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Ena just got back from school, very tired but not in a sleepy way.
–I’m hooooome.
Akito was practicing with his group, her parents were out, no one was there. She knew that, but for some reason she had to say she had arrived. Maybe just because she was used to it?
She wasn’t too hungry, so she went to her room to rest, since it had been a long day. She lay down on her bed, put on shuffle one of her playlists and closed her eyes, just listening to it.
And while listening to her favorite song, she started dreaming, even though she was totally awake. In a simple but dark field of black flowers, someone running to a brighter place, with colorful and bright plants and the sun still up. A warm and happier scenery for them, who probably had an unpleasant life and wanted to become a better version of themself.
“I need to draw this.”
And just like that, she turned on the lights, searched for her colors, put her “music for when i draw” playlist, sat down and decided to try and represent her dream, even if she knew it would be hard.
And oh boy, it was hard as hell.
“Really Ena, flowers? Of all the things you could draw you decided that it should be FLOWERS? Are you dumb or something?” she thought while doing the sketch, searching for references on Google. It was difficult to represent them, they had too many details and for some reason they always looked off.
The lineart wasn’t too much at least… Except since there were so many flowers and a person she spent at least 4 hours on it. “Well, it usually could’ve looked worse”, she thought when she finally was over with it.
And then the colors. She had to think twice about which ones to use, since the drawing was divided in two. The illumination was even harder to imagine because of that, too – should the person be brighter since they’re heading to a place with lights, or darker since they still are and have always been on a dull land?
And when she finished, with the sun rising, she looked at her new artwork. She actually liked it, and that was hard since she was very, very exigent with herself. She took a photo of it, edited it a little bit so you could see it better and decided to post it.
But before that, she wanted to share it with Niigo, to see their opinion.
Well, to be honest, especially to see Kanade’s opinion.
“hey!! i spent the whole night drawing this, do y’all like it?” send.
She looked at the time. 6:23 am. Well, they would be sleeping at this time, and she should be too. She turned off her mobile, went to her bed and closed her eyes.
“Ding!”
A notification? Was any of them awake? Maybe Mafuyu got up sooner, or maybe Mizuki still hadn’t gone to sleep.
Oh my, it was Kanade.
She never had opened a message quicker.
“Enanan, I think it looks amazing. Not only you can see how you did your best, but the amount of details here is impressive. Your works are always good, but in my opinion this is one of your best art pieces. Well done, I love it!”
Kanade liked it. Kanade liked it. Oh Kanade liked it a lot. She blushed and almost starting crying.
“aaaah thank you so much ;; ily! :3”
How was she supposed to sleep now with that message in her mind? With how Kanade praised her? She smiled while thinking about her, who probably was eating cup noodles right now.
And then she remembered she forgot to have dinner. Oh fuck.
Well, time for breakfast.
She went to the kitchen, and found Akito there.
–Woah, you woke up earlier, you ok?
–I haven’t slept yet.
–Ok, that makes more sense.
She started preparing her meal.
–Oh, tonight I heard you complaining about something, how did that stuff go? – Akito asked.
–I think it went cool.
–Glad to hear that.
She kept thinking about Kanade’s message. She smiled again.
–What are you laughing about?
–It’s none of your business!
–Ooookay then.
After having it, she decided to have a quick nap, since she really needed to rest, she knew that otherwise when she went to her classes she would fall asleep there.
The quick nap: 7 hours.
Well, at least she felt like new now. Of course the first thing she did was check if her new drawing received any attention on social media.
And it didn’t. Sadly. Just 10 likes.
It was frustrating, to be honest. But at least she knew there were people who supported her.
And then noticed the new messages on the Niigo server.
“well done enanan! nice piece ;D you did so well”
“Good”
“come on yukiiii you could say more”
“More”
“that wasn’t what i meantttt”
She laughed a little bit. And then.
“I tried to make a little song based on the drawing Enanan did. This is just the demo, and maybe it is quite short, but I would like to have your feedback to know if I should change some parts”. K’s message. It had a MP3 file attached to it, with the name “After the black roses”.
Wait. What.
She tried to make a little song based on my drawing. Oh God. Oh fuck.
Download. Play.
It was an amazing song. With sad tones, like most of her songs, but with a warm feeling, transmitting perfectly the feeling of trying to get to a better place. It was such a perfect song, it felt more like Ena was the one that had inspiration on it.
When it finished, she noticed her tears running down her cheek.
Kanade was the only person that could make her feel like this. The only one who could make her cry with a song that wasn’t meant to make someone cry. The only one who could give her that warm feeling to her chest. The only one who could make her blush like this.
She was an angel. She knew it. There was no way someone that perfect existed.
But how could she reply to that message? There were no words to express her thoughts nor her feelings.
Her only ideas were “WGVDMSKHEGBCNDJFBNDS???” and she wasn’t going to send that.
But at the end she did send it because it was the only thing she could think of.
“oh no k i think you just killed enanan”
“i’m alive! i just. enhjdedbcbdjskxnb thank you thank you aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”
“I’m glad you like it :]”
Ena set the chorus of the song as her ringtone, and listened to it around 100 times that day. And cried around 101.
It was probably was one of the best moments of her entire life.