Captivation | By : Rina76 Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > Tokio Hotel Views: 6307 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
Disclaimer: I do not know Bill or Tom Kaulitz or any members of Tokio Hotel and this story is a complete work of fiction; it is all made up and not true. I am not making any money from the writing of this story. |
Chapter 23. Patience
I go to my room, still cut to the core by Tom’s vindictive words. Taking out a shirt from the cupboard, I bring it up to my face and smell it. I slip off my own shirt and put this one on, the soft fabric caressing my skin. It belonged to Keiichi. I curl up on my bed with my brother’s scent all around me, familiar and very much missed. When I wear one of his shirts, it comforts me. It’s like being hugged by him. Sometimes I can still feel him there, can feel his warmth, lying beside me. But when I reach out, he’s not there. He’s gone.I’m a twinless twin.And it hurts so fucking much.“Kei,” I whimper, closing my eyes and curling up into a self-protective foetal position. “Why did you leave me?”A long while later, I wake with dried tears on my face. Hours have passed. I must have fallen asleep and dreamt about my brother. That’s the only thing that makes me cry. Whenever I dream of Keiichi it feels completely lifelike, as if I’m actually there with him but when I wake up and realise it’s not real it only makes the loss and heartbreak return even more painfully and crushingly. It makes me question my sanity, not knowing if I’m ever going to heal or move forward from this soul-destroying grief, or if my lonely mind is just fracturing even further beyond all hope of recovery. Instead of lying in bed and sobbing for what I’ve lost, I get up, take my brother’s shirt off and start to train, violently punching and kicking the hanging bag in the corner, venting my frustration and anger.Sometime during my work out, the phone rings. I’m instantly alert. Something must be wrong in the twins’ room.“Bill?” I answer, frowning as I push my hair back and hold the receiver to my ear. “Is that you?”“Yeah. It’s me.” He’s whispering, as if not to wake Tom. “I’m sorry to be calling so late.”“Don’t worry about it. Is everything all right?”“Yes, I just…I can’t sleep.”He’s quiet, offering no further explanation but I can sense his anxiousness from here.“Is there something you want to talk about?” I ask gently.“Not in front of Tom,” he eventually whispers, fearful of his brother awakening and overhearing whatever he might say to me.“We could talk in my room if you prefer,” I offer. “How does that sound? Would you like me to come and get you?”“Okay,” he replies in a hushed tone.I go their room and quietly open the door. Bill’s waiting for me, dressed in sweat pants and a T-shirt. We sneak out without a sleeping Tom suspecting a thing. As we walk down the concrete corridor side by side, Bill notices in the dim lighting that I’m sweaty and my hair is hanging in damp strings. Plus, I’m not wearing a shirt.“Um, did I interrupt something?” He speaks hesitantly. “Were you…with somebody?”“No. I was alone.”“Oh…” He sneaks a glance at the veins sticking out of my pumped arms, probably thinking I was jacking off.Chuckling, I return, “I wasn’t doing anything sexual. I was just working out. You know, training and getting some exercise.”“At this time of night? It is night time now, right?”“It’s about 2.30 in the morning,” I grant him.“You couldn’t sleep, Koji?”“Not really.” I look across at him and the fatigue dulling his normally sparkling eyes. “Guess that makes two of us, huh?”He nods glumly, but doesn’t offer any reasons for his sleeplessness. I’m sure he’ll tell me what’s wrong soon enough.I quickly make sure my room is presentable for visitors and then invite him in. He looks around while I splash cold water on my face and chest in the bathroom. Towelling off, I comb my long hair and fetch a clean shirt from the closet. Even though I have my back to Bill, I can sense him watching me as I’m putting it on, so I make sure to stretch my muscles nicely for him, smiling to myself a little. I love it when he watches me. I adjust the back of my pants, letting him see the tattoo I have at the base of my spinal column, just above my ass. It’s a capital ‘K’, inked in black swirly Gothic font. My brother had one exactly like it, only his was on the nape of his neck. His stood for my name, mine for his. Bill is smart. I’m sure he realises what my tattoo means and who it stands for. I mean, I don’t love myself THAT much that I’d get my own initial permanently etched on my skin.When I pull the bottom edge of my shirt down and turn around the teen singer has quickly looked away and is suddenly marvelling at the antique samurai painting on the wall. Avoiding my gaze, he pokes the punching bag chained to my roof – making it swing a bit, picks up a framed black and white photo of Kei and I and then checks out the CDs in my collection including Rammstein, The Prodigy and Static X, all motivating to listen to when I’m training.“Oh, Negative!” He is reading the back of a CD case.“You like them, Bill?”“Of course. Especially Gravity of Love.”“Yes. It’s one of my favourite songs too.”I know he didn’t come here to discuss my taste in music but instead of asking, I sit on the bed and wait for him to initiate the topic of what’s really bothering him. Eventually, he takes a breath, turning around to face me.“Koji, I’m so, so sorry for what Tom said to you about your brother.”“You have nothing to be sorry about. You didn’t say it.”“I know but it was simply awful. I couldn’t believe he’d say something like that.”“Don’t worry about it - I’ll work it out with Tom later.” I tilt my head questioningly at the brunette boy in my room. “Is that what’s upsetting you? Or is it something else?”He gives a tiny shrug.“You can tell me anything, Bill.” I pat the mattress beside me. “Come here. You know you can trust me.”Swallowing, he lowers himself down on my bed, pressing his knees together and tucking his hands between his thighs in a very nervous manner.“Tom hates me,” he blurts out, sounding upset. “Last night, we were so close but now… He doesn’t even want to be near me. It’s like he can’t stand me any longer. What did I do wrong?”He gazes searchingly at me as if I have all the answers to everything.“Nothing,” I assure him. “You did everything right. He doesn’t hate you - he’s just scared.”“Of me?”“Not of you. Just at how your relationship is changing. And how quickly.”“But it’s a good thing. Why is he scared of that?”“Because it’s new. Tom likes being in control and doesn’t handle change well. What happened last night – he knows you want that to happen again and it’s a lot of pressure on him all of a sudden. When he was drunk, it was easy for him to let that control go. Now that he’s sober and reality has set in, he doesn’t know what to do. ”“I don’t know what to do either, Koji,” the younger twin admits. “It’s like Tom doesn’t even love me anymore.”“Don’t be silly. Of course he loves you. He said so today, didn’t he?”Bill pouts. “Only because you made him.”“I made him tell the truth,” I point out. “Putting Tom under extreme stress is my way of making him speak honestly. Otherwise he wouldn’t. He wouldn’t have said anything at all.”“He’s still not saying anything.” The brown-eyed musician sitting beside me sighs dejectedly. “He just tells me to go away and leave him alone.”“He’s trying to cope with what happened, Bill. It’s a big deal to him. Just as it is to you. He just has a different way of coping with it, that’s all. Give him time, okay?” I squeeze Bill’s narrow shoulder reassuringly and then slide my palm along his bare arm, coming to rest on his inner elbow, where the Freiheit tattoo begins. The skin there is soft and warm. I caress it with my thumb, offering him support and comfort. Besides that, I just like touching him. He glances down, noticing the scabs and bruising on my knuckles, his brows pinching together in concern.“What happened to your hand?”“Training accident,” I fib, not wanting him to know how Tom’s cruel words made me punch a cement wall. “It’s nothing.”I start remove my touch but Bill catches my wrist, carefully taking my fingers and closely inspecting them. They’re swollen.“Looks painful,” he sympathises, gently cradling my hand in his smaller, more delicate ones. I let him. It’s been so long since anybody has wanted to hold my hand. I forgot how nice a simple, sweet gesture like that can be.“Koji, would you tell me more about your brother and you?” Bill asks after a short while. “Like, how did your relationship change after you slept together? Did he go all weird and distant, like Tom’s doing?”“Kei certainly didn’t react like Tom. There was never any weirdness or distance from him at all,” I reply, realising how fortunate I was to not be rejected like Bill. “Neither one of us regretted anything we did together that night. The next day it was like we were walking on air – we were that happy.”“Did anybody ever find out?”“No. And we didn’t tell. We liked that it was our secret, that it was our special ‘thing’ and had no intentions of ever sharing what we did with anyone else. 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