#kareamy

“Ah! And thus arrives my 

Karamatsu Girl

!” Karamatsu exclaimed, using his typical poor English when Dreamy arrived on the rooftop.

While holding his guitar under his arm, he tipped his pointed sunglasses at the girl, giving her a single wink. Dreamy sat down, her face flushing roseate from such a gesture despite its typical amounts of saccharine cheesiness. She smiled, but at the same time internally cringing somewhat at her crush’s tendency to be, as his brothers and the public described, “painful”. Karamatsu let out a quick chuckle, re-positioning his instrument until it was completely secure under two rolled up blue sleeves.

“So, what’s going on today, Kara?” Dreamy questioned, watching Karamatsu adjust his glasses to their full prime.

“I’ve only one request of you, my honey,” Karamatsu replied. “Today, it seems as though Apollo and his nine sisters have blessed me with the burning will to share my newest piece of music with the world! And what other way to start than for the most beautiful girl in existence to have the honor of hearing it first?”

“K-Kara…” Dreamy squeaked, covering her beet red face and trying not to giggle at the man’s metrical prose. She readjusted her own glasses, keeping half a composure. “So, what’s the song you have today?”

“Thank you for asking, Dreamy! Alack, t’is a ballad of deep longing; of dreams, and of a love that almost never was!”

“So, it’s another love song?”

“Eh– yes! Would you still care to hear it, my flower?” Karamatsu inquired, chuckling lightly but trying to remain suave for the girl he so cherished.

“Yup. Go for it, Karamatsu!”

Tipping his sunglasses upwards one more time and crossing his legs in his sitting position on the roof, Karamatsu began tapping his guitar base at a steady rhythm. A few taps later, he started strumming at the instrument strings, letting the wordless, upbeat music flow before the lyrics finally made their debut from his gentle fingers.

A long, long time ago

There was a volcano

Living all alone in the middle of the sea

He sat high above his bay

Watching all the couples play

And wishing that he had someone too

And from his lava came

A song of hope that he sang out loud

Every day

For years and years

“I have a dream I hope will come true

That you’re here with me

And I’m here with you

I wish that the Earth, sea, the sky up above-a

Will send me someone to lava”

Dreamy listened to her crush sing his ballad, her own heart doing leaps at his golden voice synchronized with his playing. Karamatsu kept the song up by focusing on his strums during the steadier instrumental break, but wound up staring back at Dreamy smiling contently for a few seconds longer than he intended. Snapping out of it, Karamatsu resumed his song and made himself keep singing when the next verse arrived, lacking enough time to fix his slightly slipping sunglasses.

Years of singing all alone

Turned his lava into stone

Until he was on the brink of extinction

But little did he know 

That living in the sea below

Another volcano was listening to his song

Every day she heard his tune

Her lava grew and grew

Because she believed his song was meant for her

Now she was so ready 

To meet him above the sea

As he sang his song of hope

For the last time

“I have a dream I hope will come true

That you’re here with me

And I’m here with you

I wish that the Earth, sea, the sky up above-a

Will send me someone to lava”

The tone of the song had gotten somewhat slowed in that verse, Karamatsu also simmering down on his own playing. He lowered the volume in his strums to make for a scene in the song, not noticing Dreamy was still looking on with her full attention, her heart practically soaring from the beautiful music he was making for her. His glasses seemed to be slipping off even more, to the point where they were ready to hang from his face. At the same time, Karamatsu’s face grew more sullen, pearls of tears pricking at his eyes just barely behind his loose sunglasses.

Rising from the sea below

Stood a lovely volcano

Looking all around

But she could not see him

He tried to sing to let her know

That she was not there alone

But with no lava his 

Song was all gone

Still strumming, Karamatsu moved his shoulder up to wipe the oncoming tears from his eyes, which made his glasses fall not only off his face, but off the roof too. Giving up, he sniffled up from his own song, tears flowing from his eyes at empathizing with the volcano, only he himself had no one to share a heart with. Dreamy saw her crush start to cry, morose guilt building up in her from the scene while Karamatsu remained oblivious, his eyes shut tightly to prevent more tears from falling. It was then she got an idea on what she could do for him, waiting for the right moment to come in the song.

He filled the sea with his tears

And watched his dreams disappear

As she remembered what his song meant to her

Karamatsu paused, sighing before opening his mouth to sing another lonely verse for him and Dreamy. It didn’t matter, anyways. It wasn’t like anyone, not even her, would care enough to sing along and share his ballad of his love. And yet, it was Dreamy he secretly hoped would reciprocate the own affections he had for her.

But when his mouth opened up, it wasn’t his voice that sang next.

“I have a dream I hope will come true

That you’re here with me

And I’m here with you

I wish that the Earth, sea, the sky up above-a

Will send me someone to lava”

His eyes widened, completely brightened and starry from Dreamy taking over the correct verse and sharing the lyrics instead. She smiled at him, Karamatsu’s face burning a bright reddish-pink color until his own grin cracked across his features, not a hint of his “cool guy” mask to be seen. Beyond ecstatic, Karamatsu resumed an upbeat strumming for the rest of the song, his heart pumping wildly from his love wanting to sing with him.

Oh, they were so happy

To finally meet above the sea

Altogether now

Their lava grew and grew

No longer are they all alone

With aloha as their new home

And when you visit them

This is what they sing

Dreamy leaned her head on Karamatsu’s shoulder, careful as to not mess up his strums. Karamatsu jumped slightly from the gentle sensation, nonetheless giving Dreamy the brightest smile he could fathom out of pure adoration for the love of his life. With that, Karamatsu and Dreamy kept up their new duet and singing the respective parts as if they were one.

“I have a dream I hope will come true”

“That you’ll grow old with me”

“And I’ll grow old with you”

We thank the Earth, sea, the sky we thank too

I lava you

I lava you

The two stared into each other’s eyes deeply, smiles having no intention of leaving their faces even when the last of the song lyrics came from their melodious vocal chords. And in that, they truly meant such words outside of the ballad as well.

I lava you…

Karamatsu ceased his strums, setting his guitar on his lap and pulling Dreamy close to him using one arm around her waist. He nuzzled his cheek in hers, eyes shut and content like his true love. Two hearts beat almost as one, gentle smiles on both faces and minds focusing on only the other of the pair. Their hands linked into each others, gripping somewhat tightly and brushing thumbs over the other. It was that moment, nothing could spoil the serene moment for either one of them.

…At least, until Karamatsu felt a large rock strike the back of his head, prompting him to let go of Dreamy and fall off the roof with a scream once all of his balance was lost. Dreamy snapped out of it, turning around to see Ichimatsu in the doorway, whistling not-so innocently and walking away bouncing another large stone in his hand as if he did nothing wrong.

“Ichimatsu!” Dreamy complained, puffing her cheeks and running in his direction to go help Karamatsu from the ground. Boy, talk about a moment with her crush completely ruined.