Dante sighed, today had started out to be a drag, and the radio hadn't played any songs in the last half hour and was instead replaced by ads, which annoyed the heck out of him, not to mention they were twice as loud as the actual songs.
He repositioned himself on the couch, wondering how he had managed to get a wedgie from sitting down in one position for at least an hour. He was amazed he had managed to stay still that long.
"VERGIL!!" he called out rather childishly.
It wasn't long before his older brother walked in, with a look on his face that said 'what the hell do you want now?'
"What is it Dante?" he asked, leaning on the doorframe crossing his arms.
"I'm Bored." He replied.
Vergil rolled his eyes.
"You called me over to say THAT?"
"But…I'm really REALLY bored." Dante complained.
"Whinge whinge, bitch bitch, complain complain, it's not gonna get you anywhere, find something to do Dante, before you drag me down with you," Vergil said as he turned away and headed back into his room.
Dante had always wanted to know why Vergil was always in his room, he ended up looking like a mushroom, always in the dark and never really going out somewhere.
Dante smirked and started to follow Vergil.
"What are you doing?"
"I wanna know what you're up to, why aren't you bored?" Dante asked.
"If you must know, I'm doing my homework, nothing that will surely interest you." Vergil said as he opened his door, both he and Dante walked in and Dante expected to see a lot of dead demon heads on the walls but no, the walls seemed empty, unlike his own room, which was filled with posters of his fave band.
For some reason, Vergil's room always smelled nice, like the room had just been built in, the smell of fresh air without the window open.
Had he sprayed it with air freshener?
Dante smiled, his room sometimes smelt like feet, maybe that was why Vergil hardly went in his room?
He saw Vergil walk over to his black laptop and type a few buttons on the keyboard rather fast, Dante had never known how to use computers, he could never find the letters on the keyboard, he remembered when Vergil had allowed him to play an online game on it and Dante had taken forever to find the letter "F", god only knows what word he was trying to type, not to mention he had only used his index finger to type out entire sentences, in the end Vergil had gotten fed up and typed Dante's sentences in for him.
Dante took his seat on Vergil's clean tidy bed, unlike Dante's bed, which was coated in his crap; also he hadn't made it this morning.
He continued watching Vergil typing out a document that seemed over 20 pages long.
"Geez, Verge, how long have you been working on this?" Dante asked while he decided to read over his brother's shoulder.
"A couple of days now,"
"Are you trying to write a novel or something?" Dante asked.
"No, I'm just trying not to fail in class."
"If you wanted to pass, you just had to show up. Geez, not write 20 pages on nothing."
"For your information, it has a lot of great facts in it."
"Uh huh." Dante yawned realizing he was too bored to even argue with his brother.
"I'm bored Vergil." He yawned again.
Vergil looked like he about to whack Dante upside the head when they heard a voice.
"DANTE! VERGIL!" It was their mother shouting from the kitchen.
Vergil smiled at Dante, "Maybe this will keep you occupied."
"Yeah, it better be good, cos I don't like bein' bored."
Once they walked into the kitchen they saw their mother looking into the empty fridge,
"Hey boys, the fridge is empty. We have no food. Want to come get some with me?" she asked nicely.
Vergil smiled and nodded, "Of course Mother, be happy to." He then turned to Dante, or what was a remaining cloud of him.
"?" Vergil was about to voice the question in his mind, when both Eva and Vergil heard the car horn toot.
Eva laughed, "Oh Dante is a little rascal isn't he?"
"He's also retarded." Vergil muttered under his breath.
"Honey, you go wait with your brother, I'll just lock up the house." Eva said and Vergil nodded.
He walked out to find, Dante already sitting in the car with his seat belt already clipped in.
"This is what happens when I'm bored Vergil, I'm even keen to go shopping!" Dante smiled.
"That's not the only reason is it?" Vergil asked as he buckled himself in next to Dante
"No, the best part is where going to go FOOD shopping!" Dante yelled excitedly.
"Dante, no need to shout, I'm right here beside you." Vergil said twice as quietly while putting a finger in his ear trying to see if it was bleeding or not.
It wasn't long before Eva came out of the door, holding the car keys in her hand and her fancy pink wallet in the other hand.
She slowly got into the drivers seat and placed her wallet on the passenger's seat.
"What would you boys want for dinner?" she asked.
"MACDONALDS!" Dante shouted, Eva and Vergil both rolled their eyes,
"I'll eat whatever you cook me mother." Vergil sucked up.
Eva turned he head around to see her two boys.
"Well, once we get to the market, we can decide then." And with that she started the car.
The car ride was turning out to be boring for Dante, because no one was talking; all that could be heard was the whispering hum of the car and the other cars beside theirs.
Dante decided to take Vergil's advice on entertaining himself; he turned over to Vergil who was staring out the window, with his head resting on his head, as if it was too heavy to hold up on it's on.
Dante smiled and nudged him on the shoulder, Vergil didn't give any response.
So Dante nudged him again and this time Vergil turned his head towards him.
"What is it Dante?" he sighed.
"I'm bored."
"Gosh, we've only been in the car for 5 minutes! Surely, you can't be bored?" Vergil sighed.
"I am." Dante moaned.
Vergil smacked his forehead, his little brother was a real handful sometimes, it was like nothing ever entertained him long enough for him not to be.
"Its okay boys, we are here." Eva said as she pulled the car into the car park which wasn't as busy as she always remembered it.
"COOL!" Dante yelled as he quickly unclipped his seatbelt and just for the sake of it, he reached over and unclipped Vergil's seatbelt as well.
"Thank you Dante." Vergil said just as he was about to undo it himself.
They all got out of the car and Dante was the one to impatiently wait for Vergil and his mum to get ready, he kept tapping his foot on the ground without thinking of anything better to do.
Eva noticed his impatience, she smiled to herself.
"Dante, you and Vergil can go ahead and pick out a trolley okay?" she asked while placing her wallet and car keys in her back pocket of her skinny jeans.
Dante saluted like a solider and when Vergil wasn't looking, he grabbed him by the arm and dragged him off.
"Dante, let me go, I have legs you know." Vergil complained, he never liked being the follower.
Dante poked his tongue out and let him go once they walked in the automatic sliding doors.
"Okay, trolley, trolley…what trolley to pick?" He turned to Vergil and hoped for Vergil to pick one, but instead he just stood there like he didn't care, but that was the case, he didn't care. They all looked the same to him.
"I don't know Dante" Vergil said with a slight hint of frustration in his voice.
"You pick one."
"Don't mind if I do!" Dante smiled and pulled one out and he swerved it over to the side and once Eva came in, she saw her two boys waiting patiently for her.
"Oh you two." She smiled as she grabbed a hold of the handle and Dante smiled as he hoped on the end of the trolley.
Vergil just walked alongside his mother, with his eyes rolling every time Dante pretended to fall off into oblivion.
The thoughts of Dante actually falling into oblivion interested him though.
First they passed the fruit and vegetables, all which were stacked together and mostly under a cooler.
"Okay, boys, what vegetables shall we have?" asking her son's opinions, hoping to get good ones, well more or less form Vergil…Dante wouldn't give a decent answer.
"Um…" Vergil started.
"Anything but Brussel sprouts!" Dante interrupted Vergil's thoughts.
"Aww, you sure Dante, they are healthy for you." Eva pulled a fake sad face.
"That's why I don't like them" Dante pulled his tongue out.
"Yeah, that's a typical answer from Dante," Vergil told her.
She just nodded.
After awhile Eva was finding it hard to decide what meat she felt like cooking, she couldn't choose between beef or chicken…it was a toughie.
She could sense Dante was already bored and Vergil was just being his polite usual self but was finding it hard to control himself since Dante was always annoying him.
Eva sighed.
"Boys, I'm gonna be here for awhile, so why don't you take the trolley and find something for yourselves?" She asked.
Dante grinned and hoped back on the trolley as Vergil took the handle.
"What isle Dante?" Vergil asked, putting aside his serious side.
Dante didn't need a moment to think before the words "Chocolate" came out of his mouth.
Vergil smiled and pushed the trolley with Dante attached to it to the isle that the chocolate was in.
For some reason the supermarket had arranged that the coffee beans were on the same isle as the chocolate, so as a result the whole isle smelt like coffee, Vergil didn't mind since he kind of liked it, he once had one cos his dad was having one, but of course, being young, it had to have a lot of sugar. Vergil didn't want to imagine what Dante would have been like after a coffee that had over 5 teaspoons of sugar in it.
But instead, he already knew what Dante was like after even a few pieces of chocolate.
Dante got off to examine what chocolate to get.
"What flavour Verge?" Dante asked as he knelt down to see the blocks hidden under the shelf.
"Umm, what flavour do you want?" Vergil asked in answer.
"I feel like 'Black forest', but then again, 'Turkish delight' is always good…umm no 'caramel', oh gosh so many decisions…" Dante was lost in all the different flavours.
Vergil just rested his arms crossed over on the trolley handle waiting for Dante to hurry up and choose it wasn't like he was gonna get a piece anyway…
Finally stood up with two blocks of chocolate in his hands, he put them both in the trolley.
"Why did you grab two for?" Vergil asked.
"One's for tomorrow, duh." Dante replied.
"Of course."
Dante hoped back on the end of the trolley and looked at Vergil, who in turn looked bored.
He smiled, he was actually having fun, but he didn't show it behind that tough exterior.
"Where to now?" Vergil asked.
"Drink!" Dante pointed to the direction in which the isle for the fizzy drink was in.
Since both of them were underage, by, they didn't find the idea of alcohol all that fascinating, but the regulars like Fanta and coke a cola were still appealing.
Dante turned himself around so the back of his head was facing Vergil, and he commanded him to push the trolley a little faster so it felt like he was flying.
Vergil couldn't help but have more fun that intended with the simple push that sped the trolley up. Even he lifted his feet up to the bar, so neither of their feet were touching the shiny polished floor.
"Weeeee!!" Dante called out, obviously having fun with it.
Vergil wanted to call out something lame to, but he'd kill himself if he was caught in the moment, it was almost as bad as the time Dante caught him humming in the shower. Even though Dante had flattered him with saying he was a good hummer, (as in he was a good singer, not saying he's some sort of car)
Vergil had still smacked himself mentally for it, but there were some things that he just couldn't keep bottled up forever.
The trolley started to slow down once they were approaching their destination.
"Alright, you can stop it now Verge." Dante said rather quietly, unlike his usual loud self, something about it made Vergil feel uneasy but nevertheless he did as he was told and Dante stepped off to grab some bottles of fizzy drink.
Vergil decided he wanted to browse; he left the trolley in the middle of the isle and reached over Dante's shoulder to grab a bottle of Ice Cream Soda.
Dante looked at it in Vergil's had and licked his lips.
"Yum," was his comment and then he continued to browse for some fizzy drink that his taste buds craved.
What did they crave?
"Hmmmm….Verge, I can't decide!" Dante grabbed his hair and pulled it in a twist as if pulling on his head would activate his brain cells.
Vergil silently smiled and reached over Dante's shoulder, getting his face really close to Dante's, which made Dante blush a bit.
Vergil grabbed a bottle of 2.5 litre coke a cola and Dante was pleased with the result.
After searching a few more isles and putting random items in the trolley which included, at least 3 bags full of potato chips, passion fruit cheesecake and boysenberry ice cream, Dante was beginning to loose interest in the whole thing.
He yawned.
Vergil gave him a look that signified and 'oh no' expression.
"I'm bored." He said.
Vergil nearly fell over anime style.
"Gosh Dante! You were having fun a few minutes ago. Why the change?" Vergil asked him
"I don't know." Dante shrugged.
"Well, let's make things fun..." Vergil said in a devious voice.
"0.o" Dante's interested suddenly rose to 100.
"How about a game of truth or dare?" Vergil evilly smiled, thinking of heaps of things he could dare Dante to do.
Dante in turn, also smiled evilly, adopting Vergil's look with exact perfection, he was thinking of the heaps of things he could make Vergil admit to.
"You're on." Dante had a glint in his eye, the same that Vergil had.
"You first," Dante smiled.
"Alright, Dante, truth or dare?" Vergil asked.
"….Dare..."
"I dare you to put something you don't like in the trolley and eat it when you get home." Vergil said.
Dante shrugged his shoulders.
"Piece of cake."
"But you like cake." Vergil complained.
"No, you moron, I mean the task is a piece of cake, metaphor Vergil." Dante said to him as he tried to decide if their was such a food that he didn't like.
"Umm, is their any food I don't like?" Dante asked his older twin brother.
Vergil sighed and started walking off with the trolley.
"Hey, where you going?" Dante asked as he automatically followed.
Vergil smiled; he loved it when he was the one leading Dante, especially when he was leading him into a trap.
"Oh crap." Dante whispered as the came up the Brussel sprouts.
Vergil picked one up and handed it to Dante.
"I don't have to eat it now do I?" Dante whimpered.
"No, but just for you, mum can cook it and place it on your plate and you MUST eat it." Vergil ordered
"Oh fine, but this only cos I was dared to." Dante said as he placed it in the trolley.
After sighing and stretching for what seemed to take forever, Vergil swore he was stretching muscles Dante hadn't even used yet.
"Alright Vergil, my turn! Truth or dare?" He asked.
Vergil had wanted so much for Dante to be dared; he had forgotten that the game works both ways.
If he said Truth, no doubt Dante would ask him something really personal in public which was something that would result in Dante's head on the wall.
But if he said Dare, he'd be forced to do something he'd most likely regret.
What way to turn?
Vergil just assumed that the question that Dante would ask him wouldn't be as bad compared to stealing something most likely.
"Truth," Vergil whispered.
Dante's eyes gleamed but Vergil only caught a glimpse of the evil twinkle before he turned his head around to avoid Vergil seeing his evil scheming.
Vergil thought to himself that he was planning something evil. Only no one could be more evil than him. Vergil then mentally swore that the next truth or dare Dante would choose would be twice as mean as the one Dante was thinking of now.
"Hurry up Dante, think of a truth question before I die of boredom." Vergil only said that to get the suffering out of the way.
Dante turned around with a face that had 'danger' written all over it.
"Do you have any hidden teddy bears?" Dante asked and Vergil was a little bit disappointed, he was hoping for a more Dante question than an Eva question.
"What do you mean?" Vergil asked.
"I mean, do you have any stuffed toys that you've hidden away from the world, because you're embarrassed to show them to anyone?" Dante asked.
"Why do you ask that question?"
"Cos I wanna know, I also want to see them. So answer the god dam question and let me see them when we get home." Dante smiled.
"This is revenge for the food huh?" Vergil smiled.
Dante nodded.
"Okay, yes I do." Vergil answered truthfully, keeping law to the game.
"How many?" Dante asked.
"That's not part of the game. I've already answered, now it's back to my turn." Vergil said as he grabbed a hold of the trolley again.
"But…But…Verge, I wanna know" Dante whined.
Vergil sighed and walked over to Dante and playfully pushed him onto the trolley.
"You'll just have to wait and find out now won't you?" Vergil whispered as he grabbed hold of the trolley again.
Dante just looked inpatient as always
"Truth or dare Dante?" Vergil asked him from behind as he started to push the trolley towards the bakery isle.
"Um, Dare." Dante decided that the next thing Vergil would make him do is drink something that would go down the wrong way and would evidently make him choke on his own drink and he'd die. But that was okay, since, he died in a dare competition and Vergil would get blamed for his death so he was okay with it.
"Okay, I dare you to walk down the unspeakable isle." Vergil smirked.
Dante turned to Vergil with a look of horror on his face.
"I have to do WHAT now?" he whimpered.
"You heard me, walk down THAT isle." Vergil pointed to the isle that only the women ever go down.
Dante sunk his head into his shoulders.
"Do I have to? Seriously that's a fate worse than death. Mercy Vergil, mercy." Dante pleaded.
For some reason, Dante pleading to him always made Vergil feel good about himself and he smiled evilly, but no matter how pleased he was, making Dante walk down the feminine hygiene isle was more fun.
"Go on, get walking." Vergil pushed the trolley a bit to nudge Dante off.
"Fine. I'll take the stupid dare." Dante gave a sour look to his brother, who in turn was smiling like a Cheshire cat.
"This will be fun," Vergil muttered under his breath.
"Dam Vergil, I wasn't expecting this dare." Dante muttered at the same time.
Dante subconsciously ordered his feet to move and he headed into the direction of the pink isle, he slumped his head to the ground to avoid looking at all the pink packets of whatever they were called.
Vergil was watching him from the end; his eyes were filled with satisfaction.
The shiny polished floor was more a mirror than the floor, so Dante could see himself, in his red jacket and black jeans, which had holes in the knees. He really had to be more careful with his clothes; he turned back around to Vergil with a face asking 'is this far enough?'
Vergil shook his head and Dante sighed.
He continued walking halfway, without his head staring to the floor, all the colours weren't all pink, much to his surprise.
He walked past halfway, thinking to himself; this isn't so bad, that was until he saw a box with a pretty picture of a woman on it, a picture of a VERY pretty lady.
He stopped walking and picked up the box, examinating it closely.
Vergil, at the end of the isle, wondered what the hell he was doing, he tried to call out to Dante but then knew it'd be rude if he did. So he swallowed his pride and began walking towards Dante.
Dante heard a couple of ladies giggling to themselves behind him, but he didn't think their laughs were aimed at him.
He kept reading the contents of the box but he couldn't understand what the box was trying to tell him.
Until Vergil came over and snatched the box from Dante's hand.
"What got you so interested in not accomplishing your dare?" Vergil asked as he read the box.
"Oh god, Dante…" Vergil knew what he was holding.
"I just saw the pretty picture," Dante guilty started.
Vergil closed his eyes and whispered.
"Do you even know what this is?"
"Um, no." Dante truthfully answered.
"Dante, this is a box of condoms, do you know what condoms are?" Vergil asked still with his eyes closed to avoid the pretty picture, of a half naked woman.
There was an uncomfortable silence between the two as Vergil prayed for him not to go into detail, which was a habit Vergil needed to break.
Dante on the other hand, had no idea what condoms were, but sensed that Vergil didn't want him to know about it, so he just dropped it and took the box off his brother and placed it back where he found it. He then continued to finish his dare.
Vergil thanked every god there was and he had no choice to follow his brother.
They had finished the dare together and they had met up with Eva at the counter with her wallet out ready to pay for all the junk food.
Dante and Vergil helped pack all the food into the bags and load them into the boot of the car.
The Twins had decided to put their game on halt in front of their mother, to avoid spilling some information that would get them in trouble.
It wasn't until they were in the lounge around 10 at night, when they were watching a sci-fi movie on the big flat screen TV, almost about time for their bed time, when Dante remembered the game.
"Vergil," he started.
"Yeah?"
"I wanna see your teddy bear now." He smiled.
Vergil glared at him but then his expression eased into a smile.
"Of course…." He stood up and Dante followed.
"Mother didn't cook you that Brussel sprout did she?" Vergil asked as they walked up the stairs to the attic.
Dante shook his head with a big smile on his face.
"That's too bad, I was gonna have a lot of fun with that."
Vergil shoved some cardboard boxes aside to move a blue box into the centre of the attic where the light was stationed.
Dante was beginning to feel excited, he was about to see a side of Vergil that he'd never seen before.
Vergil pulled out a big grey teddy bear, which still seemed in mint condition.
"here." He handed it to Dante.
Dante smiled, it was the cutest thing he'd ever seen.
Instinctively he hugged it; its soft silky fur was wonders against his bare arms, cos he was only wearing a tank top and his jeans.
"Does he have a name?" Dante asked.
"What?"
"Does the bear have a name, did you name him?" Dante asked him still hugging the bear.
"Umm…I think I did name him, but I have forgotten what I called him," Vergil admitted.
"How about you rename him now?" Dante asked handing the bear back to Vergil.
"How about no." Vergil answered as he placed the bear back in the blue box.
"Aww, why not?" Dante asked, kneeling down beside Vergil.
"Cos, there is no point." Vergil said as he stood up and exited the attic.
"Hey, Vergil!" Dante called out.
"What is it now Dante?" Vergil asked stopping so Dante had a chance to catch up.
"Truth or dare?" Dante smiled.
"Agh," Vergil sighed and continued walking.
"Hey! It was my turn anyway, Vergil, truth or dare." Dante called out.
Vergil stopped once he was at his room.
Dante followed him in as well.
Vergil sat on the bed and saw Dante was still waiting for an answer, he realised he hadn't taken a dare yet so he tested his brother.
"Dare"
"Tell me what condoms are used for…."