Six Different Kinds of Love

'Ruffian'

BLAISE WILLOW
I was so exhausted I even yawned myself.
I got up and got dressed into my nightgown.
Slowly lifting my shirt above my head, I spoke.

"You not going to sleep, Cara?"

I asked sitting on the bed beside her.
Her face was the same as it always was but she looked like she was heating up. Had she caught a fever?

"Are you ok? You seem troubled. Can I help you with something?"

She turned away from me and faced the wall.

"Y-you should hurry up a-and get changed already!"

She had a point.
I might catch a fever myself.

"Very well."

I put on my pajamas and lay down on the bed.

"So is something the matter then?"

She turned around and looked at me.

"Sort...of."

I yawned again.

"Sorry I'm just really tired. Go on."

She turned to face the wall again.

"I actually have a question."

I've never seen Cara so talkative like this before.

"Do you...like...Akimato?"

I instantly sat up in shock.
I straightened my back and coughed.

"Ahem-what on earth would give you the right mind to suggest that?! Why would I like such a..."

She looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

"Why would you like such a....?"

I coughed again.

What an indecent situation.

"...Such a...Ruffian!"

I lay back down again, trying not to show the uncertainty on my face.

"I don't know. I guess maybe because you're such a decent and good person..."

She leaned closer to me and started to whisper.

"....And Akimato isn't. People usually get along when they're opposites you know."

Her tone lowered.
She spoke slow.

"Wh-get along in what way exactly?"

My voice sounded far too flustered in that sentence.
It was embarrassing.

"As in..."

She shifted even closer to me.
I had been so busy worrying about her finding out about my secret that I didn't realise our noses touch.

"Uh-Cara...are you positive you are okay? You seem...really off..."

I looked into her navy eyes.
They were quite delicate.
They shined in the small light that we had in the room.
Then she pulled away and got up off the bed.

"No. Nevermind. I suppose some things are just aren't meant to be."

And with that, she closed my door gently and left the room.
I felt like she she was not telling me the real reasoning for her peculiar behaviour.
But I left it.
And went to sleep.

AKIMATO TENEBRIS
Surprisingly, I was able to sleep just fine.
No getting up in the middle of the night and travelling far away into a random dark woods in the middle of nowhere.
I slept.
Dreamt.
And woke up like a normal person. Thank god.
The mood I woke up in was too happy it was strange.

"...Crap did I sleep in though..? I wanted to make the girls breakfast..."

My alarm clock said 11:47. It's closer to lunch.
Well that's a shame.
I went downstairs, thanking god that I didn't wake up to hear anyone screaming.
I saw a few of the girls lazing around the house.
It just felt so natural now.
It was almost as if they lived here.
I mean, although my water bill went up durastically and I had to buy enough meals for 7 people a day, I didn't mind it.
I loved having company.
I only just realised it.
Before these girls came into my life, I lived alone thinking that all people were horrible.

But I couldn't have been more wrong.