I Swear It Wasn't Like This Before (peaksp1der)
Toudou was busy staring at the closet in his room. He could have sworn that the shelf that had been holding his shoes hadn’t been broken before he had run out to the pet store and returned with the small hedgehog and everything a hedgehog owner would be need. He had placed everything on his dresser before he had gone to his closet to dig out an old blanket that the small critter would rest on while out of its cage.
Only to find that a shelf was broken. He stared at it suspiciously for a moment. ”What…?” he asked him quietly. ”How?” It couldn’t have broken on it’s own right? ”Maki-chan!” he called. ”Do you know why the shelf in my closet is broken?”
Shit.
Makishima burrowed further against his pillows, holding the gravure magazine he was reading closer to his chest - just in case Toudou came in to grill him.
"Eh?" he called back, lining his voice with the usual irritation a chat with Toudou required. "How should I know? I never go in your room." Which for the most part was true, except for today.
Makishima never minded too much about being compared to bugs - especially spiders, since "Peak Spider" was a much cooler nickname that Toudou's "Sleeping Beauty." Yet, when confronted with an actual spider, Makishima's nerves weren't always as calm and collected as he hoped them to be. At first it was all good, an unspoken respect between human on bed and spider on ceiling - until the damn thing decided to descend and crawl all over him.
Ultimately, the fiasco ended with a broken shelf and a lost spider stalking it out in the dark corners of Toudou's room.
