Something Sweet

Ch. 18: The Twin's Little World, Plus One

Hikaru still hadn't said anything, or rather a full coherent sentence, but he kept saying 'I' and blushing.

I decide to see what's wrong and walk up to him. "Are you okay?" I ask feeling the heat of his cheek with the back of my hand. I noticed our hight difference, how I was seemingly shorter than him.

"I-I'm not sick. Uh, I... Get dressed!" He suddenly orders, startling me so I pull my hand away.

"What? What's going-"

"Get dressed and bring a bag of stuff because your gonna sleep over and we'll... We'll uh, skip school and spend the day together... Because you're injured!" He suddenly says.

"W-what? Hikaru you don't need to do that. It's just a bruise, this is too much. I don't need to be-"

"You have to spend the night so I can know if you like me!" He shouts, pushing me to my room but my eyes widen at his words. "If you like me to make you dinner!" He suddenly adds, erasing the last comment from what context I was thinking of.

"O-okay! Stop pushing!" I plead but he forces me in my room.

"Promise to spend the night and tomorrow with me?" He asks looking in my eyes intensely.

"Okay, Hikaru. I promise." I say softly making him smile widely and brightly. He looked so...

I quickly turn away and grab a bag to put clothes in. He watched as I packed everything and was smiling with excitement as he took my hand. "Come on, let's hurry up." He says pulling me along to match his fast pace.

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His house was amazing and big. It was almost nostalgic to my old home. "Your home is beautiful." I compliment and he flashes me a grin.

"Hikaru, you took forever! In in the game room!" I hear Karou call. We grin at each other and he makes a gesture to be quiet.

We walk into their large game room filled with both video and board games. Karou was watching a show he started at my house and now he looks engrossed.

Hikaru takes my hands and has them cover Karou's eyes. Karou immediately pauses the show. "Hikaru... I'm watching the show, I don't want to..." He trails off as he pushes my hands from his eyes. He sees Hikaru standing in front of him and when he looks behind him, I'm not there.

He looks around rapidly and discovers me sitting on the couch a few feet away from him. "Ah!" He yells, scrambling backwards. "Wait... What's Yuuto-senpai doing here?" He asks suspiciously.

"Hikaru made me promise to stay over since I was hurt. I don't think the fuss is needed." I explain calmly and Karou looks to Hikaru curiously until he smirks deviously.

"Okay, then let's play a game." Karou says and he has that signature look I always see Akira and Arata have... I'm done for.

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"I don't want to play dress up, I'm not a doll." I say stubbornly when they tried getting me to try on a few outfits from their mother's clothes line.

"But you're our guest." Karou smirks.

"We're showing our hospitality." Hikaru says putting his hands on my shoulders to walk me into the dressing room. "You should know that's an important part of hosting someone at one's house." He smiles and Karou dumps a bigger pile of clothes in my arms.

"This is a little much though..." I mumble.

"Our maids will help you dress in everything." They say and in that instant maid twins appear, an evil look in their eye.