Boy in Love C4

Life have been busy but I am baccckkkk. Le sigh, the lack of motivation is strong these days.

I don't even know which stories I should continue. (cries)


'Eliza? Can you do a favour? It's definitely beyond me to ask you of this, but is it possible for you to follow Gilbert after school, at least until rehearsal starts for the competition?' Roderich explained, looking a little embarrassed to ask another favour from Eliza, he have already ask Eliza to join him for the competition by transferring to this school and she agreed with no hesitation. Even though he is sure that Eliza will agree again, he still felt as though he is pushing his luck, especially when he is trying hard to be oblivious to her feelings.

'If it's a favour from you, then it is certainly not a problem Roderich.' Eliza beamed. She is happy when Roderich called her and ask if she wanted to grab some dinner, it's the second time he ever ask her out.

The restaurant is dim, and the overview of the glittering city underneath felt as romantic as Eliza could ever wish for. She stare intensely at Roderich's face in front of her, she is very sure that this is love, because she have never felt this way before. The feeling that your heart is about to burst every time you see their face, the feeling that you want to be with them all the time. This can never be wrong.

'Although, I hope it is not too much to want to know what is going on between you and that white hair dude. ' Eliza asked carefully, she don't want to come off as too overbearing towards Roderich, the last thing she ever wanted is to turn him off.

'Of course it's not too much. You're always so willing to help me, it's only right for you to know what you are getting into.' Roderich replied, as unsmilingly as ever, but for Eliza, that's his most suave characteristic. 'I am related to Gilbert, the white hair dude as you calls it, he have been quite rebellious and his family is pretty worried about him. I would love to help them but as you should know, Gilbert doesn't really like me.'

'Y-You're related to ..him?' Eliza widened her eyes in disbelief, not hiding the fact that she is in shock at all. 'You're.. his long lost brother?'

Roderich let out a snort of laughter, which he quickly held back with the back of his hands. 'N-No.. Gilbert is my cousin. First cousin to be exact.'

'Oh, that's a relief.' Eliza mumbled, fascinated with his laugh on one hand, and finding it hard to believe that they are related to each other on the other.

'His brother, the head prefect Ludwig is too busy to keep tabs on him all the time, I understand that you and him have some misunderstanding at your first day of school, but I really hope that you can help me keep an eye on him from far. You're the only person I trust because nobody I have known is as capable as you are.' Roderich said with much sincerity.

Eliza's eyes brightened at his words. Beneath her gentle smile and composed face, the hushed talking patrons far away from their table, the quiet arrangements of utensils by the waiter, everything seems to be oblivious to the fireworks that splattered across the night skies in her heart.

'I understand, I won't disappoint you.' Eliza replied, nodding her head.

She turned her head towards the glass window beside their table, the night skies seems to be twinkling with stars of hope already. She is right, the white hair dude is her lucky star, her ticket to getting closer with Roderich.


In another place at the same time, a mansion, one out of the countless massive rooms, hiding under the thick blanket all curled up is Gilbert. He went straight home today much to his own surprise, he don't feel like facing anyone today. His skin still hurts from the short exposure of the sun when he got so pissed off that he forgotten to cover himself, and he blame that girl.

His room is pitch black save for the moonlight shining in the slightly ajar window. When he was young, he likes to pretend to be a vampire, because that's what he is: Unable to see the light of the day. Vampires are handsome, they are cool, they are strong and they never cared about what other people thinks.

That's why he strive to become stronger, and he did. He gain admiration from the people downtown, a place where only the strongest survives. He trained himself over the years to not let those ugly words get into his heart, but he also learn to not let himself get trampled over by people, so he retaliated tenfold to people who dared to cross him.

He slowly became the Vampires he admired.

But Vampires walks a lonely path.

And that's when he found out that he is still very much human. A human that nobody wants to have anything to do with.

The knob of the door turned slowly. Gilbert is alerted, he frowned. No one should know that he is home, he climbed the walls of their mansion and up his own room's windows away from all the servant's eyes. Dinner should be finished by this time, so who could it be?

The door opened slowly and artificial bright lights from the corridor poured into his room, a person stepped into the floor and said 'Gilbert? You're in here aren't you?'

It's Ludwig.

He stayed as still as possible.

How did his brother knows that he is here, Gilbert thought, sulking.

'Gilbert. You had a nosebleed again today didn't you?' he asked into the room.

Gilbert obviously did not reply to him. Ludwig took a deep breath and let it out, 'A pity, I thought for sure he was in here. Guess I'll just have to send this little yellow bird I found injured in our garden away then.' and he closed the door.

'WAIT!' Gilbert sat up and shouted after the closed door.

One second passes, and the door opened again. Ludwig popped his head in, a smug look on his face as he finally caught his brother in his room.

'You lied to me!' Gilbert sulked, crossing his hands and legs, looking annoyed for falling into Ludwig's trap.

'I didn't, there was really an injured bird in the garden today.'

Gilbert's face change as he turn back facing his brother. 'Are you serious? Where is it now?'

'Well, I kept it in my room. You know how Father doesn't fancy animals, especially wild ones. You want to see it? I wanted to bring it to the vet tomorrow but I have school duties tomorrow.'

'I'll bring it!' Gilbert offered cheerily. 'Show me!'

They went into Ludwig's room and Gilbert's heart melted at the sight of the little yellow bird snuggling in the cloth. Ludwig look at his brother, a smile slipped out of his stoic face. He recalled the times when he was younger, Gilbert would always bring him his favourite food and fuss over him, he would teach him how to do his homework and bring him to play. But he also saw how his brother got bullied for the way he looks, and he remembered always hugging a crying Gilbert and telling him that he is not a monster.

Since when did the roles change though, he felt more like the older brother nowadays; fussing over him, and making sure that he doesn't get into too much trouble, resorting to luring him out by exploiting his weakness for cute things. He is the man Gilbert should be, but circumstances turned his brother into who he is now, but that's okay, Ludwig swore to himself that he would do anything he could to protect his brother, which brings him to the next question for Gilbert.

'You did the sneezing where you get the nosebleed again didn't you Gilbert.' Ludwig asked, giving him the face that says that he should stop lying to him.

'Uhh... About that...' Gilbert stuttered out.

'You do recall what happened the second last time you did that didn't you? Hmmmm?' he pressed on.

'Uhh... Yeah.. I do.. Hehe..' Gilbert faked a smile, like a cat caught stealing a fish and trying to act a little cuter hoping to get off the hook.

'Yeah, you recalled right? Tell me what happened.'

'Uhh..'

'Tell me, let me see if you recall.'

'I .. Went into the hospital for blood loss.' Gilbert said reluctantly.

'And?'.

'And... You have to rush to the hospital when you are in the middle of the year end examination.'

'And?' '

'And.. Father was very angry about it and almost wanted to kick me out of the house.'

'And?'

'And.. Mother fainted when she heard about all these.'

'So? What is the conclusion? What did you promised?'

'The conclusion is that I have promised to stop doing that.' Gilbert ended off, awkwardly smiling and avoiding eye contact.

Ludwig look at Gilbert's sun burnt skin, but he decided not to probe any further . 'What am I to do with you.' he said sighing, heart afraid of losing Gilbert more than anything in the world. 'Don't do that anymore.'

'Don't worry. I won't do it again. Today was just an emergency. E. Mer. Gen. Cy. Right! I should be able to come home on time tomorrow and bring this little birdie to the vet.' Gilbert stated, distracting the heavier topics away. He look up to Ludwig and continued: 'I think I'll call it Gilbird. Cool name right?'

Ludwig closes his eyes, and held back his intense urge to laugh. 'That's really lame, brother.'

Gilbert look back at the bird and smiled, 'Well at least it made you laugh. Gilbird it is.'


Eliza hide behind the wall as Gilbert crosses the road with a tiny box in his arms. School have ended and she is dressed exactly like how Gilbert is right now, hood over her head, sunglasses over her nose bridge and a surgical mask covering the lower half of her face. Her eyes followed the boy until he reaches across the street and into a vet.

'A Vet?' she said to herself in bewilderment. 'Well that hooligan definitely don't look like someone who owns a pet, but okay..' she continued, scribbling down on a notebook she bought especially to track her new prey.

Day 1: White hair dude (I shall name him rabbit for convenience's sake) did not make any commotion in school today, or at least I have not heard of any commotion he made (if any.) He went into a Vet with a box for some reason, and came out in 1hrs time without that box. Rabbit proceeded to go into the downtown area and hang out with 3 other boys, they went into a dilapidated stadium and started talking while drinking what seems to be beer.

Rabbit drank a lot, like a dozen in an hour. (Is he even supposed to be drinking?) The other boys started hitting the crumbling structures with the baseball bats they carried with them, Rabbit ran out of his own beer and started finishing the other boy's half drunk beer.

He pull out a harmonica and started playing it. (He plays a harmonica? Wait he plays an instrument?) And he plays really well ( wth?)

I got really hungry at 9pm and the boys seems to be hungry too and they left the Rabbit alone. The Rabbit did nothing except taking off his sunglasses and lay down staring at the sky. I decided that he cannot be up to anymore mischief and left the scene at 9.30pm.

Eliza read through her notes and started recalling the day's event, it's tiring to keep following this hopping Rabbit around but it's even more worth it to have dinner with Roderich every weekend. She started squealing and rolling around the bed in excitement.