Zodiac Story ~ The Chaos Flat

Flashback Day 3

     Aquarius' pov

I woke up with a horrible feeling down in my stomach, and a headache that burned a hole in my brain. I let out a groan, rubbed my eyes, and sat straight up.

Everything came back.

Last night had been a disaster. It became real terrible when Cap ran back into the room, screaming something about Libra who'd left off. I'd told Cancer to keep things down, and I silently left myself to try to talk to Lib. I think I've been knocking on his door and yelling to open up for about ten minutes and when I came back, I came back to a disaster. Half of the matrasses were gone – a crying Leo told me Capricorn, Gemini, Sag, Taurus and Aries had moved them over to Cap's room.

At last, Pisces, Cancer and Virgo decided to just go back to their own apartment, but when Gem caught something of that, she and Aries took off too, to "calmly be with just the three of them", as Gemini said, or, as Aries yelled after it, they were "too pissed about certain people keeping things behind for other certain people to stay". This of course earned me a lot of strange looks, but once the girls were gone, we realized what a mess it was. Virgo offered to help me clean, but I denied I needed help and he took off too. Finally, when Leo had stopped crying, she and I moved two of the matrasses back to my room and that's where we were right now.

Or actually, it was just me.

'Lee?' I asked, and I only now noticed how soft and tired I sounded when I actually said it. No response came, though, and I groaned as I pushed myself up. I let my hand rest on the doorknob for a few seconds, resting my case over the living room. How bad would it be? Well...

...it actually wasn't that bad. All of the matrasses were gone, the table was back in its place and most of the pillows were back on the couch. The only mess I could spot was on the couch; it was, without a doubt, my messy brother.

'Great, you actually cleaned a bit,' I stated, and I tried to clear my throat a bit by coughing softly. He looked up and smiled at me. 'Yeah, I thought you may have gone through enough last night, so I asked Sag and Taurus to help me a bit with trying to get the splatted zucchini-smush off the floor.'

'Oh, right,' I mumbled, as I remembered how, before the girls decided to leave, Gem made a threat true by throwing multiple zucchini's to Leo's head. Unfortunately, she was a great aimer and also partly the cause of Lee's cry.

I walked up to the couch and plopped down next to Cap, leaning against his shoulder while I let out a yawn. 'Thanks for showing you actually can be a good brother,' I muttered. 'You're welcome, sis,' he mumbled back and placed a kiss on my forehead.

'So, this turned out to be a horrible idea, hm? But I must say, the fact you weren't the one bursting out in tears, means you're finally going forward.' 'Finally?' I responded, to which Capricorn softly laughed. 'Alright, I get it. But you gotta give me this; that remark about Leo's period was amazing.'

'And my sweet, responsible brother is back to being the same jerk again,' I sighed, earning another laugh and a push from said-one and I smiled too. 'Just kidding. Why don't you make breakfast, I'll go check up on Lee real quick.' 'And you don't mind if I make pizzetthi for breakfast once?' he asked when I stood up and made my way to the hall. I tilted my head a bit, and turned around to face him. 'For one time, I don't. Go ahead.'

Cap's happy response made me smile to myself. Alright, sometimes he was a real jerk, but he remained my brother and someone related to me couldn't possibly be real bad.

But even though I just used myself to seem like the good sister, I just lied to him when I said I was going to check on Leo. Lee would be fine, after all, it was her. She survived worse than this. The one I was really worried about, was Libra.