Sakamaki Sister
Aria and her classmate start their practice session. Everything goes by smoothly, until Aria repeats a line from the song by accident.
"Oh, please forgive me. I seem to have forgotten the lyrics" she bows.
Her classmate shakes her head frantically. "That's alright. Here, use my cellphone" she hands the white-haired girl a machine which she just called a cellphone.
Aria looks at the screen and is quite petrified of how technology can come is such tiny packages. I wonder why I've never seen this at home…
The sound of the piano starts and Aria starts to sing in perfect pitch and not missing a single note. While reading through the lyrics, she feels a pang on her heart. She keeps singing, though, trying her best to hold all her feelings in.
When the song ends, she gives her classmate the cellphone back and claims that she needs to make haste on going home. After the obligation, Aria jogs back to the main entrance; very shocked to see that Aidou is actually waiting for her.
"Took you long enough" he complains jokingly.
"I didn't ask you to wait either" Aria shots back, a smile on her face.
Aidou grabs her hand and goes over to his bike, he then asks her to get on it. She does so.
They both then cycle along the streets to their home. Wait.
"Aidou, is it really okay for you to take me back home?" Aria asks; a little worried.
"No worries, my house is just a bit more of ways than your stop" he says happily.
The scenery passes by the two; the streets only consisting of some shops and people from night schools – aside from where Aria goes to. The star-sprinkled black sky twinkles at every angel; mesmerizing Aria. First time I see stars as much as now.
Another question sparks up.
"You seem like a morning person, so why are you in night school?" Aria asks him once more.
"Oh, that. My parents like to travel around for both relaxation and businesses, so they like to drag me and my sister around. This time, their job is at night time, so I'm also forced to join night class"
"If I may, where are you originally from?"
"From planet Mars. Nah, I'm originally from Japan. It's the first time I saw this place since a couple of years. My last stop was Germany"
"I see" Aria laughs, along with Aidou.
The chat almost endlessly; which include many topics in each conversation. Aria learns that Ai is the name of Aidou's older sister. His sister plays the clarinet and is very skilled in baking. His parents work as politicians and they like to be called here and there all over the world, this makes Aria wonder if her father knows them.
On the other hand, Aria doesn't really tell much about her family. Aidou doesn't push that topic much because it's clear that Aria isn't really in the mood to talk about them.
The view of the mansion grows closer and closer. With a sigh, Aria asks something disturbing.
"Who is Alyssia, exactly?"
"Well, she's just the playgirl of the school. She's American and basically hits on any guy she finds interesting. Last two months was one of your brothers, his name was Shu-Senpai, I think. She just recently started aiming for Subaru-San since he's in the same class as her, and nobody really dares to get close to him; giving her wide space all to herself. I suggest that you steer clear of her. Also, she has a friend – check that, best friend –, her name's Saiya. I think you know that she's the brain of our class, but she's very sharp-tongued and has a crush on another one of your brothers, too, it's Reiji-Senpai. The combination of Alyssia and Saiya makes them almost makes them undefeatable. From what I've heard, Saiya had a math competition against a senior; she dropped out after winning ten times in a row, claiming that she's bored of it. Then, Alyssia managed to sway her grade sixth teacher into giving her a perfect score. Scary, if you ask me" Aidou explains.
"That's… I don't even know what to say about that" Aria sighs in frustration.
They finally arrive in front of the mansion's gates. Aria gets off of Aidou's bike and bids him farewell. He cycles away and Aria walks along the rosebush-sided walkway, towards the front door. While walking, she hums a tune familiar to her, but not exactly remembering the song's title.
Unaware to her, Kanato was looking at her giving Aidou a friendly farewell from the second floor. His eyes clouded in curiosity and jealousy. With a smile, he walks down the stairs and to the front door. He sits on the last stair; waiting patiently with Teddy hugged to his chest.
He can hear the soft clicking of Aria's shoes clearly, since it's about two in the morning. The purple-haired vampire just sits there wondering if he and the others can trust someone who they don't know, yet has befriended his sister.
The double doors open with a loud, rusty squeak. All seems fine to Aria's senses. That is, until she sees Kanato perfectly perched on the center of the staircase; his eyes gleaming in a disturbing war and his eerie smile slowly getting wider and wider.
"Brother, don't scare me like that" Aria says, her voice shaky.
She steps closer to him, who is just eyeing her up and down; looking for any added damages to her clothing, much rather, her body.
"Brother?" she asks once more, shaking his shoulder this time.
He still doesn't answer nor move a muscle. She keeps on calling his name and shaking his shoulder more frequently. Worried, she keeps on doing her actions while calling.
Suddenly, he swiftly grabs her hand that's on his shoulder and leans in to her ear.
His voice rings eerily to her ears. "Who's your friend, Sister Dear?"