Rien was entirely grateful when he looked at the clock to see that finally, it was almost time for Kippei and Shinji to be home again. He loved having Yuni all to himself for awhile, but she missed Shinji pathetically, and it wasn’t as easy to keep her distracted without Kippei there to help. He’d [...]

Shinji found a seat toward the back of his next class again and slid down into his seat with a disgruntled sigh. Maybe he should have just signed up for whatever Kippei was studying? Kaneda was bored, because the first day of school was boring, nothing but introductions and course schedules, professors going over outlines [...]

His hands were shaking horribly as he tried to do up the buttons on his shirt for the thirteenth time, at which point Shinji pulled it off and put on a long sleeved tshirt instead, sighing in relief to just have something on. Jeans, tshirt and his favourite cardigan soon followed and he hurried out [...]

It was late the next morning before any of them woke up, and when Rien squinted at the time and realised the others were still sleeping anyway, he went happily back to sleep. It was warm and cuddly under the blankets, and he’d never felt so good in his life. He meant to lay there [...]