Day 10 cont.
Ace was just a bit concerned... It wasn't exactly easy, or normal, to cook in the fireplace...
"Lovy, sorry to tell ya, but it looks like we'll have to eat some sort of cold food tonight.." Ace mumbled, putting a hand affectionately on his small brother's back. It took a moment for the young one's mind to click into gear, and then his expression turned to one of pure despair and absolute loss of hope for humanity. That alone nearly broke Ace's heart.
"But nii-chan!" Luffy pleaded, hugging Ace tightly around the waist till the point where bones were ready to snap. The freckled teen winced and put a hand on the stubborn and willful brother of his. He sighed and then thought about the situation.
"Hmmm... Well, I'll see what I can do.."
Luffy's mouth grew into a joyful grin and meanwhile loosened his grip to normal-hug mode.
The two brothers sat in front of the warm fireplace, roasting hotdogs on the usual s'mores poker-stake-thingmabobs, looking and feeling stupid as ever. Ace had a reasonable 2 hotdogs roasting, while Luffy attempted to cook about a trillion at once. The two sat in silence before Luffy hesitantly broke the silence and started to rant on and on about how they always used to go camping as kids and blah blah blah. Ace just sat looking calmly at the story-teller with a genuine grin, remembering all those fun times as well. After they both laughed for a moment, they realized that their food was about to spontaneously combust if nothing was done about it.
So after a short moment of cooling, the food was then consumed hungrily and quickly, which is not at all surprising. Luffy dramatically fell over onto the floor, patting his satisfied stomach with happiness.
"Aren't ya happy I came up with something?" Ace said with a smirk and raised eyebrow. Luffy sat up as much as possible and nodded with a thumbs up. Ace did his job well, then.
'Twas 7:30 then, and the cold wintery-darkness was almost upon the D-brother's household. The two checked the oil lamps and firewood to make sure they would last through the night. Once the sun dipped below the bland horizon, Ace lit the oil lamps and pushed around the new logs of wood in the brick fireplace, making them crumble and sizzle at the sudden movement. Luffy claimed one of the smaller oil-lamps as his own, and carried it around with him carefully. Meanwhile, his older brother set the other 3 spread out in the homebase-livingroom.
Extra warm blankets and fluffy pillows were piled onto the livingroom couch, for convenience and less of a chance of burning the house down to go get them in the middle of the night. Luffy threw his pillow down on the floor in front of the fireplace, carefully setting his lamp down, and then kneeled down on his cushion. Ace took a seat next to his adorable smiling brother, whose cheeks were red and eyes glistened from the fire's light. The older grinned and put an arm around his almost-boyfriend's shoulder, pulling him in close to his body. Luffy looked up at Ace with a smile and then laughed, putting his own arm around Ace's waist.
"Ya know, Ace.. I wish we had more blackouts," Luffy whispered, leaning his head on Ace's shoulder. The highschool-senior blushed a bit, but this went unnoticed from the orange glow from the fireplace.
"Me too, Luffy.. me too."
And with that, Ace pulled a warm blanket over their shoulder and placed a chaste kiss on Luffy's lips, grinning as the boy started to slowly fall asleep against his side.
~ + Haiiiii.. it's me again. the creepy author that haunts your souls with yet another None Piece quote to enlighten you, ["No you don't get it; no one shoots at Mr. Fuzzy-Flippers... and gets away with it!" - Monkey D. Luffy]