The Funtom Company

5: The |Manor| Company

"Hello, welcome to The Manor. If you need anything feel free to ask," Ciel spoke. It was tiring saying the same thing every time a guest walked in. But, he had no other job so, what else could he do?

"I wonder if you will be able to help me," the individual walked over to Ciel's table. The smol bean was trying to sleep so he wasn't paying attention to the store or any of its customers. "You see, what I want, is you!~"

Ciel jumped up out of his chair, (and over the table) to hug the (not so strange) stranger. "Me?~ I thought you'd never ask!~~" The collision caused the two brothers to crash onto the floor. Apparently, it hadn't hurt them since they both became a giggling mess. Sebastian didn't bother to check to see if anything was broken. He was far too used to these idiots fooling around and hurting themselves to care. The twins should know by now where the first aid kit is.

"It's been so long since we have last seen each other! I had to sneak out of that wretched woman's house just to visit!" Leic, the older twin brother of Ciel, shed a single tear as he said these words. He held Ciel close and held back the (imaginary) sobs. Yes, Leic had a love for being overly dramatic. The two lived in the same place. Leic was just being an idiot, a lovable idiot. 

"Leic, we saw each other this morning... Why did you have to sneak out? Or, is this part of the imaginary script?"

"But that was this morning! Don't you know that twins need to be by each other's side at all hours of the day?! I thought you cared for me as much as I do you! My darling brother," Leic paused for dramatic effect and gasped, "Are you breaking up with me?!"

"He cannot break up with someone he was never in a relationship with, dear boy," the voice of the Sebastian, the store manager, could be heard as he walked into the room. Time to finally come and check on them. He couldn't allow this to continue without taking part in it himself. 

Leic gasped again, "You mean you've been playing me this whole time?! I thought we had something!" Leic pushed Ciel off of him and scooted a few feet away. "After all this time, you've betrayed my trust! Oh! The agony of a one-sided love! My heart, it aches, dear brother correct this wrong! Us? Never in a relationship? Oh, the pain!" Leic clutched his shirt where his heart would be and cast his gaze away from Ciel.

"That's right," Sebastian sat on the floor and hugged Ciel from behind, (forcing him onto his lap), "The truth is, we're lovers!" Poor Ciel, surrounded by family members cut from the same cloth. He blushed as Sebastian so proudly proclaimed such nonsense. These two idiots had a way of making him blush all of the time. He hated it. 

"Oh, what a nightmare!" Leic hid his face in his hands and pretended to sob. "Ah! I've got it!" he quickly lifted his head, eyes glimmering mischievously, you could almost see the light bulb go off as he said, "We'll just have a threesome!~" he giggled. K.O. The innocent smol bean, Ciel, passed out from imagining something he shouldn't. Sebastian and Leic hi-fived in satisfaction.

"I heard about the fire in the news. That's the real reason I'm here. You two aren't doing anything stupid like trying to revive father's old gang, are you?" Leic crossed his arms and stated the business. Ciel found it amazing how he could switch from playful to serious with a drop of a dime. It was very like their father. Ciel could see the resemblance. Did that mean Ciel was more like his mother? Perish the thought. 

"What gang?" Sebastian pretended to be clueless.

"You know what gang I'm talking about. The Funtom Company," Leic frowned.

"You mean the company your dad runs?" Sebastian smiled. "That isn't a gang, Leic."

"You keep wearing the leather jacket around, Ciel. And Sebastian, you wear father's old vest as if it were your own father's. Don't think I haven't noticed. You can't keep recruiting people and then killing them. You have to stop this before it gets out of hand. Do you understand?"

"I'm not doing anything of the sort," Ciel sighed. "I'm just maintaining one of dad's legacies. He can't run both companies at the same time."

"There was a reason he ended his biker business," Leic did the standard Vincent position. He stood with two fingers on the bridge of his nose. This was a sight Ciel had seen many times when Vincent spoke to Rachel. "It's dangerous, Ciel. You can't do this anymore. Father has enough things to worry about," Leic stared his twin right in the eyes. "The Funtom Company, biker edition, has to end."

"You may be my older brother, Leic, but this gang is the only thing I have. It's the only place I feel I truly belong. You can't tell me what I can and can't do."

"Don't make me bring our father into this, please, Ciel, don't make him have anything else to worry about," Leic pleaded with his brother. "I can't watch you go to jail over something this stupid!"

"It's not stupid to me!" Ciel turned on his heel and went to the backroom of the store.

"Wait, Ciel," Sebastian ran after him. Leic was left alone, to ponder the mistakes of his brother. He knew that he was set to inherit The Funtom Company when his father retired. He knew that Ciel just wanted something of his own. But a biker gang? That wasn't it. He had to know that. Somewhere deep inside, he had to know that.