“Take out your books guys. Remember, our plan is studying for a math quiz.”
I say to them, especially to Mari, whose try to keep eating the remaining pancakes.
“Ugghh… too many pancakes…” Mari says.
“Mari,” Mana says, “I’ve told you to stop ordering pancakes but why are you so stubborn?”
“Because they are really delicious, I can’t even stop eating it…”
Mari tries to take one more slice into her mouth but Mana stops her right away.
Then Mari whimpers to get just one more pancake slice.
Brugière and Léger laugh lightly from their action.
“I’m sorry to disturb you guys. Mari can be so childish if she gets too excited.” I say.
“No no no. Please don’t be sorry, Valter.” Léger said.
“Actually, it’s kinda funny to look how you guys act like this. Everyone in school always said that you guys are no fun at all. But right now, we are enjoying hanging out with all of you.” Brugière continues.
They smile softly at me.
Then after a moment, Colombain and two waitresses come to our table.
Colombain called them to clean our table so we can use it for the group study.
He is sitting right next to me.
Well… he must stay closer to me because we need to share a book together.
But somehow I can feel that he is kind of fidgeting near me.
I don’t know why though. Maybe it’s because of that thing or maybe the colour?
“Colombain, are you feeling alright?” I ask him.
“Um… yes, Valter. I’m completely fine. Why?”
Colombain jolts a little when I ask him.
He looks troubled with something.
I want to know if there is something bothering him.
Look around to find some clues but only find Brugière looking at me.
She smiles at me then tilts her head.
I’m giving a sign to her by pointing Colombain with my thumb.
She starts to type something on her phone.
Not so long, then my phone starts to buzz.
MESSAGES
Célia Brugière
You can ask him anything (≧◡≦)
Is it really alright to ask him boldly? And what kind of emoticon is that?
Take a deep breath then I pat Colombain shoulder
“Colombain, I know maybe we are not that close. But if you have something in your mind that maybe troubled you, you can tell me.”
Again, he jolts a little by my action.
He is averting his eyes from me.
“I’m fine Valter. Thank you for asking me.”
“But it looks like you have trouble?” I ask him once again.
“No, I’m fine.” Then he looked away from me.
It looks like he is avoiding me?
I look back at Brugière and she is already looking at me.
She starts to type something again.
Well… I’m not expecting that reaction ∑(゜Д゜;)
I don’t know what’s bothering him
Is it because of me?
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I don’t think it because of you Valter
Try one more push Valter! You can do it! \(^◇^)/
Alright, let’s try one more time with a little push.
Take a deep breath once again.
I try to reach his right cheek so that he can face me.
When his face finally faces me, his eyes are wide open.
“Colombain, I know there’s something bothering you. I want to get to know about you more, so please let me know if there’s something bothering you. I’m here for you too.”
There it goes again, that pink shape on his cheeks.
It’s not pink anymore.
It’s more like his face is starting to burn up right now.
And it looks like it can explode at any time.
Then he stands up immediately from his seat.
“I need to use the toilet!” His voice raises a little.
He walks to the toilet in a rush.
It’s more like he’s running from me.
I furrowed my brows because of his action.
Before I look back at Brugière, the twins already look at me with almost as wide as Colombain eyes.
“Why do you guys look at me like that? Am I doing something wrong?” I say tilting my head confused.
“No! It just! Vil, are you drunk or something?!”
This time, Mari is the one coming in surge to me.
She put her hand on my forehead like she was trying to check my body temperature.
I look at Mana for some help.
But based on her look, she’s still in shock about what happened just now.
“Mari, I’m fine. I didn’t even drink any alcohol in here. Why are you saying that?”
“It’s because you act so unusual! Look what did you do to Colombain! Is there something in this drink?!” Mari raises her voice against me.
She checks inside of my glass.
It almost freaked me out because she only raised her voice when she worried about me.
“I only want to know what is bothering him, Mari. Please calm down.”
“How can I calm down when you act like that?! Reach his cheek and get his face close to you!” Mari looks like she’s so worried about me.
I don’t understand what is wrong with that.
When I’m down too, they usually do the same with me.
So what’s wrong if I’m doing the same thing with Colombain?
“Is… there something wrong with it?” I ask her with a confused look.
“Yes, it is Vil! You can’t do that to someone that you just know! They will misunderstand it!”
She’s still raising her voice a little.
It’s not as high as before though.
But really, I still don’t get what she is talking about.
What kind of misunderstanding by my action?
I try to look around searching for some clue in Mana or maybe Brugière.
Mana looks like she doesn’t believe what just happened.
She only sits there and pinches her chin.
Brugière doesn’t give me any clue as well.
She’s looking at me with an unbelievable face.
I try to stay calm because I don’t want to make the situation worse.
“What kind of misunderstanding Mari? I don’t know anything about it.”
Finally, Mari sits back in her seat and lets out a loud sigh.
She shooks her head lightly.
“Right right… I’m sorry if I do something wrong with it. But really guys, I don’t know what’s wrong with it. I just wanted to know what’s bothering him.” I try to give my clarification.
“Vil, I know you're concerned about him but you need to know what’s the right thing to do.” Brugière tries to explain it to me.
“The twins always do something like that to me if something is bothering me. Why I’m not allowed to do the same to Colombain?” I answer.
I'm still confused why am I wrong doing something like this.
I just want to comfort him like how the twins usually do to me.
“Umm… The thing is, the twins are female and Colombain is a male. Can you get it from here?” Brugière says.
“Of course I know about that Brugière.” I answer her by tilting my head.
“Do you know that there’s a limitation for physical contact between them?” Mana is the one who asks me now.
“I’m always with you guys. It’s rare for me to talk with the male. But there’s a time that I always got approached by some guy. Almost everytime when I attend a dinner party, there must be a guy who introduced himself to me.” I explain to them.
“Have you ever seen a pair of them doing something like what you did before?” Mana asks me once again.
“Yes, I have. I saw my brother doing that to his ex when she’s down.”
“Exactly!” Mari's voice raises once again almost like she’s shouting.
“Mari, calm down. She’ll get the point after this.” Mana tries to calm her down.
I look at both of them still with my confused face.
“Wha…” my voice gets cut by Léger.
“Valter, can you spot the difference between you and colombain with your brother and his ex?”
Think about what he is going to say only to make my brain burn a little because I don’t get any clue what is the difference between us.
What’s the difference? We are one of the pairs. What’s wrong with that?
“Umm… no?”
“They are a couple Vil! And only a couple doing something like that!” Mari once again almost like she’s shouting to me.
I startled whenever Mana or Mari raised their voices because it’s so rare for me.
But unfortunately, my brain somehow can’t working on it
It’s just something like this never happens to me so I still don’t know what’s wrong with that.
Maybe I’ll try a little push to get other information.
“Then? What’s wrong if they are a couple? Colombain and I are also a couple right? Couple of friends?” I say nervously.
At this moment, all of them are face palming.
Mana and Mari still always so sync.
They let out a loud sigh together.
Léger starts pinching his forehead.
Brugière is the one who breaks the silent.
But it’s something I don’t want to hear.
“I don’t know this perfect queen so oblivious…”
“Well… no wonder she has zero experience about this.” Léger continues.
“Is it our fault that she never experienced this kind situation?” Mari asks with her face still down.
Once again, they let out a loud sigh again together.
I only stay silent in front of them, can’t even deny what Brugière just said.
Somehow I feel frustrated when she says I’m oblivious, I’m not that dumb right?
“Did I say something silly again?” I ask nervously.
Brugière looks like she wants to try one more time to explain to me.
But the other side of her looks like want to hit me with something.
“Listen here, Valter. Colombain and I are best friends. We’ve never done something like that. Well there’s time I hug him when he has problems. But I never do something beyond that.”
“That means friends can’t do that kind of thing? I need to be his best friend first so I can do something like that to him?” I ask them with the same confused face.
“There’s always a limitation on physical contact Valter. Even though you already became a best friend with him, he still can misunderstand it.” This time Léger is the one who explained it to me.
But I still don’t get the point of this problem.
“The point is the physical contact you did to Colombain is a couple thing to do. A couple who are in a relationship, boyfriend and girlfriend.” Léger explains clearly to me.
I blink a few seconds.
Finally, I can get what they are talking about.
How can I be so stupid about this kind of thing?
Smiling nervously at them is the only thing that I can do.
Mana and Mari are still glaring at me with an unbelievable look.
Averting my eyes when I meet them.
“Sorry... “ My voice is so small that they almost can’t hear it.
“Unbelievable.” They say loudly and synchronically.
Brugière let out chuckles.
“I can’t believe this queen has zero experience with this kind of thing hahaha”
Léger follows her with other chuckles as well.
“True true. I can’t believe that I know about this side of Queen Valter.”
The twins are still shaking their heads lightly.
I laugh nervously when they say that to me.
“But! It’s not my fault right? I mean there’s a time where the guys greet me by kiss my hand.” I try to make excuses.
But only to make them laugh lightly.
“You've never been in a relationship before, Valter?” Brugière asks me.
Responding to her with a nod.
“And why is that you never going out with someone?” Léger continues to ask me.
“Well… I feel like they only want my family name and wealth.”
They don’t need to know that I can see right through their hearts.
The colour of their heart is the meaning of how they look or feel towards me.
Orange.
Orange is still a puzzle for me.
“Hmm… I see I see. Do you have any kind of type?” Brugière asks me once again.
Type huh? I’ve never thought about this before.
I’m biting my nail fingers.
This kind of question is difficult for me.
But they wait curiously for my answer though.
Then after a moment, something pops up into my mind.
“I guess… the one who accepts me for who I am. Not as Queen Valter, but Vilheimina Valter.”
“Waow… my baby girl is so mature.” Mari says with clapping her hands.
Mana is also clapping her hands for no reason.
I’ve told them before but I guess they pretend like they didn’t know.
Or maybe they just forgot about that.
Brugière is humming when she gets my answer.
“Valter, there’s something I’ve been wondering about. Maybe it's kinda sensitive topic, is it okay?” Brugière asks me.
For somehow the atmosphere in this room changes.
It is the first time that Brugière set that serious face on her.
I notice Léger nudges Brugière's left arm.
The twins look at me with a confused face.
“What is it Brugière?” I reply to her.
“Please, no hard feeling, okay? For some reason you can feel someone seeing you like that right? What about Colombain? How’s your feeling towards him?”
A moment of silent fills the room.
For some reason, I can’t answer that question quickly.
There’s nothing coming up into my mind.
It’s true that I want to get close to him.
But is there any reason for it?
Why am I comfortable with him and I can feel that he is not that kind of person? Or am I just wondering to find out what is orange?
A lot of things come into my mind at the same time when she asks me.
My head starts to hurt when the time comes like this.
It’s only to trigger my vertigo to come out.
Oh no… my head starts aching. I need to do something about this before anyone knows about this.
Suddenly someone breaks the silent.
“I’m sorry guys! The owner just tried a new recipe and he wanted me to give it a try. He made a caramel pudding and it tasted so good. Here I bring three puddings for us.”
It’s Colombain.
He shows up at the right timing.
He saves me from everyone.
Everyone eyes land on Colombain right now.
This is my chance to calm down before my vertigo gets into me.
“Umm… did I interrupt something here?” He asks with a confused face.
“Yes, we are just talking about you.” Brugière answers him immediately.
“Ehh?! Why guys?! Did I do something wrong?!” He raises his voice a little.
“Nah… It’s pudding time. Thank youuu.” Mari says and takes one of the puddings.
Mana and Mari share the pudding together.
Brugière with Léger.
The last pudding is for me alone.
I want to share it with Colombain but somehow I don’t want to make any misunderstanding again.
When we are eating the pudding, I keep reminding them of our study.
The twins and I take out our book to share with them.
What they are saying to me before somehow keeps bothering me though.
I feel my phone buzzing again.
A message from Brugière.
MESSAGES
Célia Brugière
I’m sorry if I’m bothering you Valter. (｡-_- ｡)
It’s okay, don’t worry about it okay? <('.'<)
But still, I feel worried though.
Why is she asking me about this anyway?
I will try to keep my distance from Colombain from now on.
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