The Last Birthday Party by Mere Rain

Author:Mere Rain [Rain, Mere]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay romance
ISBN: 9781644050422
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-12-05T07:00:00+00:00

AN HOUR later. Maybe more than an hour. Akihito had lost track of time and of how many shots they had taken and also of what street they were on.

“Uhh….” After a bit of staggering onward, Kenji found a corner with a street name. “Don’t know where that is,” he admitted. He looked around. “Are we in Nippori?”

“Dunno, man. I think I missed some, sometime. Something.”

“Doesn’t your phone have GPS?”

“Yeah, but I have that, you know, that thing. That app, so when you’re gonna get drunk, you can’t use the phone.”

Kenji stared at him in bleary confusion. “Why would you want your phone to not work?”

“So I don’t call you and”—confess my love—“wake you up.” The first time he had gotten drunk, only fumbling fingers had prevented him from calling Kenji at two in the morning and pouring out his feelings.

“You can wake me up.” Kenji nodded earnestly. “You can always wake me. You should always call me.”

“I don’t need to cuz you’re here.”

“Right! And it doesn’t matter if we’re lost because we’re together.”

“Yeah! That’s right. We’re—we’re—what are we?”

“Lost.”

“No.”

“Yes, we are.”

“Yeah, but s’not what I meant. I meant—cuz we’re best friends! I love you!”

Kenji managed to get his arm around Akihito’s shoulders on the first try. “We’ll walk till we find some train tracks, and then we’ll find the station. I won’t let you fall down,” he promised, looking into Akihito’s face. “I’ll take care of you.”

Akihito threw both arms around his friend and buried his face in his collar. After a minute, he realized he was in danger of passing out and announced, “I need to piss!”

They located a tree, a necessary prop to remaining upright while urinating.

Kenji leaned forward till his forehead almost touched the bark. “Can’t you tell direction by the moss on the trunk, or something?”

“I don’t think there is any moss.”

“Oh. Which way you wanna go?”

“I dunno. Left?”

By the time they came to the tracks, Akihito was still pretty drunk, although not so drunk that he actually needed Kenji’s arm around his shoulders to keep him walking in a passably straight line. He hadn’t said so, or removed his arm from Kenji’s ribs, because it was night and December and Kenji might be cold.

The pair followed the tracks with their gaze, first one way and then the other, as the rails faded into darkness.

“Either way,” Kenji reasoned, “we must come to a station eventually.”

They went in the direction Kenji thought might be west, which might be the right direction for them to head, depending on where they might be now. Once a train zoomed past them, making them jump. A few minutes later, they reached a small stop, just a plastic roof to keep off rain, a light on a pole, and a schedule.

They stood blearily in front of the board, trying to make out the small print.

“I think it says every hour,” Kenji decided finally.

“We just missed one.”

“At least it isn’t that cold.”

“It’s kind of cold.” The straight, open space of the train line didn’t block the cool breeze the way the residential streets had.

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