{Yume#1 Chapter7.1: Glittering Lights}

Sho walks out of the Jimousho building, not even bothering to get into his car.  Oblivious of the people around him, he looked too menacing to be bothered or even recognized as an idol anyway.  His Mind raced again.  Did he really mean what he said?  He barely knew Jamie-chan.  He thought. She wasn’t even his type.  Well….he did like the way her smile crept up to her brown eyes, the way her hair curled softly down her back like a doll’s, the tinkle of her laughter when he made a dorky joke, their small heated debates on things that everyone else considered boring mostly ending up with either of them making a joke about the whole thing.  She got along well with others even if she does have a tad of frankness in her and yet she has a lot of playfulness for someone the same age as himself, only being born months apart.  She even liked kids, when her nephews came to visit her once.  Then it hit him cold in the face as he was about to cross the street with the mob.   He pulled the hoodie over his cap and mused, It was true…he felt it inside him, his heart beat faster every time she was near or when she smiled or talked to him.  He loved her.  He’s in love with her.  He was just a block away from the hospital now, he noticed.  He ran all the way there, wanting to see her and tell her what he has just found out for himself.   He had to tell her now or he’d be damned if he let Jun toy with her feelings, he thought as he raced up to her room.  The rapper knocked on Jamie’s hospital room door in a matter of minutes.  No answer.  He turns the doorknob, and goes into the darkness, closing the door behind him.  It was late evening and only the faint glow from the nightlight near the table was there to guide him.  The girl lay on her side, her back towards the light.  Her curls splayed over the pillow underneath her head as she hugged a big plush teddy bear that Jun had given her the day that he saw them in each other’s arms.  He wanted to snatch it away and throw it out the window but clamed himself.  Sho sat on the other side of the bed, just behind Jamie.  Reaching out to touch her cheek, his heart beat wildly, wanting to hold her in his arms.  She stirred in her sleep as he slowly lay beside her.  Luckily, she didn’t wake up just yet but turned towards him, letting go of the teddy and hugged him.  The young man stifled his laughter as she snuggled into the crook of his neck.  She must have thought he was either the stuffed toy or another pillow.  Sho smiled contentedly, loving the way her arms went around him.  She smelled of sakura blossoms mixed with something sweet, it was like a drug lulling him.  He kissed her forehead as he drifted off to sleep.

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At the Radio bar in Jingumae Shibuya-ku, the other members of ARASHI huddled over their drinks as Jun explained what he had been up to.  Even the master prankster Nino was in awe.

"So you mean to say, you never liked Jamie-chan???", the gamer asked before sipping his beer.

"Chigauyo, I like her as a good friend would ne.  If given a chance, I'd love to hang out with her but no more than that, "Jun said at length then proceeds to sip his martini languidly.

"Naruhodo," Satoshi nods, seemingly sharing the feeling towards Jamie-chan.  "She's got a good word for everyone ne."
"Sou desu kedo wakaranai yo.  I mean, why let your face get hit by Sho-kun?" Aiba asked, half-drunk from all the brandy he had already downed.
"Well, it was the only way to finish it off since I've already seen him fuming last week.  It only needed one more extreme move to get the effect I wanted.  And its worked ne," Jun smiled smugly.
"But like Aiba-chan said, why? And how did you know? I mean not that we really noticed he liked Jamie-chan," Nino was a bit persistent.
"I guess I was a bit too observant the day we all met her for the first time.  Sho had this look in his eyes that I only saw when he stared at Jamie-chan.  Like he was really focused and hanging on every word she was saying.  So I just had to do something.  I mean, knowing how dense he can be at times...I know that Sho-kun likes intelligent and simple girls.  Well, Jamie-chan fits those parts dakedo there's a bit of spark in her that makes her different that would make him think otherwise.  I had to make him look over those and see her for real, wakatta?"  Jun narrated.
"Hmmm...I think I did..." Satoshi said.
"Hmm...that's a new one Ohchan!  You usually just stare in the horizon..." Nino nudged the other half of OhMiya SK.
"Oi!! I may seem like I'm out of it most of the time but I'm taking in everything you say ne!" Riida said adamantly.
"I was just kidding ne!" Kazu put his arm around him reassuringly as he chuckled.
"I know.." he chuckled with him.
"Ne I wonder where Sho-kun is right now?," Aiba mustered after another glass of brandy.
"Well, its....5am already....." Jun said looking at his watch then the others looked at each other knowingly and started laughing and exchanged high-fives and cat calls.  At that Aibagot his keitai out and dialed Sho's number as he shushed the others.

In the hospital room, Jamie felt a faint vibration near her thigh and hear the background music for ShoBeat.  Her eyes fluttered open as her eyes tried to focus.  She felt a warm pillow cuddling her.  WAIT!!  How can a pillow cuddle a person?, she thought.  And it smelled faintly like...Tommy Hilfiger..Sho's cologne!  She squinted her eyes and tried to reach for her glasses, tilting her face up.  Her lips brushed against someone's full ones and before she knew what was happening, those same lips took hers in a long soulfull kiss.  Sho was mildly surprised at his morning wake up call of Jamie's lips.  He wasn't one to wake up easily but if this happened everyday, he thought, he'd love to wake up to it.  She wondered if she was still asleep and just dreaming of Sho.  That's when the lights went on and a girl's voice shrieked.  She opened her eyes and sat up, pushing whatever it was that was near her.
" ITAIII !!!" she heard a male voice cry out as she put on her glasses.   Her eyes took in the scene as it adjust ed in the bright atrificial light.  Sho was sprawled on the floor, cursing at whoever it was who called hinm on his keitai as Kathy, Annie, Lhukie and Tina looked on from the doorway.

"I hope we didn't disturb anything..." Tina laughed nervously, glancing at the others.

"J-jamie...h-how could you??" her eyes were brimming with tears

Writer’s note: will edit further….i am now too sleepy to type the next part ne..gomenasai..