Sorry for the wait. But I am finished with my term now and can once again go back to writing. So I will be updating more often from now and until the start of next term.

Chapter 10

Vivi was really good at imitating a black hole with how she shoveled down her pancakes but that still didn't stop her from talking. Thought she did get reprimanded from Lewis at the first try when her mouth was so filled with pancakes that you could hear nothing aside from some muffled sounds.

"Vivi chew and swallow the food first then talk. You might end up suffocating yourself otherwise." Lewis said this while lifting a hand and letting it hang in the air, ready to help the girl if she did manage to get food stuck in her throat.

Said girl did give some time to chew and swallow her food before speaking again. "You are worrying to much Lewlew. I have eaten a lot faster with more food before without any problems."

"That still doesn't really give you a reason to challenge that danger. So, please, eat more properly."

"Yes yes mommy."

Lewis gave her the look that any parent have mastered 'really child, that is how you should behave?'. Vivi though had mastered the answer any child have learned, she played ignorant of it and kept on with her eating. Even hummed a little. This simply made the big man huff before he turned to his own food.

Arthur was also eating his food, but instead of eating it fast like Vivi, he ate it very slowly. The food was like the girl had said incredible and he was hungry. But the pancakes where quite thick and he had been living on not a whole lot for some time. It was simply overbearing on his stomach. He hadn't even eaten up his first pancake and already he was starting to feel a little nauseous.

"Are you okay?" Lewis had noticed how slow the other male was eating and was also certain that he seemed to become a little green.

"Y-yeah I'm… fine." Arthur made a pause in order to swallow what was in his mouth. "Could… could I get some water, please?"

Looking around on the table, the bigger male realized how he had forgotten to prepare any drinkables. "Oh right. I will get that right away, sorry, just wait a second." In a hurry he was up and about in the kitchen, fetching a holder that he filled with water. He also grabbed some glasses to give out. "So sorry for that. Here you go."

"Thanks."

"Calm down Lew, you know how stress is bad for you." The comment may have been a real one that was relevant but Vivi was saying it in a bad imitation of an strict mother. Gaining her some muttering from the big male.

Looking away from his friend he noticed that even with the water Arthur still wasn't eating a lot. This worried him. It may not have been on the list of reason to bring him there as a start but Lewis remember how light the other male was. To light. And that had put 'feeding' on the list to.

But how do you make someone eat like they should. Thinking about it he tried to figure out why the other wasn't eating. It couldn't be that there was no hunger, thinking back on how the soup from earlier had been eaten without a problem. And it wasn't anything wrong with the pancakes if he went with how Vivi was eating it.

He started to go round in circles about how to encourage eating in the other male when Vivi noticed how her friend wasn't really with them at the table any longer.

"There he goes again, worrying, and more likely then not making a hen out off a chicken."

That comment snapped Lewis out of his circle of worry but it also confused Arthur even further. "I though the saying was 'making a hen out off a feather'.

Vivi frowned, making a face of concentration and responding confusion. "How can you make a hen out off a feather? A chicken is a whole bird, isn't more likely to mistake one of those as a hen."

"I… don't really think that is the point."

"Well it should be." Was Vivi defense before she started to pout at her remaining pancakes.

Brought back to attention, Lewis starred at the other two, wondering what they where talking about. Maybe Vivi wanted chicken, but that don't really go along with pancakes as far as Lewis is aware off. Then again, his friend had a 'different' sense of taste. Only thinking about one of her 'super special sandwiches' could make him shudder.

"You are thinking insultingly about my sandwiches again aren't you."

"What, no no no. I was just… erm, just thinking how, how much we… could do with eggs."

"Eggs."

"… Yes, as breakfast tomorrow."

Vivi managed to hold a straight face for about five seconds, then she nearly bend down on her plate, laughing so hard she almost had hard to breath. She even started wheezing when her big friend tried to shush her but only made it worse. It went so far that the gentle giant became a little worried for her. But she stopped before he had to do anything about it. Letting him calm down as well.

"Really Lew you are the worse at finding excuses. But still, there is nothing wrong with my sandwiches."

"Aside from size and the sheer amount of edible on them?"

Beside them Arthur sat still and quiet as they bickered at one another. Their talk was in a way calming, that this was a home for them and that they where family of sort. But that gave him also a feeling of being misplaced. He felt that he didn't belong in this place and in their company. That and the pancake in his stomach was making him feel a little sick.

But there was still so much of it on his plate. Looking at Vivi he was sure that there wouldn't be any leftovers, but he was also sure that it could be like an insult not to eat more. Glancing towards the floor he saw the girl's dog, Mystery was it, who had already finished his plate. It shouldn't be to hard to just glide the rest off his food to the waiting dog. But that would be an even bigger insult wouldn't it?

The worrying and the already upset stomach was not an agreeable combination. Feeling bile rising Arthur moved one of his hands to his mouth and the other to his stomach. Desperately trying to keep it down. He didn't want to lose the food, he really didn't.

Lewis noticed at the others movement that something wasn't right. And it was also the moment he figured out what was wrong. I'm an idiot, was his thought as he rise, carefully so he didn't disturb the male who was holding his eyes closed in concentration.

Going to one of the cabinets, Lewis retrieved some powder medicine that he proceeded to pour in to a new glass of water. He lightly tapped the smaller male's shoulder before holding out the glass for him.

"Here it will help to calm down your stomach."

It was clear that Arthur was unsure about accepting the glass with how he hesitated. But the need for something that could help him made him accept the offer. After gulping down the content he sat still while taking some deep breaths. All the while Lewis was quietly reprimanding himself for putting so much thought in the earlier meal only to forget it for the next one. It should have been obvious that it was to early for something so thick as pancakes.

His self scolding stopped though when the one he had unwittingly made ill spoke up. "I'm sorry."

"You shouldn't have to apologize." Lewis said while lightly rubbing the other's back. "If anything I should be the one to say sorry for making you sick. I know better then giving something so hard to an sensitive stomach."

"I-it's okay. I'm not sensitive, I just ate to much."

Vivi frowned. "But you have barely touched your food."

"Sorry."

"Again, no need to apologize. I can make you something else, unless you want to wait. Just tell me when you feel up to it and I will cook something for you."

"It's not needed, I'm fine. Really." Arthur pulled back his chair a little, making Lewis back away some. "Could… is it okay if I go back to. To the room I… stay in."

Knowing he messed up again, Lewis struggles to smile friendly even though he feel anything but happy. "Sure, I will show you the way."

"Thanks…"

They walked through the corridors and up a stair. Arthur knew he should take some note of where they walked but he didn't feel like doing so. Soon they came to the room. Lewis wasn't sure what to do, or what he could do that wouldn't scare or worry the other, so he simply bid the smaller one goodnight as Arthur went in to his room and closed the door.