"Thanks for having us over, Zanya!" Gao exclaimed.
They were standing in front of a villa that belonged to a relative of Zanya's. By hook or by crook, they managed to find out (who knows how they did it) that one of Zanya's relatives owns a villa by the sea.
"You guys wouldn't stop bothering me until I said yes so it wasn't really to my consent," Zanya replied to him.
"Hey Zanya, heard your relatives got a villa?" Kuguru asked.
"What?" he asked back.
"They do right?" Gao pestered the boy.
"Yeah, I guess."
"You know it's beside the sea right?" Kiri asked.
'Dammit, they know everything,' he thought as he gave a slow nod.
"Summer is really a pain without clear skies, seas, beaches, you know?" Baku asked, smirking at Zanya. The indigo haired boy heaved an exhausted sigh.
'I think I know where you guys are going with this…' he thought as he tuned out everything else they reasoned with him.
"Do you have the key?" Jin asked him, throwing his backpack down at the doorstep.
Zanya nodded before he unlocked the door. Gao and Tetsuya put one foot in and stopped right there.
"Get in already," Tasuku mumbled, swinging his sling bag around.
"It's-" Gao started.
"-just-" Tetsuya continued.
"SO AWESOME!" the both of them squealed. Tasuku, Kuguru, Kazane, Kiri, Baku and Jin stood on tippy toes, trying to take a peek of the inside. Megumi stayed emotionless though she did inch closer to the rest of them. Zanya sighed at their response.
"Why don't you get in then squeal?!" he asked, pushing the two blocking the doorway in onto the tiled floor.
"Oof! Hey!" Tetsuya exclaimed.
"Whaddya do that for?!" Gao asked angrily.
"We all have luggage and my feet are sore," Zanya replied, stretching his legs a little, rubbing his sock against Gao's butt.
"Dude, get your sock off my butt!" Everyone else sweat dropped at the sight of Zanya twirling his sock in circles a little while still against his butt, Gao immediately jumping away and hiding behind a sofa while peeking at them.
"And that's the end of the tour around the house."
"Wow, that's a lot of info," Kazane said.
"I think the bigger problem instead of remembering all the features of this house is sorting out the rooms," Jin said, cutting Kazane's train of thought.
"Sure thing. Who gets which room?" Kuguru asked.
"I'll take the downstairs guest room, if you guys don't mind," Tasuku said, heading over to put down his stuff in the room.
"I think I'll join you, actually," Jin mentioned and followed him in.
"Then how about Kuguru, Megumi and I take the one with maroon curtains upstairs?" Kazane asked, dragging Kuguru over to her.
"Sure, go ahead," Zanya said. The girls picked up their luggage and ran up the stairs to settle into their room.
"Then what about the rest of us?" Gao asked.
"There are five of us..." Kiri mumbled to himself.
"Three can take one room and two can take another," Baku suggested.
"Actually, I want to take my own room myself. You guys can divide the other two rooms among yourselves," Zanya stated, swinging his sling bag over his shoulder and heading up to his own room.
"Why don't you keep to your side of the room?!" the four heard Tasuku scream at Jin.
"Oh come on, you're not using that space anyways!"
"Still leave me and my space alone would you?"
"I'll think about it, prodigy."
"Okay, so let's agree. Whoever we share the room with, we do not put our stuff on the other person's space," Kiri said. The others nodded in agreement as they continued to listen to Tasuku and Jin's bickering.
"Girls, how are you guys?" Gao asked, stepping into the room beside Zanya's. The girls just finished unpacking and laid out a futon for Megumi as they turned to see him.
"We're good, I guess."
"How did you guys divide the rest of the rooms?" Megumi asked. "Oh and was that Tasuku's scream we heard?"
"Yeah, Jin was bothering him," Gao answered. "Baku and Kiri share one room while Tetsuya and I share one. Zanya prefers his own room."
'As expected of that guy...' Kuguru thought.
"What are our plans?" Kazane asked.
"I think we're either lazing around the house or going down to the beach later. You guys wanna come with us if we do go?"
"Of course we're going, that's why we brought our swimsuits," Megumi answered.
"Is Zanya going?" Kuguru asked.
"I haven't asked him yet. But I was thinking of going down to see Tasuku and Jin first," Gao replied. "Could you ask him for me?"
"I... guess."
"Zanya, are you here?" Kuguru called out as she knocked on his door.
"Yeah, come in."
"Gao and the others were just wondering if you would like to join us to go down to the beach later. You in?" she asked, closing the door.
"Yeah, sure thing. But I was thinking that we should just buy some food and rice or something from the market nearby. You know, for dinner," he replied.
"Good point. You want us to go?"
"No, I think I'll manage on my own. Thanks though."
"Hey, you never said you had a BBQ grill in the garage!" Gao exclaimed as he busted in without knocking.
"Gao please knock before you come in!" Zanya shouted.
"Sorry, man. Anyways, like I was saying... Can we do BBQ tonight?"
"Not a bad idea, Gao..." Kuguru replied, tilting her head to the side a little, falling into her happy imagination of the BBQ.
"Then I'll just go now," Zanya finished and slipped out of the room to the garage to get his bike.
"The sea feels so awesome!" Gao yelled out as he jumped right into the waves. The rest of the group ran onto the beach, joining Gao in the water. Tasuku decided to swim out deeper while the others had fun splashing around.
"Gao don't do it in my face!"
"Jin you splash me and you're dead."
"Baku with splashes like that, you can send me out to the ocean!"
"Hey guys, one of my bananas is floating away!"
Tasuku sighed at the group as he paddled the water to stay afloat while looking back at them toy around with each other. Just then, he saw something, or someone, in the fog near the bottom of the rocky cliff.
"Hello?" he called out shakily.
"I-is someone there?"
Phoenix: Cliff hanger, I know. Sorry Tasuku.
Tasuku: I don't think I want to know what's that, actually.
Phoenix: Readers, forewarning. This story is going to be really bland because I can't describe stuff in a very lively way, sorry. It's supposed to be a little creepier but I'm just no good at that stuff.
Megumi: Isn't there something you're forgetting?
Phoenix: Right, thanks. I'm going to update really slow this time around so please bear with it. Thank you all for reading my story, please review and forgive my updating speed!
