Let Your Silence Sing
Chapter 26
Neah was (oddly enough) right that everything would look better in the morning. Even though, judging by the sun, it was closer to afternoon. But whatever. I had been seriously freaking out last night, but now I did feel a lot better, especially now that the dream of Diahna had sort of faded to the back of my mind. I felt bad for catching Tyki up in my mental breakdown, though… I need to apologize, I thought as I opened the front door and walked into the hall. I stopped smack-dab in the middle of the hall shortly after. "But… why did he kiss me?" I mused aloud.
"Maybe it's because you're simply oozing female pheromones!" Neah suggested, appearing right next to me.
"Go away, you creeper! Don't you dare talk about my stench or nothing!" I smacked him.
"What proper grammar," Neah stated dryly. I hit him again. He covered his head with his arms. "After all I've done for you?" he feigned hurt. I gave him a look and pushed him, sighing with annoyance.
"This is my room, right?" I asked Neah. He laughed through his nose, and nodded. I felt a blush rising on my cheeks and I opened the door, collapsing on the bed.
"It's something to do with Joido, right?" Neah guessed, sitting on my bed.
"Tyki… and no…" I muttered.
"I knew it!" I grabbed a pillow and was about to hit him with it, when he cried out, "Wait! Don't you want to look good for Fido?"
"Tyki."
"Whatever. They're both pet names." He slowly stood. "Well, from a male perspective I can totally tell you what looks good." I gave him wide hopeful eyes. He disappeared into his piano room and came out a few moments later with a triumphant smile and what appeared to be a mid-thigh length black ruffly dress with spaghetti straps.
"Um. Pardon me, but I don't believe you. You have an obvious lack of taste. Also, is there any reason you have women's clothing in your piano room?" I asked.
"I have everything in my piano room!" he bragged.
"I see," I said slowly. "This isn't going to disappear half way down the stairs or something, is it?"
Neah gave me a hurt look. "I wouldn't do that to you! Only I may look at you without clothes on!" I gave him a look. He shrank back, muttering, "Okay, maybe Joido too, but that comes much later in the relationship."
As I finished changing in the bathroom, Neah strolled into the bathroom, not even bothering to open the door.
"I see why you're called the Noah of Destruction. You have completely destroyed all sense of privacy I ever had."
I saw his smug grin out of the corner of my eye as he walked towards me. He proceeded to then pull my ponytail out and redo it. He then flipped the tail over and pulled it through the hair.
"Impressive," I admitted. He then placed a circlet of little white flowers on my head. "Where did you even get these?" I deadpanned.
He ignored that and said, "Oh, and you should hide this." He pulled Tyki's locket under the top of the dress. I tried to beat back the violated feeling that gave me. At my questioning look, he said cryptically, "Dezaiasu is in a bad mood."
"Isn't he always?" I asked, smoothing down a couple of stray hairs. At this point I decided to not even bother with names if he was going to disregard them every time I said them, anyway.
"Yes," he replied bluntly. "Alright, now go get your man back!"
"Sometimes I wonder about you…" was all I said in response to that.
When I went downstairs, I got lost again, and had to ask Neah for help.
"What do you mean, 'you lost the locket'?" Sheril's angry voice drifted out from behind a slightly open door. "You were supposed to give it to your fiancée!"
"I don't love her. I don't even like her," Tyki responded, irritation clear in his voice.
Wait… what? Fiancée? I froze.
"We set up this marriage for you, the least you could do is pretend to care," Sheril hissed. "She's a very rich young lady, and beautiful too. The alliance with her family could become very beneficial!"
"She's a bitch," Tyki replied, straight forwards as always. I jumped slightly as I heard a loud smack. Did Sheril just hit Tyki?!
I took a step back as Sheril stormed out of the room and practically walked into me.
"Did you hear that, girl? Tyki's getting married, and not. To. You." He pushed me back slightly, and I stumbled back.
Tyki was getting married.
And he kissed me. What was he trying to pull?!
"That son of a bitch! I'll kill him!" Neah growled.
"Which
one?" I asked, slightly worried.
"Both of them!" he stormed off, to make revenge plans, I supposed.
NAW: Not much to say for this one.
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