How will their morning start? Let's find out shall we?
Luciano p.o.v.
I woke up I saw how my hands were wrapped around the same female that tried to choke me to death the previous night. She was cuddling into my chest, looking remarkably innocent, unlike the amusing demonic expression I had to witness yesterday. My intuition was right, she was the best toy to mess around with. Using the free hand that wasn't handled like a pillow, I reached for the phone that was inside my pocket. Checking the time I realized it was only 8 am. Quite early considering we went to sleep roughly after 1 am. Bored out of my mind, I started to mess with Laura's black locks of hair, but after a certain time passed I could feel someone watching us. I moved carefully to see who needed a beating, it was no one else but my brother that was smiling like an idiot the whole time. Soon he came over while whispering foolish things like.
"You already look like a real couple, why not ask her out already?" I had my own plans regarding this female like I would take any advice from this playboy. Shooting him a glare he said.
"Touche." and he went his way, but his loud voice awakened Laura. She looked up with her tired eyes, rubbed them and when she confirmed I was beside her, she just laid down not much bothered about my presence. Was she already used to me to such a level? Looks like my deduction was wrong since her eyes shot open, a few moments later. Her reaction was totally the opposite. While she pushed me away she asked with a shuttering voice.
"W-what do you t-think you d-doing?" was there a tint of pink in her squishy cheeks. I just chuckled while answering her with a simple.
"You were using me as a pillow." was this I lie, I couldn't tell. Was she the first that used my arm, or did I put her in a hug when I was asleep? She squinted her eyes at me as if she couldn't tell whatever I was telling the truth, but she picked up her body. Only then did I realize how my hand fell asleep. I felt this static sensation in my whole arm, Laura who understood what was happening just smirked at me.
"Sometimes it helps by trying to shake it off." I felt her gripping my sleeping hand and she shook it around with full force. It felt as if she intended to dislocate my whole arm.
"Is it better now?" she asked while sending me a fake smile. I tried to capture her chin with my other hand, but her reflexes made her avoid my attack. Rather satisfied Laura stood up, she sent me a mocking smile and she ran outside the guest room.
"It's not over," I muttered following her, walking downstairs I spotted her inside the kitchen, as I saw the knives I picked one pointing it at Laura. She grabbed my arm and we started to struggle, I heard the knife being tossed away, but we lost our balance and soon I was lying on the floor, with Laura on top on me.
"Are you done fooling around Luci?" she asked now looking down at me, putting her black locks that came into her face behind her ear.
"Don't call me that!" we heard whistling which came from my brother.
"You sure you don't want to get together with her, you guys moving fast, even I'm impressed." We both glared at him, which caused him to step away.
"Wow so synchronized." Before we could come to our feet the chick named Aspen appeared, she was shocked by the view, Matt joined her side telling us.
"I see you guys are at it again." Aspen gasped as she asked.
"Again? Laura, what does he mean?" Laura picked herself up, strangely stretching her hand out to me, which I grabbed. After she helped me up on my feet she pushed me onto one of the seats.
"We just trying to kill each other... again... I'm going to make pancakes." Matt's complexion brightened upon the mention of something simple as pancakes.
"Say you have some maple syrup." she showed him a whole cupboard of maple syrup.
"Of course, since my sister dates Matthew he gifted us some bottles. I think he did it so he would be able to enjoy good grade maple syrup when he comes visiting." when she was considering this conspiracy suddenly Flavio decided to butt in again.
"Are you sure Luci you don't want to marry this chick. Your relationship seems great already." I was ready to snap at him for talking bullshit but Laura looked at him horrified.
"Don't bring this word to this household, I'm still going through a trauma, because of it." I looked at her questioning which word she could have meant. Thankfully her friend Undine
answered our wonders when she made her appearance.
"I warned you about protecting Ivan. You knew Natalya was having her eyes on him." she scratched her head and sat in front of me.
"I don't fancy yandere behavior. So I don't regret giving him a hand." Undine just muttered something under her nose, something I couldn't catch. She gave Laura a bitter smile afterward as she demanded some pancakes. Looks like talking about her old friends, reminded Laura of the heartbreak and so her expression became dull.
"However you later spilled beans to her about your crush, so why is that trauma still there, she won't bother you now. Then again things may change now, she may assume you gonna set your eyes on Ivan next. Even if I have no idea who would do such a jump in personality preferences." Laura was now reaching for all the ingredients, kind of slamming them down on the counter. Was her sadness transforming into anger?
"It's Ordinary Swedish Meal Time," she screamed on the top of her lungs, scaring the shit out of us, what was she even thinking. But before she could begin her pancakes mixture another voice shouted.
"Artie get her!" the big white dog dashed into the kitchen and jumped onto Laura. This time she managed to keep her balance intact. I exclusively heard the furious amount of pictures taken from Aspen's phone. Soon two figures entered the kitchen, it was no one else but Laura's parents.
"I managed just in time." her mother said as she pushed her daughter on the seat right beside me.
"Dear please help me do some pancakes for our guests." Laura's father nodded taking it off where Laura finished at. She was now sitting beside me pouting.
"Why did you stop me? I would have cleaned after me." she urged as I decided to search on my phone what even was that Ordinary Swedish Meal Time. Seeing some kind of dude screaming in English-Swedish while he was throwing every item around, I glanced at Laura who just laughed at me sheepishly.
"We stopped you because I didn't want to witness the mess." her mother said as they were already mixing the batter, the pan was prepared and standing on the stove slowly heating up. Their teamwork between her parents was admirable. Laura just sighed as she laid her head on the table, now peacefully waiting for the pancakes.
"So why did you even want to imitate the video?" It seemed like Matt was also intrigued by watching the video for himself and now he had some questions answered. Aspen just patted Laura's head.
"Girl problems." Matt didn't even really care to inquire more information, but her parents seemed to have discovered something.
"Why are you guys even surprised by her behavior, don't you see this every day in school?" Matt shook his head describing her how she presented herself in school.
"I always saw her as a nice, shy girl that barely talks unless she needs to." her father had just one response to it.
"If she only was quiet at home." but she shot him back.
"Just because I'm screaming from time to time, doesn't mean I'm not quiet most of the time. You know I'm an introvert person." was she? At this point I couldn't tell because she talked to us smoothly, was it only because my presence was pissing her off so much she had to bury away her shy side? We heard the sizzling of the pan, and a few minutes later the first plate of pancakes was served. Everyone seemed to agree to give it to Matt first because he looked like the type that would start a fight over something so silly. As the pancakes were running out, more people started to gather in the kitchen. Because now Laura's parents were present all of those guys decided to play the polite card, so in fact that her father said.
"I'm glad Laura made such good friends and all," this part made Laura choke on her pancakes so I handed her over my glass of water, her father continued." It's good to show respect, but there is no need to be so polite." since he saw me helping his daughter he clapped me on my back while smiling. This family was certainly strange, it felt like we visited friends not parents of a teenage girl. It gave me a warm feeling which I never much felt before. Al hearing this took on his opportunity to invite himself for future encounters.
"You mind if I ever come over again?" he asked being unsure of how to receive permission for such a task.
"Of course we don't mind, Laura's other friends visited a lot when we were living at the other state, especially that guy, Alfred." Laura's smile turned into a frown as she muttered while placing her hands on her chest.
"Right in the kokoro." what was she even saying?
"You agreeing so fast, aren't you suspicious that I maybe some kind of troublemaker?" Allen asked being in shock that his request wasn't denied on the spot.
"We already have to watch over two troublemakers, a couple of more won't hurt that much." her mother answered as the pancakes were still being produced by her.
"You mean you got one troublemaker and it's hundredth percent my sister. I'm a saint in comparison." a sour look appeared on her mother's face, after the previous night, who would believe this bullshit.
"Says the one who-" it seemed like Undine decided to expose Laura, but before she could finish her story Laura put her hand on her mouth whispering something into her friend's ear. Which caused further silence from Undine.
"Now when I think about it you all look a tad like my daughter's previous friends. This world sure is one big mystery." I never liked being compared to those other guys, but for once they didn't make it sound like a bad thing. Usually, comparisons were made to put a label on us as the bad guys.
The breakfast continued, I was the first to leave with my Fratello. Lutz and Kuro following us, but we parted our ways since our houses were in different directions. Thinking back to Laura and Undine since they were friends with those guys, maybe I could dig the internet for some information. I thought that maybe finding a blog would work, but an easier opportunity showed itself. Alfred that American friend Laura apparently had a crush on had his Facebook profile on public, hence even if I wasn't friends with this retard I could easily access all his posts there.
I sat with the laptop in the living room, drinking some of my old geezers' wine while searching for the right post. Of course, my brother had to catch me scrolling on this storyboard giving me a questioning look, but then his lips turned into a smile.
"I know you fell for Laura and now you want to be closer to her type." I couldn't believe how far away from the truth he could get.
"No I'm searching for some useful information." he just answered with.
"Tell yourself that, I know better." I groaned at his stupid remark and decided to ignore him instead, finally, after a long amount of scrolling I went back hardly a year ago and found what I was searching for.
"My bro recently introduced me to his friend. She was quiet and shy, that's why I thought she would be a perfect match for him. However she mentioned we met before strangely I couldn't recall that." rolling my eyes I glanced at the comments, Laura wrote one a few weeks later after the post was posted.
"We are just friends dumbass." I chuckled, she may have been a little shy in real life but this trait didn't follow thru on the internet. I looked up another post which was made a few days later from this one.
"Mattie came with a girl to our house, they must be dating. She refused to talk with me, but when I pushed for a conversation we had so much in common. She liked playing video games and watching action-based films, amazing. I guess I could snatch his girlfriend from time to time." his brother had a massive explanation of why Laura wasn't his girlfriend that in fact she fancied someone else, and this spun a whole debate on who it was between his friends. They never came to the right conclusion so Laura called them all stupid in that thread. I could also see Undine in the comment section asking everyone why they thought she liked this guy, did she find those topics funny? Or were she asking those questions just to mess with people?
I saw Flavio then smiling delivering a call. When he heard someone on the other end he said with a cheerful voice.
"Hi Laura." how would he be able to grab her phone number in the first place, but hearing the person on the line he got confused.
"I was sure I got the number right, after all, I stole it from Erin when she wasn't looking." did he perhaps stole every single number of these girls.
"I also got the other girl's numbers, together with someone called Tabitha and Justice I believe these are the girls that missed the party." I nodded not much caring what this playboy had to say. I tried to find useful information but no matter how much I scrolled all I got was only stupid photos on heroes, hamburgers and video games. What did Laura see in this obnoxious guy? Maybe I would squeeze this information from her myself.
The party is officially over, will the guys plan something to get back at the girls for putting them thru this? Let's find it out in the next chapter (=ヮ= )