Chapter Seven
It's finally…
the weekend.
I can hardly pick myself up after the week I've had. It seems like it's been forever since I've felt a Saturday. After a couple minutes of lazily lying face-down on my couch, I rub my eyes and stretch. Suddenly, I can feel my cell phone buzzing in my jean pocket. I pick it up, sit back down, and face the snowy window as I press the green call button.
"Hello?" I ask. I can hear a muffle, some loud music, and then some voices in the background. I don't recognize the number. "Hello?" I try again.
"Sorry, Madoka-san," says a voice. I tilt my head not recognizing the voice. "It's Len Kagamine, from school." I smile right away.
"How'd you get my number?" I ask, suspiciously, but with a giggle.
"Miku told me."
"How'd she get my number?"
"Look, do you want to hang out sometime?" he asks. Then through the phone, I hear a yell and what sounds like Len being tackled. Instinctively, I stand up with a troubled expression on my face. "Sorry, that was Rin," he says. I sit back down and stifle a laugh. Another muffled sound follows.
"Who is this?" I hear Rin's voice through the phone.
"Um, Madoka?" I say, now fully amused.
"Did Len just try to ask you out, because-?"
I hear another sound of someone being tackled. I hold the phone away from my mouth and laugh. I hear another yell, what sounds like "give me back my phone", and a muffled sound of it being passed back to Len.
"Sorry about that," Len says over the phone. I sigh and chuckle.
"It's fine. What was that you were asking me?" I ask, just for kicks.
"Oh, um… would you like to hang out with me? I mean, if that's okay with you. We could uh, play video games, or eat lunch, or I could even drive you around in the road roller (another obnoxious laugh from Rin)…"
I laugh and widen my eyes. "You guys have a road roller?" I ask. "I'm in!"
As soon as I arrive at Rin and Len's house, I run up to the front door, painted yellow, and ring the doorbell. I hear a bark, a yell, a crash, and someone calling "I've got it!". Wow, they must have a really crazy household! I smile as the door opens in front of my face. In front of me stands Len, with blonde hair tossed all over his head. He's wearing a grey hoodie, light-wash jeans, and a yellow wristband that reads Camp Ottawa – 2013. I smile at his ruffled-up hair.
"Was that Rin?" I ask, ruffling his hair up even more. He laughs and pushes my hand away from his head.
"Maybe," he admits. "Come on in," he says, holding the door open for me. I step into their large, modern house and take off my tan Ugg boots. "So, what do you want to-?"
Suddenly, Rin comes running in and jumps on Len's back, sending him crashing to the floor. My jaw drops open as Len gasps in pain. "Madoka's here!" she announces to the world. Rin hops off of Len, whose leg I'm sure shouldn't be in that position, and hugs me. I almost stumble back as well, but instead, I end up crashing into a vase on the table behind me! Len stands up, his sea-green eyes huge.
"Madoka! You just broke a vase!" he half-yells. I almost scream, but nothing comes out.
"I-I'm just… I so sorry, Len, please, please, please let me stay!" I whine.
"Madoka-chan, nobody ever said you had to leave! Plus the broken vase, that's totally fine! Seeu can just clean it up when she gets down here!" Rin tells me.
"Seeu!" Rin calls. "Seeu!" she yells, louder the second time. Down the glass spiral staircase comes a thin girl in a peach, black, and white maid's dress. Upon seeing the broken vase, Seeu's young face scrunches into a wrinkle. She has long, curly strawberry-blonde hair that cascades down past her waist.
"Rin, how many times have I told you to stay away from your mother's vase?" Seeu asks, her high voice echoing through the large room. Rin dramatically lifts her head up to the high ceiling and groans.
"It wasn't me! It was that girl that Len dragged in!" Rin laughs, winking at me. Even I laugh.
Seeu sighs. "I'm Seeu, the housekeeper of these two terrible twins," she sighs. I nod my head at her bad attempt at humor. "And you are?"
"I'm Madoka Soma," say, shaking her hand. Len's shoulders sag. After Seeu leaves (my guess is to get a broom to sweep up the pieces), Len walks up closer to me.
"I'm sorry, Madoka. I guess you probably want to leave now," he sighs.
"Are you kidding me?!" I laugh, "I love it here!"