A Gift From a Far Away World (A Seven Knights Fan Fiction)

Round 8: Lit a Fire in your Heart 1

A few days after the incident in Four Lords' Residence...

"You know, I believed wholeheartedly in Rudy's ability to calm Kris down no matter how challenging the circumstance or he might be... before, but looking at our miserable situation for several days now... I start to think that it's a blind faith without knowing all the cards..." Dellons looked at his soggy, very salty, salad breakfast mournfully.

The others, sans Rudy and Kris who were suspiciously missing from breakfast table, gave him unified withering glare. They also looked at their sorry for an excuse of breakfast while sighing in defeat. Kris had been in charge of breakfast this morning, two days ago and dinner five days ago. For those times Kris cooked, somehow... the food turned out especially bad that even Spike was grimacing when he ate, and he was the guy with the most steely taste bud in the house.

Dellons sulked as he nudged at the blob of unidentified homemade something (which looked like normal mayonnaise but tasted like hell incarnation) on top of his salad, grumbling inwardly that alright, he kind of been guilty for spying on Kris when he already made perfectly clear that he wanted to meet those Four Lords privately, but seriously! It wasn't an excuse for Kris to waste perfectly good ingredients and his amazing cooking skill just to punish them!

"Is Rudy still at it?" Jave asked, sounding a little desperate. He refused to touch his breakfast as soon as he noticed Spike wince again when he had a bite of his own.

"I believed he bought a bouquet of red roses yesterday and Kris had subtly yelled at him that he wasn't a woman or something before he slammed the door on his face," Eileen informed.

This time Dellons cringed. He had suggested that route.

So, plain apology didn't work. A thoughtless promise earned Rudy a silent glare and flowers got him a door to his face. Rudy also had tried some other presents like chocolates, in many flavors and shapes, which Kris didn't eat even though he was silently fond of sweet things; teddy bear plush that he threw back at Rudy's face (that had been Eileen and Rachel's idea) and a bunch of favor and service cards that Kris didn't even touch or even care to use. Kris seemed to be adamant to make their life difficult no matter how much Rudy and the others (except Dellons) were sorry for how they had behaved.

It had been a week, and Kris was still angry with them. The others, sans Dellons who had been stupid enough to bother Kris, which instantly earned him a punch to the face, already tried to apologize again from appropriate distance and yet were being glared at heatedly. They wisely steered clear of his warpath after that. However, Rudy didn't give up just because his apology was turned down once and had kept trying since Kris refused to go back to the van and opted to ride a bus to go home that fateful day.

Dellons was honestly surprised when Rudy came back to them empty-handed.

"What's Rudy's plan for today apology?" the apostrophe in 'apology' was clear enough in Rachel's tone even without making the gesture with her fingers.

"I think Rudy purchased something online last night in our communal computer in the living room," Spike put down his spoon just after he finished the last bite of the very disgusting sustenance and took a tissue to clean the remnant of food on his mouth. Jave looked at him with shining eyes in amazement and wonder, while the others looked kind of sick to their stomach. Even Dellons didn't dare to put his own salad in his mouth. Spike indeed had a steel of a gut. Or his taste bud was worse than as tasteless as he claimed to be, but Dellons didn't care about that in the slightest. He was more interested in what had just been said.

"He bought something again? I thought he had to keep some of his money to send back at his old orphanage," Dellons raised his eyebrows at that.

"Oh, you didn't know? Rudy has been taking more students to tutor this week just to fund his apologizing operation," Rachel answered, raising her eyebrows as well.