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"Ok, let's start with math, Ichigo-Chan!" Aru urged, diving for the spot on the bed, beside Ichigo.
"HEY, why can't we do science first?! You just wanna prove you're so smart!" Iru fumed, folding his arms and turning his back, so that all Aru saw was his back.
"Iru, I don't think that's what he meant! I know, let's do the literature homework first!" she suggested, sitting up in her bed.
"A wonderful idea, Ichigo-Chan!" Aru stated, nuzzling Ichigo's neck.
"Fine with me." Iru's reply was a lot more blunt than his brother's, although his actions were a lot louder. "Then, I guess I should get the spot beside Ichigo, because it's a subject I'm struggling in." glaring at his brother, he went over and grabbed his brother's ear, throwing him off the bed, only to take his place.
"T-that sound, he hit so hard!" Ichigo stuttered, lifting her hand to Aru, but stayed on the bed.
"I'm fine, Ichigo-Chan, but I must remember to find revenge later on. Well, onto studying then." walking over to the bed, Aru kicked his brother to the other side of the bed, and was now sitting closer to Ichigo.
"Grrrr. Fine, let's begin!" Iru stated, grudgingly, opening the language arts book.
"Ok, she assigned an author project. This means, we have to write a full short story and share it with two other people. Well, there's three of us, so we'll both have two people to show it to." Ichigo laughed, closing her eyes as she did so.
"KAWAII!" the twins yelled, envisioning hearts and bubbles swirling around the Necko girl.
"So, who'll start then, hmm?!" she asked, having to back up some, to avoid the fight between the twins. Lately, it was becoming a usual occurrence, one that she still didn't know the cause of. (She STILL doesn't get it, does she?! Oh well, it'll make a great story!)
"I'll share mine with you first, Ichigo-Chan! It's about a princess and a prince, and there's an evil guy in it and everything!" Iru declared, glaring at his brother, envisioning him in a dark cape, laughing evilly.
"Yeah, well mine's better!" Aru stated Matter-of-Factly to his brother. "It's about a hero who saves his love from the clutches of an evil man, but it's in modern times, unlike Iru's." upon stating this, Aru glared over at his brother, picturing himself standing there, Ichigo in his arms, while one of his feet were on Iru's side, as his brother lay there, defeated.
"Well, what's your story about, Ichigo?!" they sang in unison, inching their way in front of her face.
"Well, mine will be about a lost cat. Along the way in her story, she makes friends with five, wonderful, boys! Through the story, the lost cat realizes that she wasn't lost, she'd been abandoned, and that the way, she finds her real home in the midst of her five friends." she explains, gazing down to the palms of her hands, laughing to herself. "It's ironic though, because that's what I felt, when all of this began. But, I think I've finally found my happily ever after, with the friends I've found here." again, she closed her eye's and smiled, and, again, the picture of the bubbles, hearts, and Ichigo, flashed into the twin's minds.
IT WAS MID-AFTERNOON when they'd ended their stories.
Aru and Iru had, like always, tried to pick out any kinds of faults in each others word.
"Wow, it was really fun, reading you guys's stories. I'm really enjoying studying with you!" Ichigo stated, setting down the folder that contained their stories, picked clean of any mistakes.
"Now, let's go onto social studies! This'll be fun, cause it's, mainly, just reading and jotting down notes." Aru stated, picking up his notebook and the social studies book.
"Ok." Ichigo agreed, reaching for the book, that was, of course, being fought over by the twins. Being the only social studies book the two had brought, they felt the need to fight over it.
"I don't think so!" Iru stated, pushing Ichigo onto her back.
"Yeah, if there's one thing we can both agree on, it's that you need to stay lying down." getting up to stare down at Ichigo, Aru brought his face inches from her own.
"Even if we have to hold you down while we read." Iru added, placing his face beside his brother's, close to Ichigo.
"Come to think about it," Aru began.
"We've let it slip, the fact that you've been sitting up." Iru finished, their faces leing closer to her own.
"You guys, I'm fine. I'm not a baby. Although, I'm grateful that you care so deeply for me." as she gazed into their eyes, they seemed to get lost.
"NO, don't fall for it, Aru! She's trying to get us to let her sit up! It might reopen her wounds!" Iru panicked, pulling his brother's ear, causing him to snap out of his trance.
"You're right! We can't let her though!" Aru declared, going over to the door to her dorm, bending down to dig something out from his bag.
"Aru, you brought that?! I thought we agreed we wouldn't use that yet!" Iru, lifting his head, yet still holding Ichigo's arms down, seemed to realize something.
"Oh, come on, Iru! If we don't use it, then she'll get hurt." Iru stated plainly, walking over to the bed, where Iru held her down.
"W-what is it?" she questioned, backing away slowly.
"Just a leash." holding up the leash, Aru began to grin.
"Don't tell me you're gonna tie me up." she muttered, getting up from the bed.
"Hey, you'll get hurt like that!" Iru exclaimed, running to grab her arm.
"Listen, I care about you guys, and I know you only wanna have fun and all, but this is getting too out of line." it was the first thing she'd ever spoken, that caused them to shake in their socks.
"Oh, why so mean?" Iru looked hurt as he sat in the corner, sulking.
"Yeah, it was only a joke! Besides, we were really worried about you!" Aru explained, walking over to sit on the window seat.
"Look, I'm just stressed, and your little jokes aren't helping." she muttered, going over to Iru. "Please, I'm sorry if I was mean. Will you two forgive me?" she asked, pulling Iru up and towards the middle of the room. After which, she walked over and pulled Aru from the window seat. "Pretty please, with sugar and strawberries on top?!" batting her lashes, both men had to refrain.
"OF COURSE WE-" Iru was cut short by his brother, who'd covered his mouth to silence him.
"Sure, we'll forgive you." she stated, sadistically, hiding the evil glimmer in his eyes with his glasses.
"Oh, wonderful! Now, let's get to work-" she began, but stopped when she heard Aru begin to whisper something to his brother.
"Yes, we WILL forgive you IF you do us ONE little favor." Aru stated evilly, beginning to circle her.
"Ok, what is it you want then?" she asked, trying, in vain, to follow Aru as he circled around her.
"Well, we WERE going to bring in homemade cookies as a snack, and eat them on our own, but we figure it would mean more if you were the one that fed them to us." Iru chuckled darkly, taking on the same evil expression as his brother.
"But, we didn't bring the cookies." Aru stated, circling around her, opposite his brother.
"Which means…you'll have to bake some." Iru chuckled, stopping his circling to stare into her eyes.
"Well, do you know how to bake?" Aru questioned, stopping after his brother.
"Um, kinda. I mean, I've baked for school events and things like that, but I don't know if there's some fancy kinda cookie you guys want." she stuttered, picturing a tray of lavishly decorated sugar cookies with some secret ingredient in them.
"Na, all it is, is mixing peanut butter and chocolate chip cookie dough mix." Iru explained, pulling her to the stove of the kitchen in her dorm.
"Ok, I'll try it!" she exclaimed, pulling out bowls and spoons and measuring cups.
"YES!" Aru cheered, silently.
Ok, because of computer technical problems, I'm ending this chapter here, and the kiss will come later on! Review though, cause it's getting hard to write, I have no motivation. RxR!!!