Chapter 9
Kako's POV
"Kako, please stop tapping," Class Pres advises as she brushes my hair for the hundredth time. "And sit still."
I'm trying. But it's so hard to stop my heart from jumping. I'm dancing right now—in my head. Next scene is when Romeo visits Juliet in her room. Oh god! I want more scenes like these.
Hahahahaha. Life's so great~
"You're up, go go," Class Pres cheers me on.
I immediately dash to the "balcony" and look out to the bushes—well, the green shrub looking prop.
"Romeo! Where art for thou Romeo!" I throw out.
"Juliet…" Daiki's manly voice dully calls.
Even using monotone, he sounds great.
My beautiful brother stands up from his crouched position behind the green thing and my eyes light up.
"Come up, hurry," I wave at him.
Romeo is then supposed to smile and leap up the stairs at where I'm standing. But Daiki's not moving.
Did he forget? Stage fright?
I call again and motion him to stand next to me. Still, he stands still like a statue.
"Romeo. UP here!" I yell as the audience begin muttering and some obviously laughing.
"I'm actually good right here."
My eyes narrow—he's obviously playing hard to get.
"When did you become so shy Romeo?" I tease. "Come up so we can talk."
And kiss. And do other stuff.
"I play basketball so I'm pretty tall. We can talk just fine with me standing here."
God. My man is so stubborn. Guess he simply wants to be punished by my persistence.
Placing my hands on my hips, I exaggeratedly yell, "Yeah, but we can't kiss if you're on the ground and I'm on the balcony!"
"We could do without that tonight. Or any night. After all, our families are the same."
Aomine totally ad-libbed that. What the heck? The audience actually laughed. Well, that could go both ways. After all, EVERYONE in our school knows we have the same last name.
And some even think we're married buhahahahaha. They'd be right about that soon enough.
"Yes, but our love can conquer that so just come up so we can celebrate. Stop testing my patience."
I flash my angelic smile. Daiki hates it when I pretend to be a good girl.
Yes, I was right. He's coming up.
Oh! He's holding my face in his large hand. Time to pucker up!
"Oi .Et. You're only a child. It's past your curfew."
"Goodnight kiss?"
I close my eyes one more time. I know you want it aniki. I know you want this as much as I do.
"Dream on," he said casually before leaping off the stairs to the "balcony" and exiting the stage.
I'm left speechless.
Daiki played it off so cool~ OMG! He's showing that he's dominant! That HE controls the situation and not Kako!
OMG I LOVE YOU SAKURAI FOR DROPPING OUT!
And then scene. I happily skip off the stairs and twirl back to get my hair combed and costume changed.
But then an angry blonde best friend approaches me.
"You lied to me."
He looks frustrated.
"No I didn't, Kise. I told you I was playing Juliet."
I am in fact playing Juliet.
"I only agreed to play Romeo if you were Juliet but YOU were the UNDERSTUDY!"
"YEAH! But now I'm JULIET! JULIET!" I yell back, not knowing why we're both yelling.
"How did this even happen?" Kise finally asks in a softer voice.
I shrug. "Fate?"
"Can't be."
I look at Kise.
"Did you really want to play the main character so bad? If you did, why'd you quit? Because you quit, the real Juliet quit and I had to sub in."
I cross my arms and start my tapping again. Well, because of him, I get my Romeo aniki so I shouldn't be so hard on him.
"I only wanted to be Romeo if you're…my Jul-"
"But look! You took Sakurai's spot as Paris! You're still sort of important in the play. Trust me, nowadays, girls dig the side characters."
I give him an encouraging wink, but somehow it didn't cheer him up.
"Kakocchi," he looked down with his bangs hanging down. That's usually not a good sign coming from Mr. Sunshine. "You can't kiss Aominecchi."
He actually said it.
"What did you say?"
"I said, you can't kiss your own brother."
What the…
"Hey Kise. I kiss who I want."
"You can't."
"Who are YOU to tell ME what to do?"
Does he seriously not know that this has been my dream since, I don't know, I was born?
"I'm only telling you because I care."
"It seems the only one you care about is yourself."
I knew I said a little too much when Kise didn't come up with another remark that I could respond to.
Shoot. I didn't mean it. But…I hate apologizing. Darn.
"Hey Kise…" I initiate, but he shocked me when he pushed my hand away.
"Kakocchi. I care for you. I can't tell if you're just pretending to not notice or not, but I really care for you."
I look at him, then avert my gaze as I lock onto the sight of my aniki.
When I look at Daiki, my mind just kind of slips out of this world.
So it really surprised me when I was pulled back by Kise's firm grip that pulled me back to face him. There's a first for everything I guess.
"For once, can't you just see me instead of your brother?"
pub: 2/19/18; 9 22 22
a/n: OMG! I'm surprised that so many of you came back to support Daiki aniki! I'm so touched. this is sort of a fast update? thx for your luv and support~