Title: Lemonade
By: Lily & Jane
Notes: Because one day Lily craves pancake and lemonade but couldn't sneak out of work for any.
It goes something like this; every once in a while (to an almost exact yearly interval), Lockon would be stuck in a mood so foul that the people around him actively seek to stayed out of his way.
It was to say, a phenomenon most puzzling to him, Tieria Erde.
After pulling an extensive research for behavior altering conditions and left with two most likely choices after the elimination process (Lockon was healthy as a horse, thus ruling out any illness or disease). The most feasible possibilities left were 1. if Lockon was a werewolf and 2. if he was PMSing. The later found facts that these two conditions have a monthly cycle of repeat and not yearly however, did put a damper to his owns mood.
And with his disappointment in hitting a dead end in his research, the answer came to him. It was most likely that an outside factor is the cause of Lockon's PMS-like symptoms (irritability, fatigue, emotional distress, and sometimes depression.) Lockon was upset because a yearly event was troubling him.
He however, failed in his observation of this troubling event. So instead of offering a possible solution to solving the problem, he opts for a general advisory. A generic 'made the best out of everything' by way of common use idiom, so 'when life gave you lemon, made lemonade'.
He was utterly surprised when Lockon grabbed him by his wrist, pulled him along to the kitchen, and demanded him to make lemonade out of the given ingredients (a total of twelve lemons).
Post consuming his 'made the best of what life gave you', it occurred to him that Lockon was acting perfectly appropriate to the expected result. When life gave you lemon without sweetener and dilutive solution, what came out were just sourpuss.
So, with the acid-induced ache still in his teeth, he reached up on tiptoes to press his lips to Lockon's cheek in short, quick successions. The widened of Lockon's eyes however, was not an expression he expected and for a moment, he wondered if he was going to be swatted like a fly. Lockon then, inquired him of what he was doing, to which he reply (logically of course), and he quote.
"Adding sugar to your lemonade."