Title: None the Wiser
Challenge: February-Valentine's Day, Anniversary, or Romance.
Words: 247words
Pairing: Implied AyakaxTatsuha
Notes: Thanks to indefatigable42 at the lj comm., quickficsupport, which I highly recommend.
Every year since they had been engaged, Ayaka would make Eiri a big box of chocolate for Valentine's Day. Whenever Tatsuha pointed out that Eiri hated the holiday, she'd remind him how much his brother liked sweets and he'd be stuck. He wanted to be the one getting the sweets; not out of love, of course, but because Ayaka was a girl and a friend and she made really pretty sweets.
So, after Ayaka had put her package of sweets in the mail box, Tatsuha would steal it and chow down. And she was none the wiser, since she would never have called Eiri to find out if he'd actually gotten it.
Ayaka never made her chocolates with Eiri in mind, not after Tatsuha stole them that first time. She'd known, because of how goofy he had been the day after, like he had a secret. Tatsuha had been a bad liar back then.
She had almost wanted to throw a tantrum, except for the fact that, he had been happy. It was nice, knowing that she did could actually make someone happy. Eiri never smiled, at least not that she knew of. So, next Valentine's day, she made chocolates with coffee liqueur instead of strawberry cordial. She still mailed them to Eiri though, because she knew that Tatsuha liked being sneaky. It made his smile just a little bigger than it already was, bigger than she had ever intended.