New Year Message- Daichi Sawamura
The streets were filled with snow and Christmas lights still decorated the houses. The scenery, to many, was beautiful, but you weren't the biggest fan of them. You'd rather see spring colours and cherry blossoms, not flashing lights.
You held a box with a cake, Daichi's favourite. Suga walked beside you, also holding boxes, but Suga only chose the sweets he liked best, not the sweets Daichi preferred.
"I hope Asahi likes it too," you said, "It'll be his birthday too while he's with us."
"Ah," Suga sighed, watching his breath turn to steam, "It's such a cool coincidence that they have a birthday one after the other and on top of that in the new year!"
"He'll come, right? I hate New Year's Eve when we can't all be together."
"He'll come! He'll spend some time with his family, but then he'll come."
It was hard to walk through the high snow with all that in your hands. Your feet were freezing, but your hands were covered in sweat from the exertion.
Suga and you arrived at a house with a giant gingerbread doll in the garden. At first he gave you some goose bumps, but you soon got funny with him.
"Daichi's brothers are really artists," Suga chuckled as he walked past the doll.
"At that age we used to do horrible things too!"
With each step taken towards the front door, the louder the children's voices got.
Daichi opened the door with a welcoming smile and let you in. You knew his happiness was amplified by the boxes. You hoped he could smile like that too because it was you appearing in front of him and not the cakes.
"Man, it's cold out there!" Suga said as he took off his jacket.
You walked towards the fireplace to warm yourself up. In that room, you couldn't tell there was a decoration. It was as if Daichi had decorated one corner, one of his brothers another and then his mother seemed to have taken care of the table. The most bizarre thing was the carnival ribbons scattered like Christmas decorations all over the tree and the ceiling lamp.
In short, chaotic, but enough to welcome you and make you want to belong there too.
The night was like every other night. You ate, talked and waited for midnight. Asahi appeared shortly after dinner time and the atmosphere couldn't have been more lively.
You looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was half an hour before the first rockets burst through the sky. You didn't feel excited at all, it was just another year of struggling with your feelings and the words that wouldn't come out of your mouth.
Your thoughts fed your anxiety and you went out onto the balcony of the house to deal with your stomach ache. It was cold, but you wanted a moment alone. How ironic: you liked to spend this date with your friends, but now you didn't want to see them. You wanted to get away from them.
You sighed and sighed. Your stomach seemed to ache more and more, so much so that you felt obliged to bend over yourself.
Suddenly, you heard the window that led to the balcony being rolled down and your name was pronounced.
"How can you be here? Go inside, you'll catch a cold!"
You ignored the typical fatherly speech and remained silent. Your hand went out to pat your tummy in an attempt to ease your despair.
"Are you okay?" Daichi let out a worried tone, placing his hand on your back.
"It's fine, the bathroom is just over there."
His words made you blush with embarrassment. But the bathroom wasn't the problem. That pain wasn't caused by your willingness to go there, but by the words you always wanted to say to him.
"Daichi..." you called out between grunts of pain.
"Do you want me to take you there?"
"What? No! Not that, you dumb!"
Daichi arched an eyebrow at your words. He ran his hand down your back, feeling your winter coat.
He looked at his watch and saw how little time was left until midnight.
"Are you guys going to stand there all day? I want to open this!" Suga shouted from inside the house with a bottle of champagne in his hand.
You raised your head and stared at the former volleyball captain, now looking more mature thanks to age. To your amazement, his eyes wouldn't take off from yours, and his hand, previously resting on your back, stopped when it touched yours.
"Come on, it's almost time" he pronounced with a gentle smile.
Your head nodded affirmatively and you stepped off the balcony with him, hands entwined in each other.
Asahi looked proudly at the two of you, but Suga didn't even care, he was just looking everywhere for the corkscrew.
"Hurry up, Asahi! The count is already being done!" Suga shouted in desperation, asking for help to find the corkscrew.
Daichi's little brothers, Daichi himself, you, Asahi and the TV were counting down.
In the last few seconds, just as you were starting to feel the adrenaline coursing through your body, you saw Daichi turn towards you and squeeze your hand tighter that he hadn't let go of yet.
"I always liked you" you heard.
Your eyes stared into his and your shock stopped you from uttering the last second of the countdown.
Suga managed to find the corkscrew and open the bottle with a bang just in time. Asahi screamed, startled, and put his arms over his head for protection.
"Happy New Year!" Suga shouted.
Happy belated birthday, Daichi!
And happy new year to you all! C:
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