Well, This Bloody Sucks

Manners, Hickeys & Baths

Can someone, on this big ball that we call earth, explain to me why the hell these boys have a need to drink my blood if they can eat normal food perfectly well without throwing up?
No?
Anyone?
Ok.

I tuck into the food anyway, not wanting to become anaemic, with golden knives and forks. I realise for the second time that these so-called brothers don't make any attempt to communicate with each other.
I wonder why?

"Glad to see that you're eating your fill, Little Bitch." My right eyebrow twitches at the annoying sound of Laito's voice. "You won't become anaemic anytime soon but..." His mouth grazes my ear. "I'd be more than happy to feed you myself."

I'm about to use my knife to stab his hand when Reiji's voice rings out.

"Laito, it's impolite to stand at the dinner table whist the rest of us are eating. Please refrain from doing so."

"Yes sir." Laito says in an almost mocking tone. "But our conversation isn't over, Little Bitch." I pay him no attention as he saunters back to his seat.

I look up once more at the sound of a chair scraping the floor as Shu stands up.

"I can't be bothered with this anymore." He says tiredly as he leaves the table.

You and I both mate, but my life is at stake here. I have no damn choice.

"I've had enough of that deadbeat. As a child he had everything handed to him on a silver platter. This is what happens when children are spoiled." Reiji says whist silently seething.
Lots of brotherly love over here.

"Teddy, what do you want to have next?" I hear Kanato's voice ringing over silence. "Let's have a banana snowball, shall we?" He stabs his snowball. Then he stabs it again. And again. And again until they're all just a bunch of uneatable crumbs. Yep, he definitely has a problem. I think as he laughs manically at the feat.

"He can't even make the effort to attend our monthly dinner party. He won't grace us with his presence." Reiji continues, seemingly unaware that Kanato is basically turning all demented again.

"That will be all for today." He finally says and everyone, including me, starts to leave.

"Wait just a moment."

Why God Whyyy?

"Your table manners are deplorable, do you know that?"
I do now.
"One of these days I'll have to take you away and discipline you thoroughly. Have I made myself clear?" He asks me with his signature piercing stare.

I throw my napkin down and walk calmly to the door. I've had enough of his constant bull with my manners and such and he can discipline me till I drop down dead for all I care but it won't change me.

I walk out of the room without looking back.

"Crystal."

.o0o.

I flick through the yellow pages of the aged diary for the fifth time today to find no difference. It's still blank and still useless.

Why do I keep doing this? It's not like they'll magically reappear and give me answers. I stare at the photograph inside. But I have to find out why. Why he sent me to live here.

Shoving the book back in my bedside cabinet I hear a voice ring out through the silence.

"What are you doing?" I whirl around to find Ayato sitting comfortably on the chair next to my desk.

"I could ask the same to you. What gives you the right to poof into my room? There's this really cool thing; it's called knocking!"

"I can go where I want, when I want. You can't stop me." He answers smugly. "And right now I want to suck your blood."

"Ayato, we just had dinner and anyway, I was just about to have a bath." I bluff realistically hoping he wasn't so much of a perv that he would come in with me.

I storm past him only to be caught by the wrist and forced to turn to him.

"Let. Go." I stare up at him cursing my meagre height compared to his.

"I will, as soon as I finish."

Before I retaliate he holds me by the small of my back and pushes down the collar of my sweater, before sucking on the exposed skin.

I bite down on my lip, holding in gasps of pain. Not hard enough to draw blood but hard enough to stop my mouth from opening.

Then this dude decides to bite down on me. Again!

Woozy, feeling faint, room starting to spin.

Just I feel like I'm going to pass out again Ayato stops.

"Better stop here for now." He says as he draws away from my neck "Wouldn't like to have you fainting in your bath now would we?" I stare at him in disgust.

"But remember," He leans down next to my left ear. "Don't keep me waiting too long, or you'll know what'll happen."

He vanishes from my sight but he doesn't vanish from my mind.

.o0o.

I pull down the collar and find two red hickeys under my collarbone.

"Bloody bastard from hell." I mutter to myself thankful that my school uniform can hide them.

Just as I'm about to strip, I hear a splash.

"WOAH!" I find Shu laying in the bath fully clothed; still wearing his headphones! He must legit give no effs anymore!

"What the hell?" I readjust my clothing and head over to the edge of the bath.

"Could you keep it down? Why must you be so noisy all of the time?" He sighs. "As you can see, I'm trying to enjoy my bath."

"I don't bloody care! You're fully clothed and immortal or not you can get hurt from electrocuting yourself!" I voice my concern.

"Well, undress me." He says with his eyes still closed.

"WHAT?!" I shriek.

"Just admit that you came here to see me naked." He says shamelessly.

"WHAT?!" I shriek even higher. "Honestly, I try to take a bath and I end up being harassed. How the hell does that work out?"

He reveals his sapphire blue eyes as he chuckles lightly. "So, would you like to join me?"

"...Are you actually being serious?"

"Would you look at that? If I didn't know any better, I would say you're blushing." He teases.

"Yes. I'm totally burning my face off." I say sarcastically. Truth be told I was burning up but do you really think that I'll admit that?

"By the way, I want to know something." I start not waiting for a response. "The six of you are brothers. But you act as if you're total strangers. Why is that?"

"It's because we have three different mothers." He answers.

I bink. "Oh." Stupid thing to say, I know, but I guess I'm just stupid then aren't I?

"Reiji and I have the same mother; Ayato, Laito and Kanato have another mother, and then Subaru has another mother."

I was about to comment on how much of a man whore their father was when Shu suddenly starts slipping under the surface.

"Oh my-!" I grab hold of his hand on instinct and he holds mine with an iron grip. "Shu? Shu wake up dammit!" I grit my teeth as I try to withstand the pain of his hand.

He opens his eyes and gives me a look that I can't understand.

Then he pulls me into the bathtub with a splash.