Third Person
Paris, France: Jardin d'Eden
"I'll buy it..."
...
"That's-"
It was like a slap in the face as he looked at Saccharide, who was biting a pen cap between his teeth. Blinking a few times, the staff opened his notes as his fingers stride along with the texts.
Finally, he checked something with his pen, "Actually, that could be settled..."
Giving the eyeliner pen back to her girlfriend, he smirked, "Thank you for this dear..."- before kissing her forehead.
"Saccharide you said-" Raine retaliated but she was shushed by a long index finger placed ever so gently against her lips. Her lips pouted as she lost interest to argue with her lover about money.
"Raine, where are you going?" his voice cracked as he called her.
Stepping away from the scene to get his attention, the girl kept her chin up and walked straight before she got pulled by Saccharide. Grimacing slightly, she took her arm back and crossed them which made the boy ponder about his actions.
Soothing his nape while finding an answer, he looked at her angered expression. With dried lips because of the freezing air, he parted them and moist them with his tongue gliding over. He found the words to continue but the staring couple was disturbed as two people entered the enclosed globe of the maze.
"We want to join..." One of the capped figures asked the staff on the counter before pointing something on the brochure.
'As suspected, they were in on the disasters that have been occurring to us since we entered,' the boy thought, this was the reason why he was caught on reading this selection of the brochure.
It's just too bizarre. Raine's garden just burned down and coincidentally, a competition with the price of a new garden appeared. He knew one of the competitors would outta be the imposter who would try to make a complete savage to them both.
Saccharide felt his blood boil when he recognized the black caps, black hoodies, and the masks covering the people who decided to go inside. But at least, he got to prove that they were part of something else, this date was just another one of the sabotage.
"It's my pleasure to admit you but the rule is we need at least more than 3 couples to join the game," the staff explained, "And this 'fine' Monsieur here will buy it," -he directed friendly dedication to Saccharide with a slight sarcasm on the word fine.
Admittedly annoyed by this, Saccharide chose not to address that part and said, "No, I won't buy it!" he turned to the masked couple and said to them, "Let our ride buddies join us for a little game."
The male of the other couple wrapped his arms around his girl when Saccharide tried to get close to them. With furrowed brows, the unknown male stared at him with aggressiveness while the female stared with fear.
Saccharide held Raine close to him as a reflex and whispered in her ears, "Coincidence? I think not..."- in which, Raine did not respond.
The staff could undeniably feel the lightning static happening between these two parties so he settled the matter once and for all, "Even if you have one competition, there are not enough playmates to commence this."
With a grip on his chin and a coat wrapped around his waist while his other hand, cradling his girlfriend's shoulder, Saccharide growled in annoyance. Then multiple massive bangings on the glass doors were heard before a loud pitchy voice made their ear drumming.
"Hi guys and gays!" the pitchy voice started.
'Ugh! It's bronze,' their compatibility of being a couple was a thousand times approved once Saccharide and Raine thought of the same thing when the ginger-haired 25-year-old man approached them with a pair of shades on.
He has his arm wrapped around Silver's biceps. Romien and Edward were behind them walking towards the counter like fashionistas with their new sparkling masks on. Looking back to where the glass tappings came from, their eyes widened like saucers when they witnessed a swarm of people trying to break in.
Thankfully, the IXCents' bodyguards handled it miraculously.
"Miss Raine! Am I ecstatic to see ya!" Bronze shrugged off his boyfriend's arm off him as he approached the shaken female behind Saccharide.
Silver called out after taking off his shady sunglasses to put in inside his jean pockets, "Don't go near her, Bronze!"
The bubbly male walked back slowly in arms of Silver but was not taking a break from getting a good sight of Raine's brilliancy
Saccharide scoffed at the sight of the four performers, still keeping his girl behind his back, "What are you faggots doing here?"
"We're the grand prize for the ASMR competition!" Bronze spilled and showed everyone the picture posted on the gram about the new maze game for couples.
"Good evening dear performers of IXCents," the staff joined the server.
As star-struck as he is, Talens, the maze staff greeted the band members with a never-changing welcome smile, "I have to apologize that you're not informed but the competition was canceled," before bowed to the manager assisting all their musical instruments inside the area.
All the equipment was loaded inside and the stage screw left the place by using the backstage while all 9 people at the reception part of the globe still did not meet anyone else's requests.
The band was scheduled to perform a little show while the competition was ongoing for the couple who failed to enter the qualifications. On the other hand, Saccharide picked up a few words which shaken up the whole idea of this game.
"Wait- wait... WAIT!" Saccharide gathered their attention before exclaiming some of his points, "I thought the prize was the garden!"
They all looked at him with a questioning look. He paid so much time reading the brochure and he didn't notice the picture of the band which was practically consuming the whole part of the paper.
The staff pulled out his copy of the brochure and pointed to the part where that information was printed, "That's just the mini prize! The real deal is to have the whole arena for the winners themselves, with the IXCREST performing!"
Scratching the bulge on his throat, he remembered that he "accidentally" ripped the picture off the IXCents before he began reading the citing on the paper, "We've had too much of that already. I think we'll just go with the garden," he chuckled.
Having a little bit of fume coming out of Bronze's head, he muttered tantrum slurs again before being comforted by his boyfriend by letting him mess with his raven-colored hair around using his playful fingers in front of the rallying crowd behind them.
Their act gathered a bigger controversy and admiration. They don't even have to pretend, it goes natural. It's the other way around with Gold and Platinum, they only show intimacy while on display but they seldom interact interestingly off the camera.
Getting back on the topic, Edward asked the staff, taking into account the odd stare he was giving him, "But why is the competition canceled, Sir?"
"I'm afraid, there are no sufficient couple participants..." answered the queried one, "I suggest trying out the maze itself but you're a famous quad, they might be some chaos if you enter them."
Saccharide joined again and gave the staff a sassy comeback, "But that's no worry as long as the couples inside are "playing" and "bonding", right?"
"Wait-" Bronze stopped them from talking for a moment to share something, "I have an idea!" his eyes lit as he approached the staff. The staff tensed just by getting close to the famous person.
"That better not fucking be about cheeses and steams," Saccharide muttered before getting pinched by the girl beside him. Chuckling to her mild intrusion of thoughts, Saccharide patted her head then keeping an eye out to the all-black, quiet couple on the corner.
The male was saying something to the female but it was less than a whisper so he couldn't pick a pinch of a word.
Bronze, on the other hand, was reading the rules and guidelines for the competition, "Couples must be a minimum of 4 right? means 8 people will have to compete."
Looking around, the boy smirked and said, "It's settled!"
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