing voice and she was quite beautiful. "So...she's unknown?...what a shame." Sousuke said and downloaded the entire playlist. He wondered how Ai even got into underground artists in other countries. Listening on he felt amazing, he began to fall into another world. A world of colors everywhere. Only him. A feeling so different. As if he were falling slowly.
"Sousuke!" A call of his name brought him back. He shook his head and looked to his red headed best friend. The boy laughed, raising a brow and walking over. "Did you take drugs? You looked pretty out of it." "N-no! Not at all." He sighed and put on different music. "I just was listening to something." Rin nodded. "Oh...Audio book or something?" Sousuke looked down at his cell phone. "Something like that." Rin watched the way Sousuke was moving. He seemed slow. "You ok?" Sousuke's brows knitted together and he shook his head. "Yeah. I'm fine." Rin began to unwrap his lunch and took a bite. "Miss Ai?" Yeah. He did. But for some reason, he didn't want to say he did. He feels like he shouldn't. "No. a little I guess. I always have him around so a day without him is a little weird." Rin mouthed 'oh' and dug right back into his food.
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"Ai are you sure you'll be ok alone?" His mother signed to him standing in the frame of the door. Ai nodded and signed back. "There's nothing to worry about." She smiled sweetly, signing to him that she loved him and shut the door slowly. He could feel the vibrations of his mother taking off in the car, due to the silence of the house. He sighed and left his bed, walking around the big empty house. Ai's house was different from everyone else's. It was in the middle of nowhere and was huge. He had no neighbors and he never had seen a car once ever drive by. (Well some times but you get me?) it was always just him and his parents. In this big two story old fashioned home. Like a home straight out of a movie. Ai wondered about Sousuke's home. Was it as big? Did he live near the city? Did he have neighborhood friends? Unlike Ai.
Thinking about Sousuke made Ai smile slightly, he grabbed his cell phone and decided to send him a message. He hesitated for quite some time but sent it. Just a quick, "Hey." Surprisingly he replied quickly. "Hey Ai, are you ok?" Ai smiled at Sousuke's reply. He actually seemed very concerned. "I'm fine." He sent back quickly. Ai waited a bit longer for the next reply. He killed time walking around the house and making some lunch. Later he put on music and tried falling asleep, but before he could drift off he felt his phone vibrate, he quickly fished out the device, Almost dropping it.
"That's good to hear. You'll be back tomorrow right?" Ai could feel his cheeks heating up as he read the message. He bit his lip and typed in a quick, "yeah", receiving another text shortly after. "Ah, thank god. I'm starting to get lonely. Haha.." Ai blushed madly at the message. He thought of what to say, typing in random letters and deleting them and typing more nonexistent words and deleting them. After a while Ai felt drowsy. Guess his meds were finally kicking in. He never sent a message back, locking his phone and walking into his room, falling into bed and into a deep sleep.
He didn't wake up until his mother had gotten back home from work. Which was pretty late. Around 20:00. "Now your going to stay up all night, babe." His mother signed to him, after he sat up completely. He rubbed his eyes and signed an apology back to his mother. She tapped his shoulder and smiled bright. "Guess what." She signed quickly. Ai nodded. "The school called, you know, the one for students like you. They said that they'll let you go for free!" Ai stared at his mother for a minute or two. "Ai?" She signed slowly. He sighed and shook his head. "...that's great." He signed slowly, smiling sweetly. "Well. Would you like to go to the school?" She asked, smiling hopefully. He didn't want to make her upset. But he really didn't want to go. At the school he was at now...he liked it. A lot. He like Sousuke and Rin. He couldn't just leave them.
"Can I think about it?" He signed back smiling nervously. She nodded and stood up. "Of course...dinner is ready. After you eat, wash up and...try to sleep?" He smiled and let out a small giggle. She pinched his cheek, "goodnight love." Walking out and headed to her room. He inhaled deeply and sighed, checking his phone for any messages. "Oh." He mouthed when he unlocked his cell phone to nothing. He bit his cheek and hopped out of bed to eat.
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"You think he'd be up now?"
"He's a teenager, just because he's deaf doesn't mean he won't stay up past 8." Rin laughed on the other end to Sousuke. He was right. Of course he'd be up. He check his messages from Ai. Still no reply.
"Maybe meds knocked him out?" Rin said interrupting the others thoughts. "Yeah I guess. I'll just send him a quick hello and uh yeah." He laughed nervously and quickly sent the message, sighing and continuing his conversation with the red head on the other end.