it burns me like fire

"It's sunday, duh." Her voice was still croaky and she lazily cleared her throat before turning her head and opening her eyes only a little bit again. "What about you?"

"I’mgonnadie," he mumbled to himself, before finally steeling his nerves and taking a huge breath. This was so embarrassing. It was supposed to be the big brother’s job to comfort his younger sibling, not the other way around. Still, he could let a moment of weakness slip out, if it was in front of Bree…

Turning around to get on her tiptoes, she put both hands on the sides of her brother's face, forcing him to make eyecontant with her. 

"Don't worry, Bree is here to protect you."

That’s right, they just fell because of her.

He tries not to listen to her speak but her voice is just annoyingly louder than the noises made by the crowd. The male wanted to get up but he couldn’t. As if something’s pulling the force that should allow him to sit up. Mizuki’s not the type to be downbeat —- cynical even, yet he couldn’t avoid feeling too pessimistic as though it’s the end of the world.

An effort to respond was made but only a loud groan came out from his mouth. He didn’t hurt his head but his whole body feels as if he used a giant cross as a burden, reenacting the birth of Christianity. It only took a touch in his skin to turn him back to reality and as though hitting a fly, he slapped her hands away from him with eyes showing strong displeasure.

Taking time to maneuver himself, he looked away and glared at the people around them for no reason. He was just terribly pissed and he needed to direct his anger elsewhere as he didn’t want to add more unneeded fuel to her already burning fire, so lethal.

And success.

"Like you could do anything." A murmur before she used one hand to flip an annoying strand of hair out of her face. "You can't even stand steadily." Letting her eyes wander away from him, she shot short glares at the people staring at them, intense enough to make a few of them turn away. Not like they didn't know her or at least her reputation. Sitting on the ground didn't seem intimidating enough, so she couldn't help but push herself up from the ground, dustin her shorts and the back of her top before taking a step closer to the guy that seemed almost amusingly annoyed. 

"Unless you like that kind of attention, I guess we get out of here." We. She carefully pronounced that sentence, putting weight on this single word with a small glare in his face. Even though she pretended to no care about the people around, suddenly walking off in different direction after a fall like that would be embarrassing, so was standing around in the same place. 

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[[ -♬- ]] ~ As the sun from another intensely warm day would reach it’s midday point, Ren sighed as he left his house looking nothing more than disheveled. Why did he need to run errands for his step-mother at this time of the day was beyond him. However, since he was told not to argue about it, he didn’t want to cause a fuss. Locking the door to his expensive looking house, he set off on the painful walk to the city, a list in hand as to what to retrieve for his mother, followed by her credit card and pin number. Grimacing at he openness of where she was storing her credit details, the boy simply slid the paper and card into the front pocket of his pants.

Stopping briefly, Ren looked over at the scenery of the place where he lived. Walking towards the small wall that parted the roads and the luxurious beach they lived by, Ren felt a little captivated with what it looked like on a warm day. Kids were playing around, mothers were sunbathing, bachelors and spinsters playing volleyball or also bathing in the sun sharing their ice creams with one another.   

Pushing herself away from the wall, she walked up to the man, he brows furrowed and a frown on her lips before she stopped right next to him, turning to face in the same direction he averted his eyes to.

"Watching someone else now huh." She clicked her tongue, watching the people act out their fun lives at the beach.

Himiko froze for a moment, her freak out about Bree dating five people halted in favor of listening to her again. Us…? What did that…

Oh. Oh. What.

Whipping her head to the side, Himiko’s eyes widened into saucers.

She actually bought it. Bree wasn't expecting that. This was going too far, being so gullible should be a crime. 

"Sorry! I’ve just… never dated anyone or anything like that, so…"

Himiko fidgeted in her seat, her face cooling off. It was true, she had been fairly isolated in her life, so she never had thought about dating someone. Sure, she had AVs and things like that but… dating was different. It was special.

Raising her brows, he slowly straightened her back again, stretching her arms above her head with a small groan before leaning back against the bench again. As nervous this girl already was, there sure was some more see.

"Me? Sure." 

Shifting her weight in the seat she gave the girl a small, pitiful glance, followed by a small sigh.

It wasn’t like it took a genius to see her suddenly pop up. Her thick hair was probably choking the poor soul that she forced to use as a scope. He took another bite of the candied apple, shuffling the the crowd until the beacon revealed the kid he met a while back. Small world.

Tomohisa nodded at the guy carrying the princess, whistling at her to catch her attention. “I see you found someone to play with. He’s a weird guy. No offense though,” He looked down, face completely indifferent to whatever response he had. “Just becareful, her hair has ways to strangle you when you least expect it.”

With a shrug and another bite of his apple he waved at the two.

"Well, she’s your problem now. Bree, come home before 12 you need to clean up the bathroom, your hair clogged the drainer again. Also dinner is only steamed veggies and nato with rice."

Without a goodbye he moves through the crowd again, thinking of buying some other good food.

Did he just call him weird? If there’s anyone around who fits in that word perfectly, it’s the girl herself and not him. He’s just a victim, why does he need to be caught being slave to someone he doesn’t even know? No idea, things are just naturally rough but what’s bothering him is the relationship between the two. They both appear so careless as if such a situation is plain ordinary and his head is throbbing just thinking about how they lead their lives. Mizuki can’t remain calm just knowing the other didn’t even help him, report to the cops how he’s being slowly killed.

"So plain." A whisper. Filled with disbelieve. Watching him walk away, her eyes slowly widened and before she lost sight of his head in the crowd she threw her hands up in the air and above her head, unconsciously leaning forward to the direction he disappeared on. 

"DON'T YOU JUST WALK OFF LI-"

Unable to finish her shouting, she felt the rest of her breath leaving her lungs in a wheeze when she felt her human stance .. fall. His head driving into her stomach left her breathless for a short moment, only to be followed by the pain in her coccyx from landing, not on her butt, but weirdly half back. Pushing herself up from the ground with the help of her elbows, she stared down at the upside-down face on her lap. 

"What the hell?" Brows furrowed, both her hands grabbed the sides of his face, her voice grew loud despite people already gathering around them both on the ground. Like hell she cared about those strangers right now.

"It'll be fine, onii-chan, you can hold my hand during the ride." Her lips curled when she tried to fight back the grin trying to break through.

  "Don't worry about screaming, I won't tell." 

Especially when that someone was Bree.

Out of the corner of her eye she spotted one of the real big attractions, looking like a huge pole with a cabin of only 8 seats at one end. Maybe a freefall or-- no, not it was speeding down and upwards in a full circle, the cabin disturbingly loose, turning around itself additionally. 

Turning back to look at her brother, she smiled, pointing in the direction he had probably already figured out.