the persistent knocks on his door retracted yuta from his deep slumber into the real world. he groaned in at the way his muscles all tensed up because he fell asleep in unconvenient posture as he was reading his copy of Murakami on the couch. it didn’t take much help for yuta to know that he has a visitor in this late night when the bell rang shortly after the rapping knocks. “hold your horses, good man.” he bellowed in slight loud voice when he threw himself out of the couch, making his way towards the door. “i swear to god, you could have could if you wanna stop by” he muttered under his breath and he took no time to waste to open the door with his sleepy face imprinted with undefined lines that made his skin red. he became mum momentarily when his eyes were telling him that it was clyde standing on his front door. this is all too weird, clyde, who never really sought his companion on lonely days (it is always yuta who came around towards the latter when he thought boring days will end up killing) standing in front of his rented apartment?. is the world ending or was it yuta hearing faint sobs coming from the other? this all too good to be a dream- “clyde… is this really you?” he asked briefly and he stepped out, shoeless to place his hand onto the latter’s shoulder. “I dont know what happened to you that made you an ugly mess but let’s talk about it, yeah?”