After school, Rirota, Riro, Virgil and Vee stayed behind to walk home together despite their bad pasts together. Rirota took a glance of Virgil's face which he returned the favor of looking his way with a mocking smile.
Both of the boys never liked each other even before Virgil turned out as delinquent despite his previous achievements as a brilliant student of Cold Ridgea High.
Rirota sighed as he paced himself slowly while reminiscing about Virgil's past an wondered why and how did he become a person standing in front of him now?
Virgil von Krieger, was a natural born genius in his family of decent business workers. Although he was born in an old family, he used to be one bright child, willing to do anything to support his older parents. So, he turned to studying hard and learned faster than any other children besides him.
When he enrolled in Cold Ridgea High as a freshman, he was no longer the only hardworker in that case. Everyone else enrolled to the school was all smart or might even be smarter than him to a certain degree.
However, there were some bad apples that managed to enroll into such a prestigious school. Terrible kids with bad attitude and pocket full of money kept causing troubles every where they headed. Virgil was in despair as he soon to be a victim to these vile kids, luckily for him as well.
Rirota was there, and protected Virgil from being beaten up any longer by breaking the bullies' arms and legs after angering him with the thought of calling out his dear mother. Virgil was thankful of his noble acts and wanted to join him as part of his group. To fight back against those who hurt others.
However...
[I declined his offer, was it?], Rirota muttered inside of his mind as he kept following behind them. Riro was looking around for a place for them to rest and have a meal, a restaurant would be helpful right now.
After being declined, Virgil never lost hope. He wanted to gain attention from Rirota. Thus he began studying harder than usual, working himself tirelessly with reading books and solving up harder questions from a college test.
Unfortunately for him...
[...Sorry ain't going to cut it, huh. He must be livid over me being number one that time and decided to leave behind his studies to become a damn delinquent.]
"Rirota, over here!"
Rirota stopped after hearing his name being called from the other side of the street. His eyes wandered over and found a signboard above Riro and the two Virgils titled 'Fried Chicken Runners!'. It appears to be a fast food restaurant that mainly advertise their delicious fried chickens. Rirota sighed as he cautiously looked his left and right several times until he was sure that there wasn't any vehicle coming through.
"Sorry, I've been thinking to myself that I lost sights of you guys.", he apologized immediately after safely crossing the street. Virgil frowned at him confused, "Sure, don't waste too much time thinking on how do we return back to our worlds."
Rirota nodded, "Okay... what are we doing here?"
Riro pointed her finger toward Vee, "This bitch wants chicken to fill her fatass.", she said nonchalantly. Vee, on the other hand, pouted at the rude remarks casually escaped Riro's lips.
"Hmph! You were agreeing with me just a second ago!"
Rirota sighed inwardly as he walked into the restaurant behind them, "Let's eat, I need to sit down and relax my feet..."
Virgil wanted to pat his alter ego's head but decided not to in order to not incur her wrath toward him, "I... will see y'all inside."
Riro ran her fingers through her long hair before making faces in front of Vee while she was walking herself into the restaurant. Vee flipped the bird at her as she was the last one to enter the restaurant.
Inside the restaurant, Virgil watched Rirota walked toward an empty table by himself and sat down on his favoured spot, by the window, overlooking the streets where he could find pedestrians walking by minding their own Monday routine.
Rirota sighed as he relaxed his head against his palm, his expression were stone cold as his mind continued to drift away from reality.
[This bastard must be thinking about our situation, it's fucking annoying that he acted like a soloist in this kind of stuff like he's some sort of a protagonist.]
Virgil groaned shrugging off his arms as he purposely sat down in front of him. He almost bit his tongue whilst reluctantly asking him to keep his eyes off the windows.
"Hoi, enough daydreaming."
Rirota clicked his tongue as he was disturbed from his train of thoughts, "Tch, I was thinking about who else is like us. Do you have someone like that, Virgil?", he uttered in annoyance. Virgil leaned against his chair to ponder of what Rirota meant, "Who else...? All I know right now and for sure is that I hate you and Vee hate you."
"I know." [It was pointless asking this moron in the first place.], he decided to keep his last thought of Virgil to himself as his eyes wandered toward their genderbent selves walking over with a tray of food.
"Hey, gimme my fries, I know I ordered a bunch of that!", Vee was holding her own tray of food, there was two of the restaurant's signature burgers, one pack of large fries and two medium sized cups of coke. Meanwhile on Riro's tray, there are two large cups of strawberry milkshake and three packs of large fries with some barbecue sauce.
Riro placed down the tray on Rirota's and Virgil's table before taking her seat beside Rirota. Vee had her tray on the other side of their tray before reaching her fingers for the large fries in Riro's tray.
*smack*
"Ouch!", Vee rubbed her fingers from the burning pain of Riro's slap. Rirota sighed as he fetched a pack of large fries and gave it to Vee.
"There, let's not bullshit around and fight in front of the food.", he then grabbed his own pack of large fries and the large cup of strawberry milkshake and put it on his side of the table.
He noticed Riro's glare at him as he felt sweats dripping from his internal brain, [It's just fries, what's with you bullying a girl?]
As if they could communicate with telepathy, she replied with a pouting expression, [Hmph! It's not my fault if it's on our tray of food.]
Rirota closed his eyes as he placed his hand against her head, roughing up her hair with full intention to mess up her beautiful hair, "Hands off!", a bright blush appeared on her face as she bit on her fry quietly. Rirota raised a brow before remembering that he was patting her head subconsciously, he cleared his throat as he faced the other two 'friends' in front of him, "Ahem. Let's go home after this, exchange numbers so that we can communicate more easily."
Virgil nodded, "Alright, I guess...?"
He turned to his left to find Vee's face fully red as if she caught a fever. He leaned over to her face with worry in his face, "You okay, there?"
Vee shook her head rapidly after hearing a sudden noise in her ear. She rubbed her temples with a big sigh escaping her mouth, "I'm fine, almost fallen asleep with eyes open again."
Rirota squinted slightly at Vee's words, it was full of bullshit and lies. She caught him staring at her as her face became red again as she shouted at him, "Whatcha looking at?! Shoo-shoo!", she waved her hand to motion him to turn away from looking at her way. Rirota sighed inwardly as he sipped on his drink.
"Mh, not bad.", he muttered under his breath not knowing that was said out loud enough for the people around the table to hear. Virgil couldn't help himself smiling wider as he found out about Rirota's favourite type of meal and drinks.
[This bastard like sweets, what a damn manchild.]
Vee quietly munched on her large fries while sneaking some peeks toward both Rirotas enjoying their meal (mainly the strawberry milkshakes).
...
*click*
*creak open*
"We're home..."
Rirota and Riro returned back home rather late than how they used to. After all, on their way back home, Rirota had forgotten to go buy some groceries for the house and it took them even longer as the supermarket they frequently go to in their own world was nearig closing time for the day.
A sigh escaped both of them as they loosened their guard after stepping into their safe haven called home. Riro grabbed the grocery bags off Rirota's hands before walking herself into the kitchen. Rirota in return helped her with carrying her backpack along with his own over upstairs to the bedroom.
"Haa.", he sighed as he placed the backpacks down near the bedside as he usually have before turning around to find some clothes to change into from his school uniform.
He decided to take a bath after smelling a stench of barbecue sauce on his clothing. He put his dirty uniform into a laundry basket in the room and gawked his eyes on the sight of an underwear belonging to a girl. He sighed as he felt his temperature rising.
"...I should buy a separate basket...", he muttered as he facepalmed himself to keep his heart to calm down. He grabbed his set change of clothes to wear after his bath without forgetting a towel wrapped around his waist, covering his private parts.
He dragged his tired body into the bathroom in the same floor while keeping his eyes on the staircase, hoping that the female Rirota didn't come up to find his topless body in the middle of the hallway.
He opened the door into the bathroom only to hear a surprised voice.
"Hm?"