Nice and spice

Chapter 19

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"You were loud on purpose, weren't you?" Her eyebrow was raised up to her hairline. "Of course, I was. I was trying to make a statement." "And did it work?" "Obviously not."

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The moon was high on the sky when we finally took a break. "Its late, I should go." Nori picked up her school bag and threw it over her shoulder. "I'll drive you home." I walked her to the door before she answered, "No its okay, my dads gonna pick me up." We said our goodbyes and it was time for me to start tidying up the mess.

"Ding Dong"

Maybe she left something?

But the person standing outside my door wasn't Nori, but my lover who I hadn't seen since yesterday. "What are you doing here?" I held the door with my foot, so he understood that I wasn't about to let him in. "I wanted to see you." No matter how much I was in love with him, I wasn't about to let him flirt me over to his apartment that was already being taken over. "Well, here I am." I tried my best to hide my emotions with my excellent poker face. "I thought about what you said yesterday, and.." He stopped, "And?"

"I understand that it gets to cramped in my apartment when we're three people. So I've started to look for another apartment that is a little bigger so that we can have a guest room and.." "You really don't get it do you?" His violet orbs found my blue ones as they have done so many times. "I don't care that your apartment is small. It doesn't matter if its small when we are the only ones living there." He had one hand in his pocket, while the other hung down at his side. "We are the only ones living there, but she needs a place to stay right now and.." "Then she should go back home."

I knew that it was important to him to help his sister, but he didn't see the reason his sister was there. "She's fighting with the others and they doesn't get along so.." "Really? That's weird."

"What do you mean?" I picked up my phone from my pocket and looked down at it. "I've at least gotten five messages from all of your brother asking where she is and if she's with us. Isn't it a bit weir that they would be so worried about her if they don't get along and are fighting?" Natsume scanned the messages without giving away any expression. "They can fight and still be worried." And there it was.

"Of course. But that isn't my problem." His eyes went back up to me. "Then what is it?" I took my phone back into my pocket and looked at him determent. "She doesn't look at you as a brother. She's in love with you." He was clearly surprised, "You must have misunderstood." "Oh have I?" I stepped out and closed the door, not really giving a shit if any neighbors heard us. "Do you think its normal to try and walk into your sibling while they take a shower? Or do you perhaps think its normal to stay over at your siblings house everyday and let your stuff stay there in case they have another fight with someone?"

He looked speechless, like he hadn't noticed any off the things I mentioned. "What do you mean she has tried to walk in on me showering?" I leant on the door. "The first time she stayed over she was about to walk into you showering before I stopped her. And she sincerely thought that you wanted her to go in because you hadn't locked the door." His hand found its way into his hair, brushing it back. "Why would she think like that?" I could see this was hard for him to realize. "Because she's in love with you. And I don't blame her, but whenever you let her stay over, she believes you feel the same way."

We stood there discussing a long time. It was more like me telling him things he didn't know and things he didn't believe. "I'm sorry, but I just think its to weird." He clearly wasn't convinced, and I wasn't about to tell him all over again all the things he refuses to see. "That's up to you. But I'm not coming back to stay with you." He looked at me in disbelief. "Is that the only reason you're not coming back?" The distrust I got from him hurt more than I showed, and all I wanted to do was go back inside to take a long hot bath. "Yes. You should hurry back to your new lover, because this one is not coming with you. Goodnight." The door was my sign off the end of the conversation.

It was Saturday and I decided that I needed to talk to someone who I knew would listen to me. So here I was, waiting in a cozy café for the one person I knew would listen.

"Aline!"

And there he was. The white headed violet eyed brother. "Thanks for meeting me, Tsubaki." He took my hand and placed a gentle kiss on top of it. "My pleasure. So, what can I do for you princess?" We sat down in a silent corner to not be disturbed. "I need to talk to you about Ema." He seemed surprised. "Ema? Has she been with you?" I knew all the brothers were worried about her disappearing, but since I told them she was staying with natsume, they calmer down. "Well, she's been staying with Natsume, so I left." I was impressed that his eyebrows could go even further up.

"You aren't dating anymore?" I didn't know whether he was happy or just really surprised that we weren't living together. "We are, but I didn't want to stay at the apartment when Ema was there. It has been some, complications." He leaned back into his chair through the whole storytelling. "So, I think Ema is in love with Natsume." I expected to see Tsubaki react, but he simply sat there completely untouched.

"I know." Wait, what? Did he just say he knows? "You knew?" He nodded. "Yeah, I figured something was up when we talked about you living together at the dinner table and she just got up and left." I didn't know how to react. "Okay I'll just ignore the fact that you talked about us at the dinner table, but she just left?" He nodded again, "Yeah, and when she left for school the next day I may or may not have sneaked inside her bedroom and found pictures of Natsume in her drawer." Well, this is certainly not creepy at all.

We stayed in the café until late and had to be thrown out before we left. "I still can't believe she has pictures off him in her room." We walked side by side down the street and towards my apartment building. "You should have seen my face when I found them. Out of all off us, why Natsume?" I chuckled, "It would be so much easier if it was you." I elbowed him in the side. "So that you wouldn't had a problem you mean?" I agreed and continued on our way.

"Thanks again for hearing me out and creeping me out even more." He laughed, "Your very welcome." Before we could separate a voice that I only heard in my nightmare interrupted us. "Aline and Tsubaki, what are you doing here?" We turned to meet the grin on Ema's face, and beside her, the youngest triplet. "I live here, what are you doing here?" Her arms curled around Natsume's. "We were going out for dinner!" Both me and Tsubaki looked at each other with raised brows. "Shouldn't you come home Ema?" The white haired said ignoring her comment.

"I don't like it at home." He placed a hand on his hip leaning on it. "We are very worried about you. You left without saying anything." Natsume looked down at Ema, "Didn't you say you told them where you were?" She showed signs of panicking until she looked at me. "I wanted to, but my phone ran out of battery, Aline said she would call home." The eyes were back on me, "I can't remember even knowing that you were gonna stay over. But nice try sugar. If you'll excuse me, I have a dress to make." Me and Tsubaki made our goodbyes and separated while ignoring the two staring at us. "Oh and have fun at dinner." I winked at them before leaving.