"I couldn't find one of my socks this morning."
"You mean the one with teddy bears on them?"
"No, the zebra striped ones."
"What happened to the ones with alligators?"
"They're in the wash."
"This is pathetic. Why are we talking about Yutaka's stupid socks?"
"I punched someone."
"What is it this time?"
"Some guy grabbed my ass?"
"What the fuck?! He must wanted to die."
"I was in the red-light district."
"What the heck were you doing there?"
"Picking up my cousin."
"The one you said who was a waitress?"
"Yea."
"So was it a young guy or any old guy?"
"Do you want to be punched too?"
"Hey, it's not his fault. I've told you before that you dressed like those hosts over there, but you never listen."
"You know Yuu doesn't listen to anyone."
"True."
"..."
"..."
"Okay, guys cool it."
"Akira, I need another drink."
"Just one more okay."
"So, how about you Kouyou?"
"I woke up at somewhere a couple days ago."
"Oh, really? Dumpster or a shopping cart?"
"A bartender took me back to her place. It's part of their service when their customers get too drunk and can't get themselves home."
"Akira do you do that here too?"
"Thinking about it but it may get too complicated."
"You should have better control of that by now man."
"Hey, old habits are hard to get rid of."
"I second that."
"That's why I water down my drinks."
"There's no fun in that and it ruins the quality of the drink. I'd never forgive myself."
"I met someone."
"A girl?"
"My psychiatrist. Tuesday was our first meeting."
"Psychologists are con artists. All they do is sit there and stare at you for an hour while you talk, if you chose to speak, they nod their heads and say "umm-hmm..." once in a while. For that, half your salary is gone."
"Mine actually does talk back to me, and she’s not too bad to look at either. I like her feet."
"I thought you were over that feet fetish, Takanori."
"I can't help it."
"One of the reason he's there."
"I always wonder how it would be like to have a psychiatrist to talk about my problems."
"You want to go with me on my next session."
"You think it's okay."
"Sure."
"Ow, ow, me too!"
"Seriously?"
"No!"
"Is there a dog whisperer?"
"There's a bee whisperer"
"Are socks a good present?"
"For a grandma, maybe."
"Anyone ever tried stuffing their pants with socks?"
"I was cold."
"Dude that's gross."
"Some guy did that once but the girl found out pretty quickly."
"How did we come to this?"
"The girl was walking to him and it just dropped down."
"What an idiot."
"Was it a red sock?”
"How should I know?"
"Red socks are unlucky."
"Is it true Kai?"
"Why do you guys always torture me? It's getting old."
"That's how we show our love man."
"I need another drink."
"Who's taking him home?"
"We can leave him in the dumpster."
"Hey, I'm not drunk yet."
"Just thinking ahead."
"These chairs hurt my ass."
"You always had a delicate ass."
"Shut up!"
"We're not getting into that again."
It's almost been 3 years since our band's graduation. It wasn't any one or two person's fault or anything. It sort of just happened. I think we had a pretty good run. Not every rock band can say they've lasted 10 years. And I mean ten years exactly. We all decided that our 10th anniversary was it for us. Even though we have parted ways to do our own thing we still make the effort to stay in contact with each other. Now, once a week, every friday we will meet up at my club, which I have named The Gazette in remembrance of us - what we once were and what we'll always be.
So what is everyone doing now? Well, Aoi (Yuu) is still in the music industry, helping other bands producing songs. Kai (Yutaka) started a catering business. Ruki (Takanori) began a design brand. Uruha (Kouyou), I don't know what the heck is going with him since he's been all over the place for the past two years. I'm kind of starting to worry about him, even though every time I see him he says he's doing fine. As for me, Reita (Akira), "the one and only", I've opened a club/bar/live house that starting bands come to play at. As I said, it just opened, but I'm sure one day The Gazette will be big. Somehow, that sounds similar to what the five of us use to say from way back then. I'm not going to be all depressed though. It was for the best -- wasn't it? People always ask us how it happened and I never given anyone a straight answer yet because I'm still a bit unsure myself. Though, recently this once incident came to my mind.
I was woken up by someone choking my neck. The hands around my neck belonged to a thirty-year-old Shiroyama Yuu, otherwise known as Aoi The GazettE's temperamental guitarist. Thankfully, he let go of me before he suffocated me then went off to the bathroom grunting and growling. The four of us were there at his place celebrating his birthday the night before. When I sat up and turned around I found Kai sprawled out faced down on the coffee table. It was the first time I've ever seen him that drunk. Reason: Aoi kept pouring shots down the poor man's throat. Okay, fine all of us did too but Aoi was the worst and he did the same to everyone. I had no idea what he was thinking. Maybe the thirtieth makes everyone a little crazy.
I got up on my feet to stretch and Aoi came out a minute later. I said good morning to him and he just replied with a grunt. This was common for him on an early morning like that one, plus his eyelids were half-closed and crusty - not very attractive. I told him I was going to use his bathroom, which was pretty pointless, he gave me another grunt and fell limply on his couch and slapped Kai's head in the process. Kai jolted slightly from the table and said oww, which should have meant he woke up.
After I came out from the bathroom I was quite awake and I stop at Aoi's bedroom door where I saw two people in bed who obviously weren't Aoi's since I could still see he was still lying on the sofa outside. I grabbed a pillow that was on the floor and went cautiously towards the two figures in bed. As I predicted, it was Ruki and Uruha. To made the scene creeper than it was Uruha had his limbs clinging on Ruki while the latter just laid there with drool on the corner of his mouth. So, for my amusement, I dropped the pillow horizontally on top the two and leap like a frog on my lily pad, in this case was a pillow. Both of them woke up, groaning, yelling and cursing for a good while - they did not like my leap frog routine. I guess it got so noisy that we didn't notice Kai came into the room, but he really got our attention when he joined us in the bed. He jumped and landed right on me. The guy just doesn't like to get left out. Around the second time my rib got punctured by someone was when Aoi showed up and said, "You guys are making me sick. After I get out of the shower you all better be gone."
We all thought that was just Aoi being his usual grumpy self so we didn't think it was that big a deal. After that... or maybe it was before... no, there are other incidents too and it wasn't just Aoi. I have to get back to you on this.
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I've been feeling dead lately so I thought I'd write something, but now it just seems depressing.
No one wants their fave band to break up but you also need to know things don't last forever.
I was kind of wry about writing this, so I don't know if I should continue.
So, let me know what you think. I might also change the title.
Oh, and does anyone have suggestions for pairings? |
