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Orange For A Husband, Apple For A Wife
Chapter 9
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He may have been looking forward for some chaotic situation in this trip.
… Is it too late to take back his words?
The argument of who sharing a room with who— He thought it was only Kanda would mind, seeing that Kanda hates sharing his things with the others. So, he left that job to his girlfriend, in which she magically made him agree to sharing a room with their cute little Brit without much bloodshed happening. He had thought that this issue is solved.
— Until now, that's it.
"What do you mean this idiotic Brit—"
"Hey, I'm right here, David!"
"—Is staying in the same room as that guy?!" His finger was pointed at a certain Japanese male in the group.
Everything was so peaceful, he almost thought that there's nothing that could kill the peacefulness. And of course the twins would have to start arguing with them when they found out they're not in the same room as their cousin.
Lenalee blinked at the fuming male before her.
"… What's wrong with Allen being in the same room as Kanda?"
"Allen should be in the same room as us—"
"Look, David. You are sharing a room with your twins. What makes you think there's any place left for Allen in that room?"
David scoffed at said response.
"Back when Allen was staying with us, we shared a room together." He declared proudly, loud enough to make sure that the only long-haired male in the group to hear him. A smirk was drawn on his face when he saw Kanda twitched in annoyance at his declaration.
"David, we were nine—" Jasdero was quickly shushed by his dark-haired twin.
Allen simply face-palmed himself in response.
"… Look. I know you guys love Allen a lot." She ignored the defensive "NO I DON'T LOVE HIM" from David, "Do you honestly think that a twin size bed is able to fit in three male?"
"It's better than allowing Allen to share a bed with that guy!"
"Actually… I don't mind sharing a room with Kanda," Allen confessed, "Sides, there's something both of you were hiding from me, isn't it? Are you sure you want me in the same room as you where I will see you in your real nature?" He was referring to their make-up, of course. However, when comes to people that only listen to his side of the conversation, namely Kanda Yuu, it's easy to get the wrong idea.
David was going to retort, but then as soon as Allen reminded him that sharing a room meant that they have to face Allen without their makeup on, David almost yelled that he don't mind if Allen's the one who see their real face. Keyword, almost.
Not yet, He still doesn't have to courage to show anyone his real face. Jasdero is another story, but Allen Walker— He can't do it.
A punch was thrown at the wall, "… Do whatever you want!" With that said, David stormed off to his assigned room, Jasdero following behind him after apologizing to the rest of the group.
"… They really listen to you, Allen." Lavi commented.
"I hope they do." Allen answered, his hand now reaching for his own luggage before turning to Kanda, "Lead the way, Kanda."
The Japanese male simply walked to his room, slowing his pace a little to allow a certain bean sprout keeping up with him easily. He was most definitely just being considerate to the shorter male, seeing that he was a lot taller than the other, so it's only fair for him to walk slower than usual for the male behind.
Usually, Kanda would walk in his own pace without thinking of the ones behind him, especially if it's an idiotic reed-haired rabbit. Screw that, he would even increase his pace if its Lavi Bookman behind him, silently hoping that he could somehow lose the so-ever annoying male behind in the process, in which he never manage to do so with how good Lavi is in following someone's pace in ease. God damn those long legs. If the idiotic rabbit has a height of this bean sprout, everything would be so different. He wouldn't have to listen to his useless rants about girls. Well, at least before Lavi met Lenalee, Lavi would always rant about girls. After Lenalee appears in the picture, Lavi never spoke of any chicks (at least not in front of Lenalee). He was glad, but then the rabbit decides to bug him with other unrelated topics as well.
Allen Walker, however, he secretly stole a glance behind him to see said male was looking around eagerly, obviously excited with the trip, but Allen never made any unwanted cheers at anything that surprised him. Unlike a certain rabbit, Kanda muttered mentally.
This, he could really live with this.
"Erm, Kanda?"
It was kind of weird. No matter what circumstances, he would felt annoyed with such gesture of breaking the silence he love so much, yet, when it was this white-haired male's voice that did it, it seems to be blending perfectly with the peaceful silence. Just like how a small droplet of water dripping into a lake, it may create beautiful water wave, but never disturbing the peaceful water surface of the entire lake.
Was it even possible for a human voice to blend into nature that perfectly?
"We're here." He answered the white-haired male.
With that said, he inserted the key card into the slot, pulling it out swiftly after hearing a beep, before proceeding to push the door open.
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As soon as she enters the room, Lenalee went straight to the twin-size bed and dived into it, all the while leaving her boyfriend, who was busy pulling both their luggage not with ease into the room, to deal with all other situations.
"Where are we going tomorrow?" She started when Lavi finally laid himself down beside her after setting down everything in the room. Said male simply turned his head to his lady, with a wide grin on his face, he passed his phone to the lady. No questions needed, she unlocked the screen. Lavi always has a habit of planning a schedule when going for any trip and saved them as a JPEG, he will then set the picture as his wallpaper throughout the trip.
Alright, Let's see. Day two, day two—
She blinks several times, not entirely sure what she should comment with this plan.
"Brilliant plan, isn't it?"
She glanced up, straight into the emerald eye before her, her right eye squinted slightly while she raised her left brows.
"… Are you sure you're not just messing with them?"
"Aw, come one, you have to admit that this is brilliant—"
"You're literally digging your grave, dear."
Lavi chuckled, he waved his hands in a "there, there" matter.
"They love me, Lena-lady."
She scoffed, "Yeah, they'll love you so much."
Now sitting up, Lavi reached for the cup of water he had placed on the side table before he laid down, taking a tiny sip of it, and passed to Lenalee, a silent gesture of asking her to take a sip too before going on with the conversation. Which she did, with a gulp of water running down her throat, her sight never leaving her man's glance, go on, she signaled.
"First of all…" He dragged the sentence, wanting to create an artificial tensed atmosphere among them, "Allen can't swim."
She rolled her eyes. She had known Allen for years, of course she knows that Allen can't swim. It was not that he had a phobia of water or anything traumatic related to water; it was simply because no one taught the poor white-haired male how to swim. She had once promised Allen that she'll teach him what she knows when they goes for swimming one day, but that never came 'cause that it was later that this redhead rudely intruded into their daily life, then oh so easily, kidnap her (which she did not actually resists in any way ) to get to know her more. Since the appearance of this red head, she had missed out lots of time to hang out with her white-haired friend, but Allen assured that he was fine with it; he even encourages Lenalee to hang out with Lavi more back then, all the while muttering about himself shouldn't be in the way of her relationship or something along those lines…
"I know about that already, Lavi."
"We're supposed to teach him how, isn't it?"
Oh.
She did not expect Lavi to actually remember about her mentioning that she had this promise with Allen. Seeing that Lavi just listen to her blankly, she had thought that he was simply "listening" and not "absorbing" the information she was telling him.
"I remember every single line you said," Lavi said gently to the now-blushing Lenalee.
"S-Still-!" She quickly averts the topic, "Are you sure it's okay to plan it this way?"
Lavi reached for the now-empty cup in her hands and placed it aside.
"Kanda is the best swimmer I've ever known, what could go wrong?"
"The twins," She retorted.
"…"
"…"
"… They won't do anything right?" Lavi timidly voiced out his thought.
Somehow, just somehow, after Lenalee reminded Lavi about the existence of the twins, they just have a feeling that things should be going all according to plan… Right?
The expression Kanda wore while he stared at his own cell phone back in the car when David was patting Allen's head while the white-haired male was sleeping — that was the first time he sees Kanda feeling annoyed with the quiet atmosphere. He was sure that Kanda was actually not staring at his screen, but the reflection of the twins and Allen Walker at the back seats. And why was he so sure with this? Well, you see, Kanda was never someone who loves using cell phone. Heck, the main reason Kanda still has a cell phone was that Tiedoll had to threaten Kanda that he will annoy Kanda everyday if Kanda rejected the cell phone. That aside, he caught Kanda kept stealing glances at the trio at the backseat while he was staring at his cell phone, almost as if Kanda wanted to make sure that what he sees in the reflection did not deceive him.
Sure, he knew that Kanda cares for the precious little Allen silently. In fact, that was the main reason he chose Kanda for that role on their trip tomorrow! Still, he was actually slightly surprise with how the twins' expression seemed to soften at the sight of Allen sleeping, especially David. That gentle expression he wore when he patted the soft white strands, even going as far as letting Allen to lie down on his lap during the car ride.
He saw David laid Allen's head down gently onto his own lap to avoid neck cramps on Allen, yet as soon as Allen woke up and asked why was he lying on David's lap, David simply knocked his forehead just like how he always does in the house, then saying that it was Allen that lay on his lap willingly, and of course ending with a, "Jasdero said not to push you away," followed by a grumpy expression. May I add that Jasdero had not even open his mouth throughout the journey?
It was clear that the dark-haired twin cares for Allen, but why was he bullying Allen, time and again?
Maybe it's just a family thing. That's how they show they care for each other in their family?
Will things still go along with his plan by now?
"I don't know. It's your idea anyway." He heard Lenalee said to him.
"… Let Lady Luck choose her side, shall we?"
The lights went off.
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"So our Brit still can't swim, huh?"
"… Aren't the two of you the same as me?" Staring at the twins beside him who started to fan themselves under the shelter, Allen deadpanned. With David turned his head in annoyance, Jasdero smiled at their cousin before pointing at their makeup. For that, Allen sighed in defeat.
"You guys did realize we're going to come to a beach, right?"
"…"
"David won't leave the room without his eyeliner on."
"… So you were not planning to enter the water at all?"
David simply stared at him back in response, "You're doing the same, aren't you?"
"But in my case, I don't know how to swim; not that I don't want to!"
The older twin shrugged, "Same thing. Three of us are not going to enter that salty water. Think of us as your companion now."
As much as he wanted to think that it was indeed sweet for the twins to accompany him on the beach while the other three members of the trip enjoying themselves in the water, he was pretty sure that was not all. There must be something else that makes the twins do not want to enter the water. Their make-up, duh. But surely, there's something like a….. a waterproof makeup? He probably should ask Lenalee about it later. With that, the twins will be able to have fun with them without worrying the water ruining their makeup.
Whatever reason for them to start wearing makeup on daily basis, it should not be the reason to stop them from having fun.
"Fine, I get it!"
The three occupants on the beach turned their heads to the source of the yelling, namely, Kanda Yuu, as witness how Lavi is bouncing up and down while cheering so loudly in the background.
Why's that bastard walking towards us?
David glanced around, searching for anything that could have caught the raven-haired male's attention to the point he's walking towards this direction— Then, his sight landed on Allen Walker.
… It couldn't be.
No, it's actually possible. Lavi Bookman is cheering so happily behind there, with his girlfriend returning his hugs while winking at Allen— They are aiming at Allen!
"Get up, bean sprout."
"H-Huh?!"
"In the water, now."
"Wait, he can't swim—" He didn't know why he had shouted, all he knew was that he can't let this bastard pulls Allen into the water.
"And I'm here to teach him. Up, bean sprout."
"A-alright." Allen stood up timidly, his eyes glancing at the twins with questioning stares, unsure if he should leave the twins there.
"I don't have the whole day, bean sprout."
Him? Teaching Allen? Yeah, right.
"We'll come with you." David stood up next to Allen, his other hand pulling his twin up. From the corner of his eyes, he could see Kanda opening his mouth to retort, quickly before the words could escape from Kanda's lips, he said, "And before you say anything, Jasdero and I know how to swim."
They were both greeted by Allen's innocent betrayed look.
"You guys knew how to swim, yet none of you decided that it was important enough to tell me?!"
Jasdero pointed his thumb to David, "His idea," before hanging his left arm on Allen's neck while David hung his left arm right above of Jasdero's right arm, and walked towards Kanda's direction.
"I can't believe you both—"
"There, there, Allen."
With the sounds of Allen and Jasdero playfully arguing with each other playing in the background, David kept his eyes on the Japanese male before him, a smirk slowly curved up as he sees Kanda slowly turns his stares into glares.
Two can play the game, Kanda Yuu.
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Kanda decided that he was regretting his choice to agree to teach the Brit how to swim. Yes, it was the idiotic rabbit's idea to teach a certain white-haired male how to swim; but honestly speaking? He didn't mind the idea at all. Somehow, he had no idea why, he felt that he would enjoy the time he teaches Allen Walker. Even so, how should he put it in words that he was okay with this? If he just nods, the idiotic rabbit will surely take advantage of this and asked him to do something else— He knew this idiot too damn well.
"Come on, Yuu. Look how lonely Allen looked there!"
Said bean sprout were chatting happily with the twins. There were no smiles on Allen's face, but he could see it, the sparkles in those grey eyes as he chatted with the twins. He stared at them silently, then turned his sight back to the redhead, nudging his head towards the three occupants under the shelter, does he fucking looks lonely to you?
"Look, Yuu. Allen can't have as much fun as us when he stayed on the beach."
He sure is enjoying himself with those make-up freaks on the shore though.
"I don't give a fuck."
"Kanda, we're going to be here the whole day," Lenalee stressed, "Are you sure you'll be fine with Allen only staying on the beach with the twins?"
Of course not!
"Fine, I get it!"
The couples were cheering behind him, he knew.
Nah, it's okay now. All he needed to do now is —
"Wait, he can't swim—" That's why he came here, duh.
"And I'm here to teach him. Up, bean sprout."
Whatever it means when Allen Walker hesitated to go to him? Why did that bean sprout feel the need to turn to the freaky-looking twins as if he needed their approval before doing anything else? He realized, he did not actually ask that idiotic rabbit regarding the relationship between the bean sprout and the twins. Are those two, he stared at David and Allen, together? Quickly, he swung those thoughts away, if he's already in a relationship, he won't be attending the Paogam activity now, won't he? Then why was it?
Why does Allen Walker need their approval for something so insignificant like this?
"I don't have the whole day, bean sprout."
As long as he gets the bean sprout away from this twins—
"We'll come with you."
Seriously?
"And before you say anything, Jasdero and I know how to swim."
So you will be standing at the side awkwardly while the lesson goes on? Just great.
Before he knows it, he had started glaring at the twins, especially towards the dark-haired one, in which he was replied with a smug smirk.
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"It wasn't that hard, isn't it?"
Not at all. In fact, it was way easier than he had thought it would be. Allen could finally keep himself afloat without using any floats. Yeah, it was a little tiring that he had to keep kicking under the water, yet he felt no fatigue from all those kicking exercises Kanda thought him; if it's even possible, he could feel more energy growing from the inside.
A nod from Kanda, "Now, try swimming to that rock."
He did as he was told, surprised to find out that his body was already getting used to the water. He could easily let himself flows to wherever he wants! This is amazing; he turned to face the twins with a large smile.
"Look, I can swim now!"
"Idiot—" He felt a pull from the dark-haired twin beside him. He blinked several times, before realizing that he could have knocked into someone else if David did not pull him in time again.
"Jesus, how many times do I have to tell you to be more aware of your surroundings?!"
He let David raged over, a large smile sticking on his face.
Though he had no idea why David was not willing to teach him, but he was glad that David and Jasdero followed him. God knows how scared David looked when he first tried to float on water back then. David kept placing his arms under Allen's body, preventing the body from sinking too low every time Allen started to sink. Not forgetting that David kept Allen unharmed by preventing him from banging into the others during his lessons.
"I'm scolding you, Brit. Stop smiling!"
… Are these two really not together?
Kanda felt his eyes twitching at the sight before him.
If you want someone to learn, you let them die, metaphorically, not literally, of course.
How in the world does this David guy expect the bean sprout to learn how to swim by protecting him to this extend? Pulling the bean sprout away from hitting rocks or human was understandable, but placing the arms below the body just to make sure he doesn't sink too low?
What. The. Fuck.
"Did I hear someone finally knows how to swim?"
A splash was thrown towards his direction.
"IT'S PARTY TIME!"
Lavi and Lenalee rushed to their side, splashing water on them as they did so.
Suddenly, Kanda felt as if he was the most idiotic person ever alive.
Why would the idiotic rabbit requested to teach the bean sprout about swimming? It was to make sure that the bean sprout doesn't fucking drown while they splashed him with water!
Guess it's time to retreat to the shelter with that blond twin there… As for the bean sprout, he threw a glance at the black and white pair behind him, gritted his teeth as he thought, that freak will take care of him.
As long as he retreated back to the shore, he will be free from all these stupid party—
"Jasdero, come join us!"
At a speed of light, the blond before him rushed through him to the pair behind him.
… Even better, I get that spot all to myself.
"Yuu, come back—"
As if I'll do as you told.
Seaweed was thrown to his hair.
"… You are fucking dead!"
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Before they know it, the guards whistle at the crowd, alerting them of how late it was.
Lavi groaned and threw the beach ball in his hand to Allen one last time, before walking back up to the shore.
"Here," Lenalee handed Lavi a towel. She had retreated from the so-called party earlier, saying that she was already at her limit and that her skin would be ruined if she stayed under the sun any longer. With the group slowly retreated back to their camp spot, she handed each of them a clean towel.
"David, your eyeliner is smudging." She commented, and reached for her bag for some makeup remover, "There, it'll feel much better."
The dark-haired male simply stared at her a while, before shaking his head slightly at her offer. Wiping his face gently with the given towel, he carefully not to wipe off the remains of his eye liner, then proceeding towards the direction of the public toilet with his own bag of supplies. Is he seriously going to re-apply his eye liner?
"Allen," She turned to said male, "We're not going anywhere later. Dinner is included in the hotel, so go tell David that he doesn't have to re-apply his eye liner."
What? That fucker is actually fixing his makeup?
Kanda stole a glance at the other twin that had seated himself down next to the bean sprout. And to think that he thought it was this blond twin that will be more into makeup and stuff… Turns out it was the other one?
"It's okay, Lenalee," Jasdero said to the only female in the group, "David's unconfident without his eye liner."
"Is he really that normal-looking without makeup?" Lavi asked, starting to get curious of the now MIA twin. With his head now turned towards Allen, he questioned, "Allen, how does David looks like?"
"The last time I saw him without makeup was when I was six."
"He had been wearing makeup for that long?"
Allen shrugged, "I left when I turned seven. Later in life, it was them," Allen pointed to Jasdero, "who searched for me from time to time and stayed with me despite what country I was in. By the time they first found me, I was nine; they been wearing them since then."
"Why?"
Allen looked at Jasdero, who in turned just smiled at him, not answering the question.
"… Beats me. They won't tell me." Allen pouted.
Then something else hit him.
"How did you guys know what country I was in all the time?"
Jasdero blinked innocently, "… You wrote to us?"
"Before I started writing to you guys, I mean."
Jasdero shrugged.
"I just followed wherever David goes, no idea how he figures out where you are all the time though."
Sounds like a stalker to me, Kanda thought.
"Lenalee—!"
A sudden yell shocked everyone in the group, followed by a glomp from an orange-haired girl towards the only female of the group.
"Fou?"
The other hugged Lenalee harder, "Can't believe I see you here!"
"Same here." She greeted back.
"Oh, one thing before anything— Look at this hottie I saw on my way here."
A phone was thrust to her face.
The guy in the picture was obvious that he was clueless that a picture of him was taken. He appeared to be finding something in his bag, in a place that seemed to be less crowded than usual.
"… He looks oddly familiar."
"He's hot." Fou complimented.
"Fou, you have a boyfriend—"
"That isn't half as hot as this dude."
She sighed.
It was then David returned to the group, his makeup all well done.
"Oh shit— You didn't tell me you know the hottie!"
Huh? Lenalee raised her brows at her friend, who was busy staring at David with interest. Looking down at the phone once more, it clicked.
The one in the picture was David, when he had freshly removed all makeup from his face!
Unconfident? Heck, why is this boy hiding his pretty face with makeup?
"Woah, boy, what's with all those makeup?" Fou groaned at the missing sexiness on the male she had her eyes on, clearly unhappy with the state of his face now full of makeup.
"Screw off." He snapped.
Fou stared at Lenalee in silent, slowly thinking things through, before smiling at the male before her. "I got the wrong guy, sorry."
David scoffed.
"Well, I'll go ahead." She walked past Lenalee, lowering her voice to the point that she's whispering, "I'll send you that picture. Tell me more when you figure out what's up."
The smile on Lenalee's face was all the answer she needs.
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TBC
A/N: A long break from this fic, and now I'm back! ( owo ) Thanks a lot for the wait!
Truth to be told, this chapter could be done on 29th August, but my body decided to fall sick by then. So I ended up dragging my sick body to my hometown and rested for two days straight ORZ
For the part Lavi set his schedule as his wallpaper, someone actually does that xD There was this time I was so blur I forgot what classes I have next but was too lazy to find the pdf format schedule in my phone, so I tapped at the one next to me in class, "What's next?" He was using his phone that time, so he just clicked the "home" button and let me look at his wallpaper. Gonna admit… It's so damn convenient.
Moving on, why do you think David's wearing makeup? 8D Be sure to leave your thoughts in the reviews~ I wonder how many of you can get it right xD
Alright, that's all for today.
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