Awwwwww… twins again! Just Rico and Rucha, which a short cameo appearance by Ed at the end.

Crushing at the Beach

"Rucha, shut up!" Rico snapped, getting annoyed.

Rucha sat up on her bed and glared at him. "I listened to you talk about Vic for days Rico! Just cause she agreed to spend time with you doesn't mean you get to stop listening to me. It's not fair!" she told him angrily.

"I never talked about Vic the way you go on about Edward!" Rico told her, glaring right back, crossing his arms.

"You did so!" Rucha snapped back at him, but she turned her head away and sagged back, hugging her pillow, looking so despondent that Rico couldn't stay mad at her. He crawled onto her bed and sat cross-legged in front of her.

"Why don't you tell him you like him then?"

Rucha looked at him, her eyes wide and scandalized. "I can't do that!"

Rico smirked a little. "I seem to remember saying the same thing about Vic and you threatened to tell her if I didn't. I can go tell Edward if you want. I don't mind." he made as if to get up, but Rucha's hand shot out to grab his arm, which brought her leaning forward enough that she had to look up to meet his eyes.

"You can't. It's different from you and Vic!" she pleaded.

Rico frowned but settled down again. "How?" he asked.

"Well… Vic is only two years older than us. Edward's 21, and he still thinks of us as little kids. And beside's, it's supposed to be the boys who ask the girls out, and he'd never ask me out." She pulled away from him and hugged her pillow tighter.

Rico eyed her critically. She wasn't like Vic, who had take the five years since they met to start acting and dressing like a girl. Rucha had made the transition easily when they were 12 and had returned home to their mother for winter. By Spring she had had an entire new set of clothes made, still similar enough in general design to what Rico wore, but they were obviously girl clothes, with skirts and flowy bits and everything. The only thing that hadn't really changed about her whole attire was her hat.

Which Rico promptly snatched off her head.

Rucha let out a squawk of surprise as her carefully braided hair, that she had set just right under the hat tumbled out and down her back. Without the hat she looked softer.

"Let it loose for a minute." Rico asked.

Rucha frowned at him, but undid the ribbon at the end and unravelled her hair.

Rico frowned thoughtfully. "Get up."

"Rico what-"

"Don't argue, get up a second." Rico told her, springing off the bed himself. Rucha followed more slowly and stood there, her questions obvious on her face. "You sort of look the same with the hat on, like you did when we were little." he was silent and just looked her over.

Rucha got nervous when he didn't speak again. "What?" she asked nervously, playing with the ends of her hair.

"You look just like Mom you know." he told her quietly. "When she get's all dressed up for celebrations and stuff."

"Really?" Rucha asked, looking down at herself before looking back at him. "Well, you sorta look like dad." There was silence between them then as they remembered their dead father.

Rico shook it off first. "Yeah, so like I said, you look like we did when we were little when you wear the hat, and you need to look older for Edward to notice you, right?"

Rucha considered this and her eyes lit up. "I guess so. And if he notices me he might want to kiss me like you want to kiss Vic right?" she asked, her eyes shinning with excitement.

Rico nodded. "Probably." he said, only to hastily backtrack when he noticed her expression darkening into sadness again. "Definitely, he'll definitely want to kiss you!" he eyed her again. "Maybe you should go talk to Michelle, she knows all about this sort of stuff." he said.

Rucha beamed at him. "Thanks Rico!" she hugged him tightly before bouncing out of the room in search of Michelle. Rico shook his head, muttered something about women and sisters and crushes before he flopped back onto his own bed and wondered if he would have to threaten to kill Edward if he made Rucha cry.

Neither of them knew that as Rucha went off in search of Michelle, Edward had been coming out of his own room at the end of the hall and had spotted Rucha, with her hair loose, had done a double take before berating himself for looking at her in such a way.

First off, I find nothing wrong with the fact Rucha is crushing over Edward, or that Edward took an interest, in fact I think it's rather sweet. Second Rico is probably OOC there, but I did my best.