Ryuto

When I woke up the next morning, I saw that everyone was sleeping in weird ways. Yao had taken up one of the sofas with his Shinatty-chan cat pillow thing. Francis was wearing one of those things that covered up his eyes for 'beauty sleep' while his arms were reaching out to Arthur, who was sprawled on the ground. Alfred was still snoring on a sofa and half of his body was falling off. Ivan took up most of the floor, hugging Lovino who was stiff with fear. Gilbert was on the third sofa, muttering something in his sleep about how awesome he was. Antonio was drooling all over his pillows which I found very disgusting.

Lastly, Feliciano was resting on Hikaru's stomach while she was sleeping on Ludwig's chest, whose arms held her protectively as they slept. As I looked at my sister and the younger Beilschmidt brother, I wondered what happened between them. But on the other hand, Kiku and I were the only ones who actually slept normally.

I rubbed my eyes and stood up. "I'm so hungry," I muttered to myself as I took a step over Feliciano, trying to be careful. Unfortunately, I tripped over Feliciano's legs and yelped as I fell.

"What's going on!" Hikaru screamed as she jumped up from the floor, waking up everyone else.

"Nothing," I said as she pulled me up. "I just tripped."

"Are you okay?" Feliciano asked me.

"I'm fine," I told him.

"Is everyone awake?" Auntie called as she walked down the stairs. "Are you all hungry?"

"I am," I called and the others chimed in, too.

"All right, I'll make you some waffles for breakfast," Auntie said, heading into the kitchen.
"My back hurts," Hikaru said, stretching her body. "What was I sleeping on?"

"The floor?" Arthur guessed.

"No, I don't—" Her eyes widened as she covered her face with her pillow. "Maybe it was the floor. Um, I'll go use the bathroom." She grabbed her blanket and ran up the stairs in a flash, leaving Ludwig with a red face.

"What's her problem?" Yao asked.

"I don't know," Ludwig said quickly.

"Oh, god," Antonio said, holding his pillow up. "Was I drooling?"

"Yes," Lovino answered. "It was disgusting."

"Ack, look at this mess!" Alfred said, seeing spilled popcorn around his area. "Who in the world would make such a mess in Ryuto's house!"

"Um, you would," Kiku and I said at the same time, remembering last night when he shouted at a movie, causing popcorn to fly everywhere.

Alfred grinned. "Right."

"Ryuto, someone's on the phone," Auntie said, holding out the phone to me. "She wants to speak with you."
"She?" I asked, taking the phone. Into the receiver, I said, "Hello?"

"Um, Ryuto?" asked a sweet voice. "This is…this is Lily."

"Oh, hey, Lily," I said. "How are you?"

"I'm good. Um, I was wondering if you'd like to come on a picnic with my big brother…and me…today."

I felt myself blush. "A picnic? That'd be great! What time do you want to meet up?"

"Is twelve okay? Um, my big brother says we're meeting at the park."

I smiled. "That's perfect," I said. "I'll see you then." I hung up the phone and sighed. I had a date with Lily Zwingli…and Basch, her big brother. But I still had a picnic date with her, even though she was the one who asked me.

"Honhonhonhon! Ryuto has a date!" Francis said, grinning at me.

I chucked a pillow at Francis and smacked his face with it.

"Really? With who!" Gilbert asked, giving me a noogie.

"Lily," I said, "And her brother, Basch."

"When did this happen?" Hikaru asked.

I looked up to see my twin, already dressed, at the bottom of the staircase. "Just a minute ago," I told her.

She smiled at me. "That's good," she said. "I'm going to go help Auntie with breakfast. You guys clean up, okay?" Then she left for the kitchen as we folded up the blankets and straightened up the living room.

When breakfast was finished, we sat around the kotatsu and ate. Then when we were done, everyone started dressing into their day clothes as Auntie cleaned up.

"Ah, Ryuto! You should get her flowers!" Antonio said to me suddenly as we sat down in the living room.

"Get who flowers?" Auntie asked, coming from the kitchen.

"His date," Hikaru answered with a laugh and Auntie squealed in delight.

She gave me a giant hug and said, "Ryuto has a date! When is it? Oh, you need to get her flowers! You're so grown up!"

"Will you please stop acting like I've been on a date?" I asked, feeling flustered.

"Honestly, you never have gone a date," Hikaru said.

"Well you haven't either," I retorted and my twin blushed.

"What!" Francis shouted. "You two haven't gone on dates! How horrifying! With your looks, the two of you could have anyone you want!"

"I want to kill him," Hikaru muttered in Japanese.

"Besides," I said. "It's just a picnic and Basch will be there. It's more like a super-vised thing rather than a date."

"You're still getting her flowers," Auntie told me. "But what kind?"

"Roses are perfect!" Francis said with a chuckle.

"Too cliché," Arthur said. "How about violets?"

"No, too purple," Yao said. "What about poppies?"

A thought came over me. "Lilies," I said. "I'd like to get her lilies." I smiled, thinking that I had a date with sweet Lily later on that day.

A Note from your Author:

And so here we are, the end of movie night. La di da. Ryuto has a date *laughs* with Lily...and Basch... *laughs* Sorry. I felt that since I'm pairing up Hikaru with Ludwig, I should pair up Ryuto with sweet Lily. I think they'd be cute together, you know. Oh, yeah. That reminds me. In chapter nine when Ryuto goes to talk to Basch and Lily, he somehow won Basch's 'okay' so now he doesn't feel...ah...intimidated by Big Brother Basch. *laughs* Enjoy!