An embarrassed blush appeared on Kain's cheeks as he looked at himself in the mirror. The person staring back at him looked like someone who could have been his grandpa. His hair was gelled flat onto his head and the fake moustache itched on his upper lip. He left his dorm in complete silence, hoping nobody would notice him. When he was about to walk around the corner in the direction of the staircase down to the Moon Dorm, a door on his left opened and Ichijou walked out. He stopped as he saw Kain, his eyes growing larger before he burst out in laughter. He quickly scurried along, avoiding the elbow Kain aimed at his ribs.
The Dorm doors were open and he went outside. The yard around the Dorm was filled with picnic tables stuffed with plates and glasses and various kinds of salads and bottles with syrup, honey and massive amounts of sugared strawberries and other fruits among a few baskets with bread and butter. A small radio on the side played something that sounded like carnival music. Aidou's head popped up from behind a long table placed all the way against the dorm's wall, a broad smile on his face.
"Over here, Waiter-san!" he called out to his cousin, who immediately felt to urge to go drown himself in the bowl of punch on that very table.
"When did you get all those tables here?" he said grimly. Aidou looked at him in surprise, as if he had just seen a ghost.
"You didn't notice?" he said, blinking. "I was setting them up when you went to your room to dress up for tonight!"
Kain tried hard to imagine Aidou carrying all those tables outside, which he deemed impossible, unless he had created a path of ice to slide them all out. Setting his thoughts aside, he said, "Shouldn't you be getting the others? The pancakes are getting cold if you wait too long..."
Once again he cursed himself for speaking, for Aidou jumped up from behind the table, saluted like a soldier, and said, "Aye aye, Waiter-san!" before he bolted into the Dorm. A second later, a terribly loud scream echoed in the dorm, causing the birds sitting on the roof to fly off in total panic, "PAAAAAAAAAARTYYYYYYYYYY TIIIIIIIIIIIIME!" Then it was quiet for a while, apart from the carnival music playing in the background.
Aidou was the first to come back out of the dorm, skipping like a little girl. Rima was next up, her usually emotionless face filled with anger. Shiki and Ichijou came out together, the young model looking as though he would be made to swallow poison, while the handsome blonde had a pained expression on his face. Ruka glared at Aidou as if she was going to kill him the moment he let his guard down, while Kaname seemed to have been able to keep his everlasting calm. Various other Night Class students came out, wearing pained and angry expressions, though their reaction to the waiter version of Kain never differed; they'd burst out in laughter as soon as they saw him, snorting in their fists. The tall vampire cursed his cousin under his breath.
As soon as everybody was settled, Aidou jumped on top of one of the many picnic tables and smiled at all of his guests, seemingly ignorant of all the death glares tossed in his direction.
"Hello everybody and welcome to my party!" he said merrily.
Dead silence. The little radio lay smoking in a corner as Shiki swiftly reeled his blood whip in.
"Instead of throwing another mad dance, just like all the previous years, I decided this year I'd be serving your dinner," Aidou continued, ignoring the quiet. "Also, for your own comfort, serving you tonight will be Waiter-san Kain, your humble personal servant." Laughter rose up among the students and Kain felt an irresistible urge to burn his cousin down to cinders.
Aidou spun around on one foot.
"Aaaaaaanyways! Let's eat!" He skipped right off the table, followed by many eyes, grabbed Kain by the sleeve and dragged him inside, back into the kitchen. The whole room smelt of something sweet. Piled up on various plates were the pancakes, which, unlike Kain had thought, actually didn't even look half bad. Aidou, grabbed two of the plates at once – the pancakes swaying from side to side – and placed them in Kain's hands, who was almost knocked down by the impossible weight.
"Go on!" he heard his cousin urge him. "Get moving! Or they'll get cold!"
With sweat sparkling on his face, Kain left the kitchen, balancing the pancakes like a juggler. Couldn't Aidou have made smaller portions per plate? This was insane! He was glad to be able to put them down on a table as soon as he came outside, aware of all the curious eyes glaring at him. He decided it was best if he would indeed divide these two piles into a few smaller ones, to he took a few spare plates to create about twenty neat piles of pancakes. The many guests had meanwhile began to eat and talk and seemed to be enjoying themselves a lot better than all the past few years.
A hand rose from among the many vampires. Kain looked up.
"Waiter-san!" said Ichijou's voice. "Could you serve our table some pancakes, pretty please?" A few people began to giggle a little again. Kain breathed in deeply, ignored the laughing and carried one plate of pancakes toward the table. A few more guests began to demand pancakes, but he took it easy and served Ichijou's table first. When he was done, he turned around with the plate balancing on his hand, ready to scoot over to the table where Kaname was seated, who had politely asked for a pancake, when he suddenly found his foot stuck and he tripped. The plate slipped from his hand, the pancakes flying through the air and crash landed on top of Shiki's head. The model uttered a cry and fell backwards onto the ground, his feet kicking the air.
"Oh no! Kain! What are you doing?" Aidou emerged from the dorm, his eyes wide in agony as he scooted over to Shiki. He began picking the pancakes from the model's face, who stared at the blonde vampire in disgust. "My precious pancakes!"
There was another dead silence. All eyes were fixed on Aidou, who suddenly felt very uncomfortable. He had made a mistake. Suddenly Kain was in front of him. He had yanked his fake moustache off and war staring angrily at his cousin.
"I believe," he said in a dark voice, "that everybody here would agree if I'd say you gave it a good try, but seriously Aidou, whenever are you going to grow up! And I'm not doing this waiter thing anymore!"
Aidou went completely pale as his cousin took out a roll of duckt tape and ripped a large piece off with his teeth.
"W-w-wait! Kain! What are you - …K-K-Kain! ... n-n-n-noooooo!"
In the end, Aidou's party was a great succes; everybody was enjoying themselves, talking and laughing while the little radio – which Kain had managed to fix with his duck tape – played some more pleasant music. Ichijou had taken the task of replenishing the pancakes upon him and made sure everybody got enough. And Aidou... well... Aidou...
"Somebody let me down!" From a thick tree branch, the small blonde hang suspended in a cocoon of duckt tape, squirming and wriggling like a fish on dry land. "Kain? Kain! Please!"
A yes, certainly Kain heard his cousin screaming, and yes, he'd let him down within a few minutes, but for now, he was the one laughing last.
Thanks for reading my story, I hope you enjoyed it! I'm kind of new to this, but it made my brothers laugh, so I hope it's good! ^^
