Deja Vu

The next morning, Adam woke up to his phone, ringing. So, groaning to himself, he raised his hand and took his phone, reading its screen with barely-open eyes.

"Hello?" He answered.

"Rise and shine, beauty!"

"Ugh!" Adam groaned. "What do you want, Itsuki?"

"Tsk tsk tsk. Is that how you greet your best mate after days of separation?"

"I saw you last night! It hasn't been even twenty-four hours!"

"Don't change the subject!"

"I didn't–"

"–Is there anything you'd like to tell me?" Itsuki cut him off.

"Who are you? My mom?"

"Wha– ew! No!" Itsuki said in disgust. "I'm a guy!"

Adam rolled his eyes is disbelief.

"Anyway. Don't change the subject! As I was saying... Is there anything you would like to tell me?"

"Like what?"

"I dunno... Maybe you're hiding something?"

"Like what!?"

"I dunno... LIKE NOT TELLING ME THAT THE WOMAN YOU TOLD ME ABOUT CAME BACK!?"

Adam kept quiet for a few moments due to the amount of shock he was under.

"How do you kno–"

"–Come by the window." Itsuki said and Adam did as he was told to, wishing that what he was thinking wasn't true.

But it was.

When he pulled away the curtains and looked down, he saw Itsuki in the backyard on the phone, and next to him sat an amused Irene.

Itsuki grinned like a child and waved his hand at him.

"Damn it." Adam cursed under his breath. "Weren't you supposed to be in Japan by now?"

"The weather was terrible. The flight got canceled. B.T.W, your voice was on the speaker."

"B.T.W?"

"That means 'by the way', idiot. Have you been living under a rock?"

"I knew what it mea– oh, never mind!" Adam shook his head, stepping away from the window. "Wait for me. I'll get ready and be down in a few minutes."

"'Kay." By that, Itsuki hung up the phone.

The last person on earth that Adam wanted Irene to meet, was Itsuki. Because Adam was pretty sure that he wasn't one to be careful about what left his mouth.

So, as quickly as he could, Adam threw on a shirt, went to bathroom, and then exited his bedroom.

In order to reach the stairs to go down, Adam had to pass Irene's room. He was going to take his first step on the stairs, that he stopped in his tracks.

He turned his head and looked over at Irene's half-open door. Through its open part, the room's window could be sighted. And in front of the window, a desk was placed, with a jar on it.

Adam had a feeling, that something inside his mind was telling him to enter that door. As if, the jar was calling out to him.

Describing the feeling was impossible...

He didn't blink, he didn't breath. His feet were the only muscles in his body that moved as they carried him toward the door.

Adam hesitantly and slowly pushed the door open, not looking away from the jar on the small desk.

Two silver-blue balls of light were shining inside the jar, suspended in it, like two bubbles. You couldn't decide whether they were gas or solid; they just shown beautifully.

But that wasn't the weirdest part. It was the fact that those two silver-blue shiny lights, were circling around what looked like a moon.

It looked as if someone had stolen the moon and placed it in a jar with two balls of blue light inside it.

The weird feeling was still carrying Adam closer to the jar, until the point that he reached his hand out for it to take it.

His fingertips had barely touched the glass that someone came in the room urgently.

"DON'T TOUCH IT!" Adam turned around abruptly in shock. "STAND BACK!" Irene shrieked, looking as scared as hell. "Get. Out." She hissed, rubbing her teeth against each other.

By the look she had on her face, Adam knew that he didn't have to be told twice.

So he quickly left the room, leaving Irene and her jar alone.