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Akito and Toya are horrible pining idiots Ena decides. She can hear them flirting through the walls whenever Akito brings his partner over to “study”. Today was no exception.
Ena was awake and she had a stroke of inspiration and began to paint. It was around 5 in the afternoon, the sun was warming up the room such that it was pleasant rather than uncomfortable. She sighed in bliss and painted another flower onto the canvas. It was coming together nicely, pale pink carnations surrounding brown branches washed out in a rainbow of colours.
She was about to squeeze some more paint onto her palette when the front door slammed open and she heard the telltale grating voice of her little brother. The poor green paint went everywhere when Ena clenched her fist too hard in shock. Her eye twitched in annoyance.
She stood up and ignored the green paint on her hand and opened her room’s door. She stomped angrily towards Akito’s room, huffing angrily. She threw his door open so fiercely that it made the door rattle.
“Akito Shinonome! What did I say about slamming doors! Look what you did! Now there's green paint all over my hand and me! You better get me that limited edition cheesecake from XXX bakery!” Is what she would have said if she didn't see the absolute most fruitiest most zestiest thing ever. Perhaps even more so than Mizuki’s friend.
She stood there and resisted the urge to puke at the display in front of her. Aoyagi and her brother were studying at the table. Aoyagi was leaning over Akito and was attempting to correct his mistakes. Akito had frozen up and had a massive blush on his face. Aoyagi had a faint blush on his face as he pointed out what Akito had gotten wrong.
Ena’s eye was twitching even harder now. She stood at the door frame, hands on her hips and she watched the two of them stare so lovingly into each other's eyes. Not even the sound of the door opening snapped them out of their world.
Deciding that she wanted to test the properties of bleach and the human body she shut the door with haste and rushed back to her room. Green paint staining her dress be damned.
“Toya you're the best partner I could ever wish for…” Ena was sure she was about to burst a blood vessel at this rate. Somehow when Akito had reluctantly asked her to head to dinner with him at a restaurant she had assumed it was just the two of them. She should have known better, really.
Aoyagi and her sad excuse of a functional human being of a brother were flirting with each other. The two of them sat on the opposite end of the booth and they were lightly shoving each other and GIGGLING.
Oh Miku. They were so gay. Oh her lord and saviour Hatsune Miku they were so lost in their little bubble it was like she didn't exist. She refrained from scowling as she didn't want to have any frown lines nor did she want Aoyagi to feel bad. Akito however was giving her an aneurysm. She contemplated making an award for being the most densest human being to ever exist.
Their faces were so close they were almost touching. Ena was sure all colour had drained from her face and blank look akin to Mafuyu’s had appeared in her eyes.
“Hello! Welcome to XXX! Where every meal is a delight! What would you like to have today!” Ena has never been more happy to hear the lifeless voice of a F&B worker. Akito and Aoyagi had torn themselves apart and began to order as if they weren't about to suck face in the middle of a crowded restaurant.
Ena sighed. She was so telling Mizuki.
Ena logged into Nightcord, the bright screen blinding her before her eyes adjusted to the comforting brightness. She smiled softly at the many cat memes Mizuki had sent her that day. There was still half an hour to 25 o’clock so she proceeded to scroll through her social medias to pass the time.
Through the wall she heard faint shuffling and a muffled swear. She heard Akito’s door open and him rush into the bathroom. She figured he must have been urgent to go to the bathroom.
There was a small commotion outside but she ignored it in favour of a nice comment left on one of her selfies. She heard Akito leave the bathroom and she assumed he would go back to sleep in his room. However the footsteps stopped in front of her door.
She didn't hear them move for a while. Ena glanced up at the clock. 15 minutes to 1am. She frowned. Why hasn't Akito gone back to sleep yet? As she was about to open the door and demand him to go back to sleep, there was a soft knock on the door. If Ena wasn't aware Akito was outside her room she wouldn't have heard it.
“Come in!” She yelled. If Akito was merely disturbing her he was going to be smacked into tomorrow. Ena’s door opened slowly and she saw her little brother's ginger head pop through the door. She narrowed her eyes at him as she watched him shuffle into her room.
He stood there at the doorway facing her, fidgeting with his hands as an indescribable emotion flickered across his face. Ena tapped her fingers on her desk, silently urging him to hurry up. Akito looked particularly bashful for some reason, not daring to look Ena in the eyes.
“What is it? Hurry up I've not got all day.” Ena snapped. Akito’s fidgeting stopped and he took a deep breath. He slowly made eye contact with Ena.
“D-do you have any pads?” Ena’s eyebrows were probably merging with her hairline. Well that explains much.
“That's it? Well here.” She got up and tossed an unopened packet from her closet to him.
“Now don't bother me. Scram.” Akito took the pads from her and rushed out. Ena seethed. Couldn't that blundering idiot at least close the door? Ena shut the door and as she was about to join the Nightcord call she might have imagined it but she thought she heard a small thank you being whispered from outside.
“Enanan~ How's my favourite illustrator doing~” “Go away Mizuki” It was one of the few times she was awake before 4pm and Mizuki had taken advantage of that. They had dragged Ena into a shopping spree. Ena had only agreed due to promises of limited edition cheesecake- being a nice person.
Ena felt dead on her feet but she was unable to sleep anyways. Besides, she wasn't doing much in her room anyways. She was so goddamn tired and didn't have the energy to even look at the cute accessories on sale.
Mizuki had dragged her into what felt like the bajillionth clothing store when she saw a flash of orange hair. That shade of ginger felt entirely too familiar. She blamed it on exhaustion. Her entire body was begging for the sweet sweet mattress in her room. Ah the texture, the bounciness, the comfort-”Hey Miss we are having some discounts so would you like this two for one deal? Buy three, fourth cloth 20% off.”
She was snapped out of her wonderful daydream by a goddamn gay ginger. Mizuki could probably feel the blood lust radiating off her as they took a step away from her. Ena turned around slowly to face her little brother who was just realizing who he had just spoken to.
“No. Thank. You.” Mizuki was sweating buckets now as they were frantically looking back and forth from each Shinonome sibling. Ena glared at the leprechaun look alike that interrupted her marvelous fantasy.
“Ahahah! Lil Bro uh I just remembered we booked a nail appointment together uh toodaloo!” Mizuki whisked herself and Ena out of the shop. Ena was still fuming as Mizuki bought cheesecake for her while mumbling apologies.
“I swear I didn't know Lil Bro worked there!”
“Enanan pleaseeee forgive meeee!”
“Enaaaa!”
“Light of my life, apple of my eye, please!”
Suffice to say Mizuki got ignored for the whole evening.
Akito was back with Aoyagi.
AKITO WAS BACK WITH AOYAGI.
It wouldn't have been so bad if they were simply in the ginger's room. But no, they had to go one step further and keep up their gay mating ritual in front of Ena’s cup noodles. She stared resignedly at the cup noodles. They were her favourite spicy ones too. Such a waste because if they don't stop being gay she was going to shove them up Akito’s ass. Aoyagi got a free pass.
“Oh my god can you just kiss already??” The words tumbled out of her mouth before she could even think. Perhaps it was the aftereffects of bleach consumption, annoyance, irritation and exhaustion that led to the words being said. Anyway the look on their faces was worth it. Aoyagi had a faint blush on his cheek as he looked at Akito's lips- nevermind too gay.
Akito however looked like he was about to combust and implode at the same time. His face was so red it was probably precisely hex code #FF0000. He was also foaming at the mouth. …Whoops. Anyway Ena stared at them blankly, making vague kissing motions with her hands.
Aoyagi, being the only one with the brain cells dragged a steaming Akito behind him, presumably to his room. Ena started tearing up and laughing out of joy. She didn't care if the noodles were cold now. Finally the suffering of the pining idiots were over.
Later when a very flustered Akito confessed to her that Aoyagi-no Touya and him were dating, well… Mizuki owes her 20 bucks now