「Light: Tokyo Edition; 光：東京篇」
pairing: oikawa tooru x f!reader.
summary: you found fool’s paradise in tokyo’s starry nights.
warnings: unrequited love, angst, insomnia, mentions of medication, warm beer.
word count: 1,145.
a/n: stylistically, this is quite self-indulgent. would love to know your thoughts!
Stars shone brightest between twelve and two. After that, they’d slowly turn off one by one, two by two, then ten by ten, like millions of supernovas reaching the last grain of their hourglass’s sand.
But stars did not go off with heart-thumping bursts. No, the stars of Tokyo turned off in slow and long exhales, as if weaved together, they’d collectively coddle and lull wanderers back and into bed in a symphony of saccharine lullabies. And when the clock struck a quarter to three, you, a stubborn inhabitant of this sprawling metropolis, would still be embraced by the infinitesimal glow of the city night. For regardless of its inhabitants or their quirks, Tokyo was gracious and sagacious to all who claimed it home, always providing just enough to coax its timid stragglers and wayward children home.
You followed Tokyo’s will-o’-wisps to your living room’s edge. They have served as your beacon from the first night you stepped foot in this city. They welcomed all of you: you, flitting through social hours at Ginza’s glitziest bars; you, mulling over your circumstances in a backstreet izakaya; and you, looking out at the expanse before you, cheap, warm beer as clinical company. The stars stood by you as you were kept awake by everything and nothing, mind scrambling for a piece of calm in this churning, turbulent sea while simultaneously shrinking at the prospects of static, open waters.
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