31_days | [7-Jul-2008] [Please Teacher!] Mizuho Phone Home

Title: Mizuho Phone Home
Challenge: 7-Jul-2008 "domesticity of long-distance relationships"
Based on: Please Teacher!
Characters: Kei, Mizuho
Type: Humor; 100 words
Warnings: None.

Please Teacher! © Yousuke Kuroda / Bandai Visual / Studio Orphee / Bandai Entertainment.

Kei answered his apartment phone. "Hello?... Mizuho? I thought you were on a mission! Where are you?"

"About ten thousand light years out," Mizuho said over the phone. "I managed to patch my ship's radio through... oh, my..."

"Is something wrong!?" Kei asked.

"I'm passing a dust cloud," Mizuho said, "larger than the solar system, and back-lit with several nearby stars. Oh Kei, I wish you could see it. The colors are indescribable..."

"Wow," said Kei, not knowing what else to say.

"Do we need anything?" Mizuho suddenly said incongruously.

"Well," Kei said, "we are running kinda low on milk."