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CLOCKWORK

by Radically Distinguished

Chapter 3.5: I won't

Gilbert Beilschmidt's point of view

Thursday, last year. A day before the senior's Graduation Day.

We were far from the pandemonium, it was all too silent. I can't hear anything except the humming of the birds that flew above us and the wind's strong swaying around, continuing its endeavour beyond us. The water's noise was there too with all that flowing its making. The silence was deafening to say the least and I'm not enjoying this, even though it's true… it is relaxing. But she likes it here, and just like the wind, I love her beyond explanation, even much more than I love myself.

So I got to keep this ego of mine intact, I must be careful not to let it show this time in front of her. I got to show her that I am decent; that I can be mature. I can be who she wants and I can be gentle for a change. I can be perfect, for her. That I can be the one for her, even… even for just for this day.

A fresh atmosphere ambient us, with blue above and green all over, bamboo trees bent and welcomed us with a constant but gentle swaying accompanied by its wooded sounds omitting from the crashing of its bodies with the others. The wind's tail surrounds them, letting those dried and uprooted leaves fall gracefully to the ground. They were like snow, a brown and green snow rocking its way down, like a hallucinated being, to us and some even falling on my head, and I let them. The waters on the ground splashed as we stepped on it and sometimes on the rocks that occupied the stream. It wasn't still, it was flowing nonetheless but with a strength that wasn't enough to effluent us away. The rocks beneath were visible on the water with a slight combination of mint green and dirt coming from the moss. But it was still fresh and cool, heck; you can even drink from it!

I was holding my shoes on my right hand, her wrist on my left. It was to keep her from running away again and losing her way back. This woman doesn't really have a sense of direction and it was a bit surprising for a girl like her. But, that trait was one of the reasons why I am head over heels for her. It makes me want protect her, keep her close to me… and never let her go, always.

And besides, it really makes me feel like that knight-in-shining-armor-thingy! And she's that beautiful damsel-in-distress to save! I feel like a man… and it is awesome!

"So this… is how you vindicate yourself?" Her irritated voice came out from behind me. Yeah, she stopped struggling minutes ago, but her anger somewhat reflects on her voice now and its sounding more grunchy that mine is! "And you didn't even let me change!"

We were still wearing our school uniform until now. It was already five in the afternoon and she already had plans to leave me behind forty minutes ago, but as expected with that puny struggling of hers, I won by a landslide, if I was keeping a tally. Well I did lend my red jacket to her since she said that she was freezing, and she accepted it rather quickly than I expected. And I got to admit, it suits her.

You know, all that long dark brown hair of hers draping on her left shoulder with that little droplets of water running down from it, her eyes freed from that eyeglasses that she usually wears, making her face more vibrant and mesmerizing than ever and showing off that bright purple eyes, her face wearing that usual grumpy expression, with her brows slightly puckish and her mouth pouting, MY red jacket hugging her slim figure which was covered by our school's red chequered women uniform that brought about up to her knees and her long, slender legs showing without her shoes and black socks… she was a sight. This was the first time that she wore it, and she already used it as her pillow a dozen of times before.

"Well, I told you to remove your shoes in the car right? You're the stubborn one, woman!" I scoffed and let out a laugh. I tugged her wrist to make her closer to me since we were nearing the slippery part.

"Because you said that we were only going to our usual pose! I didn't you expect you to drag me up to this point! Wherever this is…"

"And what made you think that?" I can't help but snicker. I'm always amused on how this girl can't predict me, so I always end up surprising her even though I didn't mean it.

"Because it's you…" She said, with her voice lowering.

"I don't get you."

"Shut up idiot!" She yelled and I swear that it was so loud the birds flew from those trees on the sides. And it even echoed!

"Says the aristocrat woman who just yelled all those poor little birdies away and cursed, whom she learned from the awesome one, while having her shoes splashed with water with all her hard stomping on the ground, which I specifically told her not to do… and she says I'm the stupid one." I said sarcastically. And I ended up laughing at my comment.

"That's because you are an idiot. And I learned this cursing from you."

"I already said that woman."

"You are not awesome."

"I'm the king awesomeness!"

"No you're not."

I stopped and turned around to look at her, my face still wearing that earlier grin. I brought her to an unfamiliar place for her, a cliff overlooking a view of the city and the river going pass through it. There were buildings everywhere which looked like ants to our view and there were series of hills just beyond them though not as big as the ordinary ones because it was only artificial, but still…

From this spot, we could see everything! Heck, we can even see the Mayor's mansion at the far-side of the stream! It takes us almost an hour to reach that place! I don't know why he would build so far away from his people when he should build it near to us… well, I guess everyone's got a reason.

I locked my eyes to hers and noticed that her brows are still connected, and then she glared at me.

I smiled at the act and crept my hand from her wrist to her dainty one. I looked down, staring at her white palm, my smile going up to my ears. I've always admired her hands, even when I was still a kid and she was just still my neighbour. Back then, we used to play a lot with my younger brother and his brother. We'll play all the games and tricks that we could think of and spend the rest of day bathing on our own sweat. We threw mud at each other, water from the rain, dust, sand… everything! We used to lie down on the ground, feeling the grass's ticklish and rough bed on our backs and just stare at the sky, pinpointing all the shapes of the clouds that will pass by. She would play chef and we will be her tasters and she often bakes a mud pie that was made from real mud… but never from real ingredients, we would run up to the end of the world and there will always be the "it" one who will chase us around, we played hide and seek and hid in their garden and in our house and hunting ghosts down in that crummy old basement in their attic even in broad daylight. It was fun, we were all laughing… sincerely, with our innocence still within us.

"Hey, d'you remember that time? When you first played your full song?" I asked, my eyes still looking down at her palm. I don't really know what gesture she did, but I felt her sighing and looking down on me.

She crossed her free hand in front of her. "What about it?"

I smiled before looking at her eyes again, her hand still in mine. Then I saw her face was calm again and her amethyst orbs were full with anticipation that stroke me like lightning. "That was my first too, you know."

"First what?" her eyes squinted as she asked this.

I looked down again and played with her fingers, intertwining them with mine. My smile widened. "The first and only song that I didn't sleep on while listening… so far."

I heard her scoffed when I said that and her hand gripped my fingers. "Give me a break, Gilbert." She said before rolling her eyes away from me and closed it.

And there's this one game we all loved to play. We don't know the name of it up until now because we just made it up, well, actually, her brother did… I just took all the credits since he's surprisingly modest about it. The game was pretty simple, we will play a little game of tag, and whoever is the last "it" of the day will have to show a hidden talent or a performance in the evening. I didn't remember any performances from me and my brother because we would always outrun them, beating them until they were dead tired. Well, that's to be expected from kids who grew up spending the rest of their lives being served and everything done for them. They were also a family of music, their mother a songstress and their father a concert pianist. They had everything served for them in a silver platter.

Her brother would always play the piano, each piece different from the other. He inherited his father's talent from where he would hear one song and as long as he remembers its tune, he can play it without the help of any notes. Yeah, it was amazing at first but, we got used to it and I found it boring and not as awesome as it used to be. It was enchanting and kind of nostalgic but it would always set me and my brother to sleep, deep sleep. Although today, I don't know if that will still be my reaction to it. We haven't done it for awhile now…

Then one day, when Ludwig and I came home from school, we immediately went to their house to play, like we always did. My brother was unexpectedly excited that day and it made me shivered, he doesn't usually show this much expression before! Gosh, it's creeping me the heck out!

When we got there, we noticed a car parked right in front of their front entrance's steps with its wheel slanted. I got pissed off a little; you shouldn't park a car like that! That's against the rules, and me and Ludwig just got hooked up with car racing a week ago! This is completely harassment!

Then we decided to rush in to Roderich's room when Ludwig hunched that something might be going on since there's no servants who welcomed us at the porch, and there should always be servants to greet not just us but all of their guests.

We swooped in inside, banging his two enormous doors as we invited ourselves in. I gave off my usual laugh to startle him but to our surprise, he wasn't there. Funny, he should be in here now, he doesn't usually hang outs after school and their parents were pretty strict.

Then, we decided to check his sister's room since she always goes home with him. We rushed toward her room, two doors away from her brother's. When I stopped in front of it and was about to bang it hard like I did to his brother's door, Ludwig grabbed my hand to stop saying that he doesn't feel too good about this. I didn't really feel anything that time so was stubborn on banging it, it'll be more awesome if someone surprised her, right? But compared to Ludwig's strength, I was a flea bag. Yeah, I'm the older one, but this bastard's body was way bigger than mine that people thought that I was the younger one. Those jerks…

He gripped hard on my wrists when I tried to free it from him but with every struggling that I did, he gripped it even harder and scolded me with his rough voice. But I fought back with even more struggling. We must've made quite a ruckus for the door in front suddenly burst open, revealing a tall man with brown hair who resembled Roderich, except he got lines on the sides of his lips and he looks so much older with a formal tuxedo on. He glared at us first, but I guess he recognized us as their neighbours, so he forced out a smile. It was their father.

We stared up at him, remembering the last time we saw the guy, which was a very long time ago. Ludwig asked where his children were as politely as possible. I swear if I did the asking, well I won't ask at all… I'll probably smile at him before barging in the room, and that's it. Being polite is not awesome and a pain in the ass!

We could have never guessed what he's response would be after that. His smile faded as my brother finished asking. He sighed deeply and looked down, his hand still holding the knob. I grew more anxious at his act and I'm not really sure about this, but I think Ludwig did too. After a few seconds, he looked at us again and pulled the door closer to him, allowing us to see what was happening inside.

At that instant, my mind became blank and everything around me was unheard. My eyes were almost gauging out of its socket as it widened in each second at the sight. My mouth fell to an open and it was quivering with my whole body shaking. Shock and fear ran into my veins and pinned me to the spot where I was standing and throbbed my heart. I could really hear its beating like a hammer stuck in my head and echoing all the way down to my ears. I don't know what but something pained me that time, and I could still remember how it felt up to now. Before I knew it, my vision was already blurred in a shaky and drowning manner. Tears were welling up in my eyes.

I was shaken out from my pose when Ludwig suddenly called out his name. But at the same time, I thought that what he was doing was useless, for her blood won't fade and he would still be wounded. But my mouth acted on its own accord even before me knowing it, and I shouted her name… the loudest voice I could ever make came out from me at that time, all because of her.

"Sophia!"

So... Am I supposed to say "Ta-da~"? XD

So, this is a .5 chapter of the story. It's an experimental one 'cause I'm practicing that cliffhanger thingy and there will, probably, be more of these things in the future with those kind of plot or flashback and will be a part of a true chapter later... Yeah, it's a part of the story, a major part in fact.

Chapter 4 is on the way since I'm working on it now... And they're going to the AIRPOOOOOOOOOOORRRT! I'm rambly right now, don't know why xD... I'll try to post it later :D

Anone9, So, I put SpaMano, UsUk, and PruHun on my summary part of the story, aaaaaaaaannnd... lets just hope it works, but if it doesn't, who cares!? Hahaha xD Thanks for the suggestion, love! And thank you for reviewing agaaiinn!

And Thank you too to those who followed and favorited (yeah, I'm making up my own words now xD) and viewed and reviewed and will review to this story, aaand... I LOVE YOU, WANKERS!

All right, that's enough babbling for now 'cause I'll probably rant again later when I post the next chapter. (IF I'm able to post it LATER xD If not then first thing tomorrow) I'm kinda in rush right now 'cause school starts next week and I'll probably update later than usual in the future, sooo... yeah...

PRUHUN FTW!

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