A/N: WAHH! It feels so long since I've actually made a chapter. Well here is my (extremely) belated Valentines Special! Hope you like it! =3
How long must I hide?
Why can't I just reveal it?
These feelings for you...
The 24th of November
Forcing a smile in front of her male classmates, Adelaide's eyebrows were slowly twitching at how she got to be surrounded by so many boys from her class, giving her presents and greeting her one after the other. Its not like it was a bad thing, but….
"Okay people! Move along! Bestfriend of the birthday girl coming through!" Artemis shouted as she shoved through the boys, almost being pushed back and falling face down in the process before making all the boys leave. She began to breathe heavily as she finally reached Adelaide's desk, out of breath from shouting. "Aren't you bothered by all the ruckus they're making?" Artemis whispered so the boys wouldn't hear as she sat cross-legged on top of Adelaide's table.
Adelaide shook her head and smiled. "Its fine, its not like they're doing something bad are they?" Artemis heaved out a sigh. "And to think that we wouldn't be noticed too much by the students…" she glared at the boys from the corner of her eyes.
"Speaking of boys, where's your brother?"
Artemis shrugged and stood up. "Nii-san! Where are you!" she shouted but there was no reply. The bluennette bit her lip before taking a deep breath and shouting: "APOLLO NII-SAN!"
Still nothing. Adelaide leaned on her seat. "He's probably gone to the bathroom or something Artemis, it would be better if we wait for a while…". Artemis heaved out a small sigh. "Guess I have no choice then…." she said and got up on Adelaide's table and covered her nose and did a few vocal exercises to make sure her voice sounded different and started shouting in Latin.
"Paging Apollo Vaciller! Paging Apollo Vaciller! Soror est currently raperetur! Inquam, sis soror RAPERETUR!"
Suddenly the door was banged open and a brown haired boy got in holding a broken metal pipe got in, his blue-green eyes filled with anger.
"WHERE IS HE? WHERE'S THAT BASTARD THAT DARE TRIES TO-" Apollo cut himself off and gawked as let go of the pipe when he saw Artemis waving to him from atop Adelaide's desk. Adelaide covered her mouth and tried very hard not to laugh.
Apollo scratched the back of his head in embarrassment as he made his way through where the two girls were, while people were staring at the three of them wondering and whispering to each other if the other knew what the message
meant.
"Seriously Artemis, that wasn't funny! And get down from there, you'll fall! " Apollo started scolding his twin as he finally reached them, Artemis laughed as she sat down at her bestfriend's table before crossing her legs. "Sorry Nii-san, but you wouldn't answer so I needed to take drastic measures…." the girl smirked.
Apollo rolled his eyes. "How unlady-like of you, as always."
The female twin shrugged. "Well it isn't my fault, dad didn't want a girl, so he raised me just like you. Man I can't even imagine what I would look like if I was raised like a girl…." And with that thought she shuddered in disgust. "Aw man! I can't even imagine me in such girly clothes without getting disgusted!"
Her twin brother let out a sigh. "If you don't ever get married, don't go crying up to me to comfort you little sister." Apollo said and patted her head. Artemis' eyes suddenly turned sharp. "I'm your twin for crying out loud! Not your younger sister!" she ranted.
"Yeah yeah, I'm just teasing you…." Apollo laughed which turned Artemis' angry and annoyed expression to a childish pout. Adelaide smiled as she just silently watched them argue from the background, trying hard not to heave out a sigh before seeing a familiar brunette wave at her.
Daisy?
Adelaide quietly got up and sneaked from behind the twins, still bickering with each other before safely walking over to Daisy's direction, the two siblings still not noticing that she has left her desk.
"Do they always fight like that?" the girl asked as they walked along the corridor leading to the school's cafeteria. Adelaide nodded and sighed. "Only most of the time though."
"I see…those two are so close to each other aren't they?" Daisy giggled.
The blonde smiled as they sat down, Daisy sitting in the seat parallel to hers. "Speaking of which, do you have someone special to you?"
Someone…s-s-s-special..?
Adelaide felt her face heating up. Why oh why must she ask these kind of things? The girl looked at the table and started playing with her fingers hidden under the table. "N-no, no one in particular at least…" the girl blushed a bit harder, wishing that it was hardly noticeable.
Daisy giggled. "You look so cute when you blush…no wonder so many boys like you…" she giggled again causing Adelaide to blush harder. "So by chance do I know this special someone?" Daisy smiled though to Adelaide right now it seemed to resemble a smirk, though she could have been hallucinating.
Adelaide looked at the floor again, her bangs now shadowed the upper part of her face as if to hide her blush, which was probably getting redder by the minute if only she could see it. "Well…..I….."
"I was just joking Adelaide."
Adelaide wanted to let out a sigh and tell her never to tease her about that kind of things ever again, but she knew better than that since it will mean that she was lying about what she said earlier. But talking about the person who she likes, it was practically driving her crazy! But even if she'd tell her she would bet her entire fortune that she'd already have guessed who it was in no time flat, besides he just happened to be Daisy's childhood friend!
The girl looked up to see the girl in front of her softly giggling. "Adelaide's your face is heating up again…." Adelaide felt herself blush harder and tried her best not to panic. Why is it that she has to be so childish at times?
"Here….."
Daisy smiled and handed her a pink box with a big ribbon tied to it. Adelaide finally stopped blushing and smiled as well before taking the present.
"Thank you Daisy."
"No problem. Open it!"
"Now?"
"Yup! Its gonna melt if you don't!"
Melt? Adelaide thought as she opened the box, untying the ribbon before lifting the lid to find about a dozen chocolate bonbons. So that's what she meant by my gift melting…..
"Go ahead and try it!"
The blonde nodded and plump one into her mouth and smiled. "Thank you Daisy. Its very delicious…."
Daisy giggled. "I'm glad you like it, by the way….." the girl smiled and intertwined her hands together. "Did Tom and Mike already greet you today?"
Adelaide blushed a bit at the name of her crush. "No, no he-I mean, they haven't."
Daisy nodded and sighed. "Maybe they don't know its today?"
The girl shook her head. "I don't know actually…." Her gaze was at the floor now again. They've only known each other for only about five months now, so she's not so sure that they knew when her birthday was. She heaved out a small sigh and Daisy did the same.
"Did the twins give you their gift already?"
"Yes…." Adelaide said and brought out a small cream colored stuffed teddy with a orange scarf around its neck with orange goggles on its head. "I wonder where they bought it though since we can't leave campus and all….." Daisy nodded in agreement.
"Maybe they got their parents to bring it here?"
Adelaide shook her head. Of all the things there father would do for them that was the last thing he'd do, tied up with letting Artemis go to an all girls academy where she'd learn proper etiquette and learn to be a lady and all. He'd probably kill himself first before he lets a child of his forget the ways of a soldier…
Knowing them they probably snuck out at night to buy it though…..
The girl returned the stuff toy back to her bag and finished the chocolates when a sudden thought came up to her mind. "Hey Daisy did you make these all by yourself?"
The brunette nodded. "Yup! Why'd you ask?"
"Its nothing…."
"Well if you say so." Daisy got up and straightened her skirt. "Oh and do you think that Artemis and Apollo are doing okay back in there?" Adelaide giggled at what she said.
"Definitely. Those two won't even be able to live without each other, they'll be just fine."
"You sure?"
Nodding, Adelaide got up as well and bid her goodbyes to the brunette before heading off to class even though lunch break wasn't over yet. Problem was, she didn't look where she was going….
THUD!
"Ow!" Adelaide murmured and sat up to see her books and papers all scattered about. She blushed as she looked in front of her to see a brown haired offered her a hand.
"Hey, you okay Adelaide?" he asked, his jade green eyes filled with concern. Slowly nodding, Adelaide took his hand and blushed harder before getting up, He flashed her a smile before helping her pick up her books scattered throughout the corridor.
"Thank you Tom…" Adelaide whispered and stroke some of her hair behind her ear since it was getting on her eyes. He smiled as he handed her the books.
"No problem." Adelaide nodded while looking at the ground as she took them back when the bell suddenly rang. "Well, we better get to class soon." he said and started walking off. "Oh and uh…..Happy Birthday Adelaide" he smiled and walked off.
Adelaide felt her face heating up, fast.
He remembered...
"Hey, Adelaide! HEY!" Artemis shouted and waved her arms in front of the blonde who was daydreaming and keep on smiling. She's been like this for about three periods now, which was definitely not like her, at all. The bluenette bit her lip while her brother sighed.
"What the heck happened to her?" Artemis looked at Apollo who shrugged.
"Why are you looking at me? Besides you know her much better than I do…."
The bluenette sighed and nodded and clicked her fingers in front of Adelaide's eyes, who was still in a daze. "For crying out loud Adelaide…WAKE UP!" Still no reaction, she didn't even blink!
"Argh!" Artemis held her head and started to trash around.
"Vae! Quare non expergiscere! Hoc supponitur esse natalis post omnes! Vigilaveris! Vigilaveris! VIGILAVERIS!" Artemis bellowed which caught the attention of all the people remaining in the room, some students walking in the hallway even shot her some looks and some even shook their heads.
"Adelaide snap out of it!" Apollo said and banged his fists on the table which finally caught her attention.
"Hm?" she said and finally came back to Earth. "What is it Apollo?" she asked which almost made Artemis explode in anger.
"Why did you notice him? I've been calling for you to wake up for about a hundred times now and you weren't able to! Seriously Adelaide what happened to you?" Artemis asked, her eyebrow twitching to show that she was clearly annoyed. Adelaide sweatdropped. Suddenly she felt herself smile as she thought about what happened that morning and blushed a bit. Should she tell them? Oh what's the harm in doing that….?
"WHAT?" Artemis shouted, her jaw would have probably reached the ground if it could. "Adelaide why in the world are you excited about that?"
Apollo wasn't listening as he put he borrowed his sister's headphones and played his iPod on to full volume so he couldn't hear her rant over and over again. Adelaide on the other hand tried to calm her down, but unfortunately with no success of doing so which just made her shout even louder in rage.
As expected, it took quite a while for the girl to finally calm down, her hair was slowly starting to lose its bluish color since she was inside for quite some time now, and so was her brother's, making them look even more alike if possible, but with Artemis' less than shoulder-length hair, it was kind of hard not to tell them alike, if it wasn't only for their genders of course….
"By the way, class was pretty quiet today, well, I wouldn't be surprised since Michael wasn't here….." Artemis grinned and started polishing her knife, which was supposed to be kept hidden for crying out loud! "I wonder if he's skipping classes again?"
"A-Artemis, you shouldn't be showing that thi-thing in class you know, even if we're the only ones here…." Adelaide stammered as her bestfriend sighed and returned the knight to its sheath located underneath her jeans. Apollo could only shakes his head as he took the headphones off and put them on top of the table on Artemis' desk right next to where she was sitting….cross-legged on.
"I wonder where Mike is though…..it feels kind of weird without having anyone to beat up…"
Artemis sighed and received a smack on the head from her brother which almost caused her to fall down.
"Wah! Nii-san what did you do that for?"
"Because you keep on being such a sadist, that's why."
"Nii-san…."
"Yeah?"
"What's a sadist?"
Apollo stayed quiet for quite a while. "Artemis if you're joking with me then you're doing a good job about it…."
"I'm not joking Nii-san."
"…"
"Nii-san?"
"…I'm going for a walk…I think I'm hallucinating…."
"O…kay….? Well see you later then, I guess…." Artemis stammered, obviously at a loss for words.
"Could we at least expect to see you at the party later?"
"Y-yeah…I guess….."
The two girls heaved out a sigh once he finally left.
"What's with that guy lately…..?" the bluenette started scratching the back of her neck
"Maybe he's not having enough sleep?"
Artemis shrugged and sighed as she looked out the window. "Shouldn't we already be decorating for the party?"
Now it was Adelaide's turn to sigh. "Do we really have to? Besides I reaaaally want to spend my birthday in peace."
Her bestfriend heaved out another large sigh.
"Fine….besides this time we don't exactly have that much space to celebrate anyway…."
Adelaide smiled and nodded as they both got out of the classroom, only to be greeted with a familiar face.
"Adelaaaaaaaaaaaaaaide~"
The two girls expressions turned grim as Robert headed their way, hiding one of his hands behind his back. Artemis' eyebrows started to twitch in annoyance as she pulled out her whip making the boy blink a few times.
"Now now Artemis this isn't them time to fight~ Besides today's Adelaide bi-"
"SHUT UP ERAGOR!" Artemis bellowed and swung her whip at him causing him to jump and laughed.
"Miss me!"
Artemis smirked and began to twirl her whip around and tied it around his foot before grabbing the leather whip and pulling it back making the boy fall face down to the ground before grabbing Adelaide's hand.
"Come on!" The girl said and pulled her over to the girl's dormitory before Robert could wake up.
After a few minutes they finally reached the front door of Adelaide's room, the only room in the building that was a person was allowed to stay in alone instead of sharing it with another girl.
"You okay?"
Adelaide nodded as they got inside, the room was pitch black. "Huh?"
Artemis grinned as the lights turned back on revealing her room had been decorated with streamers and balloons.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADELAIDE!"
She yelled and later on got hit by a shoe.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?" Artemis turned around, her eyes narrowed as she turned around only to see Apollo standing there with only one shoe on.
"We were ALL suppose to greet her at the same time, stupid Artemis." He sighed which made Artemis even angrier.
"BUT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO HIT ME FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! AND I THOUGHT YOU WENT FOR A WALK? DON'T TELL ME YOU WERE HERE ALL ALO-" Artemis was cut off as her brother hit her gently on the head.
"Come on Arts you're going to cause a commotion here again…"
"Why you…." Artemis grit her teeth as she started scolding her brother, who obviously just ignored her.
Adelaide sweatdropped as a giggling Daisy walked towards her.
"They're so close to each other aren't they?" she asked, still giggling a bit at the sight of the twins fighting.
Adelaide nodded and smiled before someone tapped her shoulder.
"Hm?" Turning around, she suddenly felt her face heating up to see Tom standing behind her.
"Hey."
"Um….h-hi….." the girl stammered and looked at the ground. Noticing the girl's sudden switch of personality, Daisy giggled a bit before smirking.
Oh Tom…just make a move on her already…
"Well, happy birthday Adelaide…."
"Um…T-thank you Tom…."
"Y-yeah…hey, I got something fo-"
"Hey you guys! A little help here please!"
Tom was cut off Mike knocked on the door before coming in carrying a large box, catching the attention of everyone in the room, even the twins who stopped pulling each other's hair off.
"Phew! That sure was heavy…" he said finally placing the cake on top of a table and smiled devilishly as he saw Adelaide. "Did I miss anything?"
"Um….no." Tom said and scratched the back of his neck.
"Though I wished you didn't come to the party…" Artemis whispered to herself earning a flick on the back of her head by her brother.
"OW!" The girl glared at her twin, who was too busy trying to find something from his bag.
"Well then I hope everybody hasn't given their gifts out yet since I still have to give mine~"
Oh shut up Michael…..The bluenette heaved out a sigh as she got herself a cup of juice from Adelaide's refrigerator and drank it all up in one gulp.
Mike smirked as he untied the ribbon around the box revealing a three layered strawberry cake. "Well? What do you guys think?"
Tom rolled his eyes before tightening his hiding his arms behind his back again. Artemis on the other hand, was drooling as she looked at the cake.
"Cake…." she continued to mutter over and over again which made Apollo sigh.
She never changes…..
"So how do you like it Adelaide?" Mike asked and pumped his fist on his chest multiple times.
"Um….Mike…." Adelaide began, as she looked at the three layered cake with strawberries layered on top.
"Yes…?"
"Is that cake…made up of strawberries?"
"Uh-huh."
"It would be rude to say this but…."
"Come on! You can tell me!"
"Sure you wanna?
"Yup!"
"Mike…" Adelaide took a deep breath before facing him. "I'm allergic to strawberries."
"…You're joking right?"
"Sorry….."
Mike blinked a few times before going to sulk in a corner.
"I skipped classes just to make that cake and it was all for nothing….."
"Hey Mike, can I eat it instead?" Artemis asked, her flirty personality showing itself, unfortunately this time Mike was too depressed to even notice.
"Sure…."
"OH YEAH!" Artemis shouted before grabbing a fork and started to eat to her heart's content.
"A-Artemis…."
"That's my sister for you….." Apollo sighed before going to get a drink.
Tom sighed as he walked towards Adelaide. "That guy seriously has to learn not to get so discouraged so easily…." Adelaide blushed seeing they were the only ones in the room seeing the others were eating at the kitchen, excluding the currently emoting Mike in the corner.
"Yeah...I guess so…" Diverting her gaze to everywhere inside the room except at him.
"So…um…." he stammered as he brought a pink box out when her phone suddenly rang.
"Oh, sorry I have to take this…."
Tom nodded as Adelaide smiled at him before leaving the room. The boy sighed as he held on to Adelaide's birthday present.
"Hello?"
"Happy Birthday Adelaide!"
The girl smiled at the voice of her cousin.
"Camilla sensei!"
The voice on the other sighed laughed. "That's me! So how are you doing in the Academy Adelaide?"
"I'm fine…."
Artemis looked out the window and watched as Adelaide giggled and laughed as she talked to Camilla on the phone, still not finish eating her, or rather supposedly Adelaide's cake.
"She's taking quite a while isn't she?" Daisy asked while Artemis nodded seeing she was too busy with her cake before noticing Tom enter the kitchen.
"Wonder who she's talking to…"
"Probably her parents..." Artemis said before engulfing yet another piece of cake. Apollo let out another sigh as he took another sip of his drink.
"Yes. I know. Okay, bye." Adelaide sighed as she turned her phone off, feeling her face heating up.
Did you meet someone you like?
"Sensei...what made you think of such a thing?" she shouted and covered her mouth, blushing harder before going back into her room, only to find Tom standing there.
"What took you so long?" Adelaide felt herself blush even harder.
"Its nothing, my cousin called me that's all…"
"Oh, I see….."
The girl nodded, her gaze on the floor.
"Well I guess I'm the last one to give you your present today then…."
The blonde gazed up to see him hand her a pink box and blushed a lot harder than she already was.
"T-thank you Tom…" he smiled
"Open it."
Adelaide nodded before untying the ribbon and lifted the lid before gazing upon a white iris necklace.
"Artemis told me that it was your favorite flower…."
"R-really?" She couldn't believe what she was hearing. Artemis? She actually told Tom what she liked?
"So…..do you like it?"
"Yes." Lifting her head, she gazed into his eyes and smiled as the boy smiled back.
...
I love it.