Chapter 10
She was grinning and smiling sweetly, her face seemed to be brighter than usual and even people around her can felt the happiness she emitted, she looked like a child in Christmas morning or was having a special day.
And he was not amused, not even the slightest.
"What's the point of you being here?"
"To visit a sick friend of course," she said politely with such honorific and a sweet smile plastered on her face, "It's so fun—sad to see you laying on the bed, unable to do a thing, that just...sad." she said innocently.
Hikaru shot a glare at her but she just smiled innocently, knowing he was too tired to even sit up.
"They said you refuse any visitors, I was worried you won't let me in."
"We don't want the house to be crowded," they said in union as Kaoru was sitting on the floor with his arms rested on the side of the bed where Hiikaru was laying down.
"You didn't let Haru here though,"
"Because we don't want any loud noises," they said in union,
Hiikaru then turned around to looked at her, "Where is it by the way?" he asked,
"What?"
"Gift for the sick!" the two answered again in chorus,
"Is it me but you two seems to be more...united," she noted, "I actually brought apples for you." She said as she took out a bag of apples from her bag,
"Booo! Boring Yu-tan!"
"I can carve it into flowers if you want,"
That actually peeked their interest, "You can do that?" they asked,
"Hm," she nodded and the twin gave her the knife, eager to actually see her work and when she nailed it by carving one side of the apple into a perfect-shaped rose, the twin looked at it with their own excitement.
"Leaving that aside, your interest is in art huh," Kaoru said,
"I suppose, aren't you also the same?" she asked,
"Nah, we can be anyone we want," they answered nonchalantly and she just rolled her eyes.
It was true that they might not be the smartest students in class but at least they're better than Yuki who score averagely.
"So you're going to be an artist?"
"Perhaps, but my grandmother quite insisted for me to marry a man from a good family and be a good-respectable wife."
"You're going to marry Kyoya-senpai then?" they asked in union,
"No, why is it always him," she grimaced, "Even though my grandmother quite stubborn, my mother is the same as her, they're still fighting because of it."
"You don't want to be a wife then?" they asked,
"Well...I don't want my life to be decided all the time. I was the one who decided to transfer out from my old school and come here..." she paused a bit and seemed to be doing a bit of thinking, "To see of how much I capable of...I think."
The twin stared at her in silence for awhile before Hiikaru broke the silence,
"With your physic score I'm saying not so good,"
"Shut up."
"That's why..." he said, "We're going to teach you about it!" he said as he jumped to her and hugged her tightly which made her yelped,
"Hi—!" she stopped when all of sudden Hiikaru went all powerless and the only thing that supported him was his arms that were wrapped around her neck and finally, slowly enough, he slumped away and fell down right to the floor.
"HIIKARU!"
~0~
"It's rare for Hiikaru to be this sick,"
"He must be tired. He would be fine by tomorrow, he's your brother after all," she said with a grin on her face, Kaoru stared at her for awhile, surprised by the grin on her face, "So you have that side too huh?" he asked.
"What..."
"You know, I think Hiikaru really like you,"
"Hunny-senpai said the same thing the other day,"
"Yeah? And I like you too, so it would be nice if we keep being friend." He said with a childish-happy grin that made Yuki heart goes thumping for a moment there but soon she collected herself up.
~0~
He felt his eyelids were super heavy, was the AC turned on? He felt hot, and cold at the same time. Was that even possible?
"Kaoru….." he mumbled, his throat felt dry then he felt something cool touching his fingers. He grabbed into it as soon as possible, feeling the cool from whatever he was holding, not wanting to let go before falling asleep once more.
~0~
Kaoru returned, only finding Hiikaru was holding Yuki's hand while Yuki was texting at ease.
"You're okay with this?"
"When Haru was sick this happened too."
Kaoru just hummed at that,
"Oh hey, do you want to watch movie sometimes?"
"Sounds cool for me. What are we watching."
"Horror."
"Cool, is it that new one with that empty park in the trailer?"
Kaoru gave a bored expression to Yuki while Yuki was smiling smugly,
"Unfortunately I am quite a fan of horror."
"I'll just ask Haru." He flipped his phone and began texting her twin.
"No fun." She poked her tongue out.
~0~
Hiikaru woke up an hour later, it was late evening and she really should went back. Kaoru was taking a shower, she could just called a passing servant or something.
"Here." She passed the glass water to him, his expression told her that he was not full awake and the fever was hitting on him.
"You should change your clothes, where do you keep them?"
"….Closet."
She just walked on her own and found a PJ's for him.
She changed his top without much talking, it was not the first time she took care of a sick person but definitely the first time she actually undressed a male. Her hands were trembling so much like a tremor but then she kept repeating in her head that he was sick so it was just like taking care of a child.
She helped him rubbing off the sweat from his torso and putted on the new one on him.
"There, much better."
"Hunh….."
He was like a child, how cute.
She can't help but smile at that.
"Don't leave." He said, grabbing her hand, "Your hands feel so cool." He placed it on her forehead, making her had to leaned a bit more to him.
She looked down to him and he looked up to her.
She looked away from him right away while he kept her hand on her forehead.
"…..Don't leave." He said once more, "I really, really like you, Yuki."
Yuki.
It felt weird hearing her name from his mouth when for weeks he had been calling her Yu-tan and—she kinda like it. The feelings she had in her chest, warm and drumming, it felt quite nice actually.
"….Okay, I'll stay."
She decided to stay until he finally fallen asleep.
