I always thought people thought Midori was a mary-sue(which she was before i admit) or just plain annoying. And you gotz to get further along before you can understand why Midori seems to prefer Bard over Sebby XDD
But all of you: Thank you for the reviews! It brightens my day to have feedback.
And another thing: I gurantee you will not like this chapter. It was really painful to write, yeah! There's BardxMidori in this chapter, and Sebastian getting PO'd at Midori.
All of us servants sat quietly around the table, waiting for Sebastian to come join us. Maylene and Finny seemed to be kind of restless, and Bard had sat his head lazily onto the table."How much longer do you think he'll be?" He growled, chewing on an unlit cigar. "Who knows." I sighed. He was taking a little while today...It's kind of boring just sitting there in waiting.
"So..." I started, trying to start some type of conversation going. "How has your morning been going-"
"Midori! What did you and Bard do in the kitchen the other day?" Finny suddenly exclaimed.
I stared at him blankly.
"Bard and I..in the kitchen?"
"Yeah yeah! Maylene was talking about something weird happening between you two! She had a major nosebleed!"
Maylene blushed hard. "D-Did you two..do that?"
"Do what?" I asked. "We've done a lot of things." Her face reddened even more.
"T-T-That thing!" she continued.
"What thing?"
"D-Did you guys...have..s-sex?" She finally sputtered.
There was a silence, all of our faces reddening.
"How do you know about that?" Bard asked.
"S-So you did?" Maylene exclaimed in shock. "No! We didn't!" I cried. How in the world did she come up with that?
"Then what were you two doing that other night?" She accused.
"We had an icing battle-"
Suddenly the door swung open, Sebastian walking through it. "Good morning everyone-" We all practically screamed in 'd just suddenly appeared out of the blue!...And we were all kind of jumpy I suppose.
"A-Ah. Sebastian!" Bard said, calming a little.
The butler looked at us with wide eyes. "Is there a problem?-"
"No there isn't!" I said quickly, making an awkward silence. Gosh..I wish Finny hadn't brought that all up. I knew he meant good, but now I felt like taking a cold bath.
"It's...time to start work." He announced slowly, narrowing his eyes in suspicion. "Maylene, you're in charge of the linens." He directed. "Finny, prune the trees..." His eyes traveled to Bard and I. "You two...prepare lunch..." His gaze lingered, until finally he averted his eyes with a sigh. "If you all understand, get to the task immediately."
We all rushed off, ( Bard and I conversing about the whole weird situation.
"I can't believe Maylene would think we would do something like that."
"Well, I was on top of you," he said, smiling a little at me."With icing. And we all know what icing resemble-" "I get it!" I exclaimed, blushing hard. He laughed, smiling that goofy smile. "B-Bard could you at least try to take this seriously? Everyone thinks we've had...well you know!..."
"Sex?" He said. "Maylene is always making those types of accusations. As long as we tell them that she's on with her perverted mind, we'll be fine." I blinked. "You think so?" I questioned.
If he really was right, then that's a life-saver. I needn't everyone thinking I've had relations with Bard; I didn't even really want them to think that I was even the slightest attracted to him either. I mean...really! I wouldn't think of doing that with a person I'd just met a few days ago...Yeah!
But I took another glance at him. He was fairly handsome; that stubble of a beard was cute I'd always thought, and his ambitious blue eyes. And he was pretty well-built. I wonder what type of job he'd had before this one...Oh my-W-What am I thinking? Ew! Why did I just suddenly check him out? Hadn't I just finished convincing myself otherwise? For some reason, I just couldn't look away.
"Somethin' wrong?" He asked, when he noticed my tomato red face.
"N-No! I-I was just thinking...I s-should take a cold bath."
He laughed.
"Well why while you and go do that, I'll be cooking some lamb." He said, pulling out his flamethrower.
"H-Hold on! Bard don't!" I quickly took the away the (very heavy) flamethrower, furrowing my brows at Bard. "I thought we went over this before! You shouldn't use so much firepower for cooking!"
"You're just as stuffy as Sebastian!" He argued. His previous good mood had faded quickly.
"Well, I support Sebastian on this! You're just going to make needless mess!"
"Cooking is art! And art means explosions!" He argued.
"Art means no such thing!" I argued, "And cooking requires patience, which admittedly you don't seem to have when it comes to this!" He became really quiet, and suddenly I felt pretty bad. I was really passionate about cooking and baking myself, considering I'd been a baker. I knew patience.
"If you intend on using this, please stand aside," I began. "Otherwise, you can assist me in making this." He stared at me for a while, those eyes of his silently pleading for his 'toy' back. But when he knew I was very serious, he reluctantly worked along with me. The two of us worked in silence for the rest of that morning, only once being interrupted by Maylene's wail. It was fine, really. I really needed to focus, and I knew Bard was contemplating my sudden angry outburst.
"Really now," I sighed putting the lamb into the oven to averted his eyes, running his fingers through his short blond hair.
"I'm sorry, Midori."
I looked at him sympathetically ."Yeah, well, I'm sorry for get angry at you-"
"No you don't have to apologize. I'm a horrible chef...I wasn't ever meant for it." "Then why did you want to become a chef if you never felt it right for you?" I asked.
"I thought..I thought it'd teach me patience." He admitted. "But apparently not. I've been at it for almost a year now and nothing's changed."
My eyes softened."Well, Bard. You just need to take your time!" I said. "Cooking isn't something that's instant. And weapons don't belong in the kitchen." I hesitated to ask why he even had such diabolical weapons to begin with.
"Anyway, let's go ahead and clean this up," I announced. "I'll go and get the mops..and stuff." Then, I merrily skipped out of the kitchen and down into the hall, and into Ciel; to my displeasure of course. I knew he wanted something.
"Midori," He said, glaring up at me.
"My apologies young master! I wasn't watching out-"
"Never mind it. I need you to help me with something."
What? Isn't that Sebastian's job? Where's a bishonen butler when you need them?
He led me down to this room I suppose Sebastian had been decorating, and was speechless. Sweets, everywhere! It was like a candy wonderland! It was just so amazing!...To be expected by Sebastian though. The things he did were amazing,
"That head." He said, breaking my train of thought. "I couldn't reach it. And since I hired you to help me with this sort of thing-"
I sighed. "Yes, young master." I jumped onto the table it sat on to retrieve it."Sebastian will definitely notice this!"
But he acted as if he couldn't hear me. Really, he could be so childish at times.
"Now, let's go. Sebastian could come back any minute." He ordered, and we quickly hurried off. We were silent as always all the way to his dungeon of an office. I'd just stolen and ruined Sebastian's beautiful sculpture. And it was so obvious it had no head! Sebastian was going to have mine.
"Young master, why couldn't you have just used a chair if you wanted the head?" I asked, as I handed him the head.
"Well, I have you." He said leaning back in his chair. "And I also wanted to explain the kidnapping."
I tried to withhold a sigh. I really wanted to get back with Bard. I wondered if he had gone and bombed the kitchen again.
"To start off," he began. "The Phantomhive lineage has always served the Queen in underground business. Considering my parents untimely death, I'm the next to execute this task." I nodded in recognition."This is why the Azurro Vanel referred to me as a watchdog."
"I see...What a burden it must be..." I murmured.
"Midori." He spoke, gathering my attention again. "I want you to assist Sebastian in anything he may need.""Well I already do that-" I started, but he continued on."I want you to help me in these royal operations. You could prove very useful."
What? I was just content being a simple cook though! I hadn't signed up for this! I didn't dare argue. He had that you-can't-say-no look in his eye.
"I'm very flattered you think of me as useful, young master," I lied. He made me feel like a silly chess piece to be quite blunt.
The doors of the office swung open, an angry Sebastian appearing before us.
I gulped.
I HATE THIS CHAPTER OMG
But i'll have fun writing Midori's punishment. ouo
Sebastian: *evil chuckle*
Midori: ;;A;;