"Yay! We're gonna play like a big and happy family that you guys aren't. I'll go get some snacks!"
"NO!" Their panic-stricken voice boomed in the room as I started to walk towards the kitchen.
"I will prepare the snacks. You can help me if you want to." Said Reiji while making his way towards the Heaven of the stomach.
"Guys if you could be kind and set up the game I would be really grateful," I said cheerfully while making my way behind Reiji. "I'll make sure to bring some really good treats for you all."
Once we came back, we started playing. The first thing we had to do was roll the dice to set up the order of the players. I was lucky enough to get twelve and Kanato was unlucky enough to get the Snake Eyes.
"That's bullshit! I want to be the first one to roll! Why does the trash like you have to be the first one?!"
"Now now, Kanato, calm down. It's not that bad to be the last one. Ore-sama only got eleven, see?" Laughed Ayato. He sure was enjoying his eleven but one thing made me giggle even more - Reiji was also really upset with his three.
"Reiji, what's wrong? I thought you were good at human games. I thought that this game wouldn't be a challenge for someone like you with the brains of a genius and style of a butler."
"Nfu~ now now, Bitch-chan, no need to anger our little brother."
"Since when am I your little brother? Even though you are older than Ayato and Kanato, I am your..."
"Yeah yeah yeah, no need to measure your age and whatever else the word 'little' implies."Reiji eyed me with disgust and Shuu just chuckled.
"Oh yeah, speaking of which: visually Subaru is younger than me but he's a vampire who is old enough to call himself my great-great-grandpa. So, who is the real senpai? Subaru, based on the age or me, based on the position in the school?"
"Enough with this blabbering! Are we playing or not?!" Subaru was getting impatient.
"Okay okay since we already know the order of the players I think we should pick out the tokens we're going to play with."
"Finally a good idea," Ayato's eyes lit up with life. "Since Ore-sama isn't the first one to roll the dice I'll be the first one to choose!" You know what they say - give the idiot its way.
"Of course you can be the first one to choose." I said in a voice people use for babies. Ayato sat up straighter to make himself look royal.
"As the best one of this household I will be the knight on the horse." He placed his token on the board.
"Do they have teddies?"
"I'm sorry, but I don't think they have this kind of thing, but you can be a cannon," I offered Kanato, hoping he wouldn't turn into an actual one.
"Okay, I'll accept this." I sighed in relief. Kanato was in a good mood... For now.
"It's stupid. Does our token make any difference?"
"No, Subaru, but don't you want to choose something you prefer?"
"No."
"I agree with the youngster," Grumped Shuu.
"Okay, then I'll choose for you." I smirked evilly. Oh this is going to be fun.
"Oh~ Bitch-chan is going to choose something for us~ I can't wait!"
"Hold your horses, boy," I said while giving Laito his token, "And your hat." Laito stared down at his palm with a small version of his fedora.
"Bitch-chan, you sure are original."
"Suck it up, will ya. When I played with my friends..."
"You had friends?!" Ayato gaped in fake surprise.
"Let me finish! As I said, when I played with my friends, we used to go with wrong tokens once in a while, so I figured I should make an association with you and your tokens to not mess up with a game. I mean, once we know that your piece is a hat, Subaru will definitely not mix it with his car." I smiled as I put a tiny car on Subaru's palm.
"You didn't just..." Now Ayato's jaw was wide open in real surprise.
"Oh what if I did?"
"What's that supposed to mean?" Subaru clenched his fist as if trying to crush the poor car.
"Subaru-kun, we have something to tell you - there's a car brand with the same name as yours." Laito put his hand on Subaru's shoulder in a comforting way as if Laito just told husband his entire family had gone into a fatal car crash. That car being Subaru.
"And in other news, Subaru and Laito have discovered water is wet! Enough with this. Reiji, you should be a hot iron."
"Why? What are you trying to imply?"
"Definitely not that you're hot. You just like doing household chores that's all."
"I thought you should be that, since you're so flat," Ayato snickered.
"It's a shame Monopoly has no Ken dolls, since you have no..." But Subaru's smack on the head stopped me from finishing my sentence.
"Don't start anything you wouldn't want to end."
"Based on her logics, Bitch-chan should be a bitch-chan," Laito put the little dog on the 'Go' field.
"May I protest?"
"No." Said Subaru and Reiji in unison.
"Okay, fine. Last but not least - Shuu. You will be a shoe."
"It's not a shoe - it's a boot."
"Same thing. Okay now, since we already set up the game, let's start."
"Yea!" Ayato answered hyped up. "But no one actually told us the rules."
"Reiji, the pleasure is all yours." While Reiji was explaining how to play, I gave everyone their money.
"And this is how we declare a winner." Reiji closed the rule book. Everyone, including me, were barely conscious - Reiji's voice would perfectly fit for the lullabies.
Suddenly, I remembered one rule to include.
"Guys, there's one more rule!"
"But I read an entire book out loud, there's no way I've missed it."
"Hush, this rule is unique and only for you, immortal vampires. You can't kill or show any kind of violence or destructive behavior. And no blood sucking."
"What if we won't obey, hm?" Laito wrapped his hands around my waist and pulled me into his lap.
"Then," I said while struggling away from his hands, "the guy who committed a fraud will automatically lose and will have to give away everything they had to his victim." I finally managed to crawl away from the pervert as far away as possible.
Our table was round. Reiji was sitting to Laito's right. I was in front of Reiji. Between me and Reiji was Ayato. To my right was Subaru and to his right was Kanato. Shuu was in between Laito and Kanato. To put it in a simple way - the circle of players clockwise goes like this: Reiji (12), Laito, Shuu, Kanato, Subaru, me, Ayato and Reiji again.
"So, let's begin!" I said cheerfully. Kanato passed me the dice. Here it was - the very first move I made. I had to leave an amazing first impression to show these suckers that Miss Luck was on my side today.
"Four." I stared at the board for a while unable to believe what I saw.
"Come on, pay the taxes." Boys were laughing their asses off. I got an urge to lose right there right then by ripping out their shiny white fangs.
"Now it's Ore-sama's turn!" Ayato reached out for the dice, but I slapped his hand away.
"Hold your horse right there for now! Don't you see that I got a double? It's still my turn."
"Haaa?! Stop cheating!"
"I'm not! Weren't you listening to the rules?"
"Do I look like an idiot who would?"
"Ayato, Teddy tells you to shut up and give her the damn dice." Thank you, Kanato.
"Fine. Here." He threw them at my face. I could fake an injury like a Spanish football player, but that would be too low... For now.
"Okay, here I go again." I threw them on the board. One fell with a few rolls to stop at the number three. The other was rolling around for a longer time. It was making me nervous. Dice was teasing me like a basketball player was being teased by the ball that refused to fall through the rim. And then, it finally slowed down to reveal its number - three.
"Another double!" I happily moved my dog to the jail visitor's position.
"Bitch-chan~ who are you visiting? Is it your boyfriend, because I can also commit a crime by stealing your heart." Cheesy pick-up lines? Come on.
"Actually, I'm visiting my uncle. He's got one year in prison for castrating the last guy that made a move on me." I smiled innocently as I checked my phone. "Oh look - he's getting released tomorrow. Should I call him here for a visit?"
"Yeah no. Just throw your damn dice again." Said Subaru, impatiently waiting for the game to end.
"Oki doki! Look at how professionals play." With a smug smile I let my dice go.
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