Are they family?

So, how's she like?", says kaigara out of the blue.

"Who?"

"You know who?"

"I don't know!"

"Well, you girlfriend, fool."

Why do you have to know? She is none of your business."

"Aw, don't be so overprotective. It's bad for your health."

Yeah, right. Not telling you about her is more important than me being sick."

"Ow look!", He points at the screen

The hero , kira in the anime started to fight his best friend dekarto over a girl who both of them likes, while the girl just stands there looking at their fight and doing nothing but stare. She ain't even cheering. In a way, she is doing the right thing. She doesn't want to lose any of them I guess. But she can atleast try and stop them. The way the things are going none of them will remain able to be with her anyway.

"What a big plot-hole!", Screams Kaigara. "Why is the heroine just standing there. She could do something, right?"

How strange! We two are thinking of the same thing but from different perspectives.

"Yeah, right! Like what you write could be called stories!?"

"What! I saw you cry the other day when you were reading my light novel!"

"I won't have cried if there was no dust in the air!"

"Yeah, yeah, whine all you want. I know you like my stories. Someday I might even become famous and write your story."

"Keep dreaming. You'll never reach there. Besides, If you reach to that place I won't let you write my story."

"Ow, so you think my stories are actually that good, huh?"

"What's with that smirk!?"

"Nothing, just making sure you mean the complement you just made."

"No, that wasn't."

Kaigara leaves when it's almost 8pm. We finished the anime. Both of the heroes die in the end and somehow manages to settle things with each other before the moment they die. Like that was a surprise. The heroine just keeps staring at their body and cry. Felt like crocodile tears to me. I'm sure kaigara might think it from a different angle like bad ending and stuff like those. I don't really get these idea like a pro but I can manage a li'l.

Dad returned home on his scooter which I don't know the age of. He asks me a few questions like if Kaigara was here and ahat we did. As usual, he asked me if we studied a li'l in the process. I mean seriously, who studies while bingeing on anime. Kaigara is a good student and I'm not that great to be honest. So he thinks Kaigara just studies all day or something. I kind of feel that sometimes too to be honest.

Dad calls me to go have dinner. I was preparing my homework for school. No, I'm not a good student. I'm doing it because I'll get punished otherwise. Anyway, I'm almost done with this crap, I'm hungry, I can do the rest of it tommorow morning. Just need to get up at 5am. I'm sure I can do that much. It's rice and meet curry for dinner. Dad's sitting on the other side eating his meal slowly. He looks like an old man who has no care for the world that he lives in. Well he is going to that age afterall. Assuming I'm 16 now, he is probably at his late 40s. I wonder how it was like when mom used to live with us. As there's no lady in this household, it's pretty dirty here. Clothes pilled up on sofa, unclean floor, spider webs on the ceiling, everything is really messy. A housekeeper works at our house, she comes around 6am does all the chores, cooks some breakfast, lunch and dinner then she leaves. She takes sundays off like an employee at work. Her work could be called more important than theirs as she has more influence in keeping our family alive. Can I even call this a family? I wonder.

Lying on the bed I start checking my phone. Wow, she is a crazy one too. Maybe a little more crazy than Kaigara. She gave 55 texts. It kind of goes like this,

"Sorry for not replying sooner. I was busy. Hey, why aren't you replying me. Hello, earth to Dense. Dense, you there. Are you mad at me?. What did I do. I didn't do anything right!? Wait, are you at fault. You could atleast see my texts. I knew I shouldn't have fall for you. You big jerk....."

I have no intention of reading the full message. Knowing her it probably ended up in apologizing to me. I just reply saying "Hmm" as I can't think of anything else but sleep for the time being I should probably sleep now. I let my body down as the eyes shut themselves. should I have said something else to both of them, perhaps? Who cares, right? I mean if they even leave me, does it even matter. I mean my mom left me without thinking. They are not even family, are they?