14 A Troubling Morning

The sun rose on the ocean horizon, all of the students woke up and headed to the restaurant. The first ones to arrive were Maki and Gonta. Both of them sat down at a big table that held space for four other people, as soon as they sat down Maki started looking at the door waiting for him to arrive. Five minutes passed and the door flung open, Maki's eyes began to sparkle until he noticed the small couple arrive.

"What does it matter if I take a bath first?!"

"Atua told me that I have all the right to take it first! And you betrayed her word!". Kokichi and Angie were already discussing once again at this time in the morning, the pair were giving Maki a serious headache. Maki started looking at another place to ignore the discussion between those two.

"Good morning! Maki Roll!" Maki's eyes slowly faced towards the entrance room, to meet Kaito and to his left nonother than the Ultimate Maid.

"Sir, what would you like to eat?" Kirumi asked Kaito as if she was a waiter in the restaurant.

"I told you… didn't I? Drop the maid act, please" Kaito said as he was slowly losing his temper with her. Meanwhile, while this scene slowly developed Maki was there staring at them the whole time, feeling a little ache on her chest. Maki stood up and walked towards the entrance door.

"If you'll excuse me," Maki said as he passed beside them.

"Hey wait! Maki!" Kaito tried to attract her attention but it was useless she had already left the room and slammed the door in her way to the exit.

"Okay Maki calm down, maybe you should go check on Shuichi and Kaede, I haven't seen them yet and maybe they could've overslept," Maki thought as she slowly made her way to their cabin, the only problem was she did not know in which cabin they were staying. As she slowly walked through the lines of cabins that surrounded her from her right and left, she was lost and confused.

"Good morning to you Harukawa-san" Maki was surprised by this voice that called her from behind her. She turned around to find Rantaro greeting her with a smile on his face.

"How can you be so cheerful this early in the morning" Maki responded to Rantaro's morning greeting.

"Huh? You look kind of tense Harukawa-san is something the matter?" Rantaro approached and started inspecting every inch of her face.

"Do you want to die?" Maki's face suddenly changed into a more threatening expression, which made Rantaro back away immediately.

"Hey, come on don't give me that glare" Rantaro slightly smiled wanting to reduce Maki's tension. "But in all seriousness are you okay? You seem a bit off" Rantaro wanted to make sure everyone was on their one hundred percent, so seeing her like that threw him off.

"I'm okay, don't worry about it," Maki said with a cold tone. Is as if Maki had constructed a wall around her and she was not letting anyone overpass it. This made Rantaro think what his strategy could be in order to get a bit closer to her, maybe just be able to make her talk about what she feels, but he knew that this was not going to be an easy task.

"Harukawa-san" Maki lifted his gaze towards Rantaro. "These are the kinds of things why we are here for, the tutors and I, if you are having any type of conflicts, let it be with your friends or a personal one, you can count on us, we will not go around talking to everyone about your feelings we are professionals, please do not hesitate in consulting us" This words made Maki felt a bit better, she wasn't ready to tell anyone about her feelings, but she felt as if she could count on someone whenever she needed.

"You really are like a teacher, aren't you?" Maki let out a small sigh as she finished what she said.

"If you are not comfortable talking with your tutor about it you can always look for another one to talk to, even Tsumugi and I" Maki felt that she could genuinely rely on Rantaro, but she needed to give it a little bit of time. Rantaro felt happy that he could say his piece, maybe this truly could have reached Maki, being as stubborn and reserved she was. "I'm getting kinda hungry, so I am going to head for the restaurant okay? See you there" Rantaro turned around and started walking towards the restaurant.

"Wait" Maki called out Rantaro.

"Hmm? Is something the matter?" Rantaro turned around a bit intrigued.

"Actually, I was looking for Saihara-kun and Kaede's cabin, do you know where it is?" Rantaro let out a small smile as he felt that he was slowly making progress with Maki.

"Of course! They are on cabin number three just beside yours" Rantaro answered.

"Thank you, then I will see you later" Maki headed towards the cabin, walking away from Rantaro.

"Yes, I'll see you there" Rantaro quickly responded as he headed to the restaurant in a better attitude than before.

Finally, Maki arrived at cabin number three. It was a little bit odd that she did not saw them in her way there, she saw Miu and Korekiyo heading to the restaurant even Keebo and Ryoma.

She knocked on the door and waited a few minutes, but no one answered, she knocked again with more strength making her knocks louder, but still no one answered her calls. She reached the doorknob and twisted it.

*Clack*

"Oh it's open" Maki slowly opened, what she first saw was pure darkness not a single ray of light came through the window, she could not see even the beds in that penumbra.

She called out their names to wake them up as she made her way to one of the beds.

"Come on wake-up what time do you think it is?" Maki reached one of the beds, she reached for the bed cover and flung it away.

"It's morning alrea- "As soon as the bed covered was removed an unbelievable scene had burned into Maki's eyes.

Shuichi and Kaede were hugging each other looking towards Maki with a drowsy look, as the seconds passed they slowly realized what was happening and their faces turned bright red. A couple of seconds passed until Maki snapped out of it.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING!!!!!"