Notes

A/N: Told you I'd update as soon as I finished Make It Stop. I got a request from said fic to do this chapter so don't hate me if it sucks. I'm terrible with emotions. Meh…

29: Broken

After two hours of his older brother fussing over the way he looked, and thirty more minutes waiting for his brother to choose something for him to wear, Kaoru had finally escaped from the house with his boyfriend in tow. They were going on a simple dinner date and then a walk in the park. Before he left, though, Hikaru obviously had to flirt with the guy. Kaoru found this extremely embarrassing and just like Hikaru to do so in front of his brother.

At home, Hikaru was busying himself with random things such as looking through the rest of his mother's designs, working on some of his math homework, and sprawling out on the couch with a book in front of him. He was bored without his twin by his side, but he would be able to live for a few hours just to see his baby brother happy when he got home. It was always worth being alone for three hours just to see that cute smile and blush on his twin's cheeks when he arrived home. With a sigh, Hikaru checked his phone for the time and flipped to the next page.

At ten, Kaoru arrived home, soaked to the bone, his hair in disarray, and his cheeks flushed and his eyes bloodshot. "I hate him," was the first phrase that came out of his mouth. He plopped down by his twin, burying his face in Hikaru's side.

Hikaru was sitting up correctly, now, watching his brother with concern filled eyes. "What happened?" His voice was alarmed; his twin looked awful. He wrapped an arm around Kaoru's waist, pulling him closer. "What did he do?"

Kaoru wiped his tear-filled eyes. "We got into an argument over something stupid and he said 'Ya know what? Fuck you; we're over.' And then muttered something about how he'd much rather date you instead. He left me in the park. I didn't have my phone so I couldn't call anyone to pick me up and I had to walk home… that was fine, I guess, until it started pouring down rain. So then I had to run, in the rain, without a phone, seven miles away from home." He let out something that sounded like a mix between a sigh, a shudder, and a whimper. "And then it started to thunder… and the lightning looked like it was circling me…" he shook his head and stopped.

Hikaru held his twin close to him, muttering different things that seemed to help the other relax a little. "Come here." He finally said. He led the other into the kitchen and grabbed a tub of chocolate-chip-cookie-dough ice cream and two spoons, popping the top off. "It's your favorite…"

Kaoru gratefully took the spoon and dipped a bit out, sticking it in his mouth.

"Be' 'im ut frr you." Hikaru said around a mouth full of ice cream.

Kaoru laughed and nodded. "Yeah, thanks, Hika."

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"I don't see why people add disclaimers in their stories. I mean obviously they don't own it or they would be multimillionaires that actually did something with their life instead of writing things for fanfiction. If they actually owned all of this shit then it would've happened and they wouldn't even bother to think about this dumbass website." – One of my friends on disclaimers.

~Melody Syper Carston