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Mafuyu slid his guitar case from his shoulder and set it on the floor before walking to his room. He carefully sat down next to his bed and laid his head back onto his bed. He just came back from a tiring band practice. Today Given held a longer practice since they have a summer festival performance coming up soon, and all of them need to work on the new song mafuyu had been writing. The summer festival was in about 5 weeks, enough time for the band to get the new song to sound good.
Uenoyama, mafuyu’s boyfriend, sadly couldn’t come over today since he had work right after practice, so that made mafuyu even more tired. But at the same time that gave mafuyu time to work on his song lyrics since his mom wasn’t home. She wouldn’t be home for a couple days since she had a work conference in a different city. Mafuyu was used to being home alone for long periods of time, but it was mostly with uenoyama. The red haired boy finally got up to change into clean clothes and maybe get some food if he found any appetite, which he didn’t in the end. Mafuyu slowly walked back to his room, grabbing his guitar on the way since he still needed to finish the song lyrics. Opening his guitar case, mafuyu still had small thoughts of Yuki flooding in, but he learned to replace these thoughts with uenoyama.
Endless writing and erases had been going on in mafuyus room, he was really struggling to finish his lyrics. The first part was surprisingly really easy, the words on mafuyus paper were flowing fast. But the ending really had Mafuyu's brain melting.
Mafuyu’s fingers were staring to callus from how long he’s been playing guitar and trying to figure out the lyrics and notes.
“I should open the window, maybe some fresh air will help”
Mafuyu thought, standing up and opening his curtain, expecting a bright blinding flash of daylight since it wasn’t that late, right? No, all mafuyu saw was the darkness, the only source of light were the streetlights standing along the street.
“What time is it?” Mafuyu murmured to himself.
Walking over to his table, where his phone would always be, mafuyu realized he never took his phone out of his bag after coming back home. Coming home, he almost immediately started finishing his song lyrics and figuring out guitar fingerings. Mafuyu speed walked to his bag to look for his phone.
“Uenoyama probably texted me and I haven’t responded” mafuyu thought, getting more nervous because he didn’t want to worry ueno for no reason. Finally, he had digged up his phone that ended up at the very bottom of his bag. The time was almost 7pm, practice finished at 2:30pm since it was a weekend and everyone had a free day. It's been almost 5 hours since mafuyu came home.
“For how long have I been practicing?” Mafuyu thought, looking up at the ceiling, still holding his unlocked phone. Finally, after some thinking mafuyu finally opened his phone to 9+ messages from uenoyama, which read:
Ritsuka:
3:37 pm “Mafuyu”
3:37pm “did you get home okay?”
4:03 pm “Mafuyu?”
4:04pm “You okay?”
5:56pm “MAFUYUUUU”
5:57pm “Dude im getting worried are you okay?”
5:57pm “mafuuuu”
6:42pm“Sato im seriously worried”
6:42pm “you didn’t do anything stupid I hope”
6:43pm “mafuyu did I do something?”
6:44pm “im coming over at 7,love you”
“Oh shit.” Mafuyu said to himself.
He’s been unintentionally ignoring his boyfriend, and the only reason is that because he has been so focused on the lyrics. Mafuyu threw his phone on the bed, which hit the wall and the boy himself plopped on the bed as well.
“Wait” mafuyu remembered “if it’s about 7 right now, ueno should be coming any second.” Mafuyu stood up from his bed so quickly, the corners of his eyes became black. His room was a mess. Crumbled papers all over his room, just blank paper scattered around, broken pencils even in the deepest corners of his room.
“Oh no” mafuyu thought, he was definitely NOT ready for ueno to come over. As soon as mafuyu picked up the first few crumbled pieces of paper he heard his doorbell ring. The pieces of paper fell out his hand with a few soft thuds. Mafuyu ran over to unlock the door to see his boyfriend standing outside with a slightly worried look. Mafuyu knew that look, ever if uenoyama appeared blank faced, he was really worried.
“Hey im-” mafuyu got cut off by uenoyama.
“Mafuyu” ueno threw his arms around mafuyu and buried his face in his shoulder. Mafuyu looked into the wall in front of him, trying to process what just happened. Uenoyama wasn’t upset at him, he wasn’t mad, he was relieved to see him. Mafuyu hugged uenoyama back and mumbled
“I’m sorry” into Uenoyama's shoulder as tears welled up in his eyes. Ueno pulled away and held mafuyu by his shoulders.
“I’m glad you’re okay” and pulled mafuyu into another hug. Mafuyu’s eyes overflowed with tears that now ran down his cheeks. When Ueno pulled away he closed the door behind him, he grabbed mafuyu’s hand and led him to his own room. Mafuyu immediately got even more worried because of how messy his room was.
“Uhm, uenoyama can we go to the living room, my room is kind of messy.” Mafuyu suggested.
“I don’t care how messy it is sato, you dummy, why would I ever care about the state of your room? Have you even seen mine?” Uenoyama replied. The truth is, uenoyama liked how mafuyu’s room smelled the most like him. He didn’t care how messy it was, that whole room was all mafuyu. Uenoyama opened the door and saw mafuyu’s guitar on the floor and papers with lyrics on them all over the floor. He turned to mafuyu and saw him looking down.
“Hey maf, look at me,” uenoyama said to mafuyu, lifting his head up a little, “is this why you weren’t replying, you were practicing?” He added.
Mafuyu looked into Uenoyama's eyes, tears were still slowly falling down his cheeks.
“Yeah…i just really focused and forgot to take my phone out of my bag, i'm sorry I made you worried, oh also I'm sorry about my room.” Mafuyu quietly answered.
Uenoyama walked into the room sat down on mafuyu’s bed “Come”
Mafuyu sat down next to ueno and put his head into uenoyama’s shoulder.
“How long were you practicing for?” Uenoyama asked, putting his hand around mafuyu’s body, he was trembling a little which made uenoyama want to hold mafuyu even more. He felt so bad that he made mafuyu feel like he did something wrong by not answering him soon enough.
“Uh well I came back at like…3 and finished at like..7?” Mafuyu said, feeling a bit guilty.
“You spent…FOUR HOURS WRITING LYRICS AND PRACTICING YOUR GUITAR?” Uenoyama said, turning mafuyu to face himself.
“Mafuyu I know you want to work hard to satisfy our band members in order to do a good performance, but please don’t overwork yourself like that! I’m really worried.” He added, hugging mafuyu once again. While mafuyu’s hands were down, ueno saw how red and calluses his fingertips were, he hoped he could make them disappear immediately because no way mafuyu deserved to feel any type of pain.
Mafuyu immediately hugged uenoyama back. This time he didn’t say anything to him and just hugged his boyfriend. After some time, uenoyama pulled back, but mafuyu was still laying on him.
“Mafuyu?” Ueno said softly, trying to look at his boyfriend's face.
Mafuyu fell asleep in Uenoyama's arms. Uenoyama slowly laid back so mafuyu would still lay on him but he wouldn’t be sitting and sleeping at the same time, it would probably be uncomfortable for both of them. Mafuyu readjusted himself so his face would be in his boyfriend's chest and fell back asleep. Uenoyama thought his heart would explode at any second. Mafuyu was just SO cute to him. Without any hesitation, uenoyamas hand went into mafuyu’s hair, he started rubbing his head and just playing with his hair. Not too long after, uenoyama fell asleep as well, cuddling mafuyu.