A/N: Its been awhile. Once again I have been busy with School. Spring break is making chapters happen. Thinking of adding 1 or 2 more chapters this week.
August 20th A.D 2309 United States of America
Setsuna checked the time on his iPhone, it was nearly 2, He and Feldt should probably have some lunch as hunger was starting to affect Setsuna actions. Feldt was currently in her new room settling in. In his mansion there were five bedrooms, One master and 4 regular sized. Setsuna was not the sort of person that liked the master bathroom, even though the master bath was a jacuzzi which had an system installed that produced 5 different types of bubble bath. On the topic of the jacuzzi when Feldt saw it during the house tour, she freaked out, she apparently loved jacuzzi's or anything that involved a warm and bubbly bath because it was a great way for her to relax. Feldt in turn picked the room across from Setsuna. There were 2 bedrooms on the west/left side of the house. This way both Feldt and Setsuna could share Setsuna's private kitchen as the kitchen was right underneath the bedroom. The other 2 were in the east/right side (currently vacant) and the master was located in the middle of the second floor.
"I better get started" Setsuna thought as his belly started rumbling.
As Feldt came back downstairs to the kitchen where Setsuna located, she smelled a aroma, a aroma that made her stomach grumble. She walked into the living room outside of the kitchen and saw Setsuna flipping pancakes in the air. She took a seat on the stool and just stared at Setsuna through the opening between the kitchen and the living room. Setsuna turned around and saw Feldt staring at him and quickly turned back around. Having someone staring at him while he was cooking made him tense. Even if on his face he looked completely expressionless, he was actually feeling tense enough that his hand was shaking. Setsuna remembered that he had prepared some pancake batter the night before.
"I hope you like breakfast food because I was going to eat brunch until you showed up." Setsuna stated
"Its fine, when I'm hungry, i don't care what I eat as long as it is edible" Feldt replied
Setsuna quickly finished with the pancakes, tossed them into plates, added a slice if butter on top of them and poured some maple syrup.
He gave the Feldt the plate through the large opening and said "you like maple syrup and butter right"
"Yeah, can't live without it when eating pancakes" Feldt exclaimed with happiness. She did not admit it but she sort of had a sweet tooth, not for candy, but for more natural things like maple syrup (though whipped cream was a exception)
"Well we have one thing in common than" Setsuna compared
Feldt took a bite, her eyes widened as the flavor sunk in. the pancake was cooked just right, fluffy and soft and not hard to chew. The maple syrup and butter complimented it so well that it was probably the best pancake she had ever eaten.
"It's so good, how on earth do you know how to make pancakes this delicious." Feldt asked
Setsuna grimaced, he hated telling people about things from his past because it just reminded him of that day, even though she was probably the first besides Leon to ever taste the pancakes. Oh well it couldn't hurt
"When I was just barely five my mom was a former culinary chef but stayed at home because of me. Even though she was a master at middle eastern cuisines she had to take care of me because my father was a head of a big business corporation and was rarely home she always had a habit of trying to perfect American breakfasts. She would always make me these very good pancakes once every couple days hoping to perfect it. One day my mom stated that she perfect American pancakes, so I asked if she could teach me how to make it and she accepted. After a week of training of learning how to use utensils without injuring my self. I learned how to make the so called perfect pancakes, though it was definitely not better than any of the stuff my mom made it was pretty good. "
"Wait so you made these exact pancakes when you were five"
"Not exactly, I did not make anymore pancakes until 2 years ago when someone showed me a recipe from my moms cookbook which included ingredients that I recognized were how to make pancakes( as none of the recipes had titles). It was harder to make it a second time without my mother but i got to this point eventually but whether this pancakes is the mastered version I'm not sure"
"Your mom is amazing if she can teach little Setsuna how to make delicious pancakes" Feldt claimed with a smile and sparkling eyes as she took another bite of the masterpiece.
Anyone but Setsuna would have thought she was kawaii (cute). All Setsuna did was admit that the pink haired girl was somewhat cute.
"I guess she was a good mom" Setsuna replied. Two months after teaching him how to make pancakes, his mom perished
"So who is the guest Master." a robotic voice suddenly appeared from the ceiling
"What was that" Feldt asked as she tried to find the source of voice
Setsuna sighed "Haro this is a girl whom Leon wanted me to take care of"
"Finally taking some responsibility now are we"
"Shut up" Setsuna said
"Who is talking Setsuna" Feldt asked with a confused expression on her face. "Maybe its the house." Feldt thought " Wait how can an house talk!"
"Feldt this is HARO or Artificial Robotic House Organism . Arho sounds kind of stupid so I changed his name to Haro"
"Correction, Haro was my name to begin with, so in sense my creator was the one who thought of that name not you." the robot said, this time from the refrigerator in the kitchen where Setsuna had previously cooked the egg.
"Well your creator is dumb, calling you Haro when your initials are Arho." Setsuna grumbled
Feldt stared, was Setsuna expressing some emotion!
"Young lady, what is your name" Haro inquired
"Feldt Grace" She replied "And are you speaking from the refrigerator
"That is correct, in fact I can speak from anything that is electronically connected to the house, all of the furniture is has some sort of speaker device. What do you expect, we are in the 24th century.
"Wow, that's amazing, so were you there when Setsuna first moved in"
"yeah, I am technically his first friend" Haro exclaimed with pride(A/N:if robots could speak with emotion in the future)
Feldt starting cracking in laughter as she just realized
Feldt stared at her with a weird expression, wondering what the heck was wrong with her. "Hey! why are you cracking up."
"Your first friend was a robot, I'm sorry that's pretty weird." Feldt said through bouts of laughter
"See what you did Haro, now she gonna think I'm a doofus" Setsuna yelled angrily at the refrigerator
" If you mean a stupid person according the urban dictionary, than I am afraid I have to agree."
"Why you, if you weren't at stupid mechanical robot that is luckily inside the house framework, I would beat you into a pulp" Setsuns said through grit teeth
"Hey don't pick on your own house Setsuna" Feldt reprimanded
"Hmmph" Setsuna said crossing his arms with a look of rage
"Wow, that was a flurry of emotions," Feldt thought. " Even though he is acting childish it makes him actually human. I wonder if Haro is the only one who can bring out emotions out of the Setsuna." Feldt stared at Setsuna as he was crossing his arms glaring at the refrigerator with a killer intent, he was actually pretty cute when he looked upset
Feldt started giggling
"Hey whats so funny" Setsuna asked
"Nothing" Feldt replied with a smile
Setsuna stared at Feldt and recalled his dads words to him about people.
"Everybody has a barrier that keeps you away from their true self, that cover will never open unless you yourself force it open. So Setsuna, do your best to open that cover, it might bring a lot of surprises.
Beep Beep, as Setsuna's phone rang.
"Is it Leon agains" Feldt asked as she continued to much on her pancake.
"It better not be" Setsuna said reverting back to his old monotonic self.
He opened up his iPhone and saw the name Lyle Dylandy.
Can't come over today, I got a date. Neil also has some stuff going on so he won't be coming either. It's okay Setusna don't worry you still got Haro right, don't miss us so much.
"Like I would" Setsuna replied to the text
"Hey Haro" Setsuna asked. "Is there anyone else planning on coming over today besides the Dylandys."
"There is" Haro replied
"Who" Setsuna asked a little surprised
"Ms Sumeragi Lee Noreiga"
"Oh no not her" Setsuna moaned
"Who is she" Feldt asked as she finished up the last of her pancake.
"A physics teacher at Celestial High and the coordinator of the Boarding system" Haro announced
"Leon assigned her as my temporary guardian because I am underage, which means that someone needs to check up on me especially if Leon is traveling all the time." Setsuna replied
"So she visits you often" Feldt inferred
"Not really, usually every month or so, but all she talks about is my ineptitude at making friends. She came here a week ago and we had a discussion about freshman year of high school."
"More like an argument" Haro corrected.
Setsuna glared at the refrigerator.
Feldt stared at Setsuna expectantly with her sparkling green eyes.
Setsuna stared back which ensued the staring war, but within two seconds Setsuna realized that he was fighting a losing battle as he stared into those defiant green eyes. Setsuna couldn't believe it, for the first time in his life he had lost an argument to someone other than Haro, Neil, or Leon.
Setsuna sighed "When Sumeragi came over and discussed about the rules and regulations of Celestial high, she tried to convince me to join the boarding system. I told her that I liked my house better than the dorms and she shouldn't bother with trying to get a room for me when she could give to it to another student who deserves and needs it more.
Celestial High is known to be an prestigious high school with limited spots due to the fierce competition of getting a dorm room within the school as everyone boards. Its so fierce that some of the less talented students who are homegrown form the middle school gets rejected. Even being limited, the school usually accepts most of its homegrown middle school students which makes competition for kids who are from outside the city borders even fiercer.
Feldt nodded as it was understandable that Setsuna would be used to living by himself now when he has done it for awhile now and he does not need a drop. Escially if that dorm could be given to a international student.
"But, she replied that if I didn't live in the dorms with everyone else it would break the tradition of everyone living at the dorms which might cause other students who live close by to the school to follow suit and not be an boarder either.
Feldt nodded again, it definitely made sense that Setsuna's guardian would worry about her boarding system losing students.
"Then" Setsuna continued on with his monotonic tone. "She exclaimed that I should really cure my problem with being social with living in the dorms."
"Do you really have no friends" Feldt asked.
"What do you mean, Haro is an friend even if he is an jerk from time to time" Setsuna replied
"Besides Haro" Feldt said.
Setsuna sniffled his nostrils a little bit as he recalled the all the people he talks to.
"Everyone else I talk to is more of acquaintances rather than friends but I still engage in conversations" Setsuna confessed.
"So it became an argument right" Feldt inferred after hearing Setsuna's reply.
"Pretty much" said Setsuna "Oh Feldt, she's probably going to try to convince you in to living in the dorms, make sure to decline
"What if I don't want to" Feldt said as she crossed her arms and pouted.
"Didn't Leon tell you to live at my house only and not live in the dorms" Setsuna stated
"Well yes" Feldt replied a little annoyed that he remembered that fact. She might have wanted him to try and persuade her not to go or something along the lines of Setsuna embarrassing himself. She cursed at Setsuna's memory.
"So here's the plan, I am going to cook dinner when she arrives, and when I am cooking you talk to her about your situation with me. Also convince her that you can't board" Setsuna said
"Why don't you speak for me"
"Cause we might argue again"
"The possibility of an heated discussion between Master Setsuna and Mrs Sumeragi is at 99.9%" Haro conjured
"See even the house agrees" Setsuna argued
"Master Setsuna, just because I'm an house does not mean you can make fun of me. In fact, me having to give you advice in life is already an embarrassment.
"Whatever Haro, anyways I'm going was the dishes now." Setsuna said
"Can I help?" Feldt asked.
"Why not, the more hands the quicker the chore gets finished" Setsuna replied
"Your in a good mood" Haro exclaimed. "Usually you would be stubborn and just make everyone go away while you do everything."
"Haro, do you want me to be in a bad mood" Setsuna asked starting to get a little irritated. The truth was that the quicker the chore was done, the less time he had to spend with Feldt. She somehow made him feel a little bit uncomfortable to be with. Setsuna didn't know if it was due to his lack of experience with girls or if it was because his personal space was cut in half. It couldn't be his lack of experience with girls. He had many acquaintances that were female, even if they were ones he thought were pretty annoying. He lived in a mansion so personal space wasn't really an issue either.
Setsuna turned twisted the handles attached to the sink and water started coming out from the showered like faucet.
"Your pretty old fashioned, aren't you" Feldt asked as she walked into the kitchen next to Setsuna, watching him rinsing the first plate.
"why is that" Setsuna questioned back while scrubbing the first plate with the scrubber. Even though pancakes were good, cleaning the maple syrup was a pain.
"Well for once, were in 2309, people have used washing machines for over 300 years. With technology nowadays, it is ensured that not even a speck of germs will still be left on the plate."
"Yeah, totally ensured." Setsuna replied
"Whats the problem. Do you have mysophobia or something." Feldt asked noticing his sarcasm
"Not really, but once you own a house you can get whatever washing machine you want. Before that day arrives, you are using the traditional sink and scrubber" Setsuna replied as he finished washing the first plate and passed it to Feldt . "Plus doing chores is a good way to be active during the day and not lie around the bed all the time."
"I guess so" Feldt said as she took a yellow towel from the kitchen counter that Setsuna had previously laid out and started drying the plate.
Setsuna and Feldt continued their respective chores in awkward silence.
Feldt felt the awkwardness and tried to think of something they could do. All of a sudden an blast of water hit her in the face.
"Hey, what was that for!" Feldt exclaimed
"Sorry, accidentally splashed some water on you by scrubbing too hard" Setsuna replied nonchalantly as he continued scrubbing the dirty plate.
Feldt didn't like how Setsuna was so unapologetic about what he had done.
"Okay then" Feldt said angrily. "How about I do this then!" Feldt scooped up some water from the sink and splashed on Setsuna's face.
"That's not nice" replied Setsuna still looking uninterested. Then Feldt splashed him again. "Stop that!" Setsuna said. His mouth was twitching a little.
"Almost got him," Feldt thought. "Third times the charm." This time she scooped up water with both her hands and splashed water all over his black t-shirt and his ex pajamas.
That got Setsuna mad. "Okay then, if you want to be curious, i'll tell you a fact about this sink. It has a function where the faucet can be unattached from the sink." Setsuna announced angrily. He detached the faucet head with water still pouring out from it.
"The purpose it to spray anyone who is being naughty." Feldt looked at horror as Setsuna aimed the shower head like faucet at her. Water drenched her from head to toe. "Aaahhh" Feldt screamed as she felt cold water hit her entire body. She started to shiver.
Setsuna noticed that Feldt was shivering and turned off the sink and put the removable faucet back on the sink.
"Have you learned your lesson yet" Setsuna asked.
"Yes" Feldt pouted, drenched and shivering. "You know, you ruined my favorite shirt."
"Well you ruined my favorite pajamas." Setsuna retorted. Ironically both having Gundam Exia on them. Setsuna looked at Feldt, she really was drenched from head to toe. Her pink hair was glistening and face was covered in water. Her face was pretty cute as she continued to pout. He could see a pink color leaking on to the shirt. Setsuna wonder what it was...Oh it was that. Setsuna quickly turned around and finished up the last of the dishes.
"Well you should probrably take a shower. Each bedroom has one so you shouldn't have a problem finding it.
Feldt noticing what was happening to her shirt and undergarments replied shakily yeah. "Yeah, you should take one too now that we finished the dishes.." Then she smiled at hims and said" I had a lot fun" and quickly left the kitchen.
Setsuna just stared at her with a hint of red on his face and said "huh?"
A/N: This chapter was hard to finish, but I got it done after a couple months not bad(Saying this as I pat myself on the shoulder). Next chapter will arrive soon. Please leave reviews. Constructive criticism welcome!