5
"Do you have any siblings, Kairo?" it had been a month. "yes." The answer was cold. "who?" Rino asked and looked at him. "Kai." Such short answers made Rino want to strangle the person they came from. "oh." Conversation over, now, back to washing dishes.
The restaurant kitchen shined, every bench was washed with grace and every plate was super clean. "Thanks boys, Great job! Here." Mr. Nova had smiled and handed them each a handful of coins. "Thank you dad." Rino muttered and put his coins in his pockets. "Yeah, thanks Mr. Nova." Kairo mumbled and both boys walked off.
"I've never had such money before." Kairo mumbled and glanced and the money in his hands. "what?! I thought you're family was wealthy and stuff." Rino said and bought himself a hotdog. "Kai has money." What kind of answer was that? God.
"do you have cousins?" Rino asked through his half eaten hotdog. "Some." Yeah, that guy sure could keep a conversation going, eh? "Oh, one of my cousins will be here tomorrow. Just a short visit though." Rino muttered "Rumen. Rumen Jacob Nova. He comes from England, he kinda reminds you of...err…people not as cool as me." he continued, finally finishing his food. "Oh."
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These are all the things I never got to say to you
Things I don't even tell my friends
This is a song that I've been humming on for way too long
The hidden track left at the end
The chords, roaring from the guitar was perfect, the singing was pretty good too. To bad there was nothing exciting about a simple guitar. Well, at least that was his opinion, Rino and his cousin had the right to do whatever they wanted to, after all.
Rino sang and played the guitar, Rumen playing on another one with him. Kairo just sat there, leaning at the wall watching the night-sky outside of a window opposite of him.
These are the streets we walked, the memories we're leaning on
These are the images I've saved.
He wouldn't say he liked that song; actually the only attractive about it was its melody, the lyrics was too sad/romantic, or whatever.
You're such a snob, but you're such a super girl
Now it's time to carry on
You're such a snob, but you're such a super girl
Here's a heart that you'd want
You're such a snob, but you're such a super girl
Anyday now you'll be known
You're such a snob, but you're such a super girl
Those whom the gods love grow young
Those whom the gods love grow young
And so it ended and the guitars were placed in the corner of the room, Rino coughing as his voice had gone hoarse. Kairo turned and looked at the two Nova's.
…Awkward Silence.
"I'm going to bed." Rumen said, breaking silence with the whole hands-meet-thighs-when-raising-yourself-up-like-an-old-man thing. When the guy had left the room, slamming the door behind him, Kairo met Rino's eyes; full of questions.
"How long will he be staying?" Kairo asked and stared at his hands.
"till tomorrow"
"oh."
"Why won't you admit you have a sister?"
Kairo looked up and for the first time, Rino could see a real expression on the boy's face, a expression that looked like Rino had said something really offensive.
Scowl met questioning hope.
"well?" said Rino, waiting for an answer.
"Because I don't have one." A lie.
"Yes you do! Her name is Jasmin Hiwatari and she is your sister! Kai is her brother and so are you!" Confrontation sucks, but it's needed sometimes.
"Where did you get that from?" Kairo spat and looked at the greyish wall. "I found out myself." Rino muttered and crossed his arms in victory.
The scowl faded and annoyance appeared on Kairo's face. "You were wrong." With that he stood up and walked towards the window he had stared out off before.
"No. I'm not wrong." He heard the slam off a door and the silence now making his thoughts so loud.
His mind drifted off, seeing a memory flicker before his eyes
"Shut up, Kairo." The cold voice commanded and Kairo obeyed. "Stay here!" again the cold voice commanded, and he, obeyed.
It had been 20 minutes. "Can I try?" Kairo tried but the cold eyes of his brother frightened him from wanting to hear the answer, but it came. "You're not old enough."
Angry, he stood up, clenching his fists. "She's not much older than me! I can do it as good as she can!" He pointed at his sister, Jasmin, who had ignored his presence until now. "Then give it a shot!" She had said, and again, he obeyed his older siblings.
Stepping up to what looked like a bowl, he grabbed his sister's beyblade and prepared his launch. On the opposite side of him, stood Kai, waiting for his younger brother to get ready. "3.." Their sister counted down. "..2…1!"
The blades spun, circling each other. "I don't…what am I supposed to do?" Kairo asked, watching his brother's beyblade crash into his without stop. "You're too young to do this, I told you!" Kai growled and finished of the battle, knocking Jasmin's beyblade out of the area. "Go play with the lego, then I might show you how to blade afterwards." Jasmin said. And Kairo obeyed.
She never showed him how to beyblade. She probably never intended to either.
Jasmin.