Sal: Hello, people! I just wonder why I like to write at night. One more minute to one in the morning! Like usual, lots of dialogues. I like them, 'kay? Oh, and sorry for mistakes, I'm too lazy to check. AND OH FERMENTED UGLY DEODORANTS, THIS IS ROMANCE-GENRED STORY. ARGH. I NEVER WANTED TO WRITE ONE, BUT LOOK AT WHAT FANFICTION HAS DONE TO ME! AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH—


Kaito woke up with a start and yawned. Why was he supposed to help? He was only doing errands, anyway. Running around, getting stuff. Being called to do this, that.

The previous night, he, along with Rin, Len, Gakupo, Miku, Meiko and Gumi, had to clean up the house a little. Their reason? Someone new would come to join them, and they wanted to make the house welcoming to her (more like everyone with the exception of Kaito, since he didn't really care about how neat the house was). But they could've tried to do it earlier, anyway. Talk about last-minute activities…

Someone mentioned that a girl with pink hair would be joining the group. Che. Not like that really mattered to him, anyway.

Hopefully she would keep her distance not bother him as much as the other girls did.

A few knocks could be heard at the door. Kaito didn't say anything and just stared at the door, as if doing that would make the annoying knocking stop.

"Good morning, Aisu-san! It's Gaku!"

Kaito winced at the name Gakupo called him. He liked ice cream, but that doesn't mean that he had to earn that nickname. And not like he didn't know that it was Gakupo, anyway. You could just tell by his voice. He had the lowest in the group.

Kaito didn't want to answer because he wanted to go back to sleep, but Gakupo was Gakupo, the closest to him along with Len, so…

"… Come in."

Gakupo opened the door with a big smile in his face while holding a basket filled with eggplants that probably weighed five kilos. But at the moment Gakupo saw Kaito, his smiled was diminished and his arms drooped. He looked disbelievingly at the blue-haired dude and sat on the unkept bed next to Kaito.

"Aww, come on, Kaito! You could just try to smile a little more, right? Stop being so depressing!"

Kaito, however, continued to keep his straight face. Gakupo sighed and took out an eggplant from the basket, which was placed next to Gakupo.

"Want one?" Gakupo asked, handing an eggplant to Kaito.

Kaito reluctantly took it, and at that moment, there were a series of light knocks on the door.

Kaito lazily got up to open the door.

"Hey, Len."

Gakupo frowned and stared at Kaito's back with a dramatic upset expression.

"Why did you open the door for him, and not me? He isn't even holding anything, while I had to hold this!" Gakupo whined, pointing at the eggplant-filled basket. "And I opened the door by myself!"

"It's your fault for bothering to bring that up into my room, anyway." Kaito looked back at Gakupo while Len was trying to push Gakupo off Kaito's bed so he could make the bed and allowed a little corner off his mouth to go up.

"Gakupo, can you please move?" Len pleaded. Gakupo shifted a bit, giving Len a face. Len huffed. "That doesn't make much of a difference, Gaku. I need to make the BED."

Gakupo just pouted, hugged the basket and got up, allowing Len to do his desired activity.

Kaito gave them a tiny smile. But it turned into a frown when he heard footsteps outside.

"She's here, guys!" Meiko could be heard shouting from outside.

Kaito grumbled about not eating breakfast while Gakupo gave him a face saying 'that eggplant was breakfast!'

Len handed Kaito a banana.

"Thanks."

Len smiled at Kaito before opening the door and going out.

"Hey! What about that eggplant I had so generously given you just now?"

Kaito looked at him with his usual straight face and lazily pointed to the bed. There laid a pitiful purple object, known as… an eggplant.

"That's so mean!"

Gakupo ran to the eggplant, carefully laid it into the eggplant-smelling (and still eggplant-filled) basket and stuck his tongue out playfully at the bluenette before running off. Kaito almost grinned, but Meiko was standing right outside, and the door was opened, so he didn't.

"Get ready quickly, okay? We need to welcome her properly," Meiko said nicely. Kaito just glared at her. She sighed and left, closing the door, wondering why he had such mood swings. She could have sworn he was almost smiling just now.

Kaito slumped back onto his now a lot-neater-than-before bed. Man, he still didn't change his clothes yet. Nor did he shower. Nor did he comb his hair—

He fell back onto the soft confy bed, bouncing a little because of the springs in it, making it a little messier. All he wanted to do was sleep. He could care less of what that new girl would think. That would make her try to avoid him, right? That's just what he wanted.

He never really liked the female side of the species, anyway.


Sal: *fanning himself lazily* Wow, I just gave ladies a really rude name. I'm really sorry, but I think it reflects on Kaito's dislike. DON'T ASK ME WHY, IT RANDOMLY POPPED UP AT A TIME I WAS ACTUALLY USING MY LAPTOP. TO PREVENT MY BRAIN FROM EXPLODING FROM SO MANY IDEAS FOR STORIES, I WROTE THIS. Don't kill me! Please!

I know I suck, don't need to tell me that. Thank you for reading.

24/25 June 2013