My Childhood with You
Chapter 3
Hotaru threw open her window in the clear, winter morning and breathed in deeply, a smile on her face. Winter. Beautiful, cold, snowy, winter. It was her favourite season. She turned around to her wardrobe and pulled on a black cloak and lowered herself out of the window, landing in the ankle deep snow.
She looked up at her bedroom window, glad to be outside and ran through the garden, a smile on her face. Hotaru stopped by the only flowers in the white garden that was blooming and knelt in front on the snowdrops, gazing at their white petals. She wanted to touch them but she refrained, as they looked so fragile and beautiful, like they would break if she dared touch. Hotaru smiled and stood but she froze as she did.
Hotaru turned slowly, registering slight movement through the trees some distance away and sprinted into the trees after the figure. She stopped when he did, her nails extending and becoming claws. It was probably gut instinct, but this person was after Kamui and Subaru. She could feel it. "Who are you?"
He didn't turn around but he did answer…but not to the question, "I'm looking for a certain pair of vampires. But no matter, I won't reach them today…" He promptly left, scaling the walls in one jump and disappeared.
Hotaru stared up at the mansion they lived in, especially at one of the windows from Kamui and Subaru's bedroom. She sighed and walked back to the house, claws gone and she pushed open the door and silently slipped back inside. The vampire began up the stairs but stopped when Kamui and Subaru decided to jump off the stairs at halfway.
They all landed in a heap in at the bottom of the stairs and Hotaru sighed as she sat up.
Subaru looked up at her, "You went out early this morning. We thought we would follow you."
Kamui nodded, "But we didn't think you'd be back so soon."
Hotaru smiled, "It's a one off, next time, and I'll be up earlier while it's still snowing. And I bet you two won't be able to wake up and jump on me that time."
They all ended up laughing and they stopped when they heard a door swing open from up the stairs and looked at one another. Door. Signal. Danger. Akemi. Torture. Go. To. Rooms. Theystood and sprinted up, before locking themselves in their rooms. Being on Akemi's bad side in a cold morning was a bad thing. And one thing she didn't love about her children was their continuous, early morning adventures.
Later that day, the siblings went on with their normal, lives, Hotaru on the piano, the vampire twins outside in the garden, only coming inside when they felt like it or when their mother threatened punishment. When Akemi finally left the mansion, they all heaved a sigh of relief simultaneously. Avoiding mischief for a day was so tiring.