Something Unexpected

Chapter Two

Five kept his head down as he ate his dinner, even though he could feel Allison burn holes in the side of his head. He takes a chance and glances up at Allison and finds her staring at him, with a smirk on his face.

She steadily takes a sip of her water before looking around at the table. "You'll never guess what happened today when me and Five went to go pick up Claire from school."

Fivesighs heavily before throwing his fork down on his plate. "Damnit."

"What happened?" Vanya softly asks.

Five sends Allison a glare, which she ignores. "Five acted like a teenager."

"How do you mean?" Diego asks. He glances up at Five. "You pull a 'Klaus' and rob a liquor store?"

Five scoffs and rolls his eyes. "No, you idiot."

"So, what did he do?" Luther joins the conversation.

"He flirted with a very pretty Librarian."

Klaus wiggles his eyebrows. "How pretty?"

"It wasn't like that." Five tries to protest.

"Oh, please." Allison exclaims. "You were totally not acting like your regular self."

Fiveleans against his elbows and rubs his forehead as he begins to feel aheadache coming on. He feels a tap on his shoulder. He looks up and finds Klaus staring at him with a gleeful smile on his face.

"Well?" Klaus asks. "How pretty was she?"

Five sighs before shrugging his shoulders, trying to act nonchalant. "Very pretty, I guess."

Klaus stays silent and just keeps staring at him.

Finally, Five gets fed up with Klaus' staring and decides to answer his brother honestly, which just might kill him. Five waves his hands up. "Alright!" Five turns to his brother. "Fine. She was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen! And she made me act all stupid."

Five glares at his brother. "Happy now?"

Klaus just grins at Five. "Very."

"You think you'll see her again?" Vanya asks.

Five fiddles with his fork and shrugs his shoulders again. "Don't know."

"But you want to." Diego states.

Five groans and drops his head in his hands. "I'm so confused."

"Why do you feel confused?" Vanya asks him. She seemed to be the voice of reason and asking all the questions Five really didn't want to answer, but he was keeping the promise he had made to himself when they saved the world: to be more open with his feelings and thoughts with his siblings. Even if he hated it like pulling teeth.