Affinity

Chapter 5

"Wait, this isn't what it looks like." Brady pleaded as he got off of Noire.

"Mother please don't do anything so rash..." Noire said softly as she sat back up.

Tharja narrowed her eyes. "i said- out."

"But-"

"Leave!" Tharja clenched her fists, a dark aura swirled around them.

Brady jumped back, he nodded his head and darted out the doorway passed Tharja and Libra. Racing down the stairs he quickly leapt out the door and ran pass a couple houses before stopping, he panted, kneeling over with his hands on his knees to keep himself up. He looked back to see if anyone was following him, he sighed with relief to see no one else, he wiped the sweat from his brow as he straighten himself up.

"Al'ite Brady, do not do that again." He said to himself before walking down the side way, man he has a long way to go to get back home.

Tuesday morning, Brady and his sister Morgan were in the bathroom together combing and brushing their teeth. Morgan, using her little princess pink toothbrush vigorously brushed her teeth and doing it twice over; unlike Brady she was super into getting her teeth the cleanliness by brushing two-three times a day- Brady just brushed them twice a day and that was it. Brady took a comb and ran it through his hair, once satisfied he grabbed a bottle of hair gel and he squeezed a bit onto his hand. He ran it through his still wet hair and started to shape it into his usual style.

Morgan looked at him and giggled. "Looking to impress, Hmm?"

Brady's face flushed a bit. "Don't you have books to gather?"

Morgan shook her head. "Nope, did that last night- now speaking of such, where were you?"

Brady stopped messing with his hair and just bit his lip, last night was so awkward for him; first he saw full grown breasts on a half naked woman, then then he witnessed said woman wolf down a meal like it was nothing. He honestly didn't know how to tell her, he scratched the back of his neck while Morgan leaned in smiling, her eagerness apparent in her round, hazel nut colored eyes.

"Well- um, you see I went to go visit a friend. one I haven't seen in a while to be honest and it was great. I got to eat dinner with them and we talked." Brady shrugged as if it was no big deal. Morgan on the other hand wasn't satisfied.

"That's not the whole story and you know it. So stop lying and tell me." Morgan crossed her arms.

Brady bit his lip, before he could speak both of them heard a shriek of such an unholy volume that would send even the scrariest of creatures running for the hills-

"Kids! time to eat, now!"

"C-coming mother!" They had shouted in unison before rushing down the stairs in a frenzy.

They turned a corner and sat down at the kitchen table. Their mother looked at them with the steerest of glares before setting their breakfast in front of them; Morgan and Brady just nodded to her and quietly started to eat. Maribelle sat down next to their father who looked equally as scared as he took a sip of his tea.

"Kids." Maribelle began.

Morgan and Brady sat up straight, sucking in breaths as their father, Roan simply stopped drinking the tea but still holding the cup to his lips.

Maribelle ran her eyes over both over kids and closed them. "Don't run down the stairs." she took a sip of her tea.

Morgan and Brady breathed steadily together. "Yes, ma'am."

They continued eating but picked the pace up, they didn't want to be late and their mother would have an absolute fit if they missed the transit bus. They didn't want to remember last time they were both last- oh god they look she had on her face as she drove them to school. How their father managed to fall for and calm down their raging mother was a mystery to even them but they learned not to question it- if it kept their mother as bay then they were fine with it.

Maribelle looked at her watch and took a final sip of her tea. "Bus will be here in 5 minutes."

"Right, um, gotta go!" Morgan said as she stood up and grabbed her back, racing out the door.

"Wait for me!" Brady called out to Morgan and just ran off after her.

Maribelle and her husband, Roan were left alone in the dining room/kitchen as they heard the faint noise of the front door closing. Things were quiet in that time as Maribelle poured herself another cup of tea before Roan spoke up.

"Did you really need to yell?" Roan asked.

"No but it gets them motivated. Now-" She turned to her purple haired husband. "Don't you have to be somewhere?"

Roan chuckled nervously as he got up and gave her a kiss on the cheek before darting out the door. Maribelle smirked at her work as she sat back.

"Ah, it's so good to be feared by family."

On the bus ride to Morgan's school Brady and Morgan breathed sighs of relief as they were out of their mother's range of madness.

"Oh man I thought she was going to give us the whip." Morgan said as she leaned back in her seat.

"Ma never does that, but man a lecture was inevitable if she didn't leave fast enough." Brady corrected her.

"Right but man am I glad we got out of their in time, feel sorry for dad though." Morgan sighed.

"Yeah, he married her." Brady agreed.

They sat their in relief they didn't get the worst of their mother's wrath, they can recall how their friend's parents would say that Maribelle had quite the temper when they first met her and how snobby she was but now, she's cooled down a bit thanks to their dad being her mediator. He remembered how uncle Vaike used to flinch, flinch in terror of Maribelle when he forgot his table manners. Their thoughts were interrupted when the bus came to a stop, they got off and started walking the little ways to Morgan's high school.

Their in the school's courtyard they saw the same amount of students outside with their respectable friend groups, one group spotted them, a certain dark chestnut haired boy looked at them and leaped up from his seat as he rushed over to them.

"Morgan!" he said as he charged over.

Morgan looked over and smiled. "Owain!"

The kid named Owain outstretched his arms as he picked up Morgan and started to twirl her around. Brady disgusted by the display plucked his sister from his grasp and set her down beside him.

"Keep it in yer pants." Brady uttered.

Owain's face flushed. "Aw screw you Brady."

Morgan giggled. "Aw don't tease him, he's sensitive you know."

"Morgan, don't tell him." Owain pleaded.

"What's wrong Owain, can't take the truth?" A chestnut haired girl said as she came up to them.

She stood tall with confidence as she put her hands on her hips, flipping her hair over her shoulders as her smug look made Owain scoff.

"Do you have better things to do then torture me?" Owain said.

"Hm, let me think- no." she said.

"Aw come on, Severa don't be so mean to him." Morgan giggled as she patted Owain on the head.

"But it's so fun, he's easy to bug." Severa snickered.

"girl hell." Owain muttered under his breath.

Brady rolled his eyes, by how Morgan and Severa treated Owain he was sure that his sister was a little sadistic but he wasn't going to defend the kid from the attacks. He simply turned and walked away, he can hear Owain calling from him to stay and help him but they fall on deaf ears as Brady turned the corner down the street.

It had take Brady awhile to reach his university due to the long bus ride but he got there with minutes to spare. He walked in through the sliding doors and he saw that yet again the same sight he saw yesterday- a full lobby of a bunch of different tables with people sitting behind them and talking to others on the other side of the table. It hasn't been one week of classes and already people are gathering around and joining clubs. Brady sighed as he walked down in between the tables and people gathered around them.

"Brady!"

He stopped in his tracks and turned his head to the side to see a blonde haired man with black rimmed glasses waving him over. Brady smiled when he recognized him.

He walked up to the table and greeted the man. "Hey Laurent, you in on this club business as well?"

Laurent shook his head. "Oh no, I'm just passing out flyers for school events."

"Ah, forgot you were on the student council." Brady sighed, he should have known since in highschool he was on the same thing.

"The council will be lost without my level of expertise and experience." Laurent said proudly.

Brady rolled his eyes. "Of course, so what does student council have planned this week?" he grabbed a flyer to look at.

"On the flyer you have we have a cooking class instructed by a famous chef we managed to get a hold of." Laurent stated.

"Heh, well now i know what Lucina is signing up for." Brady snickered.

Laurent rolled his eyes. "She is quite proficient at cooking."

"Well yeah considering you both live together, someone has to do the cooking." Brady teased. "I'm just surprised you both haven't already gotten married and had a kid yet."

Laurent froze up and blushed madly. "T-that's none of your business." he pushed his glasses up to the bridge of his nose.

Brady chuckled. "Aw c'mon Laurent, everyone knows you and Lucina have been in a long healthy relationship since tenth grade. More so now that you both live together without any supervision; how scandalous." Brady smirked.

Laurent's face went a darker shade of red as Brady continued. "If you must know, we have thought about it now please stop with the questions."

"Wait, oh go back- you both thought about what?" Brady arched a brow at the blushing blonde.

"Figure it out, now just please sign up for something before I pass out." Laurent pushed his hat over his face to hide his obvious blush.

Brady rolled his eyes, good old Laurent was always squeamish when it came to him and Lucina but whatever he tries to hide is already know; plus lucina's sister Cythina was a loud mouth- not the best way to know about lucina and laurent's avid sex life from.

He looked through the flyers and his eyes widen, on a clipboard held a piece of paper labelled as 'archery club sign up sheet' but that wasn't what caught his attention. One of the named that signed up were 'Noire'. He smiled and grabbed one of the pens from the table and wrote his name down below her's.

Ugh I feel like this is a filler chapter I'm sorry I'm delaying the Brady/Noire cuteness but I promise next chapter will have the cuteness!

now we see some other characters too before then, a cute dorky Owain and a blushing blond Laurent- I'll let you figure out who their dads are.

enjoy.