Liam groaned, awakened by the morning sunlight that shone in through the windows and shot his eyes. His slumber was disturbed and as to continue his sleep, he wanted to use his blanket as a shield. He tugged his blanket but it wouldn't budge causing him to bathe under the light even longer. Feeling the heat slowly forming on his face, anger began to boil up. He was sleepy and this blanket wouldn't cooperate with him.
He tugged again but this time with huge strength, even with almost all his awakened powers it still wouldn't budge. He then flung open his eyes widely and turned to glare at the unknown cause of his stuck blanket.
A red, flamy fluffy fur ball that looked like hair was lying at the foot of his blanket. He couldn't see what it was since there was another blanket covering the rest of its body but for some reason, he could already tell what it was. He felt like it was Leo but he wished it wasn't him, it would be awkward to find himself being laughed at by Leo because he rolled to him in his sleep again like almost every day. (He should be used to it by now but... he's not!)
He was now fully awake and staring at the fluffy red ball, he was wondering and planning his next course of action carefully. He could either pull the blanket of the thing open and reveal who was under there but if it was Leo, 90% chance Liam would be teased by him like always. But if he chose to wake up and get out of bed, maybe he could escape the humiliation. Even though his path was clear he was still thinking.
What if Leo woke up in the process while I was trying to escape? And with his observant eyes, I doubt I can make it out alive...He would laugh at me to death! And what made it worse now is that, we have one more member to laugh at me!And a girl! They would definitely gang up on me!
After a long time, he was still deciding his next movement and that was how he was caught.
"Oh, you're awake!"A person suddenly walked out of the bathroom and to the window, basking in the sunlight. It was Fiona, she was leaning by the window as she greeted him."Good morning! Seemed like today you're earlier than Leo. A new achievement I bet?"
Liam was too stunned to even reply, he noticed he was too slow and now he was caught. Before he snapped out of it and reply her, he heard a groan coming from his feet. He could tell who it was just by hearing the unclear sound.
After the sound, the red thing shifted a little. Then, the blanket was pushed away and something emerged.
"Good morning, everyone!"Leo yelled as he awakened from his slumber, well and bright, not showing the slightest tiredness.
Look like someone slept well. Liam thought as he accepted the fact that he was about to be laughed at.
"Hm? Liam, you're up early today?"Leo asked, curious. Then, decided the need to tease him."You can't sleep because of the competition, right? Did you stay up all night?"
"No! Definitely not!"Liam shouted, angrily but he wasn't that mad, more of nervous cause of his rolling-in-bed habit, they still hadn't noticed.
"Hey, Leo. You seemed like you slept well."Fiona added as she pointed out."It must be a nice spot, sleeping at Liam's feet."
Shit! She knew!
Liam thought as he glared at Fiona then, switched to Leo with a worried expression.
And now he knew! I'm so doom!
"Huh?"Leo replied still confused by her statement, he looked to his sleeping spot and understood what she meant."Oh!"He gasped, shocked and Liam felt his cheeks about to burn off his face but then he still had to accept his fate.
"I guess I accidentally roll to Liam while sleeping, haha."Leo said as he scratched the back of his neck while his cheeks flushed, slightly."Sorry about that Liam."
Liam was too surprised to even reply. Did he just escape from being laughed at? He could feel a nonhideable smile begin to crave on his face.
"Why are you smiling Liam? Did something good happen? Did you have a good dream?"Leo asked, seeing his obvious smirk.
"Ya, you can say that..."Liam lied while trying to think of other things to ease his smile. He was finally able to escape from the laughing streak that he had every morning.
"Oh, and Liam I guess your sleep rolling is quite contagious. It even affects me."He laughed and Fiona chuckled.
Just great, when he thought he finally escaped...
"Fiona, I think if you stay longer in this group, you will get the disease too. So, stay far away from him when you sleep. See, even I a non roller was infected!"Leo looked at Fiona as he warned her, causing her to laugh even harder.
"Stop! My stomach hurt from laughing!"Fiona continued to laugh and seeing both of them like every other morning, starting off the day by laughing at him, he grew tired of it.
"Ya, ya, laugh all you want...I'm leaving..."Liam stood up from his bed and walked into the bathroom.
He slammed the door but he could still hear their laughter causing him to blush worse, since he was now alone and staring into his own reflection in the mirror. His bed hair was messy and that proves that he is a roller. He slapped his hair with his hand and combed it back to his everyday hair. Not messy but not too clean with some stand-up hairs from the side but that was how he always looked so it was fine.
He took his toothbrush and began doing his daily morning routine to start the day while ignoring their laughter from outside. After some time, he was so focused on his routine that he didn't even realize they stopped laughing, he didn't even know when they stopped.
Then, he did his last daily routine that is to wash his face, his face was wet and he couldn't open his eyes. He reached out to the basin, where he usually would place a cloth for this purpose but it wasn't there. He was so annoyed by their teasing just now that he forgot to take his cloth.
Oh no! He thought as he began to grope around for the knob to the door. He didn't want to use his hand to wipe his eyes because he didn't want to damage his eyes by rubbing them too much (He learned it from his mom) and instead used a cloth to pat on them.
After a while of struggling, he found the doorknob. He twisted the knob and walked out of the room while touching the walls for support.
"Leo?Leo!"He shouted out loud when nobody reply him.
"What is it?"A female voice suddenly answered him causing Liam to flinch out of shock.
Where is Leo? He thought.
"Umm, I need a little help. Can you pass me-"Liam was about to request for a towel but was cut off by someone's yelling.
"We're late!"He heard a male voice, which he could tell was Leo, followed by a loud bang.
Liam jerked, startled by the sound. He guessed it was the door, judging from Leo's disappearance and the panic in his tone.
"Late for what?"Both Liam and Fiona replied at the same time, confused by what he meant.
"The competition, duh! Have you two forgotten about it?!"Liam could hear a slap right after he said all that.
Did he face-palm? He thought as he felt someone grabbed and tugged his arm.
"Come on! Get ready and Let's go!"He could hear Leo's voice shouting loudly in his ear as well as his panicked breathing. (He must be the one dragging Liam.)
"Umm, Leo...about that..."Liam tried to tell him that he couldn't see but he didn't hear a response from Leo and continued to remain silent since Leo kept talking.
"Fiona! Grab the stuff that you need to bring to the competition! You can keep your bag here since we will be staying here for quite some days and I already booked for 10 days in this room so don't worry!"Liam could hear him ordering as he felt himself being dragged away from the bathroom's entrance and maybe toward the outside."Come on!Quick!"
Liam then heard some chuckling sound before being handed with something and judging from the texture of that object, it felt like his weapon, his bow and soon his quiver.
He carried them in his arms as he walked with Leo and soon he felt wind blow through his face. He knew they were now outside and he couldn't hear any sound disturbing them, it was the right time.
"Leo, I can't see..."Liam asked as he patted gently on Leo. It was hard so he bet it was his muscles, maybe the arms since they always seemed tough and muscular.
"Hm?"He heard Leo reply, then, he heard an 'oh', he could tell Leo was finally looking at him.
He then felt something gently rubbing his eyes, he could feel the texture of fabric and that made him calm down.
Finally!After so long of being ignored! Liam thought as he obediently waited for his eyes to be free from this misery. After some time when he felt his eyes could be open, he forced his eyes to open but was instantly shut back due to the light shone by the sun being too bright.
"Are your eyes still not dry yet?"Leo asked and Liam knew he must have seen him immediately closing his eyes. Without even waiting for a response, he heard a sigh coming from Leo."What's taking her so long?... I already told her we're late...Anyway, are your eyes fine now?"
"Ya, I guess I am, "Liam answered and once again forced his eyes open.
This time it was much better but he still needed some time to adapt to the bright sunlight. He blinked a few times and after that, he was finally free. He could see Leo clearly now but seeing Leo made him want to go back to being blind. Leo was sweating profusely but that isn't the worst part but the worst part was that Leo's hand was in his own shirt. So, that means Leo was using his sweaty hem to wipe Liam's eyes.
"You... You used that to wipe my eyes?"Liam asked as he pointed to the hem of Leo's shirt while hoping he was wrong.
"Umm...ya...Oh, quit it! You know that I was in a rush and this is the only thing I have on me!"Leo immediately replied after seeing Liam's disgusted reaction, knowing that he was wiped with sweat.
Liam was too stunned to even speak but soon Fiona came out of the inn with a book.
"What's taking you so long?!"Leo sighed then, he continued in a hurry." Forget it! Let's go!"
Leo grabbed his sword from Liam, which made Liam just notice that Leo placed his sword on top of his bow and quiver. Then, Liam wore his quiver. When he was done, all of them ran off to the competition.