[#96] Some of These Happy Points are Days Old.

[tinyangl]

But I hope you guys don't mind me cheating. lolol

i. Happy stuff! :D
+ Last Friday, the 9 hour marathon Skype call with Jennie and Peyton. I still don't know how we spent so much time just babbling about who knows what. Although two hours of that were spent on Peyton on her pizza, from deciding if she should get it to the point when it was delivered. Another couple of hours spent talking fic - both je_ficgames and je_holiday. (Mainly Peyton and I spazzing to Jennie about all she's missed since she hasn't been reading fic.) I think all of us got phone calls from various people at some points (Peyton was miss popular). God, and I think they helped me try to solve a crossword puzzle. That I don't think I finished on that note. lolol
+ Peyton invited me to her place. "I have an empty bed for you." Bow-chika-wow-wow.
+ The episode Rashomama played on Friday. And that is, hands down, my favorite CSI episode of existence. If you watch CSI and have never seen this episode, you are so missing out. :DDD Pimpimpim.
+ I managed to convince Cyn and Jennie (although the second one was a joint effort with Peyton) to get twitters. Who rocks? :D (AKA, if you do not have a twitter. you should get one now. And then friend me. I'm tinyangl.)
+ Yamapi and V6 are going to be on VS Arashi. Who's ridiculously happy? I AM I AM. January 10th can't come any sooner. *____________*
+ Tegoshi wanting to be flawless. Total A+.
+ Tegoshi asking Yamapi to Karaoke straight out. Even more A+.
+ J-Friends' I Will Get There. If you've never heard it, you should now. Amazing fucking song.
+ Just Peyton in general. :D She knows why.
+ Toda Erika on Domoto Kyoudai. I didn't used to like her, but after Ryuusei no Kizuna and this interview, she's really growing on me. Also, Koichi's magic trick was fucking awesome. Making her birthday with the cards? DUDE. WHO DOES THAT?! Holy shit. Even if it's raw, everyone should watch just for that, honestly. It's worth it. *______________*
+ This picture of Okada, Morita, Miyake. Hysterical. Be warned, Okada's in his tightie whities. lololol
+ Subbed K-chan Episodes: 1 ♥ 2 ♥ 3 ♥ 4. All are absolutely hysterical. I totally recommend checking them out.
+ Getting my week of jesummary posted. :DDDD
+ Oh! Almost forgot. Grades are starting to trickle in. :DD A- for Grammar! Honestly? That's the only one that I thought would come close to a B (Granted, I don't know how Creative Writing prof will grade, so who knows). But hearing that it's an A makes me giddy. Maybe I'll be able to boost my average with this semester. Ridiculously happy.
+ I love my twitter. That is the only reason I have most of this list. lolol Looking back at my twitters so helps. XD

ii. Galileo Zero.
Finally managed to watch this despite downloading it ages ago. Ohmygod, so amazing. It only served to remind me that I really liked the drama and then I really wished that I saw Yukawa and Kaoru together again. Random points!

+ Yukawa being lecherous. Hysterical. I love the assistant trying to get girls to "play" with Yukawa but failing miserably.
+ The guy who plays Kusanagi. I'd seen him in a couple of other things, but for some reason, he was just really hot to me in this. I don't even know why.
+ I was genuinely surprised when I suddenly saw Masami show up. With her glasses and white coat. She thoroughly amused me though. Loved her interactions with Yukawa, trying to hit on him and convince him to stay by saying she had a really tiny bikini and then Yukawa going off on how it'd be great if girls wore bikinis to class. I was like WTF. LOL Also, love at the end when she leaves and he's babbling about love (as always) and she's like, he doesn't get it. Yukawa never did get a clue.
+ LOVED MIURA. Ohmygod. He had Yukawa down, honestly. I thought it was brilliantly acted and just all around amazing. ;alskdjlkasfjd I was honestly waiting for him to show up on screen and when he did, I flailed hard. :DDDD
+ The cases were good. I mean, I liked them but it's not like I can say much about them. lolol
+ This just made me want to find out what happens in the dman movie. Wantwantwant. alsdkjalfksjdf
+ OH. At the end of the special, we got a performance of Shibasaki Kou and Fukuyama Masaharu. SO BEAUTIFUL. OHMYGOD. I knew they performed together for this, but I'd never actually seen them together so seeing Fukuyama in the back with the guitar made me flail ridiculously.
+ Honestly, a good watch for those who saw Galileo before. And if you've never seen Galileo, what the heck are you doing reading this?! lol Seriously. Thoroughly enjoyed myself. :DDDDD Plus Miura = A+.
+ OH, random note. For a split second, Sailor Venus was one of the assistants. I was like OH HAY. LOOK WHO'S ON MY SCREEN! :D


iii. It's the holidays! I thought I'd be nice and offer up some of my writing (as terrible as it is). The last time I ask for prompts, I know I failed. DDD: Sorry. But this time, I have more free time (aka right now) so prompt me something to write for you! Granted, I have no promises for length, so it may range from one sentence to .....Well, let's not go there. lol So prompt away! :D No deadline that I can think of. Hopefully, I'll be better about this one. *dies*

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i really hope you don't mind AU (and utter fail). XD part 1

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XD I know I askedfor a ton of prompts and i end up writing the original request. I am made of so much fail. XDDDDDDDDD

Mildly AU in the sense that Ueda's still part of JE, but Koyama (and Shige) isn't.

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Koyama always saw him--in the same place, at the same time, with the same order, always staying until closing. (Which he makes up for by tipping big.) It's not that Koyama's usually curious about the people that would frequent the coffee shop, but there's something about that one person that just draws Koyama's attention to him.

He doesn't know him--not really. As much as anyone could know an idol. And Koyama knows he's an idol because he recognizes him, startlingly so--one of those Johnny's idols that tend to litter the advertisements around the shop, around the train station, hell, around Japan. He's almost positive that he's even one of the ones his sister fancies just a little bit--Ueda, Koyama thinks is his name--he never actually bothered to learn much else.

Koyama's always his server, not surprising when Ueda uses the same table every single time.

"Here you go," Koyama says politely, placing Ueda's cup of tea in front of him. Ueda never looks at him, never turns away from the window--just continues to stare out with this pensive, almost lonely look on his face that Koyama doesn't really know how to read. Sometimes, only sometimes does Koyama want to interrupt, want to talk to Ueda and ask him what he's doing, how his day has been or just, how are you.

But even though Ueda comes late at night when there are very little customers and really, what else should Koyama do other than stand behind the counter and blow the hair out of his eyes, but Koyama never does. Because he knows when someone needs their private time and Koyama can tell that this is exactly that. Ueda's private time.

Koyama only wishes he'd stop looking so sad and miserable.

--

It's weird when he sees Ueda--he's still not sure that's even his name--just sitting there, night after night. He doesn't even bring a book with him, or a music player to pass the time. More than once, Koyama wonders if he's spying on someone out the window. If there's someone out there that has the same routine Ueda does--Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 9 P.M. till whenever closing happens to be that day.

Koyama wants to know his story, his background even.

"You shouldn't be so nosy," Shige snorts when Koyama talks to him about this outside the building, cigarettes dangling from their fingers as they take their break for the evening.

Koyama shrugs. "When am I not?"

"Exactly. Maybe you should stop," Shige says, raising an eyebrow towards Koyama before he takes a drag of his cigarette, then throws it on the ground and stomps out the flame.

"But then I wouldn't be me." Koyama takes his last drag, leans his head against the wall behind him and shuts his eyes while Shige chuckles, already moving to go back inside.

"You've got a good point. What's Koyama without his nosy, nurturing side?" Shige laughs sarcastically; Koyama ignores him as he exhales, the cigarette dropping from his fingertips. The door shuts behind Shige, but Koyama stays outside, just staring up at the dark blue that seems spread through the sky, even above all the buildings--it's all Koyama can see.

He sighs, stamping out the remaining sparks of his cigarette before heading inside. Shige sees him, jerks his head towards Ueda who's sitting at his usual table--on a Wednesday--before telling Koyama that he'd ordered a cup of tea. His usual.

Koyama stares before rushing to get his order prepared, his mind filled with questions like why is he there.

Koyama doesn't ask though. Just goes about his business like always.

--

The next week, Ueda's not there on Wednesday--which makes Koyama breathe a sigh of relief--but while he still comes the regular days, Ueda ends up coming back on a Friday--irregular. After another week of Ueda messing up his own pattern--and maybe even Koyama's himself--Koyama can't bare it any longer.