Cousins.

*chirp chirp.* Sunlight shines in the room Sorata groaned as the sunlight hit his face and got up. He slowly opened his eyes as he looked towards the alarm clock which had 6:35 on it. Sorata took off his blanket and started to walk to the bathroom to wash his face. He brushed his teeth as well and decided to watch some tv since it was still early.

"Huh. I guess food prices are still okay. I should go out and buy groceries since I'm almost out." He was watching just some random news channel since he didn't really watch much tv. He flipped through the channels and came across an anime. It was about an average boy and the goddess of his school falling in love with him since he had saved her. It was very cliche but since he had nothing to do Sorata stayed watching the episode. Sorata wasn't an otaku though he did read some light novels. It wasn't because he enjoyed it, he just liked reading. He read nearly everything he could get his hands on. The reason he started to read was simply for cooking. He read cookbooks and looked for different types of foods he could make.

He not only did it for his own cooking ability but to expand the menu in the restaurant. The anime finished its episode and he turned off the tv and went to get dressed so he can go out and get groceries. He didn't need a disguise since he was just going out to get food. Sorata dressed in simple blue jeans with a white simple cutter shirt. Sorata didn't understand fashion but his mother used to dress him like this so he just thought this was fine. Just as he got finished dressing his doorbell rang. He was confused since he didn't order any packages and his family was in England so it couldn't be them. He opened the door and was greeted by a pair of twins.

"Hey yo Sora! It's been a while, yeah."

"..." Sorata had a blank face. He was not only disgruntled by the greeting but he couldn't deal with the two people here. It was a boy with blonde hair and blue eyes,and a girl with similar hair and eyes.. They were twins or his cousins. They were the son and daughter of his aunt. They weren't that close but they usually were together whenever his mother used to take him to England either for winter or the New Years. The last time Sora had seen them it was during the funeral. They took after their father when it came to hair color and eyes since his aunt looked more like his grandmother which she could only be described as a Yamato nadeshiko. Sora welcomed them in before making them put on slippers he had there. They were his mothers and fathers slippers but since they had no other option they put them on.

"So why are you guys here? I don't remember aunty telling me anything." Sora asked questionly. He was speaking English perfectly.

"Yeahh. I wanted to come here. It's summer so Elsie and I are here to stay !" The boy or Elias had said energetically. This was part of the reason Sora couldn't deal with his cousins; they were too sociable. 'Also summer starts in a week from today. Why are they here so early?'

"Well as Elias had said we're here to stay. Mother and father have to work somewhere in the United States. So they wanted us to stay with you since grandmother and the other parts of our family were busy. well we're only going to be here for 2 weeks" Elsie explained more thoroughly than Elias had. In terms of age, Sora was the closest to them. They were only 2 years older than him unlike their other cousins which were 10 years older and already married and working.

"I see. That's fine I guess. I'll have you guys stay in the guest rooms Elias, you'll have to sleep on the floor since I don't have a bed for the other room.." Sora had said. The apartment they were in had four rooms. His mother and father shared one while he had his own. They had two extras in case his mothers family visited them.

"Why do I have to sleep on the floor!! Make Elsie sleep in there. How am I gonna bring girls over?" Elias complained.

"You won't. No girls or boys that you guys would bring over are not allowed." Sora quickly made the rules. He wouldn't allow them to start having sex in his apartment.

"Why are you assuming I'd bring a boy over? I'm not like that monkey over there who can't keep it in his pants. I'm not interested in any at the moment. Besides, I want a man like father." Elsie hit Elias while denying what Sora had said. Sora looked at Elsie weirdly.' It appears she still has her father complex huh.' Elsie knew she couldn't marry her father but that didn't stop her from finding a man that was like him. It had been like this ever since they were little and if he asked about her father then she would drone on about why he's so great.

"Hahhh. Also, while you guys are here, can you speak Japanese? Well you don't have to speak Japanese to me but speak to other people like that. It goes mainly to you Elias, you'd probably go pick up girls by speaking English and confusing them." He knew they were able to speak Japanese since his grandmother had taught them.

"How rude. What makes you think I'd do that? Also you shouldn't be complaining. if you come with me I'll do the talking and you'll lose your virginity by the end of the night. How about we leave Elsie and go hit on some girls? With our looks we could easily get a bunch. Remember when we were little we used to go up to the food stalls and look as innocent as possible to get free things." Elias had put his arm around Sora's shoulder. Elias and Elsie took after their mother when it came to looks the only thing they didn't get from her were their mothers black hair and black eyes. Sora's mom and his aunt were twins as well. So Sora and Elias sort of had the same facial features. If Sora had put on a blonde wig with blue eye contacts they'd look like they were twins.

"I'm not interested. Anyways I'm going to the supermarket to get groceries. Do you guys want to come?" Sora brushed Elias's hand off and moved towards the entrance and put his shoes on him.

"Hmm I'll go." Elsie said. She wanted to get some drinks since she hadn't had anything to drink since she got on the plane.

"I guess I'll come as well . Maybe I'll get to meet some Japanese beauties." Elias had completely different motives than Elsie but he still decided to go. Sora didn't really want to bring him but he is gonna need to buy a lot of groceries since he'll need to make food for three people and he could use the help to carry the bags. All three of them left the apartment and Sora locked the door. They walked down the hallway and made their way into the elevator.

"Can you please hold the elevator!?!" A girl's voice sounded. Elsie was the closest so she held it open. Sora had felt the voice was familiar and he was right. A girl out of breath came into the elevator. She had long blonde hair with Green Eyes and a beautiful face. Sora had quickly retreated to Elias and tried to hide behind him but

"Ehhhh! Why are you here!!" Emi had finally regained her breath. She saw the two blonde-haired people and Sora. Sora was surprised as far as he knew she shouldn't be here. He had never seen her before leaving whenever he needed to go out. Sora usually stayed home whenever he had a day off he only went out to either buy a book or buy groceries so while sora had never seen her it's mainly happened because he'd never gone out.

"I'm sorry. Who are you?" Sora had a calm and blank expression. But his true thoughts were scrambling. 'Why the hell do I keep meeting this woman?!! She can't be stalking me right? Do I need to call the authorities?' Thoughts such as this kept going through Sora's mind.

"You, I wasn't done questioning you yesterday. And what do you mean who are you? You hit me on my head and tried to run away. " Emi was angry, her face clearly showing that as she glared at Sora.

"Like I said, who are you? It's not very proper to yell at someone." Sora kept his facade on ignoring Emi and pretending he didn't know her.

"Hoooh. So this is your type sora. I must admit she's beautiful though she's not beautiful like Japanese women are." Elias leaned in and stared at Emi. He was probing her as if licking her up and down and she felt as if he was seeing her naked.

"She's not plump enough for me though. Maybe if she was 15 kilograms more and she had bigger breasts and a more plump butt than I'd be.. aguuu!!" Elias had kept staring at her while commenting on her body when Elsie came out from behind Sora and hit him hard in his gut. It was hard to believe he was able to examine her body in this short amount of time.

"I'm sorry for my idiot brother." Elsie bowed to Emi while kicking her brother who had been on the floor.

"Eh? Oh it's fine. U-uhm don't you think you should stop foam is coming out of his mouth." Emi was stunned by the sudden examination she was about to slap Elias and she was definitely angry but Elsie kept kicking but finally stopped to ask Sora about her x

"Hey Sora. Is she really your girlfriend? Don't say you don't know her. I've known you since we were little and I know when you're hiding something." Elsie had asked. While sora may have had a poker face that most if not all people could never tell what he was thinking Elsie had known him for a long time. They weren't that close but she could tell he was hiding it.

"Tsk." Sora clicked his tongue. He really didn't want to run into this girl again nor did he want his cousins to find out about her.

"She goes to my school. I wasn't lying when I said I don't know her, you know. I really know nothing about her nor do I care." Sora made his remark. He didn't really interact with his classmates since he didn't care. He found it troubling that someone knew what he looked like from his school. The elevator finally reached a stop and Sora quickly made his way out with Elsie and Elias who somehow got up.

"Hey! Wait! I still havent had you answer my questions." Emi ran towards them and yelled.

"There is nothing to answer. You saw what I was doing and that was it." Sora shut her down. She really had nothing to ask nor did she have a right. Sora could ignore her forever.

"Hmm. So she's not your girlfriend. Well you could probably have any girl at your knees. So let's go find a girlfriend for you! She'll be a prime example of jap— Gahhhhh!" Elsie had quickly hit Elias again to stop him from his perverted ramblings.

"I'm sorry for my brother. Also I am Elsie. This idiot is Elias. We are Sora's cousins." Elsie quickly apologized for Elias's actions while introducing herself.

"Oh. I'm Emilia. I go to Suzuki-sans school." Emi also introduced herself to Elsie. She had to admit that she was extremely beautiful. Her looks could give Emi a run for her money. Sora had ignored them while they were talking and kept walking towards the supermarket. For some reason Emi kept following him. Elsie had taken Elias somewhere so he could help her find drinks and sora had gone to the produce section to get vegetables and other stuff. Emi had followed him.

"Hey! Just so you know there are a ton of questions I have to ask. Why are you hiding your face? Why are you that good of a cook?" Her questions kept coming. Sora had found it a bother so since she wasn't doing anything he pushed the basket into her hands and started to look for fresh vegetables.

"It's annoying." Sora said with the same calm poker face.

"What is,my questions?" Emi had said.

"It's annoying to have people confessing to me. It may sound narcissistic, but I know how I look. I've gotten plenty of confessions in middle school. So I moved to a high school further away from my old middle school and just put on a wig." Sora had said throwing in a watermelon in the basket making Emi almost fall from the sudden weight.

"You should understand right? You get tons of them as well." Sora had said, walking down the aisles looking for seasonings.

"Yeah I get it. It's annoying to have to deal with confessions. I've gotten about 300 since the start of high school. They make you out to be a villain if you reject them. If you accept their confession everyone hates you since you aren't single anymore. Still you could simply grow out your hair and leave it like that." Emi said. She knew as well how bad it was being confessed to as well. The boys would curse at her and spread rumors that she was a slut.

"Do you really think my hair color is natural? I don't wish to dye it either since it's something from my mother. Even if I grew out my hair, someone would definitely look at me and even talk to me because of it." Emi had to admit his hair color was extremely rare in Japan. She could easily see people talking to Sora simply because of that. Sora had decided to ask a question of his own.

"Why were you in the apartment building? As far as I know I've never seen you or your family there." He didn't know why she was there and he wasn't sure if she followed him home.

"I was visiting a friend. She got a new ga— I mean a new makeup kit so I wanted to see it." Emi said. Sora found it weird that she changed her original word but from the way the pronunciation came out he could assume she meant game. They kept talking with Sora, giving her questions, answers since she was holding the basket. At some point Elsie had come back with a basket full of drinks and snacks. Sora had tried to put some stuff back but she said her aunt had given her money so she paid for the whole basket. For some reason Emi had tagged along with them and they went back to the apartment.