Chapter 008: Morning

"Enyu don't, please Enyu stop dear, don't do that please darling, stop it!"

Enyu jerks up from his sleep, head aching while soaked in his own sweat. He looks around trying to figure out where he was at again and remembers he was sleeping over with Eri. Enyu turns to look at Eri as she's facing the wall, sound asleep. He lays down putting his arm over his eyes and taking deep breaths.

When he finally calmed down, Enyu grabbed the phone beside him, it was still a bit dark out so he was wondering what time it was. Five in the morning, Enyu says to himself, as he closes his phone and puts it down again.

Enyu slowly gets up and leaves the room, both quietly opening the door and shutting it as he makes his way to the bathroom. He went inside the bathroom opening the lights and slowly closing the bathroom door shut. Enyu looks at himself in the mirror, there were bags under his eye.

It seems he didn't get enough sleep and he should probably get a bit more rest, but after that "dream". Enyu decided otherwise as he washes his face and takes off his shirt. His shirt was soaking wet so he rinsed out some water before putting it around his neck to let it dry.

Enyu used the towel hanging on the shower curtains and wiped the sweat off his body. He had a fair physique as his muscles can be seen throughout arms and legs and some packs are beginning to form on his stomache. There were plently of scars on it to, though most seem to be little scratches of sorts from a knife, it still ached when he touches them.

After he was down wiling down his body, his stomache groweled, he was hungry and realized neither him or Eri ate much nutritious food yesterday. Enyu puts up the towel and leaves the bathroom as he makes his way towards the kitchen. After passing through the living room with still had a sweet scent from the cake yesterday, he openes the fridge in the kitchen.

Though there wasn't much, there were a handful of vegitable's, as he takes a few carrots, a bag of frozen pea's, some geen onion's, and a tomato out. With these he had an idea of what to make as he looks through the cabinet's, he took out some seasoning and most importantly, soy sauce. Enyu checks the rice pot in the kitchen and there were some left over rice left, as he grabbed the bear apron hanging by the fridge and put it on.

Enyu grabbed some pan and oil as he puts the pan on the stove and turns up the heat. As he lets it heat up, Enyu finally cuts the carrots, green onion, and tomato's to reasonable pieces as he places it all into a bowl. He takes a handful of the rice and puts it into the bowl to as he slowly mixes it a bit. After he finally got the rice ready, he put oil in the pan and slowly poured the rice with vegitable in.

As the sound of sizziling food and smoke come out of the pan, Enyu lowers the heat a little and starts putting the seasoning and soy sauce on as he stirs and mixes it all together in the pan. As Enyu stirs and cooks the food, he as a strange feeling he might've forgotten something.

Then it hit him, eggs, as he hurries to the fridge taking out three eggs from a carton. He grabs a bowl, making a handful of noise as he cracks the eggs into the bowl and starts stiring it with a fork as fast as he could before slowly pouring it in with the rice hoping he didn't end up ruining the whole thing.

Eri was asleep as her face twitches and her body shrivles under the blanket. She was having a nightmare, it was a reaccuring one of her parents accident, and the scene would play over and over in her mind.

As Eri gets cold and hugs herself, an aroma of something nostalgic fills her senses. It reminded her of the times when she was young, her parents were still around and they would eat outside on the glass table, as her dad cooks fried rice out on the grill.

It felt so surreal and it was heartwarming, a feeling she missed and wanted so badly as Eri wakes up with her eyes teary. Though when she sits up, Eri notices that there was indeed the smell of friend rice coming somewhere as she looks over to see if Enyu was asleep. Notcing he was out of bed, Eri slowly got out of bed herself, leaving the room and slowly making her way towards the kitchen.

As she approaches the kitchen, she can hear the sizzling of a pan and a person beginning to form around the corner. Eri looks at Enyu cooking as she notices him shirtless underneathe the apron, his back turned away from her as he was cooking. Eri begins to blush as she stops her from thinking anything inappropriate, shaking her head intensly.

Enyu, satisfied with his cooking, turns off the stove as he grabs a new bowl, he picks up the pan and scoops the fried rice into it. Enyu puts the supplies into the sink, he takes off the apron and hangs it as he see's a person at the corner of his view. Enyu turns and notices Eri watching him, also noticing her get red as she checks him out. Enyu looks down to see what she was looking at as he rememebers he was shirtless.

Emberrassed, Enyu tried to explain himself, telling her how he woke up drenched in sweat and was just letting his shirt dry. All Eri could was nod, trying to avoid staring so much as she backs away to the living room.

Enyu quickly puts on a shirt as Eri sits on the floor, forgetting they still need to get the couch out the garage. Eri, trying her best not to look, but still peeking glances at Enyu as he puts his shirt on, she see's some of his scars and wonder's what could've happened.

Enyu comes towarss her, bring some plates, spoons, and the bowl od friend rice as he sets it all down onto the table in front of Eri. It smelt really good, and Eri thought it would taste as good as it smelt. She grabs a plate and a spoon setting it in front of her, Enyu does the same. Before the two of then ate, they grasped their hands and thank god for the food.

As Eri puts her plate out, Enyu smiles at her a puts a scoop of fried rice onto her plate. She grabs her spoon and scoops it up, unable to contain her urge to eat it anymore, she put the food in her mouth. Enyu looks at Eri as she's crying, he starts worrying and tells her she doesn't have to eat it if its bad. Eri shakes her head it wasn't that. "I forgot it was hot and burnt my toungue" she says sticking her toungue out in pain.

Though the pain was partially the reason she was crying, Eri had another reason to cry over the food. It was how she was able to feel that feeling again, the one she missed for so long, she got to feel it again when she never thought she would. Eri wipes her tears as she gets another spoonful, blowing on the food before eating it again, enjoying every flavor it had to offer.