(Quite a short chappie!)
Even Kaoru, who usually remained calm and collected when Hikaru was a panicking wreck, could not keep calm now. He lay silent and still for several seconds after the door had creaked closed. Their parents' slow footsteps faded away as they clumped downstairs in a zombie-like state.
Long after the footsteps had disappeared, Kaoru's brain switched into panic mode. He lunged across the bed at Hikaru, who lay half on the bed and half off, still unconscious. Kaoru dragged his brother to the en-suite bathroom, and lay him gently under the huge walk-in showers. He fiddled nervously with the handle until cold water cascaded over Hikaru's still body. After a few nerve-racking seconds, Hikaru thrashed to his side, putting his hands out onto the tiled floor to steady himself.
Did that really just happen? Hikaru prayed to God he had been dreaming, but when he looked up into the eyes of his brother, he knew it had been real. Aside from the fact they were both naked, Kaoru's eyes were riddled with fear and anxiousness. Hikaru supposed his own face looked the same, if not worse. The surging feeling he had before returned, only quicker and more violent. This time he managed to be sick. It seemed he couldn't stop for a long time. He was disgusted with himself. It was all his fault.
Kaoru got up. Not quickly or slowly. Just normally. He walked in a similar zombie-like state that they had seen in their parents. For a fleeting moment Hikaru felt like a rapist.
Kaoru disappeared into the bedroom, and reappeared with a bathrobe on, and a matching one draped over his arm. He thrust it onto the floor next to Hikaru, who must have looked utterly helpless, like he was the rape victim. But he wasn't. He was the rapist…
He was over his vomiting ordeal, and was in a different position, staring at the ground anaemically. Kaoru gathered several towels from the cupboard and put them on the floor next to the bathrobe, so Hikaru could clean himself up. As Kaoru left the room in his seemingly calmed state, Hikaru slowly pulled on the bathrobe, before collapsing onto the floor again in a silent and uncontrollable flood of tears.
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About half an hour later, Kaoru guessed, Hikaru emerged from the bathroom in his robe, the dirty towels in a laundry basket which he clutched in his arms. He tossed his head to one side to shift a clinging clump of wet hair. Kaoru lifted his head from the pillow it had been buried in to see Hikaru set the basket on the floor.
'Dear God.' Kaoru whispered, choking on his own words and tears. 'What have we done?'
'You mean what have I done.' Hikaru corrected, sitting on the floor next to his own bed as though he wasn't worthy to sit on the same level as his brother.
'No.' Kaoru said, sounding genuinely confused. 'We both did it.'
Hikaru shook his head and worried his thumbnail into the nail beds of his other fingers. 'Just imagining them sitting down there right now…talking about it…Oh God…'
'We have to leave our room sometime.' Kaoru said, trying to hide the worry in his voice.
'And what do you think will happen to us when we do?' Hikaru snapped defensively. 'They'll kill us!' There was a paining silence before Hikaru continued. 'No. They'll kill me…'
Kaoru lifted his head quickly.
'How do you figure that out?' He asked. 'If you're going down I'm going down with you.'
Hikaru cringed. 'Could you please not use the expression 'Going down''…
Kaoru groaned exhaustedly, trying desperately to formulate a plan, but their parents had caught them at a bad moment. There had been no way to disguise it or quickly jump apart. It was hopeless.
'What about school?' Hikaru asked 'I don't know about you, but I won't be able to act normally around anyone, let alone look Haruhi in the eye anymore…'
His voice trailed off and he buried his face in his hands helplessly.
Kaoru checked the clock. Dinner in one hour. He wondered if his parents would call, or send a servant up. Or send a servant up to tell them they were being put up for adoption…separately.
'Well I know this.' Kaoru said, getting up and pulling Hikaru from the ground by the hand. 'Whatever happens, we stick together. Just like we always have.'
Hikaru straightened his previously hunched posture and stared at his brother's beautiful face. He weakly forced a rigid smile. He dipped his head.
'Agreed?' Kaoru asked, tipping Hikaru's chin back up with his finger. He held his older twin's gaze.
'Agreed.' Hikaru replied.
Hey! Hope you're liking it! I think the next couple of chappies to come (and the last one) are/were my best. Well the next couple to come aren't my best, but they're quite…how do I put this… 'Tug-at-Your-Heartstrings' :P
BYE!
Yamashita Miharu xxx