The school ended in a blink of an eye, the gloomy sky remained as it is... it may rain soon or it's just the sky playing pranks in everyone.
The three girls walked down the locker room, passing students left and right as they made their way out of the school building.
Lavi's bag which was light brown with brown keychain on it. Carrying it in with one shoulder strap, tapping her index finger on the side of her thigh thinking of something deeply before she came back to reality.
"Deep in thoughts you were..!" Esna shook her head, frowning eyebrows up with her face in an upside down u, her left hand clenching on the strap handle of her bag which was plain black with Toro Inoue stickers and keychains in the first and last zip of her bag.
"... She's trying to be poetic, she said, but I don't think it's working." Mel yawned, her right hand's palm covering her mouth as she did. She slept almost 6 hours out of the 8 hours they spent in school excluding the 10 hours she slept at night. "What were you thinking so deeply of?"
"She was dreaming about me of course. I am very cutesy, very demure, very mindful!" She laughed with her mouth shut, she only smiled as she continued to walk out
"... Yea, as if she was, she was thinking about me, Esna." Mel shook her head, wrapping her arms around Lavi's neck, gently. "Dululu is taking over you Mona Lisa."
"Yeah sure, you ain't less delusional than me, to be honest, I'm not delusional at all." She protested, walking faster to catch up with Mel.
"I wasn't thinking of any of alright... Well, you may be joking but still." Lavi exhaled, dropping a sweat.
Making their way out of the gate and to the two wheeler parking lot. Esna was the first to notice it, the other two didn't notice it until they way closer to Esna's scooter.
"Huh? Flowers?" Lavi grew a smile, almost a smirk. Taking a step closer she inspected it along with Mel who read what the small note said.
"Looks like it's for you Esna, I think? The handwriting is so horrible I can only read E and n-a so I guess it's you."
Lavi took a sniff of the tulips that was taped to the scooter seat. "But Esna..." She paused "What should we do?"
Esna thought with her eyes shut before she opened them again, looking at the tulips "Mel, the paper once." She extended her hand to Mel.
Flipping the paper, she took a look and as she expected, something was written. She got a glimpse of something behind the paper earlier when Mel picked it up.
Reading it even though the handwriting was horrible, she understood. "keep them as it is"
She said as she kept the paper in her skirt pocket before she continued on "Let's get go. It'll look better with me as the owner."
Mel scoffed as she smiled "Yes ma'am. Let me keep it inside my bottle" taking the tulips, she gently put them inside her half full with cold water.
Lavi took the remaining tape of the seat as she hopped on after Esna and Mel since she'll be sitting behind Mel. Starting the engine, they drove away from the school ending up on the busy streets again.
Lavi put some music.
Don't you want me like I want you, baby?
Don't you need me like I need you now?
Sleep tomorrow, but tonight go crazy
All you gotta do is just meet me at the
아파트, 아파트, 아파트, 아파트
아파트, 아파트, uh, uh-huh, uh-huh
아파트, 아파트, 아파트—
They passed a group of boys, it was Seto and the other two. Esna slowed down as she saw the three walking down the road.
Vincent seeing his sister sitting on the back of the scooter, slightly beamed as he started to walk faster than the rest to catch up.
Soon, Esna stopped the scooter, parking it next to a barber shop.
"Vincent." Lavi smiled as she saw her twin brother walk towards her with his hands in his pocket.
Kallisto glanced at the scooter. Not seeing what he wanted to see, the tulips, he ended up sulking.
Mel slowly got off the scooter with her bottle in her hand, the heads of tulips poking out of the bottle.
Seeing that, Kallisto's sulking immediately changed to a wide smile as he waved with his hands high.
"Heading home as well? or?" Mel asked Seto and Kallisto. She was a little shorter than Kallisto who was 162cm(5'4) , she was probably two or three centimetres shorter, not that much of a difference.
Seto noticed the Tulips as he narrowed his eyes staring at them.Slowly moving his eyes to Esan and her scooter, than Kallisto, before he grabbed him by his shoulders. "I'll borrow my cousin."
Taking a full 180° turn, Seto dropping a sweat bent down a little to reach Kallisto's ear, being 5'11, it was difficult to whisper to Kallisto without bending his knees down a little.
Kallisto kept his smile on his face "Yessir?" He asked.
"Did you... give that tulip to Sister-in-law?" Whispering quietly to Kallisto who just went with the flow though not understanding why they were whispering.
"Yeah. I thought Tulips will suit her." He whispered back as he rubbed his left cheeks with his fingers.
Mel didn't get why Seto suddenly 'borrowed' his cousin brother, Kallisto, but didn't mind it at all.
"No one to talk with?" Esna glanced at Mel, holding her phone in one hand while her right inside her pocket. She noticed something about Mel "Wait, did you become shorter? I didn't think much about it but just a week ago you were till my ear but now your a little... bit below than that." She began to poke Mel's right cheek as she teased her about it."I think I grew two centimetres, 168cm now I guess~"
"Liar, you can't grow 2 centimetres in just a week." She protested, keeping her bottle with the tulip away from Esna. "It took me almost 2 weeks to grow a centimetre."
"I grow fast, you grow slow my child... I'm sure you'll grow taller by tomorrow" She chuckled teasing Mel due to her growing faster than Mel.
"I'm only five months younger than you, don't call me a child."
A chill ran down Mel's spine, it might be the cold weather.
"Hey, you're still the youngest amongst us! you're still a babyyy— ..." She paused, slowly shutting her mouth as she looked around, mostly at the sky.
"... what now? What did you see now?" Mel questioned, Esna wasn't the type to just suddenly stop something she's doing.
Esna pushed her lower lip forward, almost pouting and frowning her eyebrows a little, she looked almost confused. "Huh."
"Let's go, I'll tell Lavi." She turned to Lavi and walked to her, first asking if she wants to go with them or with her brother, to which Lavi answered by saying she'll go with them.
"Don't be late Vincent, dad will be worried if not." Lavi gave a low wave at her brother, taking a few steps back though keeping eye contact before going with Mel to the scooter.
"Yeah yeah." Vincent murmured, nodding a little as he walked to Seto and Kallisto who were a little behind him. "What're you two taking bout?"
"She's allergic to the pollen from the tulips, Callisto..." Seto whispered to Kallisto, shocking him because he didn't know about Esna being allergic to the pollen.
Kallisto's smile dropped as he slowly turned to Seto with shocked eyes.
"Oh, what a twist, Kallisto." Vincent simpered as he shook his head. "What if she gets sent to the hospital!" He scared Kallisto.
Kallisto's eyebrows frowned upwards, "What? She's already to tulips?'
"... She's not that deadly allergy, just sneezing." Seto thumbs up, he didn't know what else to do while saying that.
"ugh... you ruined the fun. It was once in a life to see Kallisto shocked and not be smiling like shit." He sighed. "Anyways, let's go back, I have things to do."
Seto nodded, turning to Kallisto who exhaled from relive.
With Esna and the other two, they continued to play music. Esna drove as always, though she was supposed to focus on the road as the one driving, she was thinking of something else.
"I swear, the sky was..." In her mind, she questioned what she had seen.
"Red light, Esna." Lavi pointed it out, making Esna stopped the scooter.