Their Daily Lives

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Genre: Family – Friendship

Rate: T

Warning: AU, Landkarte's corny jokes, lots of shonen ai moments, and grammar mistake(s).

Disclaimer: 07-Ghost belongs to Yuki Amemiya and Yukino Ichihara.

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Story 8

~Guess the Jokes~

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"Ea?"

"What?"

"Are you still mad at me?"

"If there's snow at Sahara, maybe I'm not."

He puffed his cheeks. "How cruel… It's just a joke, anyway."

The other teen glared at him. "And you do it in front of teacher, you jerk. Like hell I'm going to forgive you."

"But Ea~"

"Not at any chance."

"Ea~"

"You're wasting your voice."

Landkarte almost turned into his chibi form and cried like a waterfall before an idea came into his mind. "Hey, Ea?"

"What?"

"How many lamps are there in this manor?"

"I'm not a loafer like you, who lacks of work and decided to do some pranks like Zehel."

"Come on; just guess it, will you?"

Ea sighed tiredly. "Fifty lamps?"

"Is that so?"

"How, in the world, should I know when you don't give me a chance to count it yet?"

Landkarte chuckled amusedly. "Fine, then. But do you know something, Ea?"

"What is it again?"

"I just need a lamp to light up my world."

"Huh?"

This time, Ea shivered when Landkarte winked at him. "I don't need anyone but you to brighten my world every day, you now?"

Then the dark-haired teen was speechless. Was this guy trying to tease him again?

"Oh, oh! May I ask another question?"

Sigh. "What is it… again?"

"What'll you do in the future, after you graduated from school and university?"

"Don't know yet. Why do you ask it suddenly?"

"Just wondering… Why don't you ask me the same thing?"

"Fine, then. What'll you do in the future after you graduated from university, Landkarte?"

While Ea was trying at his best to restrain his anger, Landkarte smiled widely—again. "I want to be a robber."

A blink and Ea raised his left eyebrow. "Are you going to rob someone's house so you can buy everything that you want?"

"Not that kind of robber, Ea."

"Then, what kind of robber you want to be?"

"I want to be a robber who rob your heart and attention, so that you will not avert your eyes from me and fully gives your heart to me~" Landkarte said dramatically, placing his hands on his chest with flowers blooming as background.

For the second time of that day, Ea shivered again.

"Does those home works start to fry your brain, Landkarte?"

"Nope. It's you who burn my mind and heart every time you look at me."

Third shivers. This guy's joke became more frightening than before.

"And Ea?"

Ea didn't dare to speak again. He just stared at his caller from the corner of his eyes and tried to enjoy the garden in front of him.

'Tried' was the keyword, by the way.

"Do you like flowers?"

"…not all of them, though."

"Which one do you like?"

"What… Well, white rose, maybe?"

Landkarte's cheerful smile made him shivered for the fourth time. "Good choice. Are you waiting for me to accept your feeling, Ea?"

"…huh?"

"White roses means 'waiting' in flower language, aren't they?"

"Wait—I change it to Higanbana instead!"

"Ah? Do you feel lonely when I leave you? Don't worry; I'll not leave you for a long time again, Ea."

"What? Never! I prefer red roses to them, honestly."

This time, Landkarte smirked again. He left Ea behind, walked toward the place where red roses were growing healthily, pick one of them, and return to their place again. But he didn't sit in his seat like before; he stood in front of Ea and held out the rose right in front of the dark-haired teen's face. "Then, will you marry me in the future, Ea?"

Ea felt like he's going to have a heart attack at the time Landkarte asked him that kind of question.

A gasping and falling books sounds made them turned their head to the source of the voice. Their eyes widened immediately when they saw Krowell (whom Ea suspected as the one who let the books fell) and Kurena (whom Landkarte suspected as the one who gasped back then) stood not too far from their place with the same widened eyes and shocked expression on their face.

"Uhm… You guys have arrived already?" Landkarte asked nervously. He forgot that they're going to do the homework together today, though. And your heart's condition when someone caught you proposing a marriage to your own best friend who had the same gender with you was really mixed up between ashamed, shocked, surprised, and other kind of that feelings. Seriously.

"…it seems like we're interrupting a precious moment, aren't we, Kurena?"

The short-haired girl nodded her head, still in shock after she watched that scene with her own eyes.

"Then, we'll excuse ourselves; studying with Kreuz inside the manor seems like a good choice, after all."

Ea, who had been stupefied for a moment, realized what kind of situation he had now.

"THAT'S NOT LIKE WHAT YOU'RE THINKING—THIS MORON WAS JUST JOKING, YOU KNOW?!"

"Naah, we won't interrupt you again. Have a nice date, then."

Kurena just waved her hand and followed Krowell silently.

Landkarte laughed nervously.

Ea fainted instantly.

Message from this story: 'never ever dare to answer some 'marriage jokes' in front of your classmates; they might've misunderstood it and spread the rumors that you've agreed to marry your own best friend in future—without caring about your explanation that it's just a joke'.

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The End.