A Little Twist

Fifty-Six

Waking up, Reiji hears familiar sounds coming from the kitchen. He turns his head. Five thirty. He smiles knowing it's Risa making her breakfast. He gets out and gets dressed. It seems that nuisance wasn't wrong but it's part of her life as a mother. That shouldn't be overlooked. When he gets to the kitchen, he finds her at the table with Daiki close by. 'Good morning, Risa.' 

'Good afternoon,' Risa smiles after swallowing her bite. She follows him to the crib with her eyes. 'Can you hear if Moriko took her pill?' 

'With quite some curse words and complaining, yes.' Despite the topic, he smiles seeing Daiki awake. 'Does he wake you up much during the night? I don't hear him cry much anymore.' 

She shakes her head. 'There s about two and a half hours or three hours in between.' That and Shu doesn't leave my room anymore and helps where he can. She doesn't voice her thoughts. She cleans up and makes breakfast for Moriko. 'Has it been about thirty minutes or not?' She looked it up after hearing about the girl's medical condition. 

'Almost, yes. Why?' He turns around and sees her making breakfast. 

'She needs to eat. It's bad enough that she's diabetic, but she can't forsake her health by not eating. She would make it worse by skipping a meal.' With everything on a tray, she goes upstairs. 

Reiji follows her and opens the door with the key. 

Risa is inside the room when a pillow hits her and the tray drops to the ground. 

'I don't need that poisoned food from you.' Moriko throws another pillow and turns in bed to avoid looking at her. You got me locked up and sick. Now, you're trying to get rid of me by poisoning food! I think not! 

Reiji caught Risa so she won't fall over and sees her shirt wet. Along with a sharp inhale. The tea spilled on her shirt. 

Risa corrects her balance and feels a little sting in her eye. Great, she hit me in my eye with the second pillow while the first one hit the tray out of my hands and knocking the tea over my shirt. That might turn into a burn mark. 'What makes you think I poisoned the food?' She doesn't have to turn around to know that all men are behind her. 

'You don't want me here.' Moriko pulls the covers over her head. 

Risa noticed that the room is messy. This messy before you make me drop the food. Reiji will be furious. 'Wrong, you have health issues, and I'm aware you took your pill. That was your breakfast and you make me drop the entire tray. Tell me, Moriko, you came home last night after school. Just how did you manage to make the entire room one big mess?' The clothes are all over the floor with a path going from the bed to the bathroom. 

'No, you poisoned it to get rid of me.' 

'I'm not the type who would go through such trouble as to poison someone. I don't even know what could be used for poisoning. And get out of bed.' Risa picks up the broken glass pieces. 

Moriko shakes no. 'With anything you can find.' She refuses to look at the woman. 

Risa is fed up with her attitude and pulls the covers off of her. 'Out of bed, now! You're not sick so you go to school.' She doesn't regret it even seeing the short negligee. 

Moriko wants to grab the covers when she sees the others. Oh no, Laito! 

'My, my, you actually have something tasteful in your wardrobe. On the other hand, you stole that one from me.' Laito recognizes it. 

'Don't worry about Laito. Look right behind me. I don't have to turn around to know that Reiji is furious at you...' 

'Yeah, sure, make it sound like it's me when you caused this mess.' Moriko interrupts her. Only the next second, her cheek burns. As a sign that Risa slapped her.