Comfortable Silence

Mari sighed and wondered how she could be in this situation. She had asked someone that she didn't like to become her fake boyfriend.

Munch! Munch! Munch!

"...."

Mari was speechless looking at Brando who was eating a 1 kg t-bone steak by himself.

Brando took a tissue and wiped the stain of sauce on his mouth. He took his milkshake and drank it calmly.

"..."

"Can you think of something? How can you eat and drink calmly?" Mari couldn't help but be annoyed looking at Brando who seemed not to care about her matter.

"Think of what? That's not my problem," Brando said.

Mari couldn't say anything in this matter since it wasn't his problem. She looked at him and said, "Is that alright with you? Do you want me to marry someone that I don't know?"

"If I'm your real boyfriend then I'll do anything to stop it, but sadly I'm not," Brando said with a very sad tone.

"...."

Mari blushed and said, "You're too early to become my boyfriend and what are you going to do with Kanan?"

"That's why I can't become your boyfriend since I have Kanan," Brando said while looking at this girl. He could see that Ayame was smiling toward him and seemed to enjoy seeing his miserable fate.

Mari squinted her eyes and asked, "Do you like Kanan that much?"

"I like her," Brando said without hesitation.

"........"

Mari felt complex looking at Brando. She felt a bit hate toward this guy since this guy had stolen her childhood friend, but it was a bit surprising to hear him telling the truth without hesitation.

"I wanted to ask you some questions though," Brando said.

"What?" Mari asked.

"You seem to hate me somehow, can you tell me the reason?" Brando asked. He felt strange since their first meeting was quite normal, but after that, she started to be hostile toward him. He didn't understand why this girl started to hate him.

"Because you take Kanan away from me," Mari said.

Brando raised his eyebrow and asked, "I take Kanan from you? Since when is Kanan yours?"

"......." Mari couldn't say anything in this question.

"Do you like her?" Brando seemed to be interested and asked, "Do you like girls? Do you want to have a lily relationship with Kanan?"

Mari was annoyed and hit Brando's arm. "Don't tease me!"

Brando caressed the place where Mari had hit him. "My bad, I won't tease you anymore."

"Hmph!" Mari looked away when she heard his reply.

Brando continued to drink his milkshake since he had to admit this milkshake was fucking good.

Mari looked at Brando and asked, "Is it good?"

"It's fucking good," Brando answered in English.

"Really?! Give me! Let me try it," Mari said in English and took the glass of milkshake from him. She drank the milkshake right away from Brando's straw and her eyes brightened. "It's good!"

"......."

Brando was speechless, and said, "You should order one yourself."

"No," Mari answered.

Brando shook his head and looked at the woman who cosplayed as Marilyn Monroe and an old bald man who stood up together becoming an MC on the stage.

Mari looked at Brando and asked, "Why are you not saying anything?"

Brando looked at Mari and said, "Have you heard about comfortable silence?"

"...." Mari was speechless and said, "Yes, but I don't think that our situation is a comfortable silence."

"That's good, let's start our comfortable silence now," Brando said. He didn't have that much of an interest in this girl and he also didn't have an intention to help her. He didn't bother to start up the topic of conversation since he felt too lazy.

"...." Mari snorted and also looked toward the stage. She seemed to be very interested in the person who cosplayed as Marilyn Monroe on the stage. "I wonder if I can cosplay as Audrey Hepburn."

Brando looked at Mari and said, "Well, it might be possible, but your chest is quite big."

"......" Mari rolled her eyes and ignored him. Her mood wasn't good right now, especially when she needed to spend time with this hateful guy. However, she was quite proud that her body was praised. Even though this guy was hateful, she had to admit that he had good eyes.

"Ladies and gentlemen! This is the time that you have been waiting for!" The bald man in a suit started to announce something at the center of the stage.

Brando and Mari were also interested in this matter.

"We're going to hold the world-famous Jackrabbit Slim's twist contest!"

"Woo!"

"Yeah!"

Clap! Clap! Clap!

Everyone seemed very interested in this contest and clapped their hands excitedly.

"Then for one lucky couple who is going to perform on the stage is going to win this beautiful trophy that is held by Marylin here." The man pointed his finger at the trophy and said, "Now, who will be our first contestant?" He looked around then suddenly someone raised him while announcing the participant in this contest.

"Right here!" Mari said while raising her hand high.

"What?" Brando was surprised by Mari's action.

Mari looked at Brando and said, "I wanna dance."

"No. No." Brando shook his head since he didn't expect Mari to ask such a request suddenly.

"You have agreed to become my boyfriend, right?" Mari said.

"Fake boyfriend," Brando said.

Mari thought for a while and said, "I'll tell you Kanan's secret."

"Kanan's secret?" Brando raised his eyebrow.

"Yes, I'll tell you later, but now I want to dance, I want to win, and I want that trophy." Mari looked at Brando and said, "So dance well."

Brando was curious about Kanan's secret and decided to agree with her request. "Alright."

Mari and Brando stood up and walked toward the stage together.