Laughter is Born From Madness

Chapter 34

The carriage was completely silent. Silence now borderline awkward between the two teenagers as they waited for the butler to return.

"How have you been?" Red asked, trying to start a conversation.

"Fine. You?"

"Fine, except when uncle Adrian found out about Soma's...proposal. Has he and Agni gone back to India?"

"No, both he and his servant decided to stay here, I hired them to watch over my townhouse."

"That's very kind of you."

More silence passed by until the younger teenager spoke up.

"If you were ready for marriage, and you knew Soma well, would you have accepted his proposal?"

Red's eyes widened by the question as she began to think about it. Finally, she responded with, 

"No."

"No?"

"It wouldn't have felt right. Soma is a wonderful person, don't get me wrong. But I don't feel any...sparks, as others would call it."

"Oh, I see- Ah-choo!!" the young earl looked around, seeing if there were any cats nearby. Red laughing at him.

"What the hell!? There aren't any cats around!" She exclaimed between laughs.

Shortly after her laugh fest, the carriage lurched forward, causing the earl to fall on top of the female. Both teenagers blushed a bright red as they looked at one another.

"Um...Ciel..."

"Yes?"

"You're crushing my leg..."

"I'm sorry!"

The boy then shot straight up and moved to the opposite seat across from the girl as she sat up.

"My guess is that Sebastian is driving this carriage..." the red head muttered.

The two sat in silence, waiting to reach their destination. The awkwardness returning. Much later, the trio arrived at the townhouse, where Sebastian knew he f-

"What!? Why did things turn out that way?" Ciel asked as Sebastian took his coat.

"Why you ask?" Sebastian questioned. "So like I said-"

"Ciel!" Soma shouted in joy when he heard the bickering duo, then he noticed Red and ran up and hugged her. "You were late! Are you done for the day!? It's wonderful you brought Red over!"