hehe, stupid lyserg-chan... he's so dumb! it's like he can't see 'LOVE!' written all over himself that the other two are responding to! --chelsea

Japanese this chapter:

BAKA idiot (I already did this one, so why did I do it again?)


3

LYSERG

Tamao threw me to the ground. "What's going on?" I asked, confused. "What did I do?"

"Oh, you want to know what you did?" Ryu asked. I nodded.

"Well, we can start with you being completely BLIND!" Tamao shouted.

"Then we can go to how stupid you seem when you're acting that blind!" Ryu cut in.

"Then there's how hot you are, especially playing the goddam DDR!"

"Yeah!" Ryu agreed. "Moving around, wiggling your hips; it's like you're torturing us on purpose!" Tamao nodded angrily.

"It's not fair!" she whined. I stared at them, wide eyed.

"Wha-?" I started.

"Ah!" they interrupted. "You no talk!"

"Lyserg, we're tired of this!" Tamao said. I was surprised not to hear "sama" after my name, but she was absolutely livid. "We've been trying to get your attention!"

"For months!"

"A year and a half!"

"I can't take any more!"

"Lyserg, Ryu and I are upset. Now you figure out how to fix it!"

"But-!" I tried again. I couldn't believe this.

"Lyserg, Tamao and I love you. You need to pick one of us before we give up on you." I blinked at them, unable to completely understand what was happening. Suddenly, Tamao was holding me by the collar.

"You've got one week, Lyserg. One…week!" she growled. This was so odd. I didn't know why she was so angry. Then her bright eyes closed tightly, and she pressed our lips together. Just as I relaxed, she moved away. "Think about it." Ryu then did as she had, giving me an equal sample to think about.

"Either choose…" Ryu said.

"…or lose!" Tamao finished, and they walked out of my bedroom. I blinked after them, having never seen this coming. Tamao and Ryu both…like me?

I didn't know what to say. Or do. The rest of the night I stayed in my room, pondering my choices. And I found it highly difficult. The next few days, I noticed changes in their behaviors. They were together even more than before, further confusing me, but they also did everything they could to openly flirt with me.

At long last, I came to a conclusion, difficultly so. I approached them as Tamao was sitting in Ryu's lap, leaned against his chest. They looked up at me.

"Yes, Lyserg-sama?" Tamao asked.

"Um…" I murmured, looking at the floor. "I've decided." They both perked up a little.

"Really?" Tamao asked. I nodded. "Who?"

I glanced around, and saw we were alone. "I've put in a lot of thought, and, well, I'm surprised."

"By what?" Tamao asked.

"I had thought that, um, you two were working towards becoming a couple." They stared at me a moment, then looked at each other before putting their eyes back on me. "So I hadn't made a move. I've liked…both of you for awhile. But I didn't want to ruin something you already had. And then I didn't know which I would pick.

"Asking one of you, getting a no and turning to the other seemed a little bit lame. So, since you seemed to be so close to being 'together', I didn't even try to figure out who I'd go to."

"So, who have you picked, Lyserg?" Ryu asked.

"I want…both of you," I finally answered, staring at my hands. I looked up, meeting their eyes. "If that'll work." They looked at each other again, then back at me.

"Like…a threesome?" Ryu asked, making sure we were all on the same page. I nodded shortly. They read one another's eyes again, and Tamao smiled, standing up. She wrapped her arms around my neck, and gently kissed my cheek.

"It's okay with me," she said, her face turning the same bright color as her hair. "What about you, Ryu-sama?" He smiled.

"That's fine by me." Tamao sat back down, but this time on his leg, rather than between them. She pulled me down to the other to sit with them.

"His lap is too big for one, anyway," she said. I laughed. The three of us sat there, unsure what to do next. None of us had ever been in a relationship before, let alone a three-way, and we were nervous. Finally, I leaned against Ryu, and he wrapped an arm around my shoulders as Tamao curled up too. Ryu kissed each of our heads softly, and we all had smiles on our faces.

Before long, Anna began calling Ryu to start dinner. "It had better be ready in an hour!" she shouted as Ryu stood, forcing us to as well.

"Alright!" he called, before kissing our cheeks.

"Oh, don't leave," Tamao whined.

"I was getting comfy." Ryu merely smiled at our cries of protest.

"I can't disobey Anna, unless you want her to kill me. Dinner will be soon," he promised, walking away. Tamao and I sighed, then crawled back into the chair, and snuggled against each other. A long while later, Hao was smacking me.

"OW!" I shouted. "What's your problem?" Tamao and I sat up, scowling at him.

"I can't believe you," he said.

"What?"

"You picked her? What about bros before hoes, Lyserg? Bros before hoes!" Hao nearly shouted.

"What are you talking about?" I demanded.

"You picked Tamao over Ryu!" he said. "That's hoes before bros, which doesn't work, and it's not gonna fly with any of the other guys, either!"

"Why do you guys care?"

"We've been watching this unfold for over a year! You think some of us don't have money down?" I stared at him.

"You guys were betting on us!" Tamao exclaimed.

"Well, yeah," Hao said. "Even Anna was in on it. The girls and Ren were behind you, but Yoh and I thought it would be Ryu."

"Whatever," I muttered, standing. "What do you want?"

"Dinner's ready," Hao said sulkily. I held my hand out to Tamao, who took it and the three of us walked to the kitchen. "I just can't believe you."

"Hao," I said. "Shut up. I don't care how much money you morons put down, I'm not changing anything for you."

Hao sat down beside his girlfriend huffily. The others all looked at us as we sat down where Ryu could sit on Tamao's other side. Ren was on my left, and I glanced at him. "What?"

"Well, I know I said I thought it would be Tamao, but I was rooting for Ryu," he answered. My face started to turn red. This was getting annoying.

"Look, you guys don't know who I-"

"You obviously choose Tamao, which I totally respect," Yoh said, "but you didn't take that long to think about it. I feel you might not have given Ryu enough thought."

"Guys, I gave this plenty of thought, honest," I said. I glanced at Ryu, who was trying not to snicker, then at Tamao, who was blushing madly. "Just because I came in with Tamao, doesn't mean I picked her over-" I paused as Ryu set food in front of me. "Thank you, Ryu-kun," I said.

He kissed my cheek saying, "You're welcome, Lyserg-chan," then went back to get some more food.

"-Ryu," I finished, pretending I hadn't stopped. Everyone was staring, open-mouthed and confused.

"But--" Hao choked. "You- Tamao- cuddle- I- AUGH!"

"Yeah, Tamao and I were sleeping in a chair together. So? If you'd come in half an hour sooner, we wouldn't have been. Big deal." Hao still didn't have a clue, though Yoh, of all people, seemed to be catching on. Ryu set food in front of Tamao, and she smiled.

"Thank you, Ryu-kun," she said.

He then kissed her cheek as well, saying, "You're welcome, Tamao-chan," both of them purposefully repeating Ryu and my short exchange.

"THREE-SOME!" HoroHoro screamed at the top of his lungs. Ren turned and smacked him.

"You are a BAKA!" he shouted.

"No, seriously, this means I won!" HoroHoro continued.

"No it doesn't!" Hao yelled.

"Yes it does!"

"No!" Pirika said. "You said he wouldn't be able to pick!"

"And he didn't!"

"Yes he did!" Anna shouted. "If he picked both, that's picking!"

"No it's not!"

"Yes it is!"

"Not!"

"Is!"

"Not!"

"IS!"

"Hey!" Yoh shouted over the two of them. "Let's all calm down! Technically, Lyserg did choose, but HoroHoro said he wouldn't pick between them, which includes not picking either and picking both. So I think we ought to just give him the money."

"Wait a minute!" Ren said. "Lyserg never said that was true!" Eyes were again turned to me. I was trying not to laugh at their antics, which would have been absolutely hilarious if they hadn't been fighting about a bet put on me.

"Yes, Tamao, Ryu and I have decided to, rather than be a couple like you guys, become a…'trio', I suppose."

Everyone started digging in their pockets and forked it all over to HoroHoro, grumbling the entire time, as Ryu continued to serve dinner. When he sat down, everyone began eating, and the three of us looked at each other and smiled. A feeling of warmth and security began to wash over me, and I was happy, feeling that this would be safe, at least for awhile, and we would be there for each other for a long time to come.---