4 Leaf Clover - ᴹˣᴹˣᴹˣᴹ

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After gardening for hours, Clover was nearly head to toe swathed in some filth. He had a shower, using Finley's unused creams to soothe his face and remove excess dirt. He was wrapped in some old fluffy pyjamas which Elio stated used to belong to Yuki before Yuki began working out. They were slightly baggy on Clover's shoulders, so his collarbones were revealed and catching the chilly wind. The matching pants were dragging on the floor after his heels.

He went downstairs at the call of his name, Elio and Yuki, after showering themselves, were cooking together to make a homemade pizza. Since Clover never had the satisfaction of tasting pizza due to his strict diet at home, Elio wanted to make him something extraordinary. He had put a few distinguishable toppings on, one-quarter of the slices were topped with pepperoni. Another quarter was topped with small spicy sausage, another with onions and little pineapple pieces and the last quarter was simple cheese.

Elio's favourite flavour was the sausage, Yuki's was the uncomplicated cheese and Finley was always the oddball who liked onions and pineapple together. Clover noticed the steam before he saw the pizza, somehow he didn't anticipate seeing the circle pizza which took up a good portion of the island.

"Wow, you made this Elio?" Clover asked for confirmation, he thought that Elio was like a 5-star Michelin chef.

"Yeah, I needed Yuki's help though," Elio announced, "This is the biggest pizza I've ever made,"

"What's on it?" Clover asked, looking at the arrangement of colours all over the food.

"So," Elio began and Finley rolled his eyes, ripping one of his pineapple slices off, "Hey!"

"Oh come on!" Finley whined, "I'm starving babe,"

Elio huffed and turned back to Clover, "So there's pepperoni, spicy sausage, pineapple and onions and then cheese,"

"Elio wants you to try all the flavours so he can make your favourite in the future," Finley mumbled, his mouth full of pizza.

Clover seemed to disregard the future part because he understood it was a statement that Finley didn't really ponder about. Clover didn't have a future here, in fact, he was going to ask Elio to examine places he could go tomorrow and then be on his way. He had restricted time here, and while these have been some of the most pleasing days of his life, he understood he had to leave them behind.

Clover gathered up the cheese portion first, he placed the end of the slice in his mouth since it was sliced into triangles and took a bite. He liked it - he loved it. It was so flavourful but he understood why his parents wouldn't let him consume something like this. He could taste the fattiness of it but it was delectable so who cares. He ate a few more bitefuls and the other three monitoring him discovered he really enjoyed pizza. Yuki grinned, his normal cheese slices were the best.

Clover tried the other flavours, his favoured being the pepperoni. Elio beamed, his enormous pizza was satisfactory for everyone. His outstanding cutting techniques let everyone in the house have at least 3 large slices of pizza. They enjoyed it together, every topic of conversation coming up.

"So, you don't drive?" Yuki asked Clover who shook his head.

"No," Clover said, "My family believes that we turn of age at 20, instead of 18 so on top of all the religious restrictions, all the adulting things are restricted too,"

"Adulting things?" Finley questions.

"Yeah so like driving, reading certain types of things, watching certain types of things, going to certain places, eating certain types of food, meeting people,"