Teasing

"You're finally here, Lucius!"

At the school gate they were two people waiting for Lucius, a girl, and a boy. The girl was waving her hand so that Lucius would notice her. But she really didn't need to do that because her voice was so loud that they already noticed her.

"You're still here?", Lucius was shocked that his childhood friends were still at school.

Lucius was delayed a lot so he didn't think they would be waiting for him.

"Ugh!", Eira held her chest with both hands and made a sad face.

"Did you hear that, Kai? He doesn't want us anymore when he has new friends."

She still continued acting and put a finger under her eyes that meant that she was wiping a tear.

"I'm happy that you got new friends, but do you need to push us aside?"

"That's-", Lucius was flustered he didn't know what to say.

"I didn't mean that, Eira."

"Yeah, right, I don't believe you.", she looked away and seemed mad but in reality, she just wanted to hide her smile because…

[Sh$t! He is so cute trying to explain it.]

She felt her desire to tease Lucius increase. But before she could say anything, Kai began talking.

"Just ignore her. She just wanted to get attention from your friends. You do know that she always liked handsome men."

Kai said it like it was obvious, but his smile was telling that he was provoking Eira.

"Did you just call me an attention seeker?!", it was a question, but she was so sure that she already began fighting with Kai.

But that 'fighting' wasn't really fighting because while one was attacking the other just dodged it. But the worst was that Kai made a face that screamed: 'Is this all that you can do?'

"You! You!"

It seemed that she was so angry that she couldn't speak anymore.

When she was almost exploding from anger, Kai patted her head and said with a kinder smile: "Just kidding, don't be angry anymore. If you really went all out, I won't be able to defend me anymore."

Her anger went away as it came: "It's good that you know."

"Haha! Your friends are really funny.", said Ryuu carefree.

"I'm sorry that you saw something like this.", said Kai who suddenly looked switched personality from teasing someone to a more mature person.

"No, it's fine.", Erebus scratched his nape and continued talking.

"I see such things a lot. You see, I know a lot of people who fight when they just see each other's face."

[Aren't you one of them.]

That is what Lucius thought. It's not his fault but he was almost always bickering with Ryuu that he couldn't help but think so.

[He looks like someone who wouldn't backdown in a fight]

In the end, they all talked a bit but parted ways when they needed to go home. Their houses weren't in the same direction, so they parted fast.

"The next time when you are what late you should contact us."

"Yeah, you should. We were worried that you already went home."

"I'm sorry, I'll definitely do that."

"You better do, we were worried we needed to search the whole city to find you."

[Am I so bad at finding my way?]

Lucius really didn't believe that he couldn't find his way home. But it seems like Eira, and Kai read his inner conflict.

"Don't think that you can somewhere on your own."

"Yeah, you better don't do something like that!"

While one sounded stern the other sounded childish, but he knew and felt that they were really worried about him. So even when he wanted to defend himself that he wasn't a child, he didn't.

He'll try to do as they say but if something happens then it isn't his fault, right?