Soul Mark (breddy fanfic)

Sister Indeed

Brett wake up first the next morning, despite his lack of sleep, dark circles under his eyes contrasting his pale complexion.

Brett willed himself up, take a shower, and get dressed before wake Eddy up.

After lots of coaxing and trickery from the older, the two young lads finally ready to present themself in the living room. They wear matching red checkered button up for this semi formal occasion, with them being the representative of the bride-to-be's family.

The house was already pristine under the watch of Eddy's mum hawk eye, she had made sure everything was ready.

As the two young men are already present, Eddy's mum thought that might as well as made the minions of the day useful and directed them to arrange the offerings and food on the chantry table. They proceed to arrange the table with assorted delicacies and offerings, and complete it with some lit red incense before the photos of their ancestors.

By Brett's observation, they'd try their best to have some traditional chinese engagement.

The engagement usually consisted of some courtesies like praying for good fortune, looking for auspicious date for the wedding, and et cetera. Brett knows the drill, been attending some in the past (which always ended up with Brett being teased by his nosey aunties and relatives, asking him about his soulmate's whereabout and when...iykwim.)

However, this wouldn't be the case in Belle's engagement, due to her fiancee being a purebred Englishman and her... predicament.

So, instead of a pack of relatives, she chose to included only his nuclear family, plus Brett, and they'll leave the more complicated and traditional aspect and everything else under Mrs. Chen wings (She demanded at least some engagement party or something to her daughter's announcement of their marriage... but Belle could be pretty headstrong from time to time,.. so there you have it, either this or none. No nosey relatives.)

Her mum was absolutely livid, but she relented in the end.

"Paul was not used to this kind of...er.. tradition, i mean chinese engagement party and the likes. His family were eager to come and join us but unfortunately, they're too far and expensive for him and my sis to afford, gotta save it for the wedding, y'know. So they wanna keep it as simple and as less formal as possible, also, she doesn't want too many people for today, so it'll be just us" Eddy explains to Brett.

Remind him why Brett is here again? right, Belle invited him. Probably noticed that with her absence, Eddy's mum needed more minion to help her for preparing this engagement brunch.

At 9 oclock sharp, Belle and her fiancee-to-be arrived at Chen's house. They flew from London to Brisbane for 42 hours nonstop since three days ago, and had just arrived the night before.

Belle actually offered to help their family with the preparation for the day, but the idea was quickly brushed off by Paul and Eddy.

Logistic asides, Belle's now once again stepped her feet inside their lovely childhood home.

"Eddy! Brett! My God i swear you're getting taller every time i'm home! can't say the same for Brett though" Belle tease the two young men gingerly as she pulled them both in a smothering bear hug. Brett cackled nervously at the gesture.

"nuuh sis! he's perfectly cute that way! leave him be!" said Eddy to the rescue. Chen siblings guffaws as Brett's deadpan to their remarks.

A young man makes a polite cough, demanding their attention.

Before Eddy and Brett could say anything, Eddy's mum made her way to the said young man and welcome him in a friendly manner. He must be Paul, thought Brett.

Paul is a tall and skinny, causcassian guy, his dark brown hair matched his striking blue eyes, and there's some soft aura surrounding this man that made Brett sure that he's a musician.

They made their way to the dining room and fall naturally into semi formal talks, discussing the details of the wedding, where would it be held, all the nifty details,

Somewhere along the way it just melted and fall into their usual friendly chit-chats.

Eddy marveled at the sight of Brett casually juggled the topics between his mum and Paul about their study and his musicianship, their similiar interest in orchestral works made the conversations flows easily. Eddy hid his appreciative smile behind his ball of sleeve-paw.

But of course, his obvious expression didn't go unnoticed by his sister. Belle jabbed Eddy's side under the table, making Eddy jumped in reflex, knocked down his bowl of congee in the process, painting his red button up in a white gooey substance. The older Chen has the audacity to laugh out loud at the younger's distress.

Eddy sequealed "Sis!"

"you're such a klutz!" Belle said cheekily while grabbed a napkin and wiped off the table.

"nuuh! you jabbed me!" said him in retorts before wiped some of the congee to Belle's nice dress, earning a yelp in returns.

Brett and Paul exchanged some apologetic look at the sight of the two young adults bickering and teasing each other silly on their supposedly important family brunch.
Brett and Paul can't help but chuckled under their breath as they helped their respective companion clean up the mess.

Mrs. Chen Reprimands their children and ordered them to get change and wash themself upstair.

the Chen siblings banter their way up and change their clothes. Their mum shakes her head at her children's antics, possibly wondering how she had raised not one, but two grown up toddler under her care.

Eddy decides to rinse his shirt first before change them, he made his way to the bathroom and sprinkled some water on the stain, and then gently scrubbed it off, hopefully reducing the damage.

While Eddy's at it, his sister already finished changing.

"Bro, i'm done, you okay there?"

"yeah, changing in a minute" Eddy ran to his room and snatched the first shirt he could find in his cabinet. He quickly button up his shirt while walking out if his room, but Belle stopped him on their way

"Eddy, your buttons all wrong, hurry fix that before mum notice"

Eddy grunted but do as she says anyway.

"Oh my!" Belle gasps "care to explain why you got some not-so-violin-hickey there, and correct me if i'm wrong, but i think Brett got some on his neck too.

Eddy takes a step back, but quickly regain his footing "You're imagining things, it is violin hickey"

"it's on your right collar bone"

"...oh" Eddy cleared up his throat.

"anyway, Brett wear his shirt all the way up today, you're just testing the water" Eddy said in a sing-song voice.

"are you telling me that there's some lovebites underneath his shirt then?" Belle snickered triumphantly "i'm just trying my luck when i mentioned Brett, but it seems like my guess is correct right?" Belle laughed her head off when Eddy flustered properly.

"nah shut up, not gonna tell, you meanie" Eddy stick out his tongue.

"ha! as if i need that to know" Belle put on a smug grin "i'm your sister afterall"