"Ea?"
"Hmm?"
"You still remember your punishment from 'that day', don't you?"
'Ba-dump'. "…Can't I tell you a lie, just for once?"
Smirk. "You can never lie in front of me, you know?"
"Whatever. Have you decided it, then?"
"…kinda. I doubt you can do it, though…"
"…?"
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Their Daily Lives
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Genre: Friendship – Family
Rate: T, for safe.
Warning: AU, OOC, and Landkarte's prank. If you've watched SpongeBob Squarepants, you'll know what's going on in this lame story.
Disclaimer: 07-Ghost belongs to Yukino Ichihara and Yuki Amemiya, while SpongeBob Squarepants belongs to its owner as well.
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Story 11
~Opposite Day~
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When Zehel stepped in the kitchen and saw something horrible happened there, he wished that this was only a nightmare. Not a reality like it supposed to be. Because, really—
"Ah! Morning, Zehel~! What do you want for breakfast today~?"
-was Ea supposed to be the one who smiled a lot in this world?
The tall and muscular man in the manor rubbed his eyes slowly. Once, twice, thrice, and that horrible scenes still happened right in front of his eyes.
Ea, who was wearing his uniform and Profe's beloved apron, was holding a spatula and frying pan with fried egg on it and smiled widely and childishly. Meanwhile, Landkarte—who wore the same uniform like Ea—sat on the chair; eating his breakfast calmly and expressionlessly and haven't say even a word since Zehel came.
And Zehel never knew that Ea's voice could be that childish.
Five minutes that full of attempt to regain his consciousness later, the first thing that came out from the older man's mouth was: "Did your souls get changed when you sleep, Boys?"
The only response from Landkarte was, "Nonsense. How can that happen in one night?"
Ea chuckled (that seemingly) amusedly. "Of course not, Zehel. Just like what he says; it's impossible to be happened in a night."
Zehel's eyes widened in shock. /Yep—their souls were definitely got changed by someone. That's the only logical explanation here./
The dark-haired man turned around, walked out from the kitchen to find the sanest man in the manor a.k.a Kreuz. Or maybe Fest. Relikt would do too. Anyone, except those two youngest residents whose personalities got changed today.
"KREUZ! FEST! RELIKT! PLEASE WAKE ME UP FROM THIS HORRIBLE NIGHTMARE IMMEDIATELY!"
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When Krowell opened his eyes, the sun was still shining brightly.
But somehow, his premonition appeared quicker than his own consciousness.
So, instead of going to the bathroom to prepare himself to go to school like usual, he sat still on his bed, trying to remember what happened yesterday or days before yesterday to find logical reason about why did his premonition appeared earlier today. He almost remembered it, but a cute voice of the only children in this mansion disturbed him and made him returned to the reality.
A reality that was spoken out loud from his beloved nephew's mouth and made him went to bathroom immediately.
"Uncle Krowell, it's a quarter to six already. Don't you have to go to school now?"
That. And when he remembered that he needed almost twenty minutes* to arrive at school, he felt like he was going to headbang himself at the nearest wall.
But that could wait later.
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/"Moshimoshi."/
"Ah, moshimoshi, Kreuz. How're you today?"
/"…well, I'm fine, thank you for asking, Onii-sama. Anyway, has Krowell go to school yet?"/
Krom blinked. "Well, I suppose he hasn't. Tiashe says that he still locked himself in the bathroom a while ago. What's wrong, anyway? And—Kreuz, is there something horrible happened at your place? Your voice is trembling."
/"Just tell him to bring some heart medicine, okay? Something horrible will really happen at his school."/
"…Huh?"
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If Krowell felt curious now, then he hid it well behind that stoic face of his.
First, his oldest brother told him to bring some medicine to repel a heart attack ("Kreuz asked me to do so," was his reason. And Krom said it with innocent face and eyes that reminded him of an abandoned kitten. So that why he brought it with him inside his bag—he could never reject his brothers when they used that kind of trick). And now, right in front of his class, a crowd of female students gathered with happy face and fangirling squeals could be heard from a far. /What had happened in the world today?/ he thought mentally, trying to take a look inside with a little difficulty. Lucky him that Eve saw him struggled to go inside the class; she shooed away all of the annoying crowd and pulled him inside with horrified expression on her (in his opinion) rather beautiful face.
"What happened here, Eve?"
"Nightmare, Krowell—it's a nightmare! A very horrible nightmare has happened today!"
The tall, silver-haired teen frowned. "Take a deep breath and relax for a moment, will you? That kind of answer didn't help at easing my curiosity."
She did his instructions in a blink; inhale, exhale. And after she became relaxed, she pointed her hand toward the table he knew the most it's position.
It was Ea and Landkarte's.
And what happened there really made his eyes widened.
Ea was joking with wide, cheerful, and childish smile on his face. He laughed loudly too, different from his usual manner where he only smiled a little or wearing his pocker face all the time. Beside him, Landkarte sat with a stoic—yes, stoic. You didn't read it wrong—and bored face. He looked like a light-haired version of Ea, with longer side bangs and narrower and brighter eyes.
Now he knew why did Kreuz asked Krom to tell him to bring a heart-attack medicine to school today.
"Can you give me a favor, Eve?"
"Y-yes?"
"Tell the teacher that I'll be absent till those two," Krowell pointed at Landkarte and Ea while saying this, "recovered from their heavy brain injuries. If he or she asked about where I'll go, just answer with 'somewhere normal and lacks of nightmare'."
"…If I don't have any remedial today, Krowell, I hope I can join you to escape from this nightmare."
"May God be with you, poor girl."
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"Landkarte~! Let's go to cafeteria now! I'm sooo~ hungry!" Ea said happily, clapped his hands like a child would do whenever they're asking something from other people. Far behind him, a crowd of fans was screaming hysterically—it's a blessing for them to see their idol smiled a lot like this. Really.
"Not hungry. And can you away those annoying fans of yours, Ea? They're too loud…" Landkarte replied, looking as annoyed as someone could see in their lives.
Ea blinked innocently, then turned around and smiled cutely (in his fans' eyes) with hands clapped in front of his face. "Gomen ne~! Can you please keep calm for a while? If you don't, Landkarte will be veeery mad at me! And I don't want him to be like that! Okay~?"
Few of them almost died from lack of blood after they saw that heavenly scenery.
But if one saw from a closer range (like Kurena and Eve, who sat right behind Ea and Landkarte's), they could see a twitch appeared in corners of the dark-haired teen's mouth. And Landkarte was also trying to restrain his laughter silently, when he turned his face away from the crowd. And Eve, along with her silent tablemate Kurena, blinked their eyes in unison when they realized that both of them almost returned to their original selves after Ea said that line.
God, what was actually happening right now in front of them?
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/Only few hours left till 6 PM, Ea—survive this and you'll be freed from your next nightmare! Survivesurvivesurvivesurvive—/
He couldn't move even a bit when a familiar hand grabbed his shoulder from behind.
"Do you have a spare time now, Ea?"
/-My God, why did you give this person a very sensitive instinct? Why?/ He almost banged his head at the nearest wall he could reach. But he didn't do that; he turned around to face Krowell with smiling face and act like a certain light-haired loafer again. "Yes, Krowell~?"
Krowell almost thought that he needed to eat the medicine he brought with him now.
Almost.
"Can we talk about your… 'strange' behavior alone?"
Deep inside his heart, Ea cursed a certain light-haired loafer who made him acted like this since they woke up today. "Well, of course! Where do you want to talk with me?"
When they arrived at the roof several minutes later and Krowell closed the door silently, he could felt a gloomy aura was spreading fast from the dark-haired teen's back. And when he turned to see his classmate, he found the usual Ea was standing in front of him with a very furious face there. "I suppose you can tell me the reason…?"
Ea's fist clenched. "Next time, whenever that idiot asked me to play poker with him again—or you, or Eve, or even Kurena—remind me NOT to accept his invitation. I don't want to act like a happy-go-lucky guy and childish who has sweet teeth again! Not a slightest chance of snow falling in hell!"
…oh. So that's the main reason here. Krowell understand his feeling so much, realizing that he himself has a brother who got similar personality with Landkarte.
In Raggs Mansion, a certain brown-haired man sneezed.
"And you do know that I hate chocolate, right? And hate to act all sweet in front of that annoying crowd, right? You have to understand my pain here, Krowell! If not, I'm going to jump from here now!"
"…and now you're acting all melancholic like Landkarte."
"…oh. Sorry. This thing really scared me," Ea said, finally able to calm himself. "If only this day could be faster than usual…" He sighed, sitting tiredly in front of Krowell with his hands hugging his left leg. And when he remembered that the Armageddon wouldn't come tomorrow, he buried his face in his palm while sighing deeply. "Tomorrow will be a veeery hellish day…"
Krowell had no choice but to pity this guy silently in his thought.
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The end.
* My school starts at 6.45AM, while the other school in my country usually starts at 7.00 AM (GMT+7, not to mention there are three different time regions in my country). And while the other students in my country usually go to school at 6.30AM or later, I go to school at 6.00AM instead. (-w-) Exception for the capital city, where schools there usually start at 6.00AM because of the very long traffic jam (or kinda. I heard it from the news, anyway). Lucky me, I didn't live there. No matter what kind of transportation you use, you'll get caught in that annoying traffic jam. Seriously. No kidding here.