This is Lotus

This is Saiki

This is Saiki and Lotus

~This is the thoughts of others~

Home Alone Disaster - Wait He's Not Home Alone!

Today was a special day well it was actually Sunday but it felt special to Lotus at least. Today Lotus was going over to Saiki's house.

The look on Lotus's face could only be described as total disbelief when Saiki invited her over. Apparently, his parents were going to a wedding and would be out all day making it the perfect time for Lotus and Saiki to have a one on one psychic lesson. It was a good thing that her sister and Ethan were going to be out today too. Although Violet seemed to be fond of Saiki she still saw all boys as the enemy when it came to Lotus, and let's not even get started on Ethan.

"Good morning Sir Henry." Lotus gave the ferret a scratch on the head as she walked over to her closet. "Let's see what should I wear today?" She opened her closet and blinked, "Uhh…..what the?"

Hanging in the closet was a garment bag with a note attached to it. Lotus grabbed the note and read it.

"Dear little Lotus, Ethan has prepared this for in the event that you decided to got out today. Love Violet. P.S. make sure to take pictures, so we can see how cute you look."

Lotus stared blankly at the note. "I don't know how but somehow even her notes are loud. I can't believe those two picked out an outfit for me…. you know what I can believe it, this is Ethan and Violet after all."

Lotus unzipped the bag revealing the outfit.

"Oh, that'll look wonderful on you my little ancestor!"

"Son of a-!" Lotus jumped as Helios appeared next to her. "Don't come out of the walls like that!"

"My apologies!" Helios said

Saiki who was busy using his psychic powers to clean was interrupted by a knock on the front door.

"It's too early for that package so that must be Lotus."

He walked over to the door opening it.

"Hey, Saiki!" Lotus smiled greeting Saiki.

"You look…." Saiki took in Lotus's attire.

Lotus gave an awkward chuckle rubbing the back of her head. "I know it might be a bit flashy but Ethan makes all of my clothes. Whenever I'm not in my uniform he and my sister like to play dress up, and they somehow always convince me even if they're not home." Lotus looked down at her outfit. "I don't look weird do I?"

Lotus was wearing a white flowing camisole top that had a pink bow in the front. There were ruffled pink lace garter bands on her upper arms. The top was paired with light mint green shorts and white low wedge sandals.

Saiki studied Lotus again before looking into her eyes. "No, it's nice. It suits you." He turned around walking back into his house.

Lotus gave a small silent gasp at the comment standing frozen at Saiki's doorway. She wasn't expecting that. Did Saiki just give her a compliment? It felt like it. Lotus felt her cheeks get warm and her mood was lifted up making her feel a little….what's the best words to describe it, gleeful?

Lotus smiled shaking herself out of her frozen state and walked inside Saiki's home closing the door behind her. She set her bag down and slipped off her shoes. She followed Saiki into the living room taking in his home, she wasn't even a bit surprised when she saw stuff floating around the house.

"Even though we live in the same neighborhood our houses are very different on the inside."

Lotus turned to Saiki, "So why is everything hovering around?"

"I'm cleaning."

"Ah, I see. It's smart to use your powers to clean. You'd be able to get multiple things done as well as reach things that would normally be really hard to clean. Like the ceiling fan or under the oven." Lotus smiled snapping her fingers. "I know, how about I practice my psychic powers by helping you clean. We can kill two birds with one stone."

"You don't have to help. It's not your home."

"No matter I wanna help. Oh, and after we're done I can make us some lunch," Lotus said

"Uhm…." Saiki paused staring at Lotus. "Okay."

Saiki lifted up all the furniture in the living room and Lotus went around with the vacuum.

"There's so much dust under the furniture."

Saiki showed Lotus how to levitate, so she could reach the light fixtures, but that didn't go so well. She ended up falling, lucky for her Saiki caught her, with his powers of course.

Lotus did much better at their next task which was folding laundry. At first, she was moving slow but the more she used her powers to fold the laundry the better she got, to the point where it only took about a second to fold something.

After that Saiki oversaw Lotus as she used her powers to separate the recyclables of the garbage.

"Seriously how can anyone let it get this dirty in here. I mean really it's a wonder we don't have bu-"

Saiki turned his head and crawling up a shelf was a rather large roach. Lotus wondering why Saiki had stopped talking looked over too, and she to saw the bug. She gasped staggering back putting a hand on Saiki's shoulder to stop herself from falling, before she could speak the two vanished.

El Paso, Texas, USA

A brown stallion was rather startled when two pink haired teens appeared in front of it.

"Lotus-?"

Saiki stopped seeing the face Lotus was making. She had an awkward quivering smile on her face, her skin was pale, she also seemed to be frozen in place.

"Saiki….I can't handle bugs of any kind."

Let's take a little flashback into Lotus's childhood shall we

Due to their work Lotus's parents often had to travel going to various destinations all across the world and sometimes they got the rare opportunity to take their children with them.

One year Lotus and Violet got to go with their parents to a forested mountain in North America. As long as she stayed close to the work site little six-year-old Lotus was allowed to go out and explore the surrounding area. So dawning her hiking clothes and a little camera she went out exploring.

Child Lotus smiled and awed at the beautiful nature around her snapping photo after photo. She noticed something in a tree and walked over to it. Her child curiosity was encouraging her to figure out what was in the tree. Due to the shading of the leaves and the angle of the sun she couldn't really see it. She got close to the tree putting her hands on the trunk. Lotus got on her tippy toes trying to push herself up to get a better look but then thing moved.

Lotus was taken off guard when the thing jumped out of the tree landing right on her face. It took a few seconds for Lotus to realize what it was and her face grew pale as a large spider the size of her hand rested on her face. All the air in her lungs escaped and her eyes went wide. Terror raced through her whole body and she stepped back but her leg got caught on a thick tree root, and she fell back but instead of landing on the ground she fell into a small pit, that was teeming with various varieties of creepy crawlies. Lotus's face went stark white as more bugs crawled on her body.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

And that's how Lotus developed a rather nasty phobia of any form of bugs

Saiki felt a bit bad for Lotus watching her pale shaky form.

"Looks like we have something in common." Saiki's legs were trembling just thinking about the cockroach. "For the most part I'm unshakable but the one thing I can't stand is bugs. It's not because they're gross, well that's part of it but I can't predict their moves. Bugs are so small I can't read their thoughts. Just can't get inside their tiny little bug brains. I could get rid of it with my psychokinesis but I don't even want my psychokinesis touching that thing. Teleporting to Texas though may have been an overreaction."

"No, no, I understand. I freeze up and freak out in the presence of bugs. Honestly, your reaction was much more tamed than mine. Last time I saw a bug I broke a window," Lotus said

"I can't go back into that house with that thing there, but my mother is expecting a package. We've already been gone for five minutes," Saiki said

"Then we have no choice. We have to go back and devise a plan to get that package without going anywhere near that," Lotus shivered, "cockroach."

Saiki nodded his head. "Right." He put a hand on Lotus's shoulder surprising her. The two teleported back to Saiki's house landing right in his room.

"The roach was downstairs, so we should be safe up here."

"But what do we do when the delivery guy shows up?" Lotus said

"We'll have to go down there." Saiki gave a sigh. "I wish Dad was home…..oh right Dad's useless when it comes to bugs. Now Mom, on the other hand, would scoop it up like an ace infielder catching it like a ground ball tossing it outside."

"Wow, Saiki your mother sounds fearless. Hmmm? What to do? Normally in my situation, I'd call Violet or Ethan to get rid a bug, but they're both out of the house too," Lotus said

As Saiki and Lotus pondered on what they could do the doorbell rang.

"He's here. Why did he have to come now? No, wait this is actually good. Once I get the package there's no need to be home."

"Your right. Once you get it we can teleport over to my house." Lotus said

"The only question is how to get to the door?"

Saiki and Lotus looked at one another nodding their heads knowing what needed to be done. Saiki vanished from the room teleporting to the front door, leaving Lotus to wait.

After about 10 minutes Saiki hadn't returned.

"What could be taking him?" Lotus gulped. "I gotta find out what happened but I really really don't wanna take a chance of running into that roach."

Lotus took a deep breath and decided to swallow her fear for her friend. She threw open the door to Saiki's room and sprinted out heading for the stairs.

"Hey, girl buddy!"

"Gah!"

Lotus tripped hearing the new voice. She fell forward down the stairs, but she fell into the arms of the person who had called out to her.

"You okay there?" Nendou asked

"Nendou?" Lotus stood up. Nendou was wearing a t-shirt and some shorts holding a net along with some other bug catching things. "What are you doing here?"

"Why I came to get my best buds to go catch some bugs!" Nendou smiled

"No way!" Lotus shivered going pale. "Why would anyone find that remotely fun!"

Saiki suddenly appeared next to the two, his sudden appearance not being detected by Nendou.

"Nendou's going to get rid of that roach."

"That's a perfect idea!"

Saiki and Lotus stood as far as they could as Nendou stood in the kitchen.

"A bug? No problem just leave it to me!" Nendou declared. "Now it doesn't matter if its one roach or a hundred I'll get rid of them all."

"Great well we're going to be in Brazil just let us know when you're done."

Nendou laid down on the ground peeking under the refrigerator. "Ah, there they are. There's two of them under there."

"That's even worse."

"So gross."

Nendou grabbed the refrigerator. "Can I lift this thing?" He picked up the large appliance with ease. But that's only because Saiki used his powers to help. "Huh? A lot lighter than it looks."

"If it helps to get rid of those monsters I'll lend a hand."

"Ah, now there's nowhere to run." Nendou just lets go of the refrigerator as if he knew Saiki was holding it up.

"You're not supposed to let go."

"If Saiki wasn't here Nendou would have dropped that thing on his head."

"Away take them outsid-"

*SPLAT SPLAT*

Both Saiki and Lotus went deathly pale as they watched Nendou smash the roaches with his bare hands, the loud crunching noise of their exoskeleton bodies being crushed still echoing through their heads.

"You got any tissue? Well, you guys wanna go get some ramen?" Nendou gave his friends a thumbs up and one of the legs of the roaches was stuck to it.

". . .I hate to say this after all your help but could you leave like now."

"I think I'm gonna be sick."

Saiki was able to get Nendou to leave without any issues.

"Well, now that there's no bugs in here I can cook." Lotus smiled "Do you mind me using some food in the kitchen to make us a lunch?" She asked Saiki.

"Be my guest."

"Awesome!" Lotus cheered

After about half an hour Lotus had whipped up a delicious meal of fried rice and teriyaki salmon.

"Looks good." Saiki grabbed some food tasting it. "Doesn't just look good too."

"I also took the liberty of finishing up the rest of the laundry and I cleaned the kitchen. With the use of psychokinesis I was able to cook and clean. I think I've really got the hang of it now." Lotus smiled

Hanging over Lotus's head a sign flashed brightly saying "Future Housewife Level Up".

After finishing their meal it was time for Lotus to leave.

"Well Saiki today was interesting, but I enjoyed it. I'll see you at school." Lotus said

"Yeah, goodbye."

Lotus smiled the whole way walking home. She really felt like she made some serious progress with her friendship with Saiki. He was becoming much more comfortable around her. She also got to find out that they shared something in common, albeit it was a fear, but he was willing to share his fear with her, and he didn't judge her for her fear.

As soon as Lotus got home she walked to her room and was surprised to see Ethan and Violet in there.

"Hey what are you two doing?" Lotus asked

"Lotus perfect timing!" Violet smiled

"I just finished setting it up," Ethan said

"Setting what up?" Lotus asked

"Ta-da!" Violet and Ethan said stepping away.

As they moved they revealed Sir Henry sitting on top of a new bed.

"Oh wow it looks great!" Lotus smiled

The pet bed was a large light blue fluffy pillow big enough for Sir Henry to roll about and not fall off. The pillow sat on a small black table that was about three inches off the floor. Sir Henry's name had been embroidered on the large pillow as well. A new grey blanket was draped off to the side.

"Great job Ethan!" Lotus said

"You never cease to amaze me, darling!" Violet complimented

Ethan smiled drowning himself in happiness over the compliments.