Yui was having a very pleasant dream involving burning down the Sakamaki mansion while getting cheered on by everyone. Heck, even Cordelia was getting burned down in the dream.
"GET BACK HERE YOUNG MAN!"
And then Yui was startled out of her dream and back into reality. Now, if there was one thing Yui hated it was to be woken up by the sound of screaming. But she didn't really care at the moment, she was too lazy to.
What time is it? She wondered sparing a glance at the window next to the bed she was sleeping in. The moon was out, so that meant it was night time.
Yui wanted to go back to sleep.
"LEAVE ME ALONE!"
And she was sure she couldn't with the shouting contest going on. Did these people disturb the neighbors often? Jeez, some people weren't educated enough to leave their problems for when people weren't sleeping.
Yui could hear the sounds of loud footsteps making their way upstairs towards the room she was in right now. Lazily she turned to look at the door at the same time it went open, she couldn't really see much thanks to the dim lighting. But she could tell it was a kid her age, Edgar she assumed.
He noticed her immediately. Who wouldn't notice a weird girl sitting in their bed? Oh, of course Yui already figured out that this was Edgar's room. Only an idiot like the original Yui wouldn't realize it by now in the current Yui's opinion.
"Who are you?" Edgar immediately asked her closing the door behind him and locking it.
"YOU BETTER COME BACK AT THE COUNT OF THREE!"
Edgar flinched.
Yui got out of the bed, and grabbed the wooden chair from Edgar's desk.
"ONE!"
Yui approached the door.
"What are you doing?"
Yui set the chair against the door knob in just a way that it acted like a barricade to prevent anyone from coming inside the room. From what she's heard the people she's staying with were poor, so they wouldn't break down the door.
"TWO!"
"You don't want them to come inside, do you?" Yui asked the boy.
Edgar stared at her in surprise for a moment before shaking his head no, "Not really." He said sticking his hands in his pockets.
"THREE!"
And then there was banging on the door.
"Will they keep doing this all night long?" Yui questioned with a yawn.
Edgar shrugged.
Yui sighed, "Well they can't keep it up forever. Let's just go to bed already, hope you don't mind sharing."
"My parents do. I don't." Edgar quietly said.
"Well they did seem like overly religious people, so it's surprising to me that you don't mind." Yui murmured as well. It's as if both of them agreed to let their voices be drowned out by the noises the two adults were making.
"I'm atheist." Edgar informed.
"Do you even know what that means?" Yui asked walking over to the bed. She got in first, so her face can face the wall.
"It means I don't believe in god." Edgar answered getting into bed too.
"Ah."
"What about you?" Edgar asked.
With a sigh Yui turned to face him, a lazy look in her eyes with underlining curiosity, "Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't." She truthfully answered.
"Then why don't you say anything about me not believing?"
"Who am I to tell you what you can and can't believe in?"
Edgar didn't answer her, he merely looked at her. "You're different." He stated.
"Yes."
"Why?"
"Who knows?"
"Who are you?"
"I'm Yui."
"Yui…" Edgar repeated the name, "That's a nice name."
"Thank you."
"…."
Deeming their conversation over Yui turned her back to Edgar. Her eyes looking out of the window towards the night. She really missed sleeping in her own bed. She started humming a song that she liked, a song that described her perfectly.
Slowly her eyes started drooping, but she could feel Edgar's eyes on her back.
She fell asleep to the sound of people banging on the door while humming a song that didn't exist in the world she lived in.
"Goodnight Yui.."
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Yui woke up to the feeling of somebody gently shaking her awake, "Wake up," Edgar's voice gently ordered.
"It's too early…" Yui childishly complained curling up into herself. She wasn't exactly wrong, it wasn't even five in the morning yet.
"We have to get ready to work."
"But it's summer!"
"Not here it isn't." Edgar's amused voice informed.
Yui stubbornly stayed still. And then she felt someone poking her cheek repeatedly. "Stop it." She ordered swatting the hand away.
"C'mon, ya can't stay in bed forever."
"Watch me."
"My parents will be up soon."
That woke Yui up. Have to keep up appearances. She reminded herself getting out of bed ignoring the smug Edgar.
"Can I go take a shower?" Yui asked crossing her arms.
"Better not to, it won't make a difference considering we'll be working the whole day. You should shower at nighttime before we go sleep."
"Then what now?"
"We go milk the cow and see if chickens laid some eggs."
How hard can that be?
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Very hard. Yui decided as Edgar laughed at her situation.
Her hair was currently a mess. It looked like a chicken. But at least she managed to milk the cow, and get some eggs.
"Shut up, you didn't even help." Yui gritted out placing the bucket filled with milk near the table.
"You said you didn't need my help." Edgar reminded her while putting the basket filled with eggs down next to the bucket.
"…shut up."
"Want me to help you with your hair?" Edgar offered.
"I don't trust you."
"Aww c'mon, I'll make it look all nice and pretty like girls like it!"
Yui sighed plopping down on the floor. "Just make it fast."
At this point she already figured out who Edgar was. Yuma Mukami. She was fairly indifferent to the Mukami brothers, it wasn't like she liked the Mukami brothers, but she'd prefer them over the Sakamaki brothers.
Who was she kidding? The Mukami brothers weren't by any means better than the Sakamaki. Both were out for her blood.
Least I'm more popular with the boys than you'll ever be dear ol' Cordelia. She kind of deserved the resulting heart pain.
Surprisingly, Edgar was pretty good with his hands.
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"What happened to your face?" Yui asked.
Edgar shrugged, "Ran into the door." He lied. Truth was his parents were mad at him again for expressing his disbelieve in religion.
As usual Yui didn't pry and instead went back to planting some seeds.
Edgar had to admit that despite only being at the village for a week Yui was doing a fine job. He rolled his shoulders before crouching down to help Yui with the seeds, bobbing his head along to Yui's singing.
He liked Yui's songs.
Especially the ones she sung about being misunderstood, being different…it was like Yui was fighting against the world with her songs.
When he told her that she merely gave him a wry smile.
"I don't like fighting a losing war."
He had a feeling he'll never understand what she meant by that.
"Hey Yui?"
"Need me to cover up for you again?"
"Can you?" Edgar asked in a hopeful tone, but he knew Yui would comply anyways.
"Yeah, yeah, go meet up with your lover." Yui casually told him while waving him off.
"He's my best friend not my lover." Edgar corrected for the hundredth time.
"You're meeting him in a forest all alone. I'm bound to believe that it's more than friendship." Yui dryly said.
"You can come too you know."
"No thanks." Yui said a bit too quick for Edgar's liking.
But just like she didn't pry, he decided not to as well.
"You know you're my friend too, right?"
He was too nervous to hear the reply, so he quickly walked away.
He missed the fact that she chuckled.
"Friends? What a joke." He didn't hear her say that.
But Reiji did.
