Francis was very fond of melodrama. This was a fact that everyone knew, except their employer it seemed, so it was good thing that most people were familiar with him so that when they entered Walmart and saw Francis in a spot light, crying about the cruelty of life they would just ask Kiku were microwaveable pop corn was instead.

This was what the scary man had done. Kiku couldn't help but tremble at the blonde man's fierce glare. Although Kiku was distracted by his startling appearance, he tried to answer the question posed to him but the heavy accent made it impossible to understand the costumer.

Panic started to rise in the Japanese boy and he gave his co-workers a desperate plea for help. Francis was too busy biting a handkerchief and crying to notice Kiku's silent panic. It was Arthur who took pity on him.

Arthur leaned over and whispered in Kiku's ear. "He's asking where the microwave popcorn is." Kiku breathed a sigh of relief and pointed out the aisle. The glaring man nodded and gave a small grunt of thanks and moved off to get the popcorn.

Arthur gave Kiku a look of pity. "Don't worry, no one understands Berwald when they first meet him. Tino has to translate most of the time."

Francis broke out of his dramatic sulking to interject "Ah yes, Arthur thought Berwald was saying that he wanted directions to the ladies dorm and called him a 'bloody pervert' and that he should 'stay away if he knows what's good for him'."

Arthur flushed. "You're going there? Fine! Francis thought Berwald was proposing sex and went to his room with a condom and lube while Berwald's boyfriend was there."

If looks could kill, Francis was trying hard to murder Arthur. "Arthur asked for a condom from a boy who likes him!" Francis declared trying to out-embarrass Arthur. Which did get the desired affect of Arthur spluttering about how he just wanted a rubber and didn't expect the bloody yank to give him a condom for heavens sake. All the while Kiku sank further and further into his chair in shame.

Berwald returned with the popcorn and ignored the argument that was quickly growing physical in favour of going over to Kiku's check out. Kiku sold him the pop corn as fast as possible in desperation to stop the embarrassment after hearing one of them yell "Your kinks are weirder!" He was thankful when Berwald left.

The rest of the evening was rather peaceful, after Arthur and Francis' fight they only had two more arguments that evening. And the other costumers were in the more normal end of the spectrum, although Yoa had to be thrown out for attempting to sell his own food in the store, and Kiku was ready for an early night. But when the Japanese man arrived at his dorm building he found everyone standing outside and the fire alarm blaring.

Kiku sighed. Of course the simple evening wasn't going to end simply. From what he could hear from people's discussions, there had been a fire in someone's kitchen.

Kiku felt a tap on his shoulder and started. He turned around to see a blonde man with a cross clip in his hair. The man said irritatedly "Did you sell Mathias the popcorn?"

Kiku tried to process what he was being asked and then he realised that he was still in his Walmart uniform. "No, sir. I did not sell popcorn to 'Mathias'."

The scary man, Berwald, suddenly appeared, dragging another man with spiky blonde hair by the ear. "Ow, ow, ow, Berwald, stop!" The spiky haired one moaned.

Cross-Clip glared at Spiky-Hair. "This is why you're not allowed to use the oven or the microwave."

"But I didn't use either" protested Spiky-Hair. "Or buy the popcorn."

Cross-Clip grabbed Spiky-Hair by the tie and opened his mouth to berate the other man some more. But Kiku interrupted. "Excuse me but Berwald-san bought microwave popcorn from me, if that is what you were wondering."

Cross-Clip glared at Berwald who muttered something unintelligible. Cross-Clip hit Spiky-Hair over the head. "How, Mathias, how did you manage this? And you, Berwald, why would you buy him food?"

Mathias, aka Spiky-Hair, grinned sheepishly. "I kept pestering him cuz I knew you'd ask if I bought anything, Norge."

"You've proven my point." Norge said coldly. An argument seemed to be brewing, after spending time with Arthur and Francis you would become very good at picking up on these things, and Kiku exited himself from the conversation.

The next day the entire college was informed that the toasters were going to be removed from the dorms and that Mathias was now on the list of people who weren't allowed to cook, this list included Arthur much to his charigin. Kiku was vaguely curious as to what had happened but seeing the flock of people surrounding Mathias, decided against it.

It was only later that he heard the full story from Arthur and Francis and the three of them unanimously decided not to sell microwave popcorn. At least not to people who put it in a toaster.

Not dead, I swear. Just this isn't something I'll focus on so irregular updates to be expected. Also the popcorn in a toaster is based on a real story.