When Hana opened the door using her elbow and foo, there sitting on her bed and desk chair were her brothers going through another one of her photo albums.
"Look at this, Christmas choir, bean's first one to be precise." Rin said pointing at the picture.
"Yeah, and if I'm not mistaken that was the Christmas concert that Hana had her first solo performance. She sang 'Silent Night', though she had to hold your hand the whole time Rin." Yukio said smiling at the picture and the memories it brought up.
"I still sing 'Silent Night' mostly when I'm doing dishes; so who wants a biscuit and a cup of tea?" Hana said holding up the tray in her hands.
"Oh cookies. What kind are they?" Rin said actually smiling for the first time in a long while.
"Your favorite but better because they are authentic English shortbread. My mates Ryan and Riley along with their oldest brother Finn absolute love these biscuits." Hana said setting the tea tray down on her desk, before turning to hand each brother a cup of tea.
"Thank you Bean." Rin said taking his cup and a couple of biscuits from the tin.
"Thank you, Flower." Yukio said doing the same as his twin.
"Yukio be careful Hana made made strong black tea." Rin whispered to their brother after taking a sip. Hana rolled her eyes before sitting down on the other desk chair.
"I can see that Rin; but you have to remember that we did make Hana cry because we didn't want to take this chance to fix the rift that has grown between us." Yukio said before taking a sip of the tea; he than turned away to cough at the bitter liquid.
"Oh damn, Hana really is upset; you can tell because of how strong this is." Rin said having forced down his tea. Hana rolled her eyes, before placing the tin of biscuits in between the twins on her bed spread, a cloth under to catch any crumbs. Hana sat back down on the chair.
"For your information the English Exwires love my strong black tea; mostly our fourth year Amelia Anderson and fifth year Ava Taylor." Hana said playing with her empty tea cup.
"Hana are you not going to have any tea?" Rin asked dunking a biscuit in the tea, be careful not to spill anything on her bedding.
"No, I don't think my stomach will be able to handle it…" Hana said just as her phone started ringing. She lifted the device to see who was calling her; only for Amelia's name to flash across the screen at her. Hana smiled before getting up from her seat so that she could leave her room and not bother her brothers with her conversation only for Rin to grab her arm and pull her onto the bed next to him.
"Stay here Bean, this is your room so you are free to take calls here." Rin said softly in her ear, as he held on tight to her arm when she tried to pull away from him. Hana relaxed in her brother's grip before turning to her phone, which was still ringing. She sighed before hitting the green button on the keypad, and held it to her ear.
"Hey Amelia…what can I help you with?" Hana asked her voice was shaky, even in her ears. Rin took her hand and gave it a squeeze before wrapping his arm around her shoulders, trying to proved her some comfort, knowing how stressful this was for his little sister.
"My ears were ringing so I was guessing between either you or my mum…so were you talking about me?" Amelia said laughing over the other side of the line. Hana relaxed a little bit as it became clearly that it was most likely just the three other girls.
"Yeah…um…my brothers were complaining about the fact that I made strong black tea; so, I told them that you and Ava actually love it when I make tea." Hana said laughing lightly, she was still stiff and if it wasn't for Rin sitting next to her softly rubbing her shoulder and back.
"While that is true Hannah. Hey Finn wanted me to let you know that we got a hotel near Tokyo. So, we should be there sometime tomorrow morning." Amelia said laughing with whom she was guessing was either Ava or Sophia.
"Okay, I'll let the Japanese branch knew." Hana said playing with her pendant with her left hand trying to alleviate her anxiety, that was before Rin took her hand and gave it a squeeze. It was than that Yukio handed her the note pad that she kept on her desk with her folder file, Hana pulled the pen, that she was using to hold her long hair back with, free and squibbed down a quick note for her brother letting him know what was going on with the English team.
"I'm going to let everyone know, and while I am at it, I'll make some tea that we all like." Yukio said taking the note and the tea tray that was sitting on her desk. Hana rolled her eyes before going back to talking with her team-mates. Rin took the phone from her hand the minute that Yukio was out of the room, and turned it on speaker.
"Hello Ms. Amelia my name is Rin Okumura, I'm Hana's older brother. I was just letting you know that I have put my sister's phone on speaker." Rin said in amazing English. Hana didn't even know that her brother knew English, let alone speak it to almost perfection. Hana looked at her brother mouth opened confused, or that was before Rin put his hand under her chin and slowly pushed her mouth closed.
"Oh, it's nice to meet you Mr. Okumura, I'm Amelia Anderson and with me in the room with my team-mates Ava Taylor and Sophia Bond, they can also hear you." Amelia said, laughing softly before letting the other two girls say their hellos to her brother.
"So, I got to ask who is Hana?" Ava asked after fifteen minutes of the three girls talking to Rin while Hana lay down on her bed with Angel held to her chest. It was than that Hana sat up and took the phone from her brother.
"Sorry, about that Ava…in English my name is Hannah but in Japanese my name is Hana." Hana said half asleep, as she had to quickly come to her brother's recuse not knowing that she went by a different name when she had been over in England.
"Oh, that makes sense…now go back to sleep Hannah Rose." Sophia said clearly having heard Hana's slurred speech, which was a dead give away that she was either just waking up or was half asleep and it was nap time. Hana handed the phone back to her brother before picking up Angel and curling up at the foot of her bed, head laying on her thick olive-green fleece blanket.
"I am looking forward to meeting you ladies tomorrow, and you were correct to tell Bean to go to sleep because right now she is curled up with her teddy bear half asleep on the foot of her bed." Rin said turning off the speaker on her cell phone so as not to disturb her nap. Hana couldn't hear what was said next, but she made a note to ask the girls when she got a chance over the next few days.
"Yes, I will let Bean know…you ladies have a good night." Rin said before hanging up her phone with a snap, as he closed it. That was before Hana heard her phone being reopened, and a few buttons being pressed. She was confused, about what was going on this was before someone knocked at her door. Hana rolled from her side to her knees before getting up from her bed and walked over to the door. But she wasn't used to her new room layout just yet, so when she tried to answer the door, she was off by a few feet and ran into a wall.
"Ow…that hurts…what did I run into this time?" Hana said opening her eye, while rubbing her nose, she looked over at Rin who was silently laughing at her before he got up from his spot on her bed to answer the door. Letting Yukio and Suguro sempai into the room, both of them were carrying trays full with food and drinks.
"What was that thud?" Suguro sempai asked setting his tray down on Hana's desk. Hana was still rubbing her nose trying to figure out what she ran into.
"Hana sleep walks, while she's half asleep." Rin said wrapping his arm around Hana's shoulders and leading her over to the food.
"She ran into the wall again while trying to answer the door…she's hasn't been able to learn the new layout of her room just yet." Yukio explained, which lead to Rin bursting out in a fit of laughter. Hana could see the tension spread across Yukio's body, she jabbed her elbow into her brother's side, but that didn't even work.
"I'm sorry Yukio, give me a minute and I'll get him to stop." Hana said as she pushed Rin onto her bed, before pushing the sleeves of her long sleeve top up and pounced on top of him; Hana started tickling Rin nonstop.
"I'm sorry bean…stop tickling me." Rin said as she kept tickling her brother, or that was before Yukio handed her a bottle of black peach tea, clearly telling her that she could stop. Hana, smiled before rolling off of Rin to sit next to him on her bed. Just for Suguro sempai to put a plate of food on her lap.
"Okay Okumura, Hana-Chan you both need to eat." The sempai said looking down at the two teens sitting on her bed. Hana looked at the plate on her lap; before swiftly removing the plate and rushing over to the rubbish bin to throw up. Hana could hear the twins sighing before she felt a hand holding her hair out of her way while another had was rubbing her back, trying to provide her some comfort.
"Hana stomach is still tied in knots. She won't be eating tonight." Yukio said as Hana started dry heaving into her trash can, Rin right behind her trying to help.
"Is Hana-Chan also starving herself?" Suguro sempai asked watching the girl.
"Only in certain situations, one is around her birthday when she completely stops eating. That's her birthday and a week and a half afterwards, another situation is when she is being bullied. Bullying often leads to a lack of self confidence and self esteem, which leads to isolation and self doubt; the result of all of that is Hana doing the same thing as Rin." Yukio said dodging the shoe that Hana had thrown at him.
"No throwing shoes Hanako Okumura." Rin chilled, thumping her lightly on her back.
"Okay, I thought her name is Hana?" Suguro sempai asked confused, sitting down on one of the desk chairs, as Rin helped the girl over to her bed where he laid her down.
"Like me and Rin, Hana was adopted, but not until after the age of three. By that time, she was already used to being called Hanako. It took us close to six months to get her use to Hana." Yukio said watching as his brother laid the thick fleece blanket over their sister, her teddy bear at her side.
"Hana also will stop eating when she is under a great amount of stress. And with the English team coming tomorrow; it's very stressful. Stress often ties Hana's stomach into knots so bad that even the smell of food sets her off." Rin said rubbing his hands up and down his sister's back. Right away Suguro was up out of his seat and picking up the tray full of food.
"Okay, I'll remove this; Hana-Chan would you like some toast?" Suguro sempai said, squatting down so he was in the same eye level as the girl.
"No thank you sempai." Hana said cuddling into her teddy bear. It was than that the two familiars came into her room, the two hopped up on her bed and curled up near her feet.
"Bean we're going down stairs to eat…if you need anything than just have either Kuro or Kiba come get me." Rin said petting her head.
"Okay Rin; just don't push yourself." Hana said rubbing at her left eye with her hand.
"I won't Bean, and to tell you the truth I'll probably be up in fifteen minutes." Rin said leaning down and whispering in her ear, before placing a kiss on her forehead. Rin than got up from the side of her bed and left with the others. And Rin like he predicted was back in fifteen minutes with a plate of dry toast and a mug of hot chocolate, Hana was sitting up in bed looking through one of her photo albums, it was mostly pictures of her time over in the U.K.
"What are you looking at Bean?" Rin asked having set the two items on her desk before taking a seat next to her.
"These are pictures of my time in the U.K." Hana said closing the book over her right forefinger while she looked up at her brother. It was than that Rin opened the book to take a look at all the different people and things.
"Who's these two?" Rin asked pointing at a picture of her, Ryan and Riley on a weekend in London.
"That's Ryan and Riley O'Connor. My best mates. This guy in this picture is their oldest brother, Finn; and that's Sophia Bond and Ava Taylor." Hana said pointing at the different people.
"Who is this guy?" Rin asked pointing at one of the pictures she took of Patrick on a secret date with Amelia.
"That is Patrick O'Connor. And here is a little fact that not many people know Patrick and Amelia are dating against his mother's wishes because Amelia is the daughter of a demon." Hana said flipping to the section of the secret dates, she caught the two on.
"So, his mom is against all demons? What does your teacher say about this?" Rin asked before turning around and taking the plate off of her desk, he than put the plate of toast on her lap.
"She is our teacher; but she wasn't their first pick. They originally wanted her sister-in-law Alec O'Connor, who isn't just a top-level exorcist but married to a demon by the name of Andrew, very nice man. I actually have a theory that Professor O'Connor had something to do with ruining Alec's chances of getting the job, on top of everything the professor isn't even an exorcist." Hana said stopping ever few minutes to munch slowly on her toast.
"Suguro sempai was right to send the toast up with you." She said after finishing a single slice of toast.
"I'm glad bean. Here drink this while you eat, hot chocolate with marshmallows and a splash of French vanilla coffee creamer." Rin said handing her the mug.
"Just the way I love it. Thank you." Hana said, blowing on the steaming liquid a few times before taking a sip. A sigh left Hana as all the tension melted away, Rin chuckled happy that his sister was finally starting to relax.
"You look more relaxed already." Rin said moving closer to her as she settled in for the night.
"Do you want me to read to you…like old times?" Rin asked picking up her book from it's place on the shelf above her pillows, Hana reached up above her head and hit the switch on her reading light.
"Okay let's see here…the best way to eliminate a ghoul type demon is…this is a book about eliminating demons. Okay where is your bible, I'll read from that." Rin said after five minutes of reading. Hana reached under her pillow and pulled out the child bible that her father had given her after her First Communion.
"Old Testament…Joseph was just sold by his brothers." Hana said holding the chewed-on book out to her brother.
"I see that you still read in time with the monastery." Rin said, moving her bookmark out of his way so that he could read.
"Yeah, on top of going to an Irish Catholic Church twice a week." Hana said before laying her head on her brother's shoulder, as that was her favorite position to listen to her brother in. Rin only read about two paragraphs before stopping, knowing that if he went any farther Hana would be angry with him. He looked down at her, thinking that she might be asleep; Rin was about to get up and head back to his room when Hana grabbed onto his shirt tail. Rin sat back dow, and wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"That doesn't sound so bad Bean. It's actually better than the monastery." Rin said thinking about what his sister had said before he had read.
"That's what I thought too, but no it's worse. Because it was two separate days, and on top of that the masses are very different than at the monastery. The Irish church is more traditional compared to the contemporary masses at our monastery. The most we did was either sit there listening to the father preached or kneel in prayer…it was very boring." Hana said throwing her head back with a groan.
"And they didn't let you have a pen and notebook?" Rin asked looking at her with wide eyes, knowing that his sister had the worst time sitting still.
"Every time I brought one with me; professor O'Connor would take it away from me." Hana said fidgeting with her teddy bear's right ear.
"Well how do you feel about joining me on Sunday for mass?" Rin asked laying her bible on the edge of her desk, leaving it right in the open for everyone to see. Hana quickly looked at the calendar on her wall surrounding by pictures, to see what date Sunday was.
"October 17th…sure I'm free this Sunday." Hana said twisting her upper body so she was comfortable on her bed. Rin could actually hear her spine pop as her joints compressed and expelled the air from with in, Hana sighed in content.
"That must have felt good bean…okay bedtime, the English team will be here in the morning and we're not even halfway through with the cleaning." Rin said standing up from his spot on her bed. Hana crawled under the sheets and bedspread. Hana sighed as Rin started to straightened out her covers, before making sure that her teddy bear was tucked under her arm.
"Goodnight Rin." Hana said with a yawn as she curled up on her side.
"Good night, Hana, sleep tight." Rin said once he was sure that his little sister was fast a sleep, having made sure that her blanket was tucked tightly around the girl.